- Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, … - Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki , who was Apple's software evangelist, is passionate about the idea that products and services reach critical mass 'because mere mortals spread the word for you.' He also has noted that the people who developed the original Macintosh didn't really have any idea of what people would do with the machine-and thus how its users would influence its development. We're wired to create patterns, but that doesn't mean the first patterns are necessarily useful. - Mike Markkula
Armas Clifford "Mike" Markkula Jr. (born 1942) is a legendary venture capitalist who provided early critical funding for Apple. After his stint there, he continued on to found Echelon Corporation, ACM Aviation, San Jose Jet Center and Rana Creek Habitat Restoration and to endow the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, where he now chairs the Board of Trustees. - Gil Amelio
Gilbert F. Amelio (born March 1, 1943 in New York City) is an American technology executive. He grew up in Miami, Florida, and received a bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Amelio worked at Bell Labs, Fairchild Semiconductor, and the semiconductor division of Rockwell International, but is best remembered as a former CEO of National Semiconductor and Apple. Amelio was CEO of National Semiconductor from May 27, 1991, … - Steven Levy
Steven Levy (born 1951) is an American journalist who has written several books on computers, technology, cryptography, the Internet, cybersecurity, and privacy. Levy is chief technology writer and a senior editor for "Newsweek", writing mainly in the "Science & Technology" section. He also writes the column "Random Access" in the monthly feature "Focus On Technology." Levy is also a contributor to "Wired", and has had articles published on "Harper's", … - Larry Tesler
Lawrence G. (Larry) Tesler (born April 24, 1945) is a computer scientist working in the field of human-computer interaction. Tesler has worked at Xerox PARC, Apple Computer, Amazon.com, and Yahoo! Tesler studied computer science at Stanford University in the 1960s, and worked for a time at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. From 1973 to 1980, he was at Xerox PARC, where, among other things, he worked on the Gypsy word processor and Smalltalk. - Rob Glaser
Rob Glaser (born ca. 1963), is the founder of RealNetworks (1994) which produced RealAudio, RealVideo, RealPlayer, Helix, among other products and services. Before RealNetworks, he became a millionaire by working for Microsoft for 10 years. Glaser is a graduate of Yale University with a BA and an MA degrees in Economics and a BS degree in Computer Science. Glaser was the 22nd largest individual donor to 527 groups in the 2004 US election, … - Bruce Chizen
Bruce Chizen Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer Bruce Chizen ’s customer-focused vision has transformed Adobe into one of the world’s largest and most diversified software companies in terms of revenue, global reach and breadth of products. Since his promotion to CEO in 2000, Chizen has more than doubled Adobe's revenue and turned a company known mainly for its popular design products into one of the most significant forces in the software industry today. - Bill Campbell
Bill Campbell is the current Chairman of the Board and former CEO of Intuit Inc. He formerly worked for Apple Inc. (as VP of Marketing), Claris (as CEO), and GO Corporation (as CEO). Son of a local school official, Campbell was born and raised in Homestead, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. He attended Columbia University and starred in football. After graduation he coached Columbia's football team for two unremarkable seasons. - Jerry York
Jerome B. York, commonly known as Jerry York, is an American businessman, and the Chairman, President and CEO of Harwinton Capital. He was the former CFO of IBM and Chrysler. He was also CEO of Micro Warehouse and joined the board of directors of Apple Inc. in 1997. He is a chief aide to Kirk Kerkorian and his Tracinda investment company. Most recently, Kerkorian helped elect York to the board of directors of General Motors, … - Donna Dubinsky
Donna Dubinsky, president and CEO of Handspring, Inc. and former president of Palm Computing, speaks about her career. Topics include: early... - Arthur D. Levinson
Arthur D. Levinson , Ph. D. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer - Millard Drexler
Millard S. Drexler is a businessman, formerly CEO of Gap Inc, he joined the board of directors of Gap in November 1983 and left his position in October 2002. Since January 2003, Drexler has been Chairman and CEO of J. Crew Group, Inc. He has been a director at Apple Inc. since 1999. He received his MBA from the Boston University Graduate School of Management. In the mid-1970s, he was a Merchandising Vice President and Fashion Director at Abraham & Straus in Brooklyn, NY, … - Dan'L Lewin
Dan'l Lewin is corporate vice president of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, responsible for managing worldwide strategic business relationships with venture capitalists and emerging venture-capital-backed businesses, as well as managing the business relationship with leading global industry partners such as SUN, Adobe, Intuit and BEA to ensure their applications interoperate with and run well on the Microsoft platform - for the benefit of the companies' common customers. - John Sculley
Mr. Sculley is currently a Venture Partner with Rho Capital Partner. Prior to joining Rho in 2004, Mr. Sculley worked at Sculley Brothers LLC, a private investment firm that he founded in 1995. Previously, Mr. Sculley was CEO of Apple Computer from 1983 until 1993. For five years prior to joining Apple, Mr. Sculley was President and CEO of PepsiCo, Inc. He a is co-founder and board member of companies such as InPhonic, Identrust, Radiospire, TelloCorp and Verified Person. - Steve Perlman
Steve Perlman is an entrepreneur and inventor with over 70 patents in an array of multimedia and communications technologies. Perlman initially attracted notice as a principal scientist of Apple Computer, Inc., where he led the development efforts for much of the underlying multimedia technology incorporated into the color Macintosh, including the underpinnings of QuickTime technology. Perlman left Apple with other employees to join General Magic, … - Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Lisa Nicole Brennan-Jobs (born May 17 1978), the daughter of Steve Jobs (CEO of Apple Inc.) and Chrisann Brennan, is a journalist and magazine writer. She was born just as Apple Computer began to experience significant growth. The Apple Lisa computer was supposedly named after her, though, officially, Apple stated that the name was an acronym for "Local Integrated Software Architecture". - Samir Arora
Samir Arora is the Chairman of Information Capital LLC, a venture capital fund. Information Capital, based in Woodside, California, invests in leading-edge big idea companies in consumer publishing, media & technology that help change the lives of millions of people. - Bryan Bergeron
Bryan Bergeron, MD, is an author of numerous books in the fields of medicine, computers, biotechnology, and business. He teaches in the HST Division of Harvard Medical School and MIT and is president of Archetype Technologies, Inc. - Henri Poole
Henri Poole is a political campaign technologist and founder/director of CivicActions, co-founder of the AdvoKit project, serves on the Board of the Free Software Foundation and Affero, Inc. (In 2002, Affero published the Affero General Public License (AGPL) which is the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) with a web services provision added. The new provision was written by Eben Moglen.) As co-founder and CEO of Vivid Studios in 1993, … - Marc Benioff
Marc Benioff , Chairman & CEO - Randy Komisar
Randy Komisar with Kent Lineback. HC102.5.K66A3 2000. Randy Komisar is a "Virtual CEO" who provides "leadership on demand" for several renowned companies. Komisar was recently described by the Washington Post as a "combined professional mentor, minister without portfolio, in-your-face investor, trouble-shooter and door opener." - James Bressi
Disruptive Innovator Serial Entrepreneur Visionary and Philanthropist in the thirteenth generation. - Steve Wozniak
I'm a musician first and foremost...check out my band: www.myspace.com/tripwiresounds (www.tripwiresounds.com) I'm also breaking into the audio engineering field. Need a demo? Hit me up. I love hanging out with my family and my girl, Heather. - Alain de Vera
MISSION: Business Council for Operational Strategies, Customer Performance, Alliances & Enterprise Management; FOCUS: - International Investments Projects, Enterprise Transition, Start up activities (subsidiaries, JV) and M&A (Build-up, LBO,...); - Definition of sales strategies and operational implementation of multi-channel marketing and distribution; - Business Development through Strategic Alliances and Sales Channels; - Sales organization, account management and people . . . - Heidi Roizen
Heidi Roizen is a managing director for Mobius Venture Capital. She joined the fund in April 1999. Ms. Roizen serves as a director of AuctionDrop, Ecast, InStoreCard, MessageCast, Perpetual Entertainment, Planitax, and Reactrix. She is also a board member of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Her notable prior board service includes Great Plains Software, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2001. - Eric Craven
ERIC CRAVEN, PMP, Associate Senior Partner Eric has worked for more than 27 years in organization development (OD) and managing organizational change (MOC). In that time he has consulted to educational enterprises, companies and government entities and worked with diverse cultural backgrounds in many areas, among them planning, coaching, and inter-group issue resolution. Eric focuses on facilitation, process improvement and culture change. - Steven Spielberg
I am is the most financially successful motion picture director of all time. I have directed and/or produced an astounding number of major box-office hits, giving me enormous influence in Hollywood. As of 2004, I have been listed in Premiere and other magazines as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. In 2005, Empire magazine created a list of the 50 greatest film directors of all time. I was number one on the list. - Adam Grosser
Adam brings a fresh focus, entrepreneurial verve and substantial experience to the Foundation Capital team. With a primary emphasis on Telecommunications and Data Communications, Adam currently serves on the boards of Silver Spring Networks, Oluma, Peribit Networks, Hammerhead Systems, Calypso Networks and Synfora. In addition, he has previously served on the boards of Alteon WebSystems (now part of Nortel Networks), Skystream Networks and @Home Australia. - Todd Basche
As CEO of WordLock we are bringing new innovative consumer products to market. We design, develop and distribute products that are fun and make life easier for the consumer. Strong technical leader with a proven track record of delivering complex products to market on-time and on quality. Experienced in building and scaling successfull, profitable businesses and development teams in consumer products, enterprise software and hardware companies. Able to synthesize customer requirements . . . - Joe Sparks
Joe Sparks Longer Bio Joe Sparks is the creator of Radiskull & Devil Doll, a very popular animation series seen by several million people over the past 3 years on atomfilms.shockwave.com . At present, this cartoon show is entirely created by Sparks, from writing & animation to the voices and music. Sparks is an award-winning multimedia creator, an artist, game designer, animator, writer, musician, programmer, and San Franciscan. - Joel A. Katz
Joel Katz , 60, Atlanta, GA, Music Industry Representative- Katz is the Co-Managing Shareholder for the Atlanta Office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP. He is the past Chairman of the American Bar Association's Entertainment and Sports Law Section and represents over fifty artists and Fortune 500 companies. Katz is the General Counsel, former Executive Entertainment Counsel, and former Chairman of The Recording Academy. - Bud Colligan
- Andrew J. Sherman
Andrew J. Sherman , Esq. is a corporate and transactional attorney and an internationally-recognized authority on the legal and strategic aspects of business growth and intellectual property leveraging strategies. A summary of his accomplishments include: - Ken Lahanas
One very blessed individual. 4th of 5 children that continue to keep the Lahanas Mafia thriving. Proud native of Massachusetts ("God's Country") blended in with Californian beach mentality. Worldly, passionate about all that I get involved with, tireless & restless, thoughtful, strong-willed. Tendency to look at the unique/odd side of life. Never a dull moment - give me a couple minutes and I'll make you laugh. - Carsten Brinkschulte
Carsten Brinkschulte has a passion for technology and business and combining vision and leadership with deep technical expertise. He has a strong technical background with more than 20 years experience in the IT industry. Carsten combines this with an ability to analyze and predict complex business processes including corporate strategy and competitive analysis and financial planning. A true visionary with a strong feeling for technology and market trends with a special focus on the . . . - Chuck Amos
Chuck Amos Executive Vice President Strategic Business Development Before joining Spectrum K12, Amos served as CEO of Atomic Learning where he refined and enhanced the organizational structure, product development methodology, business planning processes, budgeting processes and sales programs that resulted in significant year-over-year growth every year since joining the company in 2003. - Roberto Guerrieri
Roberto has a proven career in innovation. Prior to co-founding Incentive Logic in 1998, Roberto held several leadership roles in Silicon Valley companies Hewlett-Packard and Apple Computer, including product line marketing for the U.S. home PC Pavilion brand and Apple Computer's Macintosh Performa brand. He holds a Bachelor Arts degree in Business and Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.B.A. from the University of Arizona. - Richard Gingras
Richard Gingras CEO and Co-founder - Goodmail Systems Richard Gingras is CEO and Co-founder of Goodmail Systems, developers of the Certified Email service. Richard Gingras is CEO and Co-founder of Goodmail Systems, developers of the Certified Email service. - Randy Battat
Randy Battat , President and Chief Executive Officer Vedat Eyuboglu, Chief Technology Officer, Founder
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