- Danica Patrick
Danica Sue Patrick (born March 25, 1982 in Beloit, Wisconsin) is an American auto racing driver competing in the IndyCar Series. She is from an Irish-American family and was raised in Roscoe, Illinois. Danica Patrick was named the Rookie of the Year for both the 2005 Indianapolis 500 and the 2005 IndyCar Series season. In May 2006, she published her autobiography, "Danica: Crossing the Line". - Kevin David Mitnick
Mr. Mitnick will also share specific guidance you can immediately put to use to raise the bar of organizational awareness and mitigate the risk that your wireless network will be the next stepping stone into sensitive corporate data and computing resources. "Mr. Mitnick's presentation was not only informative and entertaining; it also brought home some very relevant information security issues. - Padmasree Warrior
Padmasree Warrior is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) Warrior joined Motorola in 1984 and was appointed its CTO in 2003. Warrior is responsible for the Motorola’s $4.0 billion research and development investment and the efforts of 25,000 engineers. She is an external director on the Board of Corning Corporation (NYSE:GLW). She is one of the most elevated Indian women in the US technology sector. - Martin Cooper
Dr. Martin Cooper (born December 26, 1928 in Chicago) is considered the inventor of the cell phone. Cooper is the CEO and founder of ArrayComm, a company that works on researching smart antenna technology and improving wireless networks, and was the Corporate Director of Research and Development for Motorola. He received his degree in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1950 and received his master's degree from the same institution in 1957. - Bob Galvin
Robert (Bob) W. Galvin (born on October 9, 1922 in Marshfield, Wisconsin) is the son of the founder of Motorola, Paul Galvin. He attended the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago. In 1940, he began working for Motorola and was named president of the company in 1956. Two years later he succeeded his father as chief executive officer. In 1986, Bob Galvin gave up the title of CEO while remaining chairman of the board. - Edward Zander
Edward J. Zander (born January 12, 1947, in Brooklyn, New York) is an incompetent bafoon. He is Chief Executive Officer of Motorola, a title he has held since he started there in January, 2004. His work in the technology sector included management positions at Data General and Apollo Computers before joining Sun Microsystems in 1987 where he was later promoted to Chief Operating Officer and President in 1998 and 1999, respectively. - Paul Galvin
Paul Vincent Galvin (June 271895 - November 51959) was one of the two founders of telecommunications company Motorola. Founded as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation on September 251928, Motorola is now a leader in communications equipment. Galvin was born in Harvard, Illinois. He served as an artillery officer during World War I. During college he was an active member of Phi Kappa Theta fraternity. - Marco Andretti
Marco Michael Andretti (born March 13, 1987 in Nazareth, Pennsylvania) is an American auto racing driver who drives the #26 car for Andretti-Green Racing in the Indy Racing League. He is the son of 1991 IndyCar World Series champion Michael Andretti and the grandson of racing legend Mario Andretti. Andretti finished second in the 2006 Indianapolis 500 in the second closest finish in the race's history. Andretti resides in Indianapolis, Indiana. - Mark Spencer
Mark Spencer (born April 8, 1977) is a computer engineer and is the original author of the GTK+-based instant messaging client Gaim, the L2TP daemon l2tpd and the Cheops Network User Interface. Mark Spencer is also the creator of Asterisk, a Linux-based open-sourced PBX in software. He is the founder, chairman and CTO of Digium, an open-source telecommunications supplier most notable for its development and sponsorship of Asterisk. - Robby Gordon
Robby Gordon (born in Bellflower, California, on January 2, 1969) is an American racing driver who currently competes in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series, owning his #7 Ford Fusion, sponsored by Jim Beam, and also owning his #55 Verizon Wireless/Motorola ride which competes part-time in the Busch Series, although he has also raced in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, Champ Car, the IRL, Trans-Am, IMSA, IROC and Dakar Rally. - Bill Smith
Bill Smith (1929 - 1993) is the "Father of Six Sigma". Born in Brooklyn, New York, Smith graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1952 and studied at the University of Minnesota School of Management (now known as the Carlson School of Management). In 1987, after working for nearly 35 years in engineering and quality assurance, he joined Motorola, serving as vice president and senior quality assurance manager for the Land Mobile Products Sector. - Emmitt Smith
Emmitt James Smith III (born May 15 1969 in Pensacola, Florida) is a former American football player, who played for the Dallas Cowboys and Arizona Cardinals. Smith is a three time Super Bowl champion and the NFL's all time rushing leader, a record formerly held by his childhood hero Walter Payton. Smith surpassed Payton on October 27, 2002 against the Seattle Seahawks at Texas Stadium. He is the only running back to ever have won a Super Bowl championship, … - Jerry Sanders
Walter Jeremiah Sanders III (born September 12, 1936), and best known as "Jerry," was a salesman at Fairchild Semiconductor in the 1960s. He was one of the company's best sales people and was famous for style and flair. He then co-founded Advanced Micro Devices and took his trademark style into his position as its CEO. Jerry Sanders III grew up in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, raised by his paternal grandparents. - Philippe Kahn
Philippe Kahn (born March 16, 1952) is an American technology innovator and entrepreneur, French-born, known as the founder of Borland, a producer of software development tools for as well as Starfish Software, the creator of the first wireless synchronization solutions and LightSurf Technologies the developer of the first camera phone infrastructure. Kahn created the first complete camera phone system in 1997. He is currently the CEO of Fullpower Technologies, … - David Dorman
David W. Dorman (born 1954 in Georgia) is an American Telecommunications executive, currently serving on the board of Motorola. In 2000, he took on the task of rebuilding AT&T, whose total stock value had fallen from a high of $110 billion to a low of less than $11 billion. Prior to SBC Communications's acquisition of AT&T Corp. on 18 November, 2005, Dorman was chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T. - Héctor Ruiz
Dr. Héctor de Jesús Ruiz is the current Chairman and CEO of semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). Ruiz was born in the border town of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico. As a teenager, he walked across the United States-Mexico border every day to attend a high school in nearby Eagle Pass, Texas, from which he graduated as valedictorian just three years after beginning to learn English. - Ami James
Ami James, is an Israeli tattoo artist. He is the co-owner (with Chris Nuñez) of the Miami, Florida tattoo parlor known as Miami Ink from the TLC reality television program. James also co-owns DeVille USA, a clothing design company, with Nuñez and Jesse Fleet, and the Miami nightclub Love/Hate, with Nuñez and two other close friends. He has also created designs for Motorola's RAZR V3 mobile phones. He served in the Israeli Special Forces. - Cem Uzan
Cem Uzan is a Turkish businessman involved in the media and banking industries, while also chairing the right-populist Young Party. His family's media empire includes both television stations and print media. He is often compared with Silvio Berlusconi for mixing medial and political power. He hails from one of Turkey's most influential families, though the family's holdings have faced "scores of civil and criminal lawsuits" alleging various misdeeds, … - Tony Fadell
Tony Fadell is Apple Inc.'s Senior Vice President of the iPod Division, having succeeded Jon Rubinstein in 2006. Fadell graduated from University of Michigan with a BS in Computer Engineering in 1991. While still at Michigan, he was CEO of Constructive Instruments, which marketed MediaText, multimedia composition software for children. He worked for Apple spinoff General Magic for three years, … - Chuck Peddle
Electronics engineer Chuck Peddle is mostly known as the main designer of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor; the KIM-1 SBC; and its successor the Commodore PET school/business/home computer, both based on the 6502. Peddle had worked at Motorola from 1973 on the development of the 6800 processor but then left for MOS Technology, where he headed the design of the 650x family of processors; these were made as an answer to the Motorola 6800. - Kate Nauta
Kate or Katie Nauta (born in Salem, Oregon, on April 29, 1982) is a fashion model and actress. She grew up in Woodburn, Oregon, where she lived until 2000. Nauta started modelling at age 15. At 17 she was the US winner of the Elite Model Look contest, and is now managed by Mode Models International. She has modelled for Versace (Sport and Versus), L'Oreal, DKNY, and Abercrombie & Fitch Co. as well as doing advertisements for, among others, Motorola. - Larry O'Brien
Larry O'Brien (born July 19, 1949 in Ottawa) is the current mayor of Ottawa, Canada, as well as the current director of Calian Technologies and its former CEO and chairman. O'Brien attended Elmdale Public School, Fisher Park Public School, and graduated from Merivale High School in 1968. He continued his post-secondary studies at Algonquin College School of Technology and graduated with a diploma in Technology in 1972. - Mike S. Zafirovski
Mike S. Zafirovski (b. circa 1954, Skopje, present day Republic of Macedonia) is of ethnic Macedonian decent and immigrated to United States in 1969, arriving in Cleveland, Ohio with his family, $1500 dollars among them and speaking no English. Two years later, he got into Edinboro University on a swimming scholarship. In 2004, he received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. - Jabba
Jabba is a television personality who first made a name for himself as part of the launch of subscription television in Australia in 1995. He was a host for music television station "Red" on the now-defunct Galaxy subscription television network, before the channel changed its name to Channel [V]. - Kevin Livingston
Kevin Livingston was a professional American cyclist. He was born in St. Louis, MO on May 24, 1973. He currently resides in Austin, TX. Livingston raced for eight years as a professional. His teams included Motorola, Cofidis, US Postal Service and Team Telekom. He retired from professional cycling in 2002. An adept climber and strong team rider, he was one of Lance Armstrong's lieutenants, with a long list of impressive rides in the Tour de France and other races. - 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, … - Nick Tredennick
Nick Tredennick is an IEEE fellow and a prominent American manager, inventor and VLSI design engineer. In 1968 he obtained the BSEE degree, and in 1970 the MSEE at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, and, in 1976 the Ph.D. at Electrical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, TX. From 1977 to 1979 Nick Tredennick was a Senior Design Engineer at Motorola, … - Elyse Sewell
Elyse Sewell, (born June 10, 1982) is an American fashion model based in Hong Kong. A native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sewell obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New Mexico, majoring in biology and Spanish. Her start in modeling came when she entered a reality television modeling competition on the first season of "America's Next Top Model", airing at the time on UPN. Sewell was known on the show as the "edgy pre-med student". - Gary L. Tooker
Gary L. Tooker was the CEO of Motorola from 1993 to 1995. He became CEO after Robert Galvin retired from the position while remaining chairman of the executive committee of the board. Prior to becoming CEO, Tooker was president and chief operating officer. After becoming CEO, Christopher Galvin became the chief operating officer in place of Tooker until 1995 when he became the CEO of the company. - Richard Soley
Richard Mark Soley is the chair and CEO of Object Management Group, Inc. (OMG); as such, the vision and direction of the consortium are his responsibility. Soley joined OMG as Technical Director in 1989, leading the development of OMG's world-leading standardization process and the original CORBA® specification. In 1996, he led the effort to move into vertical market standards (starting with healthcare, finance, telecommunications and manufacturing) and modeling. - Claudine Simson
Dr. Claudine Simson was vice president and chief technology officer for Freescale Semiconductor. Dr. Claudine Simson then joined LSI as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) as of March 26th. Claudine graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's honors' degree in electrical engineering from one of France's prestigious Engineering Grandes Ecoles in Toulouse, France. - Bill Mensch
American engineer William David Mensch, Jr., born 9 February 1945 in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, is the founder, chairman and CEO of the Western Design Center (WDC) of Mesa, Arizona. Before founding the Western Design Center in 1978, Mensch held design engineering and management positions at Philco-Ford, Motorola, MOS Technology and Integrated Circuit Engineering. A central person in the creation of the Motorola 6800 and MOS Technology 6502 families of microprocessor chips, … - Walter E. Massey
Dr. Walter E. Massey, an American educator, physicist, and business leader, was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi April 5 1938. Massey graduated from Morehouse College in 1958 and received his PhD from Washington University in St. Louis. He served as the ninth president of Morehouse College from 1995 to 2007. Massey has served as the director of the National Science Foundation under George H. W. Bush and Senior Provost of the University of California System. - Paul Sloane
Paul Sloane is a British author and speaker on lateral thinking and innovation. He was born in 1950 in Johnstone, Scotland and was educated at St Joseph's College, Blackpool and Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he read Engineering. From 1974 to 1984 he worked for IBM in Manufacturing, Sales and Marketing and he was part of the team that launched the IBM PC in the UK in 1982. He became UK Marketing Director and then Managing Director of the database company, Ashton-Tate. - Dipak C. Jain
Dipak C. Jain is dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. A marketing expert trained in mathematics and statistics, Jain assumed leadership of the school in 2001, after serving for five years as the school's associate dean for academic affairs working with Dean Donald P. Jacobs. More information can be found at Dipak C. Jain's faculty Web page. Dean Jain was born on June 9, 1957 in a small town called Tezpur, Assam, a northeast state of India. - Andrew Filipowski
"'Andrew J. "Flip" Filipowski" a Polish American technology entrepreneur born in 1950 in Chicago IL. He is currently the Executive Chairman and CEO of SilkRoad Equity, a private investment firm, and founded Platinum Technology in 1987. He founded or cofounded Blue Rhino Corporation, Primo Water, SilkRoad technology, inc., DBMS, Inc., the House of Blues, SolidSpace, Inc., onramp Branding, MissionMode and InterAct 911 Corp. He was the COO of Cullinet - Carl Ng
Carl Ng (born March 27, 1976) is a Hong Kong actor and model. The third of four children, Ng was born in Hong Kong and is of mixed ethnicity. His father is comedy actor Richard Ng Yiu-Hon, while his mother, a British woman, worked as a hair stylist for Bruce Lee in the 1970s. At the age of 12, he moved with his family to live in England, where he would remain for the next thirteen years. As a child he had no desire to become an actor like his father, … - Lester Hogan
Dr. Clarence Lester "Les" Hogan (born February 8, 1920) is a pioneer in microwave and semiconductor technology. - He grew up as brother of three sisters in Great Falls, Montana, where his father worked for the Great Northern Railroad. After graduating from Montana State University with a degree in chemical engineering he joined the U.S. Navy in 1942. He did some work on acoustic torpedoes in Chesapeake Bay, and when being approached by Bell Laboratories, … - Johnny Weltz
Johnny Weltz is a retired Danish road bicycle racer. He rode most of his career for the Spanish ONCE team. In 1985 he won silver at the world championship for amateurs. The high point of his career was his victory at stage 19 (a mountain stage) of the 1988 Tour de France, and was 54 overall. He also won a stage in Vuelta a España the same year. Later, he participated in the Tour de France 1990 (abandoned stage 14), 1991 (abandoned stage 18), and 1992 (overall 102). - Henryk Magnuski
Henryk Władysław Magnuski was a Polish telecommunications engineer who worked for Motorola in Chicago. He was the inventor of one of the first Walkie-Talkies and one of the authors of his company success in the fields of radio communication.
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