- Donny Deutsch
Donald Jay "Donny" Deutsch (born November 22, 1957 in Queens, New York) is an advertising executive and talk show host. Deutsch is the chairman of Deutsch, Inc., a $2.7 billion marketing company founded by his father that is the 10th-largest U.S. agency. In 2000, Donny sold his agency to the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) for a reported $300 million. He is also the managing partner of Deutsch Open City, an independent production company. - Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946 in Queens, New York, New York) is an American business executive, entrepreneur, television personality and author. He is the CEO of Trump Organization, an American-based real estate developer, and the founder of Trump Entertainment, which operates several casinos. He received a great deal of publicity following the success of his reality television show, … - Anil Ambani
Anil Ambani (born June 4, 1959) is an Indian businessman. As of March 2007, he has a net-worth of US$ 18.2 billion, making him the 18th richest person in the world. His was the world's fastest-growing multi-billion-dollar fortune in percentage terms as his wealth tripled in 1 year. Ambani is chairman of Reliance Capital, Reliance Communications and Chairman & Managing Director, Reliance Energy, … - Peter Lynch
Peter Lynch (born January 19, 1944) is a Wall Street stock investor. He is currently a research consultant at Fidelity Investments and his likeness is the primary marketing tool of the company. Lynch graduated from Boston College and studied finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. - Warren Buffet
Warren Edward Buffett (b. August 30 1930, Omaha, Nebraska) is an American investor, businessperson and philanthropist. Buffett has amassed an enormous fortune from astute investments managed through the holding company Berkshire Hathaway, of which he is the largest shareholder and CEO. With an estimated current net worth of around US$52 billion, he was ranked by "Forbes" as the third-richest person in the world as of April 2007, … - Walter Annenberg
Walter H. Annenberg KBE (March 13, 1908 – October 1, 2002) was an American billionaire publisher, philanthropist, and diplomat. He was the son of Sarah and Moses "Moe" Annenberg, who published "The Daily Racing Form" and purchased "The Philadelphia Inquirer" in 1936. - Safra A. Catz
Safra A. Catz (born 1961 in Holon, Israel) has been the Chief Financial Officer of Oracle Corporation since November 2005. She has also been a President of the company since January 2004 and a member of the company's Board of Directors since October 2001. She has been at Oracle Corporation since April 1999. Prior to joining Oracle, Catz was at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, a global investment bank, … - Yotaro Kobayashi
Yotaro Kobayashi, born April 1933 in England, is chairman of the Fuji Xerox company of Tokyo, Japan. He is also Pacific Asia chairman of the Trilateral Commission. He was educated at Keio University and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1956 and 1958 respectively. His father, Setsutaro Kobayashi, was the first president of the Fuji Xerox company. He was Chair of the Board of the International University of Japan, … - Lewis E. Platt
Lewis Platt Former CEO, Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates (1999 - 2001) and F ormer CEO, Hewlett-Packard Company (1992-99) - Peter Nicholas
Peter M. Nicholas co-founded medical device firm Boston Scientific with partner John Abele. Nicholas earned a B.A. from Duke University in 1964 and an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. In 2005 he was ranked #78 by "Forbes magazine"'s list of "The 400 Richest Americans". Born to Greek-American parents, he met scientist Abele at a kids' soccer game in 1979. - Frank Quattrone
Frank Quattrone (born 1956) is a former investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston who helped bring dozens of companies public during the 1990s tech boom, including Netscape, Cisco, and Amazon.com. Later he was prosecuted for interfering with a government probe into Credit Suisse First Boston's behavior in allocating "hot" IPOs. The case was eventually dropped. He was earning roughly $160 million a year during his peak at the firm. - Michael Moritz
Michael Moritz (born Cardiff, Wales, 1954) is a venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in the Silicon Valley, and a former member of the board of directors of Google inc. He was educated at Howardian High School, Cardiff before moving on to Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated as a Master of Arts in history. In 1978, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. - Michael Milken
Michael Robert Milken, born July 4, 1946, in Encino, California, is an American financier best known as the "Junk Bond King" of 1980s era Wall Street. He was highly influential in developing the market for junk bonds (a.k.a. "high-yield debt") during the 1970s and 1980s, which in turn fueled the 1980s boom in corporate raids and hostile corporate takeovers. He has been called both a financial innovator and the epitome of 1980s Wall Street greed. - William Wrigley Jr.
William Wrigley Jr. (September 30, 1861-January 26, 1932) was a U.S. chewing gum industrialist. He was founder and eponym of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company in 1891. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wrigley played an instrumental role in the history of Catalina Island, off the shore of Los Angeles, California. He bought the island in 1919 and improved the island with public utilities, new steamships, a hotel, the Casino building, and extensive plantings of trees, … - Steven A. Cohen
Steven A. Cohen (born circa 1956), a self-made billionaire hedge fund investor, is the founder and manager of SAC Capital Partners, a Stamford, Connecticut-based hedge fund. Cohen lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, with his wife and five of his children.. Cohen grew up in Great Neck, New York, and he attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. After Wharton, Cohen got a Wall Street job as a junior trader in the options arbitrage department at Gruntal & Co. - J. D. Power
J.D. Power III (born as James David Power on May 30, 1931 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is the founder of the marketing firm J.D. Power and Associates. Mr. Power began conducting customer satisfaction research in 1968 as founder of the marketing information firm J.D. Power and Associates. The firm numbers among its clients virtually every automotive manufacturer and importer serving the U.S. market, … - Ronald Perelman
Ronald Owen Perelman (born January 1, 1943) is an American billionaire investor that made his fortune buying beleaguered corporations and re-selling them later for enormous profits. Once the richest man in America, he is now tied for 40th place with an estimated wealth of USD$7 billion. He has invested in the grocery, cigar, licorice, makeup, car, photography, television, camping, security, lottery, jewelry, banks, and comic book industries. - Rexford Tugwell
Rexford Guy Tugwell was an agricultural economist who became part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Brains Trust," a group of Columbia academics who helped develop policy recommendations leading up to Roosevelt's 1932 election as President. Tugwell subsequently served in FDR's administration for four years and was one of the chief intellectual contributors to his New Deal. Later in his life, he also served as the governor of Puerto Rico, a then-appointed position. - Michael Adler
Michael Adler (born September 17, 1963 in Danville, Pennsylvania) is an American lawyer and business executive. On May 16, 2006 he became Chief Financial Officer of the internet travel agency, Expedia. - Brian L. Roberts
Brian L. Roberts is Chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation, an American company providing cable, entertainment and communications products and services. He is the son of Comcast co-founder Ralph J. Roberts. A graduate of Germantown Academy High School, Roberts received his B.S. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity. - Aditya Mittal
Aditya Mittal is a Member of the Board of Directors and President and Chief Financial Officer of the world's largest steel firm Mittal Steel, which is majority owned by his father Lakshmi Mittal, who was ranked the fifth richest person in the world by "Forbes" in 2006. He has a Bachelor's Degree of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, from which he graduated "magna cum laude" in 1996. - Alfred Berkeley
Alfred R. Berkeley is an American businessman who served as President and later Vice-Chairman of the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc., from June 1996 until August 2003. Before Nasdaq, Berkeley was a General Partner and then a Managing Director of Alex. Brown & Sons, an investment bank. He was a Captain in the United States Air Force from 1968 to 1972. - Edmund T. Pratt Jr.
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. was the Chairman and CEO of Pfizer Inc. for 20 years. A graduate of the Wharton School of Business, Pratt served as a trustee of Duke University from 1977 to 1988, and is the namesake of Duke's Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering. In 1987, Mr. - Michael L. Eskew
Michael L. Eskew is the chairman and Chief Executive Officer, United Parcel Service. He is currently on the Board of 3M and IBM. - William J. Brennan Jr.
William Joseph Brennan, Jr. (April 25, 1906 - July 24, 1997) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Known for his outspoken liberal views, including opposition to the death penalty and support for abortion rights, he is considered to be among the Court's most influential members. - Charles Butt
Charles Butt (born about 1940) is a third-generation U.S. grocer who took over his family's San Antonio-based H-E-B supermarket chain in 1971. The privately held company now more than 300 stores and $11 billion in sales. Butt graduated from University of Pennsylvania Wharton School with a Bachelor of Arts / Science. He earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. - James L. Vincent
James L. Vincent is the manager and CEO of Biogen Idec. He graduate from Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He received an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 1963. - Martin Zweig
Martin E. Zweig (born 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American stock investor, investment advisor and financial analyst. - Manuel V. Pangilinan
Manuel V. Pangilinan Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Age 60, born in the Philippines. Mr. Pangilinan received a BA from Ateneo de Manila University and an MBA from University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School before working in the Philippines and Hong Kong for the PHINMA Group, Bancom International Limited and American Express Bank. - C. Robert Henrikson
Carl "Rob" Robert Henrikson (born c. 1947), is Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of MetLife, Inc. Henrikson was appointed CEO on March 1, 2006 and Chairman of the Board on April 25, 2006. He is actively involved as a thought leader in the industry, and has testified at a number of congressional hearings on retirement, pension and employee benefits matters. Henrikson is a board member of the American Council of Life Insurers, … - William S. Paley
William S. Paley (September 28, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois - October 26, 1990 in New York, New York) was the chief executive who built CBS from a small radio network to one of the foremost radio and television network operations in America. - William Wrigley, Wrigley II
William Wrigley, Jr. II (Bill Wrigley, Jr.) (born 1964) is the current chairman and former CEO of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company. He turned over the office of CEO to William Perez on October 23, 2006. Perez, former CEO of Nike and SC Johnson, was the first non Wrigley head of the company. A graduate of the Wharton School of Business, William is the son of William Wrigley III (1933-1999), the grandson of Philip K. Wrigley (1894-1977) and the great-grandson of William Wrigley, … - James S. Tisch
James S. Tisch (born January 2, 1953) has been the CEO of Loews Corporation since 1999. Tisch graduated from Cornell University and received his masters of business administration at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the son of Lawrence A. Tisch. - Robert B. Goergen
Robert B. Goergen is an American corporate executive, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of Blyth, Inc. He is also the founder and chairman of The Ropart Group, a private-equity investment firm. Goergen earned a bachelors degree in physics from the University of Rochester in 1960. He also holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He began his career at Procter & Gamble before moving onto other firms, … - Gary L. Wilson
Gary L. Wilson is an American businessman. He currently is a member of the board of directors of multiple corporations, including Northwest Airlines (chairman), Yahoo!, and CB Richard Ellis. He is on the advisory board of NeoSpire. He served on the board of The Walt Disney Company from 1985 until his resignation on July 31 of 2006. Gary L. Wilson received his B.A from Duke University and MBA degree from Wharton School. - Mar Roxas
Manuel "Mar" Araneta Roxas II (born May 13, 1957) is a senator of the Philippines. He is the grandson of former Philippine President Manuel Roxas, and the son of former Senator Gerry Roxas. Roxas was born in Quezon City in Metro Manila. He attended Ateneo de Manila University for elementary and high school education, then earned a degree in economics from Wharton School of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. - Pridiyathorn Devakula
Mom Rajawongse Pridiyathorn Devakula (born 15 July 1947) served as Minister of Finance in Thailand's interim civilian government. Before being named to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont, Pridiyathorn had served as Governor of the Bank of Thailand since 2001. Following the September 2006 coup d'état, there was speculation that he would be appointed prime minister by the junta. - Vernon Hill
Vernon Hill II (born "circa" 1946) is the former chairman and founder of Commerce Bancorp and Commerce Bank of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Hill also owns several Burger King franchises and is a partner in Interstate Commercial, formerly Site Development Inc. and several other holding and development enterprises. He earned his MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. - Alfred Irving Hallowell
Alfred Irving ("Pete") Hallowell pronounced [hăl'uwel"] (1892 - 1974) was an American anthropologist, archaeologist and businessman. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania receiving his B.S. degree in 1914, his A.M. in 1920, and his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1924. He was a student of the anthropologist Frank Speck. - Edward J. Lewis
Edward J. "Eddie" Lewis (May 30, 1937 - November 30, 2006) was a legendary Pittsburgh businessman, philanthropist, and real estate developer. After graduating from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Lewis joined his father in several small real estate ventures, which quickly flourished into the multi-faceted real estate development corporation that is Oxford Development Company.
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