- Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock. "Forbes" magazine's list of The World's Billionaires has ranked him as the richest person in the world since 1995, …
- Larry Page
Lawrence Edward "Larry" Page (born March 26 1973 in Lansing, Michigan) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the Google internet search engine, now Google Inc., with Sergey Brin. Page is currently the President of Products at Google Inc. and has a net worth estimated at 16.6 billion dollars, making him the 26th richest (living) person in the world together with Sergey Brin according to Forbes' annual list of billionaires on 2007
- Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen (born July 9, 1971, in New Lisbon, Wisconsin) is the chair of Opsware, a software company, and cofounder of Ning, a consumer Internet company. He is best known as a cofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser. In 2005, it was revealed that he is one of the people behind Ning, which recently launched a free "playground" for social software.
- Chad Hurley
Chad Meredith Hurley (born 1977) is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the popular San Bruno, California-based video sharing website YouTube, one of the biggest providers of videos on the Internet. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "50 people who matter" list. In October 2006 he sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google. According to an October 10 2006 "Wall Street Journal" article, …
- Dave Sifry
David Sifry is a serial entrepreneur with over 19 years of software development and industry experience. Before founding Technorati, Sifry was cofounder and CTO of Sputnick , a Wi-Fi gateway company, and previously, cofounder of Linuxcare, where he served as CTO and VP of Engineering. Sifry also served as a founding member of the board of Linux International and on the technical advisory board of the National Cybercrime Training Partnership for law enforcement nctp.org .
- Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher.
- Hasso Plattner
Hasso Plattner is a cofounder of software giant SAP AG. Today he's Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SAP AG.
- Chris Dibona
Chris DiBona Open Source Programs Manager at Google
- Michael Ledeen
Michael Ledeen (born August 1, 1941) is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a contributing editor to "National Review". Ledeen was a founding member of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs and he served on the JINSA Board of Advisors. In 2003, the "Washington Post" alleged that he was consulted by Karl Rove, George W. Bush's closest advisor, as his main international affairs adviser.
- Ken Blanchard
Few people have influenced the day-to-day management of people and companies more than Ken Blanchard . A prominent, sought-after author, speaker, and business consultant, Dr. Blanchard is universally characterized by his friends, colleagues, and clients as one of the most insightful, powerful, and compassionate individuals in business today.
- Norman Geisler
Norman Geisler is author or coauthor of more than 68 books and hundreds of articles. He has taught at the university and graduate level for nearly 50 years and has spoken or debated in all 50 states and in 25 countries. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Loyola University and is the cofounder and long–time dean of Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Gary Hamel
Gary Hamel is Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management at the London Business School ; cofounder of Strategos , an international consulting company; and director of the Management Innovation Lab . He is the author of Leading the Revolution and coauthor of Competing for the Future , two landmark books that have appeared on every management best seller list.
- Patrick Naughton
Patrick Naughton is one of the original creators of the Java programming language at Sun Microsystems. He is also the original developer of the popular Unix screensaver "xlock". He authored the book The Java Handbook and co-authored the book Java: The Complete Reference. He was also the Chief Technology Officer and President of Starwave and CTO for Disney's Disney Internet Group and Executive Vice President of Products for Go.com and Infoseek.
- Michael R. Eisenson
Prior to co-founding Charlesbank in 1998, Michael was the president of Harvard Private Capital Group, the firm's predecessor. He began his tenure at Harvard Management Company in 1986 as managing director. Before joining Harvard Management, Michael was with The Boston Consulting Group, a corporate-strategy consulting firm. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Williams College, with a BA in economics, and holds JD and MBA degrees from Yale University.
- James Boyle
James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School, the co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Creative Commons. He writes on intellectual property, cyberspace, and social and legal theory. In 2003 he won the World Technology Network Award for Law. He is also a board member of the Public Library of Science.
- Thomas W. Malone
Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also the founder and director of the MIT Center for Coordination Science and was one of the two founding co-directors of the MIT Initiative on "Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century". Professor Malone teaches classes on leadership and information technology, …
- Don Sundquist
Donald Kenneth Sundquist (born March 15, 1936) is an American politician from Tennessee. A Republican, he served as the 47th Governor of Tennessee from 1995 to 2003. Prior to that, he represtented Tennessee's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995
- Laurene Powell Jobs
Laurene Powell Jobs is Founder and President of the Board of College Track, an after-school program that prepares under resourced high school students for higher education. College Track continues to work with students through college graduation. Through its three centers in the San Francisco Bay Area, College Track provides a comprehensive program of academic support, leadership training, community service and extra-curricular involvement.
- James M. Buchanan
James M. Buchanan , Nobel Prize winner in Economic Science, 1986, is currently Advisory General Director of the Center for Study of Public Choice, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics, Board of Visitors, President, and Faculty George Mason University.
- David Woodward
David Woodward (29 August, 1942 - 25 August, 2004) was an English-born American historian of cartography and cartographer.
- Will Harvey
Will Harvey (born c. 1967) is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and game programmer who first made his mark in the video game industry when he was just fifteen and still in high school. Harvey is the Founder of IMVU, an instant messaging company, and of There, Inc., an MMOG company. In high school, Harvey was taking a computer programming class. His teacher asked the class if anyone knew anything about assembly language. Though he did not, Harvey raised his hand.
- Sol M. Linowitz
Sol M. Linowitz (deceased 1913-2005) was "a 1938 graduate of the Cornell Law School. A cofounder and former chairman of the Xerox Corporation, Linowitz served as ambassador to the Organization of American States under President Lyndon Johnson and as the chief conegotiator of the Panama Canal Treaties under President Jimmy Carter . He also served as President Carter's representative to the Middle East peace talks.
- Alan Aderem
Alan Aderem is a biologist, specializing in immunology and cell biology. Dr. Aderem's particular focus is the innate immune system, the part of the immune system that responds generically to pathogens. Dr. Aderem is director of The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB). Aderem co-founded the ISB with Leroy Hood and Ruedi Aebersold in 2000. Aderem is from South Africa. He received a PhD from the University of Cape Town in 1979.
- James Lindgren
James Lindgren is a professor of law at Northwestern University. He was a leading critic and investigator of charges of scholarly impropriety against anti-gun scholar Michael Bellesiles. Later, and perhaps because of this history, he was chosen to investigate charges that pro-gun scholar John Lott had invented a study. He concluded both were likely guilty of serious misconduct. Lindgren blogs at the Volokh Conspiracy.
- Murugan Pal
Murugan Pal a serial entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley, Bay Area, USA. Murugan is currently an EIR with Foundation Capital. Being a social entrepreneur, he acts as a technology adviser for CK12. CK12 is a non-profit organization launched in 2006, that aims to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the US and worldwide. Previously, Murugan was the founder and CTO of SpikeSource.
- Carl Menger
Carl Menger was the founder of the Austrian School of economics, famous for contributing to the development of the theory of marginal utility that refuted the labor theory of value developed by the classical economists Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Menger was born in Nowy Sącz, Poland (at that time Neu Sandec, Austrian Galicia). He was the son of a wealthy family of minor nobility; his father, Anton, was a lawyer.
- Rajan Hoole
Rajan Hoole is a Tamil Human Rights activist and a co founder, along with the late Ranjani Thiranagama, of University Teachers for Human Rights. He is a son of a Tamil Christian clergyman. Soon after the LTTE assassinated Rajini Thiranagama, Rajan Hoole along with Sritharan, another UTHR activist, fled Jaffna. He continues to document human rights violations by different armed actors in Sri Lanka. Hoole was trained as a classical pianist.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., also known as T.R. and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the twenty-sixth President of the United States, and a leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Movement, as well as being the youngest President in United States history, at age 42. He served in many roles including Governor of New York, historian, naturalist, explorer, author, and soldier.
- Bill Gates
"Swiftwater" Bill Gates was an American frontiersman and fortune hunter, and a fixture in stories of the Klondike Gold Rush. He made and lost several fortunes, and died in Seattle in 1935. Despite the similarity in name and geography, there is no apparent family relationship between "Swiftwater Bill" and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
- Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer , as head of one of America's leading skeptic organizations, and as a powerful activist and essayist in the service of this operational form of reason, is an important figure in American public life. ...
- Henry Samueli
Henry Samueli (born September 20, 1954 in Buffalo, New York) is co-founder, chairman, and chief technology officer of the Broadcom Corporation and a philanthropist in the Orange County, California community. The schools of engineering at UC Irvine and UCLA, where he is a professor, were renamed after him after he donated $20 million and $30 million, respectively, to each in 1999. In 1991, while still working as a professor at UCLA, Samueli co-founded his company, …
- Ama Ata Aidoo
Ama Ata Aidoo is a celebrated Ghanaian playwright and scholar, writing her first play The Dilemma of a Ghost in 1964.She has written several short stories, novels, plays and essays on the status of the African woman. Her book 'Changes' (1991)won her the 1992 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Africa). In addition to that she has received many other literary awards. A recurring theme in her works is women's liberation and empowerment.
- Judith Estrin
Judy Estrin has been named three times to Fortune Magazine's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in American business, and was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame. She started her career as a 21-year old researcher in the lab that created the underlying technology for the Internet, co-founded several successful companies, pioneered the computer networking industry, and served as chief technology officer of networking giant Cisco.
- Michael Eisen
Michael B. Eisen is a computational and evolutionary biologist at the University of California at Berkeley and the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an ardent advocate for the free flow of scientific methods, data, and knowledge. He received his undergraduate degree in mathematics (with extensive side studies in ecology and evolutionary biology) from Harvard College in 1989.
- Carol Giambalvo
Carol Giambalvo is a consultant and eminent expert on "cults". She herself considers herself an ex-cult member. Giambalvo is a cofounder of reFOCUS, a national support and referral network for former cult members. She has been a Thought Reform Consultant since 1984. Giambalvo is on the Board of Directors for the International Cultic Studies Association. She is also the Director of the International Cultic Studies Association's Recovery Programs.
- Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz (born May 22, 1984) co-founded the online social directory, Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Hughes. Together they have grown the site to be used by more than 25 million people. Dustin currently serves as the VP of Engineering of Facebook and works out of the company's Palo Alto office.
- Robert Kagan
Robert Kagan is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he specializes in issues of U.S. leadership and foreign policy. He is co-founder with William Kristol of the Project for a New American Century. Before joining the Carnegie Endowment, he worked in the State Department as a member of the Policy Planning Staff and as principal speech writer for Secretary of State George P. Shultz during the Reagan Administration.
- Alex Steffen
Alex Steffen Alex Steffen has been the Executive Editor of Worldchanging since he co-founded the organization in 2003, as the next phase in a lifetime of work exploring ways of building a better future. In a very short time, Worldchanging has become the most widely-read sustainability-related publication on the Internet, with an archive of over 7,000 articles by leading thinkers around the world.
- Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan earned a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Santa Clara University, a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University, a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from the University of Iowa, and is currently a Doctoral Candidate in History of Religions at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Until recently, he was both Visiting Assistant Professor of Islamic and Middle East Studies at the University of Iowa and the Truman Capote Fellow in Fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
- Howard Dayton
Howard Dayton was born on October 7, 1943 in Daytona Beach, Florida. After graduating from the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University in 1967, he served two and a half years as a naval officer. In 1969, he developed a successful railroad-themed restaurant in Orlando, Florida, and in 1972, he began his commercial real estate development career, specalizing in office development in the Central Florida area.