- George Soros
George Soros (born August 12, 1930, in Budapest, Hungary, as György Schwartz) is an American financial speculator, stock investor, philanthropist, and political activist. He peacefully promotes democracy in Eastern Europe. Currently, he is the chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute and is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. His support for the Solidarity labor movement in Poland, …
- Larry Ellison
Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software company.
- Richard Syron
Richard F. Syron is chairman and chief executive officer of Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), a New York Stock Exchange traded company and the second largest source of mortgage financing in the United States. Syron joined Freddie Mac in December 2003 from Thermo Electron, an S&P 500 company with 11,000 employees doing business in 30 countries and a world-leader in the design and development of high-tech instruments. He was chairman of the board.
- Nassim Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) (alternative spellings of first name: Nessim or Nissim) is an essayist, philosopher of randomness, researcher, and practitioner of financial mathematics. As a pioneer of complex financial derivatives, he had as a "day job" a lengthy senior trading career in New York City's Wall Street firms, …
- Charles Dow
Charles Henry Dow was an American journalist who co-founded Dow Jones & Company with Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser. Dow also founded "The Wall Street Journal", which became one of the most respected financial publications in the world. He also invented the famous Dow Jones Industrial Average as part of his research into market movements. He developed a series of principles for understanding and analyzing market behavior which later became known as Dow theory, …
- Bernard Liautaud
Bernard Liautaud is chairman and chief strategy officer of Business Objects. Liautaud cofounded Business Objects in 1990 and was chief executive officer until September 2005. He took the company public on NASDAQ in September 1994, making it the first French software company listed in the United States. Since that time, Liautaud lead Business Objects through 12 successful years of growth and profitability, …
- Dylan Ratigan
Dylan Ratigan is an American financial journalist for the business TV channel CNBC, where he co-anchors the 3-4pm ET hour of the "Closing Bell" from a set overlooking the New York Stock Exchange (the same set used for "Squawk on the Street"), and hosts the nightly program, "Fast Money" (live from the NASDAQ MarketSite) at 8pm ET. Prior to the launch of "Fast Money", …
- Jeff Clarke
Jeff Clarke is chief executive officer and president of Travelport and serves as a member of the Travelport board of directors. Clarke, who has 20 years of strategic, operational and financial experience with leading high-technology firms, was named chief executive officer and president of Cendant’s Travel Distribution Services in April 2006.
- Harry Dent
Harry S. Dent, Jr. is an American economist and writer. His most well-known book, "The Roaring 2000s", appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List. Dent is known to espouse a philosophy of demographic economics. Dent received his B.A. from the University of South Carolina. He earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar. Dent is the Chief Economist for a Tampa, Florida investment firm.
- Rodney Brooks
Rodney Allen Brooks (b. December 30, 1954 in Adelaide) is Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is Chief Technical Officer and sits on the Board of iRobot Corp. From July 1, 2003 until June 30, 2007, he was director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; prior to that, he was director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
- Alfred Berkeley
Alfred R. Berkeley is an American businessman who served as President and later Vice-Chairman of the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc., from June 1996 until August 2003. Before Nasdaq, Berkeley was a General Partner and then a Managing Director of Alex. Brown & Sons, an investment bank. He was a Captain in the United States Air Force from 1968 to 1972.
- Bharat Desai
Bharat Desai is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the Chairman and CEO of Syntel (NASDAQ: SYNT), a global provider of Information Technology and Business Process Outsourcing services. Bharat co-founded Syntel in 1980 and today, it is the “Partner of Choice” for many of the best known brands in the Global 2000. As of March 2007, Syntel employs over 8,600 people globally and has a market capitalization in excess of $1 billion.
- Joya Dass
Joya Dass is an American reporter for the television operation of Business Week magazine. She appears on local ABC television network stations as a financial reporter, primarily from a bureau the NASDAQ stock exchange. She also hosts the Asian Variety Show (AVS), which showcases South Asian talent and Bollywood events.
- Zohar Zisapel
Zohar Zisapel, is a successful Israeli entrepreneur in Israel’s advanced hi-tech industry. The RAD Group of companies he co-founded with his brother, Yehuda Zisapel, has been called "the world's most successful incubator" of telecom-related start-ups by Business 2.00 magazine. The Zisapels' RAD Group companies employs 3,500 people and closed 2006 with a total of $740 million in global sales{{subst:signed|Zozoulia123;{time}} 14:20, …
- John Sperling
John Sperling (born 1921) is a US billionaire who is credited with leading the contemporary for-profit education movement in the United States. His fortune is based on his founding of the for-profit University of Phoenix for working adults in 1976, which is now part of the publicly traded Apollo Group (NASDAQ:APOL). John Sperling received his undergraduate education at Reed College, Oregon, a master's from the University of California, Berkeley under the G.I. Bill, …
- Wayne Allyn Root
Wayne Allyn Root (b.July 20, 1961 in Mount Vernon, New York) is a business mogul, television celebrity, TV producer, best-selling author, professional sports handicapper, and prospective Libertarian Party presidential candidate based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- Peter Dicks
Peter Dicks is the former chairman of Sportingbet PLC, one of the world's largest sportsbooks and online gambling operations. Mr. Dicks achieved notability when he was arrested on September 7, 2006 while in transit at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. He was detained by U.S. Customs officials under an outstanding warrant issued by the state of Louisiana. The warrant charges Mr. Dicks with running a gambling enterprise by computer, …
- Scott Livengood
Scott Livengood is the former CEO of Krispy Kreme Corporation, which makes doughnuts. A native of Salisbury, North Carolina, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-educated man started working for Krispy Kreme in 1977, then a privately held company based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was given the position of president of the company, moving to CEO in 1998, then Chairman of the Board in the following year.
- Rogan Labier
Rogan LaBier is an American financial services executive and author. A private technology and operations consultant to securities firms, LaBier has held principal positions at Terra Nova Trading, Tradeportal Securities, MB Trading and Sonic Trading. He has also been a proprietary trader and Nasdaq Market Maker.
- Jeffrey A. Citron
Jeffrey A. Citron is the chairman, chief strategist, and Interim CEO of Vonage, a voice-over-IP phone company. He was previously affiliated with Datek Securities, the fourth-largest online stock brokerage at the time of its $1 billion purchase by TD Ameritrade. Citron was the defendant in a civil enforcement action for securities fraud by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2003.
- Kevin Kalkhoven
Kevin Kalkhoven, born Kevin Oscar Newton Kalkoven, former CEO of JDS Uniphase, is an Australian venture capitalist and auto racing magnate based in Menlo Park, California. He is a partner in the Kalkhoven, Pettit, Levin and Johnson Venture capital firm (KPLJ llc) based in Menlo Park. He is currently one of three men (with Gerald Forsythe and Paul Gentilozzi) who own the Champ Car World Series.
- Chris Whittle
H. Christopher "Chris" Whittle is an American entrepreneur best known for founding Channel One News. Whittle was born on August 23, 1947 in Etowah, Tennessee. After graduating from the University of Tennessee with a major in American Studies he started the magazine "Knoxville in a Nutshell" with Phillip Moffitt and others. Later they founded the 13-30 Corporation in Knoxville. In 1979 13-30 bought "Esquire" magazine.
- Leonard Brody
Leonard Brody is a Canadian technology entrepreneur, business advisor and author. He has helped in raising millions of dollars for startup companies, been through one of the largest internet IPOs in history and has been involved in the building, financing and/or sale of five companies to date. He was born in Calgary, Alberta. He was part of the initial executive at Onvia Canada.
- Alexis Christoforous
Alexis Elizabeth Christoforous is a business reporter, anchor, and show host of Greek ethnicity seen on CBS Network TV on "The Early Show" and WCBS-TV News on Channel 2 in New York on "CBS 2 News This Morning" and "CBS 2 News at Noon" and "CBS 2 News at Five". She also makes reports on "CBS News Sunday Morning". Alexis graduated cum laude from New York University. She is a daughter of June and Alexander Christoforous of Brooklyn.
- Gaurav Dhillon
Gaurav Dhillon is the founder and former CEO of Informatica Corporation, worth over a billion dollars, 2006, on the "Nasdaq". Forbes magazine said, in 2001, that Informatica “has become Silicon Valley’s latest darling; the phrase “the next Microsoft” has been also used by Forbes magazine. Dhillon is currently CEO and founder of the online movie site Jaman.
- Gordon Macklin
Gordon S. Macklin (1928 - January 30 2007) was an American businessman. He was the first President and CEO of the NASDAQ from 1971 to 1987. He was also a board member of WorldCom from 1998 to its collapse in 2002. Macklin was born in Cleveland, Ohio and raised in Shaker Heights. He graduated with a BA in economics from Brown University in 1950, and returned to Cleveland to work for McDonald & Company Securities, where he later became a partner.
- Andrew Hidalgo
Andrew Hidalgo (born May 11, 1956) is the CEO and founder of WPCS International Incorporated. WPCS International Incorporated was established on May 24, 2002 and is an engineering company specializing in the design and deployment of wireless networks. Hidalgo is responsible for the company's operations and strategic direction. Since inception, the company has grown to become a multi-million dollar organization traded publicly on the NASDAQ Exchange under the trading symbol.
- Stephen Lange Ranzini
Stephen Lange Ranzini is the President & Chairman of University Bank, and the President & CEO of NASDAQ stock exchange-listed University Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: UNIB). At the age of 23, after graduating as a scholarship student from Yale College, Stephen convinced Bank One Corporation to lend to a newly formed corporation of which he was President the monies necessary to buy a bank in a leveraged buyout.
- William McCormick
William (Bill) P. McCormick (born August 18, 1939, in Providence, Rhode Island) is the current United States ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. He was accredited on 9 November 2005, replacing Charles J. Swindells. He is married and has six children. He attended Roger Williams University and Boston University while serving in the United States Army Reserve Military Police until he was honorably discharged in 1963.
- James Seng
Seng Ching Hong (commonly referred to as James Seng) is one of the Internet pioneers in Singapore and is recognized as an international expert in the Internet arena. He gave regular speeches at various forums on several Internet issues such as IDN, VoIP, IPv6, spam, OSS and Internet governance issues.
- Hans Snook
Hans Roger Snook (born 1948) is a businessman, best known for his time as the charismatic black-leather-Nehru-jacketed chief executive of UK mobile phone company Orange. Born to a German mother and a British father, Snook grew up in Edmonton, Canada. He began his career in hotel management in Vancouver. In 1983 he set off on a round the world trip, which was cut short when he arrived in Hong Kong and became Chief Executive of a wireless paging business, …
- Andrew Wiederhorn
Andrew Wiederhorn (born 1965) is an American businessman living in Portland, Oregon. He founded Wilshire Credit Corporation and served as its CEO by the age of 32, amassing a fortune estimated to be worth $140 million. Currently he is CEO and majority shareholder in Fog Cutter Capital, which had been listed for a time on NASDAQ (ticker symbol FCCG).
- Pierluigi Zappacosta
Pierluigi Zappacosta is a Venture Partner with Noventi and CEO and Acting President of Sierra Sciences. In 1981, he co-founded Logitech (Nasdaq: LOGI) together with Daniel Borel and Giacomo Marini. Logitech is the leading maker of mice and other personal interface products that enable people to work, play and communicate in the digital world. At Logitech he served over a sixteen-year period first as President and CEO and later as Vice-Chairman.
- Kári Stefánsson
Dr. Kári Stefánsson, M.D., Dr.Med. from the University of Iceland, is the Chairman, CEO and co-founder of deCODE Genetics and a former professor of neurology, neuropathology and neuroscience at Harvard University (1993-1997). From 1993-1996 he was director of neuropathology at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. Dr. Kári also held faculty positions at the University of Chicago. Kári opened the NASDAQ Stock Market on July 20, 2005, …
- Mike Farmwald
Mike Farmwald is a successful serial entrepreneur working in the Silicon Valley high-tech industry. He is currently a partner of Benchmark Capital, a venture capital company. He has founded these companies: *"FTL" (1986) - ECL supercomputers, merged with MIPS Computer Systems *Rambus (1990) - high speed interfaces, used in PCs and video game consoles *Chromatic Research (1993) - media-processors, …
- Sean Howard
Sean Howard is an Australian entrepreneur, founder of OzEmail, at one time Australia's largest Internet company. In the 1980s Howard developed the email service, Microtex. He also founded "Australian Personal Computer", Australia's top-selling computer magazine. In 1988 he became an original investor in ISYS Search Software, one of the pioneer search engine products. In 1992 he sold his publications business to Australian Consolidated Press but retained Microtex.
- John H Sykes
John H. Sykes is a prominent Tampa Bay area business man and founder of Sykes Enterprises Incorporated (NASDAQ listing SYKE). Mr. Sykes was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and attended High Point University and Queens University of Charlotte, as well as Rollins College. He currently serves a Chairman Emeritus of Sykes Inc. and remains active in the Tampa Business community.
- Phillip A. Sharp
Phillip A. Sharp received the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Much of Sharp's scientific work has been conducted at MIT's Center for Cancer Research, which he joined in 1974 and directed from 1985 to 1991. He subsequently led the Department of Biology from 1991 to 1999. Sharp is co-founder of Biogen, Inc and also co-founder of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals.
- Malcolm Hoenlein
Malcolm Hoenlein is the Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the coordinating body on international Jewish concerns for 52 national Jewish organizations. Malcolm Hoenlein received his B.A. in Political Science from Temple University and his Masters degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of International Relations, where he completed his doctoral course work.
- John H. N. Fisher
John H. N. Fisher is a venture capitalist, best known for being a managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), with Timothy C. "Tim" Draper, and Steven "Steve" Jurvetson. He is also currently on the boards of companies CMI Marketing, Hands On Mobile (formerly MFORMA), Raydiance, Inc., Selectica, and Visto. He currently lives in San Francisco.