- 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, …
- Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang
Jerry Yang Chih-Yuan (born November 1968) is a Taiwanese American entreprenuer, co-founder with David Filo and CEO of Yahoo! Inc. He is also one of the two Chief Yahoo!s and board director of the company. As of 2007 his net worth is estimated to be US$2.2 billion and is ranked 432nd among the world's richest people according to Forbes.
- Eric Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt, Ph.D (b. 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is Chairman and CEO of Google Inc and a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc. He also sits on the Princeton University Board of Trustees. He lives in Atherton, California with his wife Wendy.
- Martha Stewart
Martha’s public turnaround on fur began this spring, when she responded from jail to a letter from PETA Vice President Dan Mathews , explaining that the fur she famously wore the day of her sentencing was fake. Martha credits her vegetarian daughter, Alexis , who costars in her new show, The Apprentice: Martha Stewart , with making her aware of animal issues.
- Sanjay Kumar
Sanjay Kumar (born Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1962) was the Chairman & CEO of Computer Associates International (now CA, Inc.), until April 2004. He emigrated with his family to the US in 1976 to escape civil unrest in his native Sri Lanka. The family originally settled in South Carolina. He attended Furman University from 1980 to 1983, but left without completing a degree. Kumar became an employee of Computer Associates in 1987, when it acquired UCCEL Corp.
- Stan O'Neal
E. Stanley "Stan" O'Neal is the present Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., having served in numerous senior management positions at the company prior to this appointment. O'Neal was a member of the board of directors of General Motors from 2001 through 2006.
- Garry Betty
Charles Garrett "Garry" Betty (4 March [[1957] - 2 January 2007) was President and CEO of EarthLink, a large American Internet service provider, from 1996 until his death. Betty was born in Huntsville, Alabama and grew up in Columbus, Georgia. He attended the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia where he received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1979.
- Jorma Ollila
Jorma Jaakko Ollila is the Chairman (1992–) and CEO of Nokia Corporation (1992–2006) and Member of the Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company (2000–), UPM-Kymmene (1997–), and Otava Books and Magazines Group Ltd. (1996–). As of June 1 2006 he became the Non-Executive Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and Non-Executive Chairman of Nokia.
- A. G. Lafley
Alan George Lafley (born June 13, 1947) is the CEO and an executive director of Procter & Gamble. He joined P&G upon his graduation, in 1977. He assumed the CEO office in 2000. He is American and was born in Keene, New Hampshire. He graduated from Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois and received a B.A. from Hamilton College in 1969 and a MBA from Harvard Business School in 1977 (after serving in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War).
- Edward Lampert
Edward S. "Eddie" Lampert (born July 19 1962) is an American investor, financier and businessman. He is the chairman of Sears Holdings Corporation (SHLD) and founder, chairman, and CEO of ESL Investments. Until May, 2007 he was a director of AutoNation, Inc. He previously served as a director of AutoZone, Inc. from 1999 to 2006. Lampert graduated from Yale University in 1984 (B.A., economics, summa cum laude), where he was a member of Skull and Bones and Phi Beta Kappa.
- James McNerney
Walter James "Jim" McNerney, Jr., is an American businessman. On June 30, 2005 he was named the CEO of The Boeing Company. Prior to that, McNerney was the Chairman and Chief Executive of 3M. He had been a member of the Boeing board of directors since 2001. He is also a member of the board of directors of Procter & Gamble. McNerney is a current member of the Northwestern University Board of Trustees. McNerney, 57, oversees the strategic direction of the Chicago-based, …
- Richard Kovacevich
Richard "Dick" Kovacevich is the Chairman of Wells Fargo. A native of Tacoma, Washington, he was born on October 30, 1943. A graduate of Stanford Business School, Kovacevich worked for General Mills before joining Citicorp. According to some calculations, he was the 7th highest paid CEO in the world in 2003. In addition to Wells Fargo, he sits on the Boards of Target, Cisco Systems and Cargill. He is also a Trustee at the California Institute of Technology.
- Linda McMahon
Linda Marie Edwards-McMahon (born October 4 1948 in New Bern, North Carolina) is the CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. and is the wife of World Wrestling Entertainment Chairman Vince McMahon. Linda has served on the Board of Directors since 1980 and was largely responsible for the growth of WWE merchandising. In addition, she is widely involved with the charitable work of WWE.
- Lorenzo Zambrano
Lorenzo H. Zambrano Treviño is a Mexican businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of CEMEX, one of the largest cement companies in the world. Zambrano was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León into an upper-class family. He received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies in 1966 and an MBA from Stanford Business School in 1968. In 1968 he joined CEMEX, a cement company founded by his grandfather in 1906.
- 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, …
- Richard Fairbank
Richard Fairbank founded Capital One with Nigel Morris in 1988, and is currently the Chairman and CEO. He also serves on the board of directors of MasterCard International, and is the Chairman of MasterCard International's U.S. Region Board of Directors. He is a member of the Stanford Business School Advisory Council, the Financial Services Roundtable, and the board of directors of the BITS Technology Forum.
- John F. Smith Jr.
John Francis "Jack" Smith, Jr. (born April 6, 1938 in Worcester, MA) is currently the non-executive chairman of the board of directors of Delta Air Lines. Smith has been a member of Delta's board of directors since 2000. From 1996 to 2003, Smith was chairman of the board of directors of General Motors, and was that company's CEO from 1992 to 2000. He joined GM as a payroll auditor in 1961, moving to its financial group in New York City in 1966.
- Louis C. Camilleri
Louis C. Camilleri (b. 1955, Alexandria, Egypt) is the Chairman and CEO of Altria Group, the parent company of Philip Morris and Kraft Foods. He is also Chairman of Kraft Foods, and a member of the board of directors of SABMiller and the NYSE. Camilleri received a degree in economics and business administration from HEC Lausanne, the prestigious business school of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). After working as a business analyst with W. R. Grace and Company, …
- Philip J. Carroll
Philip J. Carroll, Jr. (born 1938) is active in a variety of corporate and government roles. Carroll earned a Bachelor of science in Physics from Loyola University New Orleans in 1958 and a M.S. in physics from Tulane University in 1961, after which he joined the Shell Oil company as an engineer. Carroll became the CEO of Shell Oil in 1993 and served in that position until July 1998, when he became the Chairman and CEO of Fluor Corporation, …
- John Roth
John Roth, is the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Nortel. He was born in Alberta, Canada, in 1942. He was named Northern Telecom Limited's CEO in 1995 and was elected to the board of directors in 1996. In February 1997, he was named president of the corporation, in addition to continuing to serve as CEO. In October 1997, Roth became president and CEO of the company which became known as Nortel Networks.
- Deborah Wright
Deborah C. Wright is President and CEO of Carver Bancorp, the holding company for Carver Federal Savings Bank. This is the U.S.'s largest publicly traded African-American operated bank, with locations in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. Wright was named to this position in 1999 and was honored as "Community Banker of the Year" in 2003 by "The American Banker", the financial industry's daily newspaper.
- 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 Spindler
Michael Spindler (born 1942 in Germany), nicknamed "the Diesel" for his reputed around-the-clock work habits, was president and CEO of Apple from 1993 to 1996. Having joined Apple in 1980, he rose through the ranks in Apple's European operations as President of Apple Europe and was chosen to take over as CEO when John Sculley was ousted by Apple's board of directors in June 1993. Spindler presided over several successful projects, such as the introduction of the PowerPC, …
- Roberto Goizueta
Roberto Crispulo Goizueta (November 18, 1931, - October 18, 1997) was Chairman, Director, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The Coca-Cola Company from August 1980, until his death October 1997. Under the direction of Goizueta, investors saw The Coca-Cola Company become a top US corporation. He is attributed to invigorating The Company with a global vision. In the process, he created more wealth for shareholders than any other CEO in history.
- Hans Wijers
Gerardus Johannes (Hans) Wijers (born 1951-01-11) is the current CEO of Akzo Nobel. From 1994 until 1998 he was a minister of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands. Wijers studied Economy at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, where he graduated in 1976. As assistant professor, he taught Economy at the Erasmus University, and received a doctorate for his research in industrial politics.
- Morris Tabaksblat
Morris Tabaksblat, Rotterdam 1937, is a Dutch 'Captain of industry'. He is mostly known as a former CEO of Unilever and chairman of the 'Tabaksblat' committee that drafted the 'Tabaksblat code'. Tabaksblat was educated at the gymnasium in The Hague and after that studied law at the Leiden University. He joined Unilever in 1964. During the first twenty years of his career at Unilever he had positions in marketing and sales in the Netherlands, Spain and Brazil.
- Karlheinz Kaske
Karlheinz Kaske was a German manager and CEO of the Siemens AG from 1981 to 1992. Kaske studied Physics at RWTH Aachen and joined Siemens in 1950, when he became an engineer in the Siemens factory at Karlsruhe. Later he was a lecturer for electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen and he continued academic teaching during his following years in Siemens’ development department.
- Mike Lunsford
Mike Lunsford Executive Vice President Mike Lunsford most recently served as interim chief executive from November 2006 to June 2007, filling the role of former CEO Garry Betty who passed away on January 2, 2007. Joining EarthLink in 1999, Mike has served in a number of executive roles and has management experience in nearly every facet of the business at EarthLink.
- Grant McConachie
George William Grant McConachie (April 24, 1909 - June 29, 1965) was a Canadian bush pilot and businessman who became CEO of Canadian Pacific Airlines (CPA). Grant McConachie was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and grew up in Calder, Alberta. He developed an interest in aviation as a teen and obtained a pilot's license at age twenty. Within a few years he was running his own small fleet of bush aircrafts including ski and float planes.
- Christer Zetterberg
Christer Zetterberg (born 1941) is a Swedish businessman who is the current Chairman of investment bank Carnegie. Christer Zetterberg graduated with a degree in business. After starting his career in the Swedish paper industry, he became CEO of the state-owned "PK-Banken" (now a part of Nordea) in 1988. As such he took part in buying Carnegie from Erik Penser. In 1990 he moved to one of the most prestigious jobs in Swedish industry at that time - CEO of Volvo.
- Philip Orsino
Philip S. Orsino (born 1954) is a Canadian businessman. He is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Masonite International Corporation. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976 from the University of Toronto's Victoria College. He became a Chartered Accountant in 1979 and later a partner in the firm of Hilborn, Ellis, Grant, Chartered Accountants. He was made a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1997.
- Thomas J. Wilson
Thomas J. Wilson, 49, is president and chief executive officer of The Allstate Corporation and Allstate Insurance Company. Wilson is also a member of the corporations board of directors. Wilson currently lives in Chicago.
- Alfred J. Billes
Alfred Jackson Billes (December 1, 1902 - April 3, 1995) was a Canadian businessman and co-founder of Canadian Tire. Born in Toronto, Ontario, at age sixteen, he went to work as a clerk at a branch of the Dominion Bank. In 1922 he used his savings to team up with his brother William to buy Hamilton Tire and Garage Ltd. in Toronto. The following year the brothers moved the business to downtown Toronto where they began the conversion to a garage/retail business.
- Stephen Lee Morgan
Stephen Lee Morgan is Chief Operating Officer of CLS America, a provider of mobile satellite services (MSS) for use in a variety of applications involving asset tracking, monitoring, and data telemetry and subsidiary of CLS Group of Companies of Toulouse, France. Morgan previously served as President of North American CLS, prior to its merger with Service Argos in January 2006 to form CLS America. He is also President and CEO of the Argos Foundation, …
- J. Carter Bacot
J. Carter Bacot (1933 - April 7, 2005) was president of The Bank of New York for eight years and he was chairman and CEO for sixteen years. He remained on the Board of Directors until 2003. Bacot died at the age of 72. Bacot spent his early years in Utica, New York. After graduating from Hamilton College in 1955 and later from Cornell Law School, he worked briefly for a Utica law firm. He had a forty-three-year career at The Bank of New York.
- Mitchell Baker
Winifred Mitchell Baker, better known simply as Mitchell Baker, is Chief Executive Officer of the Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications, including the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client.
- Robert Wayman
Robert P. Wayman is currently the chief financial officer and executive vice president of the Hewlett-Packard Company, as well as a member of the HP board of directors. He has been CFO since 1984. He joined the company in 1969 and has been on the board since 2005; he previously served on the board from 1993 to 2002. He was also interim CEO after Carly Fiorina stepped down in 2005 until Mark Hurd assumed the position.
- Johan Eliasch
Johan Eliasch is a Swedish businessman, based in London, who is the chairman and CEO of sporting goods manufacturer Head. Eliasch is also a banker and film producer, as well as the Party deputy treasurer of the Conservative Party. He also serves as advisor to William Hague, the current Shadow Foreign Secretary and on the advisory board of the Centre for Social Justice, a conservative think-tank set up by former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith
- Alain Bouchard
Alain Bouchard is a Canadian businessman. He currently serves as the chairman, president, and CEO of Alimentation Couche-Tard, and also serves on the board of directors of Quebecor Inc. Both corporations are based in Quebec.
- Philip Caldwell
Philip Caldwell (born January 27, 1920, in Bourneville, Ohio), as the first person to run the Ford Motor Company who was not a member of the Ford family, orchestrated one of the most dramatically successful turnarounds in business history. Philip Caldwell's parents are Robert Clyde Caldwell (1882 - 1935), a farmer, and Wilhelmina Hemphill (1881 - 1966). He grew up in South Charleston, Ohio.