- Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He helped launch Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor until January 1999. He is currently editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets 1 million visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review , a journal of unorthodox technical news. - Guy Laliberté
Guy Laliberté (born September 2, 1959 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada) is the founder and chief executive officer of Cirque du Soleil. Starting out as an accordion player, stiltwalker and fire-eater; Laliberté created his circus which is a synthesis of all circus styles around the world. In 2006, this 95% share holder of the 1.2 billion dollar Cirque Du Soleil was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. - Mark Olson
Mark W. Olson (born March 17, 1943 in Fergus Falls, Minnesota) is a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. Olson took office on December 7, 2001, to fill an unexpired term as a member of the Board of Governors, ending January 31, 2010. He resigned on June 21, 2006, effective June 30, 2006, in order to run the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. He received a B.A. in economics in 1965 from St. Olaf College. In 2003 St. Olaf College named Mr. - August-Wilhelm Scheer
Dr. August-Wilhelm Scheer (born July 27, 1941) is a German businessman, the founder and director of IDS Scheer AG, a major IT service and software company. In 2003 he was awarded the Philip Morris Research Prize and the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. - John Mackey
John Mackey is Chairman and CEO of Whole Foods Market (which he co-founded in 1980). Mackey was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year in 2003. Mackey is a strong believer in FLOW principles, including free market principles and empowerment management. Mackey is one of the biggest leaders in the movement for organic food. - Dylan Thwaites
Dylan Thwaites is a UK entrepreneur and founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Latitude Group. After graduating from Leeds University, he was Bass’s youngest area manager at the age of 22 and was part of the small team that devised the All Bar One, It’s a Scream and O’Neill’s Irish Bar brands. In 2000, Thwaites took a 25% stake in Corporem, a full service Internet company. - Patricia A. Woertz
Patricia Ann Woertz became CEO of Archer Daniels Midland in 2006, beating out 4 male competitors. Formerly an EVP at Chevron Corporation, Woertz left to pursue CEO opportunities. In an interview with "Fortune" Magazine, she characterized herself as an outsider at ADM: "I'm outside the company, outside the industry, outside the family, outside the gender expectations." Born in Pennsylvania in 1953, she studied accounting at Penn State University, graduating in 1974. - Isaac Larian
Isaac Larian (born March 28 1954, Kashan, Iran) is the Chief Executive Officer of MGA Entertainment, the biggest privately owned toy company in the world. He was born in Iran to Persian Jewish parents. After graduating from CSULA in civil engineering, he started a business exporting electronic goods, and later (2000) expanded their company to include the creation, development and marketing of the Bratz doll. Two of the dolls bear the names of his children, … - Andrew Gould
Andrew Gould (December 17, 1946) is chairman and chief executive officer of Schlumberger Limited, a global oilfield services company supplying technology, information solutions and integrated project management. Before assuming his current role in February 2003, Gould was president and chief operating officer of Schlumberger Limited. Prior to that appointment, he held the position of executive vice president, Schlumberger Oilfield Services. - Jamie Thomas
Jamie Thomas (born October 11, 1974) is a professional skateboarder and skateboard industry magnate from Dothan, Alabama. He started skateboarding at the age of eleven. - Renzo Rosso
Renzo Rosso (born 1955) is an Italian clothing designer and founder of the Diesel clothing company. Rosso attended an industrial textile manufacturing school and after graduating in 1975, began making his own clothing. In 1978 he joined forces with several other manufactures in his region to form the Genius Group, which created many successful brands still widely known today, such as Katherine Hamnett, Goldie, Martin Guy, Ten Big Boys and, of course, Diesel. - Chris Gorman
Chris Gorman is a serial entrepreneur who lives in Renfrewshire in Scotland. He grew up in Hartlepool. He was an organiser of the Live 8 concert in Edinburgh. A serial entrepreneur, Chris Gorman has headed several highly successful ventures in technology and retail businesses. A founder shareholder in UK mobile phone retailer DX Communications which was sold in 1999, Chris then went on to create the internet services company, Reality Solutions, … - David Mellor
David John Mellor QC (born 12 March 1949) is a British Conservative politician and barrister, broadcaster and journalist. - Francis Yeoh
Tan Sri Dato' Francis Yeoh Sock Ping <small>CBE</small> (Chinese : 楊肅斌; pinyin: Yáng Sùbīn, born August 23 1954) is a prominent business personality in Malaysia. He obtained a Bachelor of Science (Hons.) Degree in Civil Engineering from Kingston University, United Kingdom in 1978. Francis had his secondary school education at Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He became the Managing Director of YTL Corporation Bhd Group in 1988. - Gary Heavin
Gary Heavin, a Texas businessman, is the founder and CEO of the fitness chain Curves International. Heavin originally took over a fitness center in Houston, Texas. This business venture was unsuccessful, and he filed for bankruptcy. He also divorced his first wife and lost custody of his children. He would later remarry. After his first marriage, Heavin was sentenced to jail for failure to pay child support. While in jail he rededicated his life to Christian values, … - François Legault
François Legault is a politician in Quebec, Canada, and a member of the National Assembly of Quebec. A member of the Parti Québécois (PQ), he was first elected in the 1998 Quebec election in the riding of Rousseau in the Lanaudière region. Legault has a bachelor's and master's degree in business administration from the HEC Montreal. He worked as an administrator for Provigo, a finance director for Nationair and an auditor for Ernst & Young. - Alistair Cockburn
Alistair Cockburn (his last name is pronounced "Co-burn" in the Scottish way, with a long 'O' and no 'ck', making it homophonous with that of the actor James Coburn) is one of the initiators of the Agile movement in software development. He was one of more than 15 co-authors, in 2001, of the Agile software development manifesto. In 2005, he helped co-author the agile PM Declaration of Interdependence. Cockburn received his PhD degree from the University of Oslo in 2003. - Frank Moss
Frank Moss is the a technologist and a "serial entrepreneur." Currently, Moss is the director of the MIT Media Laboratory. Prior to heading the lab, Moss served as the CEO and Chairman of Tivoli Systems. Tivoli became a public company in 1995 under Frank's leadership and merged with IBM the next year. Frank continued to work with the Tivoli team within IBM. Additionally, Moss has helped found a number of other companies including Stellar Computer, Inc., Bowstreet, Inc., … - Kimberly Clarice Aiken
Kimberly Clarice Aiken (born c. 1975 in Columbia, South Carolina) was Miss America 1994. Aiken was 18 years old when she won the coveted title. She won Miss Columbia and Miss South Carolina en route to her 1994 Miss America crown. Aiken used the plight of the homeless as her platform. Her year of service as Miss America helped generate public awareness about homelessness and brought a better public understanding of this significant social dilemma. - Tom Byers
Tom Byers is a professor at Stanford University in the USA. He concentrates in the area of high-technology ventures and serves as the faculty director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Byers was an early employee at Go Corporation and Symantec. He is also brother of famous entrepreneur Brook Byers. At Stanford he has established and directs Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies to train and encourage students to become entrepreneurs. - Jim Cantalupo
James Richard Cantalupo was an American executive, serving as chairman and chief executive officer of McDonald's Corporation until his sudden death by heart attack at the age of 60. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Cantalupo earned a degree in accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity. He became a certified public accountant and worked for Arthur Young for eight years before joining McDonald's. - Ben Woldring
Ben Woldring (born February 6, 1985 in Groningen) is a Dutch internet entrepreneur and millionaire from Usquert who first rose to fame in the fall of 1998 when, for a school assignment, he made a website where consumers could compare prices for mobile phone services. As a result, he appeared on television programmes like Kassa! and the Jeugdjournaal. In 1999, the website Bellen.com registered its 100,000th visitor; a year later, … - Jun Choi
Jun H. Choi is the current Mayor of Edison, New Jersey, a community of over 100,000 people and the fifth largest municipality in the state. He was sworn in on January 1, 2006 as the youngest mayor in Edison history. In 2006, Edison was rated the 28th most livable “Small City in America” by CNN's Money Magazine. Prior to becoming Mayor of Edison, Choi worked on education policy as a senior official with the New Jersey Department of Education. - Ozzie Jurock
Ozzie Jurock (born Oswald Erich Jurock, 1944 in Cologne, Germany) is a Vancouver, BC-based entrepreneur, real estate advisor, columnist, author and motivational speaker. He is currently the president of Jurock Publishing Ltd. and president of Jurock International Net Inc., the parent company of FeatureWeb and Jurock.com. He was formerly president of Royal LePage (Res.) and NRS Block Bros. and has managed real estate companies in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Tokyo. - Ed Grier
Ed Grier is president of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, which comprises the Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure theme parks, the Disneyland Hotel, Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel, and the Downtown Disney retail, dining and entertainment district. He reports to Al Weiss, president of operations for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. Before joining the Disneyland Resort in July 2006, … - Aart J. de Geus
Aart J. de Geus is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Synopsys, Inc.. From the Synopsys website... since co-founding Synopsys in 1986, Dr. Aart de Geus has expanded Synopsys from a start-up synthesis enterprise to a world leader in electronic design automation (EDA). As a technology visionary, he is frequently asked to speak on topics related to the electronics industry. As one of the leading experts on logic simulation and logic synthesis, Dr. - Joe Firmage
Joseph Firmage (born October 26, 1970 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American Internet entrepreneur. He founded several business ventures during the dot-com boom and currently is involved with two closely linked organizations: ManyOne Networks of which he is CEO, and the Digital Universe Foundation of which he is a co-founder and member of the Board of Directors. - Jeff Briggs
Jeff Briggs (born March 10 1957 in Alabama) is founder and former President, and CEO of Firaxis Games, a computer game developer based in Hunt Valley, Maryland, United States. He was previously a game designer at MicroProse but left that company in 1996 along with Sid Meier to form Firaxis Games. Briggs holds a Doctorate in Musical Composition and Theory from the University of Illinois. His career began in New York City, where he composed music for various events, … - Andrew Wiederhorn
Andrew Wiederhorn (born 1965) is an American businessman living in Portland, Oregon. He founded Wilshire Credit Corporation and served as its CEO by the age of 32, amassing a fortune estimated to be worth $140 million. Currently he is CEO and majority shareholder in Fog Cutter Capital, which had been listed for a time on NASDAQ (ticker symbol FCCG). - Brad Wardell
Bradley R. Wardell (born 24 June, 1971 in Texas), commonly known as Brad Wardell, is an American residing in Michigan. He is the founder and current President and CEO of Stardock, a software development and computer games company. Brad graduated in 1994 from Western Michigan University with a degree in Electronic Engineering. His first notable achievement was the design and implementation of "Galactic Civilizations" for OS/2, … - Marcel Bélanger
Marcel Bélanger is a Canadian academic. Born in Deschaillons, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1940 and a Master of Commerce degree in 1943 from Université Laval. He received a Master of Arts in Economics from Harvard University in 1948. From 1946 to 1972, he was a Professor of Economics at the Université Laval. From 1946 to 1977, he was a founding parntner of the Chartered Accountant firm, … - Jay Steinfeld
Jay Steinfeld is the founder and CEO of Global Custom Commerce, a direct marketing company that sells more window coverings online than anyone else in the world. Revenue this year should exceed $50 million with his flagship site, Blinds.com, leading the way. Jay earned a BBA in Accounting with Honors from the University of Texas at Austin. After graduating, he worked for KPMG Peat, Marwick, then became Vice-president, Finance of the national franchise, … - Edward Psaltis
Edward McDonald Psaltis (born 7 April 1961 in Sydney) is an Australian ocean racing skipper and yachtsman. - Maris Martinsons
Maris Martinsons is a professor of management at the City University of Hong Kong and research director of the Pacific Rim Institute for the Studies of Management. He was the first double winner of a university-wide teaching excellence award in Hong Kong. Maris received his B.A.Sc. (Engineering Science) and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Business Studies from the University of Warwick. - John B. T. Campbell III
John Bayard Taylor Campbell III (born July 19, 1955, in Los Angeles, California) is a Republican U.S. politician, who is currently a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing California's 48th Congressional District. - John J. Midgley
Dr. John J. Midgley is an educator, management consultant and former army officer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He has been on the faculties of Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh and the United States Military Academy, and held executive positions with Ernst & Young, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Center for Public Affairs, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and Commerce One. - Veer Gidwaney
Veer Gidwaney (born 1979) is a Canadian entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Control-F1 Corporation, which was acquired by Computer Associates in 2006. He currently works for CA as vice president of sales strategy and execution. Gidwaney has been named one of the "Top 30 Under 30" by Maclean's Magazine, and was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. - Karan Bilimoria Baron Bilimoria
Karan Faridoon Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria, CBE, DL (born 26 November 1961) is an entrepreneur and a life peer. He is best known as the founder and chief executive of Cobra Beer. Bilimoria was born in Hyderabad, India. He received the Bachelor of Commerce degree from Osmania University in 1981. After working as a chartered accountant for Ernst & Young, he studied for a Bachelor of Arts degree in law at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. - Abdul Kadir Yusuf
Tan Sri Abdul Kadir Yusuf (1915-1992), was a famous Malaysian politician. Abdul Kadir was born in Parit Sakai, Muar, Johor in 1915. During his life, He was a member of the United Malays National Organization, the leading party in the ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional. A lawyer by profession, Abdul Kadir held the posts of Attorney-General and Solicitor-General at various points during his lifetime. He was also the Minister of Law. - Harold Ray Wing
Harold ("Hal") Ray Wing is the founder of Wing Enterprises in Springville, Utah. Wing Enterprises was established in 1972, originally operating out of Wing's carport. The company's main product is the Little Giant Ladder System. Hal became mayor of Springville in 1997 and was able to accomplish his goal of ridding Springville of its debt. In 1986, President Reagan invited Wing to serve as a representative at the White House Conference of Small Businesses in Washington DC.
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