- Mitt Romney
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12 1947, better known as Mitt Romney), was the 70th Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Elected in 2002, Romney served one term and did not seek re-election in 2006; his term ended January 4, 2007. Romney has started his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, having formally announced his candidacy on February 13, 2007. He made his announcement at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
- Fred Reichheld
Frederick F. Reichheld (born 1952, Cleveland) is an United States business author and business strategist best known for his research and writing on the loyalty business model and Loyalty Marketing. His books include "The Loyalty Effect" (1996), "Loyalty Rules!" (2001), and "The Ulimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth" (2006). He has also authored articles for business publications such as "Harvard Business Review".
- Chris Zook
Chris Zook is a prominent business writer and partner at Bain & Company, leading its Global Strategy Practice. He currently resides in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- Bill Bain
Bill Bain is a management consultant, known for his role as one of the founders of the management consultancy that bears his name, Bain & Company. Prior to founding Bain & Company, Bill Bain was a Vice President at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He founded Bain & Company in 1973, along with 6 other former partners of BCG.
- Suzy Welch
Suzy Welch (nee Wetlaufer) (b. 1959) is a former editor of the "Harvard Business Review". She gained notoriety after being forced to resign as editor in early 2002 after admitting having an affair with Jack Welch, the former chief executive officer of General Electric while preparing an interview with him for the magazine.
- John J. Donahoe
John J. Donahoe has been the President of the eBay Marketplace Business Unit since March 2005. In this role he is responsible for the flagship business, eBay Marketplace, including all North America and International operations. Prior to joining eBay, Donahoe headed Bain & Company as Worldwide Managing Director where he held the post from 2000 to 2005.
- Kenneth Chenault
Kenneth Irvine Chenault (born Long Island, June 2, 1951) has been the CEO and Chairman of American Express since 2001. He was the third African-American CEO of a Fortune 500 company. He received a B.A. in History from Bowdoin College in 1973, and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1976. After Harvard he worked as an associate with the law firm Rogers & Wells in New York City, and as a consultant for Bain & Company.
- Michael Murphy
Michael Murphy (born 29 November 1973) is a former Olympic diver for Australia. Murphy competed twice at the Olympic Games (in 1992 and 1996), placing 4th in the 3 metre springboard event at the 1992 Games in Barcelona. He also represented Australia twice at the Commonwealth Games (in 1990 and 1994), winning two gold medals and one silver medal at the 1994 Games in Victoria (Canada).
- Steve Jurvetson
Steve Jurvetson is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He was the founding VC investor in Hotmail (MSFT), Interwoven (IWOV), and Kana (KANA). He also led the firm's investments in Tradex and Cyras (acquired by Ariba and Ciena for $8B), and most recently, in pioneering companies in nanotechnology and molecular electronics. Previously, Mr. Jurvetson was an R&D Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where seven of his communications chip designs were fabricated.
- David Levin
David Levin was appointed as Chief Executive Officer in April 2005, having previously been chief executive of Symbian, a mobile phone software licensing company, since April 2002. He joined Symbian from Psion plc, the handheld computing company, where he was chief executive from February 1999.
- Anne Glover
Anne Glover is CEO and co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in European high-technology companies. Prior to founding Amadeus in 1997, she was with Apax Partners & Company Ventures, where she was a member of the investment team. She also has experience as a business angel, investing in UK-based information technology start-ups. Glover has also had significant operating experience with Virtuality Group plc, …
- Kevin Efrusy
Kevin joined Accel in 2003. His background is primarily as an entrepreneur and operating executive. He served two stints as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers where he started Corio, an ASP/SaaS pioneer which went public on Nasdaq and was acquired by IBM in 2005. Later he served as the first CEO of IronPlanet , an online marketplace for heavy equipment with current annual gross sales over $200M.
- Jennifer Floren
Jennifer Floren founded Experience with the mission to educate, assist, and inspire college graduates by giving them the experience they need to launch and lead extraordinary careers and she will be speaking at the Onrec.com Online Recruitment Conference & Expo 2008 to be held at the Donald E Stephens Convention Center, in Chicago, on September 9 & 10, 2008. Onrec.com EXPO 2008 is widely regarded as the "must attend" online recruitment event of 2008.
- Samuel L. Duboc
Samuel L. Duboc Mr. Duboc, President and Managing Partner of EdgeStone Capital Partners, founded the firm in February 1999. Mr. Duboc oversees all of EdgeStone Capital Partners' corporate and investing activities. From 1994 to 1999, he served as Managing Director at CIBC Capital Partners, the merchant banking division of CIBC, where he successfully invested in a wide variety of industries including media, retail, restaurants, and agriculture.
- Ms. Orit Gadiesh
- Alessandro Santo
**EXPERIENCE**; Since July I've been working for Bain & Company Italy in Milan within the financial service practice advising Italy's top bank regarding organizational structures, credit policies, compliances with Basel II requirements. Before moving back to Italy, I spent 18 months in New York attending Columbia Business School's MBA with a finance and economic specialization. During my MBA I enjoyed classes on different private equity topics (turnaround, venture capital). Earlier . . .
- Rob Day
Post-punk science / environmental education specialist and marine biologist, originally from the UK. Fiercely independent, I cook, clean, build stuff, fix things and even digest all my own food. I'm also a Columbus area landlord on the side. If you are looking for a cheap, but reasonably nice place to live..... give me a call. All my rentals are currently full, but you never know when one may become available.
- Mr. John H Moragne
- Zachary K. Shipley
Mr. Shipley is the Chief Financial Officer of Oxbow Corporation and has been an officer and Director since 1983. In addition to his positions with Oxbow Corporation, Mr. Shipley holds positions as Treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors with numerous affiliated companies and foundations. Before joining Oxbow Corporation, Mr. Shipley was a consultant with Bain & Company in Boston, MA.
- Ivor Frischknecht
Ivor Frischknecht joined Starfish Ventures in 2005 after 15 years of hands-on management and investing experience. His investment focus is Cleantech and enterprise software. He has spent more than ten years in senior operational management roles, including as CEO, in energy, software and internet companies.
- Deepak Shahdadpuri
Deepak Shahdadpuri Managing Director Baer Capital Partners Deepak I. Shahdadpuri is the Founder and Managing Director of Baer Capital Partners’ (BCP) Private Equity Fund. Deepak has over 10 years successful private equity investing and advisory experience in India, UK and the United States with GEM India Advisors (GIA), Reuters Venture Capital, Bain & Company, FS Capital Partners and Ernst & Young.
- Lynn Woods Strang
Lynn is a management consultant with over a decade of experience in a diverse range of industries, roles and organisation types. She worked most recently in strategy & business development at LexisNexis, part of the FTSE100 media company Reed Elsevier, and before that as a generalist strategy consultant at Bain & Company. Lynn’s project experience ranges from traditional strategy development and planning to organisational structure and effectiveness.
- Nick Prettejohn
- Peter Howley
Marketer and strategist with experience in multiple types of media and information businesses. Brings a numbers-driven approach to researching markets, developing strategies, and crafting business plans. Then designs the marketing approach and forms the partnerships that enable success. Also experienced at measuring marketing and advertising effectiveness.
- Marc Roth
We are a professional service company specializing in product sourcing and supply chain management in Mainland China. We work on a project basis, mainly for European clients. Please visit www.aibix.com for more details. China: Having studied (CEIBS) and worked in China for nearly 3 years, i.e. as CIO/SCM of a Chinese knitwear factory, I acquired vast China experiences on the content as well as on the people side (including language) and learned to appreciate the Chinese culture. I . . .
- Ron Friedmann
Ron Friedmann, a lawyer by training, is the principal of Prism. He previously served as CIO at 500-lawyer Mintz Levin, managed advanced technology development projects at Wilmer Cutler, and held marketing positions at two legal market software start-ups. He is the founder and organizer of the Law Practice Technology Roundtable, a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, a participant in the NYC Large Law Firm Knowledge Management Group, and the founder/organizer of the DC Large . . .
- William F Duhamel Jr
- Michael Dearing
Michael Dearing Former SVP & General Merchandise Manager, eBay Consulting Associate Professor, Stanford d.school Michael Dearing has worked on courses such as Creating Infectious Action and Creating Mass Market Experiences. Michael's current research interests include process design for new product development, "productizing" emerging technologies, consumer marketing and retail technology, product strategy and pricing.
- Erem Kassim-Lakha
Erem Kassim-Lakha Investment Director Erem joined Montagu in 2006 having spent fours years as Strategy Director at the Spirit Group, the UK's largest managed pub business owned by Texas Pacific and Blackstone. She also served as interim MD of the Spirit Food pub business for several months. Prior to Spirit, Erem worked at Bain & Company in Toronto, London and Paris where she managed a wide variety of strategy, due diligence and operational improvement work.
- Tony Ling
TONY LING Tony Ling. Menlo Park. Mr. Ling joined Silver Lake in 2005 and is a Director. Prior to joining Silver Lake, Mr. Ling worked at Bain Capital where he focused on large-scale leveraged buyouts across a variety of industries, including specifically the technology and industrial sectors.
- Tony Ecock
- Aaron Dupuis
- Timothy W. Mattox
Timothy W. Mattox Vice President, Strategy Timothy W. Mattox serves as Dell's vice president of strategy. In this role he works directly with the CEO on major strategic issues and opportunities for the company.
- Debby Stone
Debby Stone , JD, CPCC Debby Stone provides values-based coaching to lawyers, leaders and entrepreneurs who want to discover and implement practical strategies for turning their life vision into reality. She combines her coach training, extensive business experience and entrepreneurial creativity to help her clients attain their goals more quickly and easily. Debby helps her clients create balance in their lives and bring more life to their work.
- Scott Raney
Scott Raney Scott Raney is a Partner with Redpoint Ventures focusing on infrastructure and software investments in the enterprise, wireless, and consumer segments. Scott serves on the board of directors of adap.tv , mig33 and LetsTalk , and is involved with Redpoint's investments in Cortina Systems , JumpTap , Mobilygen , MobiTV , and Kodiak Networks .
- Kurt Leedy
Kurt joined Capital Investors in 2005 and focuses on investments in the communications, technology and media sectors. Prior to joining Capital Investors, Kurt was a strategy consultant in the Dallas office of Bain & Company. His work there involved cases in the retail and aerospace & defense industries in both the US and Mexico. Kurt graduated with Highest Honors from the University of Texas with a BBA in Finance and a BA in Spanish and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
- Colin Pan
Colin Pan Mr. Pan joined Fremont Realty Capital in 2007 and is involved with all aspects of existing and prospective real estate private equity investments. Prior to joining Fremont Realty Capital, Mr. Pan was a Vice President with The Conservatory Hotel Group, where he evaluated market opportunities. Previously, Mr. Pan was a Development Associate with Peck Moss Hotel Group in New York.
- Auren Hoffman
Auren Hoffman , Founding Advisor Auren Hoffman is a founding advisor to POSTroller and is the CEO of Rapleaf . Auren also serves as the Chairman of Stonebrick Group and the Connector Group (Silicon Valley 100). Auren was previously CEO of BridgePath Corporation, an enterprise software company to recruiting and staffing firms that enabled collaborative placement transactions.
- Andrew G.W. Chung
Andrew joined Lightspeed in 2006 and focuses on investments in cleantech, Internet, digital media, and software. He has over eight years of investing, consulting, and operating experience. Andrew helped launch Lightspeed’s investment program in cleantech and is currently observing the boards of Coaltek (clean coal), Stion (solar), and Exclara (LED lighting)...
- Gus Tai
Gus Tai , General Partner, Trinity Ventures; Chairman, CSPA Gus Tai is a General Partner at Trinity Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm founded in 1986 and focused on building leading-edge software, communications, and enterprise systems companies. Mr. Tai specializes in software investing and is currently an active Board member for a number of companies including Aventail, Blue Nile, Modulus Video, PlayFirst and Amalfi Semiconductor.