- Georges Doriot
Georges F. Doriot (Paris, France, September 1899 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA, June 1987) was one of the first American venture capitalists. In 1946, he founded American Research and Development Corporation, the first publicly owned venture capital firm. - David Vogel
David Vogel (b.1949) is the Solomon P. Lee Distingiushed Professor in Business Ethics at the University of California, Berkeley campus. He is a member of both the Political Science Department and the Haas School of Business, and is Editor of the "California Management Review". He was the Jean Monnet Chair, European University Institute, in 1994 and the BP Chair in Transatlantic Relations, there in 2000. - John Thain
John Thain is the current CEO of the New York Stock Exchange. Previously, Thain was both president and Chief Operating Officer of Goldman Sachs, starting in July, 2003. Before that, he was co-COO for four years and spent the following five years as Chief Financial Officer. He was successful enough in the firm to amass $300 million in stock. John Thain's memberships include: MIT Corporation, Dean's Advisory Council – MIT Sloan School of Management, … - Wendy Alexander
Wendy Alexander (born 27 June, 1963, Glasgow) is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Paisley North. Prior to entering the Scottish Parliament,Alexander worked in the private, voluntary and public sectors and for the international management consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton. This included a period as Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Scotland (Donald Dewar). From 1999 to 2002 she was a minister in the Scottish Executive, … - Tidjane Thiam
Tidjane Thiam is managing director, Aviva International, and chief executive Aviva Europe. He was Minister of Planning and Development of Côte d'Ivoire from August 1998 until the coup d'état in December 1999. He was co-chair with Ernesto Zedillo of an international task force on Global Public Goods. - Paul Desmarais Jr.
Paul Desmarais, Jr., O.C., MBA (born July 3, 1954, in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian businessman in his hometown of Montreal. He is the eldest son of Paul Desmarais, Sr. Currently he is the chairman and co-chief executive officer of Power Corporation of Canada. Desmarais was educated at Lakefield College School in Lakefield, Ontario, McGill University in Montréal, Quebec, and at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, where he earne a Master of Business Administration. - Ronald S. Burt
Ronald S. Burt is the Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He is most notable for his research and writing on social networks and social capital, particularly the concept of structural holes in a social network. He is the author of several books on sociology, organization behavior and network analysis, … - Helge Lund
Helge Lund is the Chief Executive for the Statoil group, and former CEO of Aker Kværner. Lund graduated as a business economist at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in Bergen. He also has a master of business administration (MBA) from the INSEAD business school in France. Before he became chief executive of Aker Kværner, Helge Lund had a number of positions in the Aker RGI system, … - Dag J. Opedal
Dag Jakob Opedal is the CEO of Orkla. He holds a "siviløkonom" degree from NHH and an MBA from INSEAD. He has been part of the executive board of Orkla since 2001. - Colin Dyer
Colin Dyer has been a Director of Jones Lang LaSalle since September 2004, when he was elected President and Chief Executive Officer of the firm. Before that, from 2000 to 2004, he was the founding CEO of the WorldWide Retail Exchange, an Internet-based business-to-business exchange, with offices in Washington D.C., Paris and Tokyo, whose members include more than 40 of the world's leading retailers and manufacturers. From 1996 until 2000, Mr. - 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. - Alexander Izosimov
Alexander Vadimovich Izosimov is the CEO of Vimpelcom since October 2003. From 2001 until 2003, Mr. Izosimov was a member of the Global Executive Management Board and Regional President for the CIS, Central Europe and Nordic regions. From 1996 to 2001 Mr. Izosimov was General Manager at Mars, Inc. for Russia and the CIS. Before 1996 Alexander was with McKinsey & Co in Stockholm and London. Mr. Izosimov currently serves on the Boards of Directors of GSM Association, … - Prince Constantijn Of The Netherlands
Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands (Constantijn Christof Frederick Aschwin), Prince of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer of Amsberg, (born October 11, 1969), is the third and youngest son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Claus von Amsberg. His godparents are HM King Constantine II of Greece, HSH Prince Aschwin zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst, Dr. Max Kohnstam, and Mrs. C. de Beaufort-Sickinghe. - Peter Fudakowski
Peter Fudakowski is a London based film producer. He studied Economics at Magdalene College, Cambridge, (where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society in Michaelmas Term 1976). He graduated with a Masters degree and later read for an MBA at the business school INSEAD. In 1979 he joined the First National Bank of Chicago where he worked in the film financing department. - Seamus O'Regan
Seamus O'Regan (born January 18 1971, St. John's, Newfoundland) is a Canadian broadcast journalist and co-host of "Canada AM", CTV's national morning show. At the age of 10, O'Regan became a regional correspondent for CBC Radio's "Anybody Home?", producing stories that celebrated the unique accomplishments of local residents - a professor hunting for giant squid to one woman's fight against leukemia. Seamus studied politics at St. - Gary P. Sampson
Gary Sampson currently holds the John Gough Chair in the Practice of International Trade at Melbourne Business School (MBS). In 1987, he was appointed Director at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in Geneva, and then in 1995, Director at the World Trade Organisation where he has directed a number of divisions. In 2001 he was appointed Senior Counsellor in the Office of the Director General at the WTO. - Michael Peat
Sir Michael Charles Gerrard Peat KCVO (born November 16, 1949) was appointed as the private secretary to the Charles, Prince of Wales in 2002 and was made Principal Private Secretary to The Prince of Wales and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall in 2005. Peat was born in 1949 and is great-grandson of William Barclay Peat, founder of the accountancy firm of Peat Marwick. He was educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, University of Oxford, … - Sanjeev Nanda
Sanjeev Nanda (b. 1978) is the grandson of an ex-Chief of Naval Staff-turned businessman from New Delhi who is the prime accused to have run over and killed six people, including three policemen, in a drunken state when he drove his BMW car at high speed through a police checkpoint. The incident occurred at 4:50 AM early morning of January 10, 1999. After running through the policemen, he allegedly stopped the car to check the damage, saw people under the car, … - Humphrey Cobbold
Humphrey Cobbold is the current chairman of Fish4, one of the largest online classified advertising site networks in the United Kingdom, as well as the Director of Strategic Development and Executive Committee member of Trinity Mirror. Prior to joining Fish4 and Trinity Mirror, he was a partner and the co-head of the UK media practice for the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. He graduated from the University of Cambridge and holds an MBA from INSEAD. - Theodore Modis
Theodore Modis is a strategic business analyst, futurist, physicist, and international consultant. He went to Columbia University, New York. where he received a Masters in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Physics. Dr Modis carried out research in particle-physics experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratories and CERN, before moving to work at Digital Equipment Corporation for more than a decade as the head of a management science consultants group. - David Simon Baron Simon of Highbury
David Alec Gwyn Simon, Baron Simon of Highbury CBE (born 24 July 1939), is a British businessman. He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1961 and joined British Petroleum as a management trainee, became chief executive in 1982 and 1992, managing director in 1986 and at least chairman. In the early years of his career he spent some time at the elite business school INSEAD. He became Advisor to Unilever and was Chairman of the Belgo-British Conference in 2004. - Guy Weston
Guy Weston (born 1961) is a British businessman. He is the eldest son of Garry Weston and Mary Weston, and brother of George G. Weston. Guy has held positions in the past in Associated British Foods. He is Chairman of Heal's plc. He was educated at Westminster School and Merton College, Oxford. He read for the Bar, and then took an MBA at INSEAD. He married Charlotte Emily Brunet and they have four children: George Howard (born 1989), Guy William Peter (born 1991), … - Lalita D. Gupte
Lalita D. Gupte currently (2006), Joint Managing Director of ICICI Bank (India’s second largest commercial bank), is an important figure in India’s banking and financial services sector. An INSEAD alumnus, Gupte was listed by the Fortune “as one of the fifty most powerful women in international business.” Gupte had begun her career with ICICI Ltd (which later merged with ICICI Bank) in 1971 as a trainee in the Project Appraisal department. - John E. O'Higgins
- Roberto Masiero
Roberto Masiero , President, IDC EMEA & Worldwide Conferences Roberto Masiero is the President of IDC EMEA, and is in charge of all operations of IDC in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Furthermore he is responsible for driving the development of IDC Conference & Event Business Worldwide. - Herminia Ibarra
Herminia Ibarra is the Cora Chaired Professor in Leadership and Learning, faculty director of the INSEAD Leadership Initiative and a member of the INSEAD Board. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, where she was a National Science Fellow. Prior to joining INSEAD in 2002 she served on the Harvard Business School faculty for thirteen years. A native of Cuba, Professor Ibarra is an expert on professional and leadership development. - Bill Charteris
Award-winning scientist/engineer/technologist with postdoctoral experience in developing, evaluating, and commercialising innovative foods, functional food ingredients, and food supplements in regulated markets. Health and nutrition management professional with 25 years experience of strategic/operational business planning/development, R&D, co-funding procurement, regulatory affairs, IP, technology transfer, QA, lean manufacture, S&M, technical service management, and staff training. - Alex Dabbous
Alex Dabbous Investment Manager - Diane Brundage
Diane Brundage Senior Vice President Membership and Partnership Development Diane Brundage is the Sr. Vice President of Membership and Partnership Development for AFSMI. In that capacity, she is responsible for all membership acquisition and retention as well as the marketing of the association’s various programs into the industry at large. Ms. Brundage has over 25 years experience in sales and marketing in the technology and software sector. - Marek Helinski
Marek R. Helinski; PROFILE; Experienced manager specialized in international trade and business development, multinational experience, excellent education (world's top-5 MBA program graduate, Diploma in Marketing & Logistics, M.Sc. in International Trade Economics); Strengths: Negotiation, language, cross-cultural and interpersonal skills, mobile, easily adapting, reliable, ambitious, in constant search for new challenges and solutions; OBJECTIVE; General, Strategic or Sales . . . - Martin Roll
Martin Roll is CEO of Venture Republic and a strategic advisor on branding excellence to corporate boards and top-management teams. He is an experienced international branding strategist, a renowned speaker and workshop host, and an advisor on Asian branding. - Jean Haguet
Management consulting for the wireless & digital industries - Carlos Cordero
Summary; I am a business professional with more than 15 years of experience in services at management level, as well as 5 years previously in the design, architecture, management, research, and development position, with numerous examples of the ability to adapt, learn, invent, motivate and excel in a self-directed, collaborative and professional manner. I combine very strong customer facing skills with very strong technology knowledge, particularly in the Microsoft environment. . . . - Martin Kaufmann
Top management HR consultant helping to search for members of boards, top executives at C-levels, top specialists and next generation management talent. Mainly working for firms in IT, consulting, financial services, pharma, telecom, consumer goods, public infrastructure and services. - Frédéric Thuard
Radio management professional : former MD/board member of German operations of a European Radio group, former EMEA Bus. Dev. director of a European Radio group, Wireless entrepreneur & consultant: ceo/founder of a mobile financial service technology provider, coo/associate of a mobile media services enabler, Management/Business development consultant for wireless start-ups, - Suat Alaybeyoglu
- Stephane Zanella
Use my skills in Direct Marketing and my previous experiences in Consulting to succeed in the wine industry - Daniel C Esty
- Erling Maartmann-Moe
Extensive experience from start-up companies, research based commercialization and venture capital. - Cesare Tagliaferri
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