- Bong Coo
Olivia "Bong" Coo is a Filipino bowler - 4-time World Champion, won the most gold medals in the Asian Games by a Filipino athlete with five, and the first Filipino athlete listed in the Guinness Book of Records. She is the only bowling athlete who has won the All Events titles in regional level, …
- Eva Coo
Eva Coo was an American murderer, who was executed by electric chair at Sing Sing Prison on June 27, 1935. Coo was entrusted with the care of one of her employees, a slow-witted handiman named Henry Wright, after the death of Wright's mother. Coo embezzled Wright's inheritance and burned down his house for insurance money. After purchasing several life insurance policies on Wright, Coo then conspired to murder him with another of her employees, a woman named Martha Clift.
- Michael Arrington
I am the editor of TechCrunch and owner of the TechCrunch Network of blog and podcasting sites.
- Dina Kaplan
Dina Kaplan is an American Internet media executive. Kaplan is a co-founder and COO of blip.tv, a Web 2.0 media company that makes it easy for anyone to create an independent TV show on the Internet. She is also an Emmy-winning broadcast journalist and a founding member of the Women's Media Center.
- Jeffrey Bewkes
Jeffrey Lawrence Bewkes (born 25 May 1952 in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American media executive. He has served as CEO of Time Warner since January 1, 2008 and as President since December 2005. On January 1, 2009 he became Chairman of the Board in...
- Ralph Alvarez
Ralph Alvarez (born 1955 in Cuba) is a Cuban-American businessman and the current President and COO of McDonald's Corporation. Prior to becoming President and Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Alvarez served as President, McDonald's North America. Prior to that, he was President, McDonald's USA and Chief Operations Officer, McDonald's USA. He graduated from the University of Miami in 1976 with a Bachelor's in Business Administration.
- Larry Kellner
Lawrence W. "Larry" Kellner (born 1959) has been CEO of Continental Airlines since December 2004. He previously served as a vice president, chief financial officer and chief operations officer for the airline. Kellner grew up in Sumter, South Carolina. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1981 with a degree in accounting. He resides in Houston, Texas.
- Jim Barksdale
Jim Barksdale (born January 24, 1943) was the president and CEO of Netscape Communications Corporation from January 1995 until the company merged with AOL in March 1999.
- Fred Wilpon
Fred Wilpon, a graduate of the University of Michigan is a baseball executive with the National League New York Mets of which he became a part-owner in 1980. Wilpon served as president of the team between 1980 to 2002, as Chief Executive Officer since 1980 and as Chairman of the Board since 2003. In 2002, the Wilpon family purchased the remaining 50% of the Mets from Nelson Doubleday, Jr. for $391 million. Wilpon currently serves as Chairman of Sterling Equities, …
- Brian France
Brian France (born August 2, 1962) is the CEO and chairman of NASCAR, taking over the position from his father, Bill France, Jr., in 2003. He had previously managed NASCAR's marketing department and touring divisions and was involved in the creation of the Craftsman Truck Series. France is also the head of Brandsense, a marketing company whose clients include Tony Stewart, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and Britney Spears.
- Nigel Morris
Nigel Morris is a businessman who co-founded Capital One with Richard Fairbank, and retired as COO in 2004. He lent the Labour Party (UK) £1,000,000 as part of the Cash for peerages affair. He was educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School in the North West of England. He is a governor of the London Business School, and a director of the The Economist Group and Quanta Capital Holdings.
- Chi-Foon Chan
Chi-Foon Chan is President and Chief Operating Officer of Synopsys, Inc.. From the Synopsys website... Dr. Chi-Foon Chan shares responsibility for running the company with Synopsys Chairman and CEO Dr. Aart de Geus. Dr. Chan is focused on driving the company's internal operations and worldwide field organization. He joined Synopsys in 1990 as Vice President of Applications and Services. Previously at NEC Corporation, Dr. Chan was General Manager of the microprocessor group, …
- 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.
- William R. Johnson
William R. Johnson is president, CEO and chairman of H. J. Heinz. He worked at Drackett as an assistant product manager for Behold furniture polish, starting at $13,000 a year. He worked at Ralston, Frito-Lay and Anderson-Clayton Foods before joining Heinz in 1982 as general manager of new business. In 1988, as president and CEO of the poorly-performing Heinz Pet Products, he turned around a poorly-performing operation which some analysts had proclaimed unsalvageable.
- David E. Orton
David E. Orton is currently the CEO of ATI Technologies. He joined ATI as a result of an acquisition of ArtX, a high-tech SME, in April 2000, where he was President and CEO. Prior to ArtX he worked at SGI where he spent almost 10 years as Senior Vice President of the Visual Computing Department. He also worked in the graphics and semiconductor industry as an engineer at General Electric and Bell Laboratories.
- Alex J. Mandl
Alex Mandl , Gemplus’ President and CEO said: “This transaction is an important development for Gemplus, Axalto and the digital security industry as a whole. This merger, with a sound industrial logic, is a win-win that will create value not only for our respective shareholders but also for our clients and employees. We are confident in our ability to deliver significant value to our shareholders.”
- Robert B. Willumstad
Robert B. Willumstad is the Chairman of the American International Group. He was formerly vice chairman of Citigroup. He left Citigroup in July 2005.
- Terry J. Lundgren
Terry J. Lundgren is the CEO, Chairman of the Board, President, and Director at Macys inc., the parent company of Macy's and Bloomingdale's department stores. Lundgren is also the namesake of the Terry J. Lundgren Center for Retailing at the University of Arizona, where he is also an alumnus, having graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor's degree/B.A. Career: * Federated Department Stores: Bullock's division, 1975–1987 * Bullocks Wilshire: 1987, …
- William Amelio
William J. AMELIO Presidente y Consejero Delegado William J. Amelio ha sido nombrado Presidente y Consejero Delegado de Lenovo Group Limited. Amelio trabajó anteriormente en Dell Inc., donde ocupó el cargo de Vicepresidente Ejecutivo de la región de Asia Pacífico y Japón desde 2001, siendo responsable de la estrategia y operaciones desarrolladas en dicha región.
- Louis Schweitzer
Mr. Louis Schweitzer is an Independent Member of the Board of Directors of Veolia Environnement and is also Member of the Companyaaas Nominating and Remuneration Committee. He is a graduate of Institut daaaEtudes Politiques and Ecole Nationale daaaAdministartion and he served as Inspector of Finances. From 1981 to 1986, he was Chief of Staff of Mr. Laurent Fabius , who over the same period was Deputy Minister of Budget, Minister of Industry and Research and Prime Minister of France.
- David O. Sacks
David O. Sacks is Founder and CEO of Web 2.0 company Geni, Inc.. Sacks was previously the COO of PayPal until its acquisition by eBay. He produced the recent Hollywood movie, "Thank You for Smoking". He was interviewed in a recent episode of Venture Voice. He attended Memphis University School in Memphis, Tennessee.
- Thomas W. Lasorda
Tom LaSorda, expressed that leveraging from existing technologies like the use of alternative fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel is one way to address safer emissions without placing the North American auto industry in jeopardy. Mr. LaSorda graduated from the University of Windsor in 1977 with both a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Commerce undergraduate degree. He then received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) also from the University of Windsor in 1980.
- Gary Cohn
Gary D. Cohn is a President and COO of Goldman Sachs. He has also financed the Gary D. Cohn Endowed Research Professorship in Finance at American University, his alma mater. Mr. Cohn is a founding board member with his wife Lisa Pevaroff Cohn of the New York University Child Study Center. They funded the Pevaroff Cohn Professorship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine in 1999.
- Ivan Fecan
Ivan Fecan (surname pronounced) is the President and CEO of CTVglobemedia and the CEO of its CTV television network. Fecan was born in Toronto in 1953. He attended York University, receiving a BA in Fine Arts. In 1984, at the age of 31, Ivan was offered a job with NBC. He served as their vice-president of creative development for two years, before returning to Canada and the CBC. Fecan took the role of director of television programming at the CBC in 1987.
- Tom L. Ward
Tom L. Ward is former President, COO and co-founder of Chesapeake Energy and current chairman and CEO at SandRidge Energy. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1981 with a BBA in Petroleum Land Management.
- 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, …
- Guillaume Sarkozy
Guillaume Georges Didier Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa, simply known as Guillaume Sarkozy, is a French textile entrepreneur and vice-president of the MEDEF, the French union of employers. Guillaume Sarkozy is the older brother of French president Nicolas Sarkozy. He was enrolled in the private Catholic middle and high school "Cours Saint-Louis de Monceau", and then in the public "Lycée" (High School) "Janson-de-Sailly", both located in Paris.
- Tom Burnett
Thomas Edward Burnett (May 29, 1963 - September 11, 2001), was the vice president and COO of a Pleasanton, California, medical devices company, Thoratec Corporation. At the time of his death, Mr. Burnett resided in San Ramon, California. He graduated from Thomas Jefferson Senior High School in Bloomington, Minnesota in 1981 after leading the football team to the state semi-finals as their starting quarterback.
- George Chamillard
George Chamillard is an American business executive most famous for his roles at Teradyne, a manufacturer of automatic test equipment for semiconductor devices. Rising through the ranks at Teradyne over his more than 35 years there, Chamillard eventually headed the corporation as President and COO, appointed in 1996 to fill these roles upon the departure of Alex d'Arbeloff, one of the two founders. 1997 saw him also assume the title of CEO.
- David Courtley
David Courtley is the Chief Executive Officer of Fujitsu Services (formerly ICL), the Europe, Middle East and Africa based IT Services arm of the Japanese IT Company Fujitsu. David Courtley joined Fujitsu Services in July 2001 as Chief Operating Officer, and moved to the CEO position in April 2004, replacing Richard Christou who moved to the role of Chairman.
- Arun Katiyar
Arun Katiyar is essentially a media expert with over two decades of professional experience. He has worked as Journalist and editor with the India Today Group. A savvy media person, Arun was the founder and Chief Operating Officer of the India Today Group’s online venture and was instrumental in setting up their online global syndication business. He has also produced a rock album for CBS and has authored a book for Harper Collins Publishers.
- David J. Lesar
David J. Lesar, age 52, is Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton Energy Services. Trained as a Certified Public Accountant, Lesar spent 16 years at Arthur Andersen. He had spent most of his career at Andersen, where he worked on their Halliburton account. In 1995, Lesar was hired by Halliburton as a new vice president. Three months later he had a new boss, Dick Cheney. Within a year of his arrival, Cheney had fired Tommy Knight—a 32-year Kellogg, …
- Gregory R. Page
Gregory R. Page (born 1952 in Bottineau, North Dakota) is the president and CEO of Cargill, Inc. of Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He joined Cargill in 1974, and has served in various worldwide posts for the company, including serving as the corporate vice president of Excel Corp. (currently a Cargill-owned business platform), before rising to its CEO in 2007. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of North Dakota.
- Markku Koppinen
Markku Koppinen is COO of ThoughtWorks. He worked at Andersen Consulting (Accenture) for eleven years, and was based in Helsinki before transferring to London in 1995. After leaving Andersen Consulting, he worked as a managing director of efinanceworks, an e-finance venture capital fund, and later as COO of mPower Europe, a re-enabled investment advisory start-up.
- Jay Ziskrout
Jay Ziskrout was the first drummer for Bad Religion, forming the group with schoolmate Brett Gurewitz in 1980. He performed on the Bad Religion EP and eight tracks on their debut full-length album How Could Hell Be Any Worse?. He decided to leave the band with only half of the songs recorded due to a misunderstanding regarding the band's new press photos. Bad Religion found another drummer in Jay Ziskrout's drum roadie, Pete Finestone, …
- Joe Chlapaty
Joe Chlapaty is the President and CEO of Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. Originally from Chicago, Chlapaty has been with ADS since 1980 when he was recruited by then-Chairman Frank Eck. Chlapaty was named COO in 1994 and CEO in 2004. He is also a trustee of Marietta College in Ohio and for the Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges
- Philip Wand
Philip Wand (born December 3, 1969, in Chelmsford), known to his readership as "Wandy", is a British computer hardware journalist and technical advice columnist. Wand was originally a developer of IP networking tools for Windows, and later became founder shareholder of two successful technology businesses. In the 1990s he acted as consultant to a number of blue-chip companies such as Computacenter and Railtrack, and co-authored several of the UK's first high-traffic, …
- Coo Coo Marlin
Clifton "Coo Coo" Marlin was a NASCAR Winston Cup driver who spent 14 years in the series.
- Gaurav Shah
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- Ross J. Connelly
Ross J. Connelly (b. April 25, 1952) is the former Executive Vice President and COO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Prior to OPIC, Connelly worked for Bechtel Corporation; he was an executive (1977) and later a senior principal with Bechtel Investments (1982 - 1991) (which later became the Fremont Group) and the President of Bechtel Energy Resources, Inc. (1991 - 1993). In 1993, Connelly was elected President of NorthGas, Ltd., …