- Eric Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt, Ph.D (b. 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is Chairman and CEO of Google Inc and a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc. He also sits on the Princeton University Board of Trustees. He lives in Atherton, California with his wife Wendy.
- Vince McMahon
Vincent Kennedy McMahon (born August 24, 1945), better known as Vince McMahon or Mr. McMahon, is an American wrestling promoter, wrestler, and film producer. He is the Chairman of the WWE Board of Directors and majority shareholder of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE).
- Sanjay Kumar
Sanjay Kumar (born Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1962) was the Chairman & CEO of Computer Associates International (now CA, Inc.), until April 2004. He emigrated with his family to the US in 1976 to escape civil unrest in his native Sri Lanka. The family originally settled in South Carolina. He attended Furman University from 1980 to 1983, but left without completing a degree. Kumar became an employee of Computer Associates in 1987, when it acquired UCCEL Corp.
- Stan O'Neal
E. Stanley "Stan" O'Neal is the present Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., having served in numerous senior management positions at the company prior to this appointment. O'Neal was a member of the board of directors of General Motors from 2001 through 2006.
- Garry Betty
Charles Garrett "Garry" Betty (4 March [[1957] - 2 January 2007) was President and CEO of EarthLink, a large American Internet service provider, from 1996 until his death. Betty was born in Huntsville, Alabama and grew up in Columbus, Georgia. He attended the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia where he received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1979.
- William Clay Ford Jr.
William Clay "Bill" Ford Jr. (born May 3, 1957), is the great-grandson of Henry Ford, and serves as the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company. Ford also served as the President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Operating Officer until turning over those roles to Boeing executive Alan Mulally in September 2006.
- Jorma Ollila
Jorma Jaakko Ollila is the Chairman (1992–) and CEO of Nokia Corporation (1992–2006) and Member of the Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company (2000–), UPM-Kymmene (1997–), and Otava Books and Magazines Group Ltd. (1996–). As of June 1 2006 he became the Non-Executive Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and Non-Executive Chairman of Nokia.
- Lester Crown
Lester Crown (born 1926) is the son of Chicago financier Henry Crown (d. 1990), who created Material Service with two brothers in 1919, which merged with General Dynamics in 1959. He has been a perennial member of the Forbes 400 list since 1982. Lester controls family holdings, including large stakes in Maytag, Hilton Hotels, Alltell, Aspen Skiing Company, New York's Rockefeller Center, and pro basketball's Chicago Bulls. He also holds a stake in the New York Yankees, …
- Bill Leonard
William R. Leonard (born 1947) is a Republican U.S. politician, who has been a member of the California State Board of Equalization since his election to the board in 2002. After earning his B.A. in history from the University of California, Irvine, Leonard worked in real estate and property management.
- Clayton Bennett
Clayton "Clay" I. Bennett is a prominent billionare businessman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Clay is the husband of Louise Gaylord Bennett, the daughter of Oklahoma City media mogul Edward L. Gaylord. Bennett is the chairman of Dorchester Capital with its headquarters in downtown Oklahoma City and is also the chairman emeritus of the board of directors of the Oklahoma Heritage Association. Bennett is the chairman of the Professional Basketball Club LLC, …
- Edward Lampert
Edward S. "Eddie" Lampert (born July 19 1962) is an American investor, financier and businessman. He is the chairman of Sears Holdings Corporation (SHLD) and founder, chairman, and CEO of ESL Investments. Until May, 2007 he was a director of AutoNation, Inc. He previously served as a director of AutoZone, Inc. from 1999 to 2006. Lampert graduated from Yale University in 1984 (B.A., economics, summa cum laude), where he was a member of Skull and Bones and Phi Beta Kappa.
- James Q. Wilson
James Q. Wilson (born May 27, 1931) in Denver, Colorado is the Ronald Reagan professor of public policy at Pepperdine University in California, and a professor emeritus at UCLA. From 1961 to 1987 he was a professor of government at Harvard University. He has a Ph.D. (1959) and masters degree (1957) from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from the University of Redlands (1952). He is a former Chairman of the White House Task Force on Crime (1966), …
- Michel de Rosen
Michel de Rosen (born 1951-02-18) is Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of ViroPharma Incorporated (since 2002-08-22), President and Chief Executive Officer (since August 2000), and Director (since May 2000.) From 1982 to 1999, de Rosen held several positions in Rhone-Poulenc (France) and Rhone-Poulenc Rorer (USA) (now Sanofi-Aventis), including Chief Executive Officer from May 1995 until December 1999, …
- James McNerney
Walter James "Jim" McNerney, Jr., is an American businessman. On June 30, 2005 he was named the CEO of The Boeing Company. Prior to that, McNerney was the Chairman and Chief Executive of 3M. He had been a member of the Boeing board of directors since 2001. He is also a member of the board of directors of Procter & Gamble. McNerney is a current member of the Northwestern University Board of Trustees. McNerney, 57, oversees the strategic direction of the Chicago-based, …
- 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.
- Linda McMahon
Linda Marie Edwards-McMahon (born October 4 1948 in New Bern, North Carolina) is the CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. and is the wife of World Wrestling Entertainment Chairman Vince McMahon. Linda has served on the Board of Directors since 1980 and was largely responsible for the growth of WWE merchandising. In addition, she is widely involved with the charitable work of WWE.
- Lorenzo Zambrano
Lorenzo H. Zambrano Treviño is a Mexican businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of CEMEX, one of the largest cement companies in the world. Zambrano was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León into an upper-class family. He received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies in 1966 and an MBA from Stanford Business School in 1968. In 1968 he joined CEMEX, a cement company founded by his grandfather in 1906.
- Jerry York
Jerome B. York, commonly known as Jerry York, is an American businessman, and the Chairman, President and CEO of Harwinton Capital. He was the former CFO of IBM and Chrysler. He was also CEO of Micro Warehouse and joined the board of directors of Apple Inc. in 1997. He is a chief aide to Kirk Kerkorian and his Tracinda investment company. Most recently, Kerkorian helped elect York to the board of directors of General Motors, …
- John Gallagher
Mr John Gallagher QC is a Barrister and Queen's Counsel whose practice involves civil and criminal law. He is currently a Director of the Board of the public broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He was first appointed to the ABC board for a five year term on 9 December 1999, and then reappointed for a three year term from 24 February 2005. He was appointed deputy chairman until his term expires on 23 February 2008.
- Jeffrey O. Henley
Jeffrey O. Henley (Jeff Henley) is the Chairman of Oracle Corporation. He has held this position since January 2004, prior to which he was the Chief Financial Officer for 13 years from March 1991 to July 2004. He is also a member of the company's Board of Directors. Jeff Henley holds a Bachelor's degree in economics from UCSB and an MBA in Finance from UCLA.
- Richard Fairbank
Richard Fairbank founded Capital One with Nigel Morris in 1988, and is currently the Chairman and CEO. He also serves on the board of directors of MasterCard International, and is the Chairman of MasterCard International's U.S. Region Board of Directors. He is a member of the Stanford Business School Advisory Council, the Financial Services Roundtable, and the board of directors of the BITS Technology Forum.
- Ronald Hovsepian
Ronald W. Hovsepian or Ron Hovsepian, President and Chief Executive Officer of Novell, Inc. Hovsepian held management and executive positions at IBM Corporation over a 17 year period, including worldwide general manager of IBM's distribution industries, managing global hardware and software development, sales, marketing and services. Served as a managing director of Internet Capital Group, a venture capital firm.
- Philip J. Carroll
Philip J. Carroll, Jr. (born 1938) is active in a variety of corporate and government roles. Carroll earned a Bachelor of science in Physics from Loyola University New Orleans in 1958 and a M.S. in physics from Tulane University in 1961, after which he joined the Shell Oil company as an engineer. Carroll became the CEO of Shell Oil in 1993 and served in that position until July 1998, when he became the Chairman and CEO of Fluor Corporation, …
- William W. George
William W. George is a professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, former Executive-in-Residence at the Yale School of Management, and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Medtronic. He is the author of the 2003 book, "Authentic Leadership" which was a BusinessWeek best-seller and the 2007 release, "True North" released by Jossey-Bass.
- S. Robson Walton
Samuel Robson (Rob) Walton (born 1945, in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is the eldest son of Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer. According to Forbes, his net worth is $16.7 billion as of 2007. Walton graduated from Columbia Law School in 1969 and became a member of the law firm that represented Wal-Mart until his father's death. Rob Walton was named chairman of the Board of Directors of Wal-Mart on April 7, 1992, two days after his father's death, …
- David Miscavige
David Miscavige is the successor to L. Ron Hubbard , current head of Scientology (Chairman of the Board of the Religious Technology Center).
- Henry McKinnell
Henry McKinnell (born February 23 1943) is the former chief executive officer and current chairman of the board of directors of Pfizer Inc. He is also a director of ExxonMobil and Moody's. He was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally worked toward a degree in Chemistry but later changed his declared degree to Business. He earned his bachelors degree for business from the University of British Columbia in 1965.
- David Cameron
Mr Cameron joined his family in Istanbul after he made a flying visit to Georgia, where he upstaged the Government by meeting its President, Mikheil Saakashvili, in the wake of the Russian invasion. His flights to and from Tbilisi were paid for by the Conservative Party. He and his family were then taken on Mr Freud's Gulfstream IV jet to Santorini.
- Kenneth Chenault
Kenneth Irvine Chenault (born Long Island, June 2, 1951) has been the CEO and Chairman of American Express since 2001. He was the third African-American CEO of a Fortune 500 company. He received a B.A. in History from Bowdoin College in 1973, and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1976. After Harvard he worked as an associate with the law firm Rogers & Wells in New York City, and as a consultant for Bain & Company.
- Henry Deforest
Henry deForest was an American railroad executive. He was chair of the executive committee of the Southern Pacific Railroad from 1925 to 1928, and chair of its board of directors from 1929 to 1932.
- Charles C. Soludo
Chukwuma "Charles" C. Soludo (born 28 July 1960) is a professor and the Governor and Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Central Bank of Nigeria
- Roberto Goizueta
Roberto Crispulo Goizueta (November 18, 1931, - October 18, 1997) was Chairman, Director, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The Coca-Cola Company from August 1980, until his death October 1997. Under the direction of Goizueta, investors saw The Coca-Cola Company become a top US corporation. He is attributed to invigorating The Company with a global vision. In the process, he created more wealth for shareholders than any other CEO in history.
- Jim France
James C. France (born 1944) is an American motorsports executive, at present the vice chairman of the board of directors and executive vice president of NASCAR and the chief executive officer (CEO) of International Speedway Corporation (ISC).
- Karlheinz Kaske
Karlheinz Kaske was a German manager and CEO of the Siemens AG from 1981 to 1992. Kaske studied Physics at RWTH Aachen and joined Siemens in 1950, when he became an engineer in the Siemens factory at Karlsruhe. Later he was a lecturer for electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen and he continued academic teaching during his following years in Siemens’ development department.
- Tsutomu Tomita
Tsutomu Tomita is the chairman of Toyota Motorsport GmbH and team principal of Toyota F1, the Formula One racing branch of Toyota. Born and raised in Japan, Tomita first joined Toyota in 1969 as an engine development engineer. He continually worked his way up the corporate ladder, becoming the executive in charge of all Toyota racing engines by 1987. In 1996, he became a member of the board of directors, responsible for all of Toyota's international motorsport activities.
- Erik Penser
Erik Penser is a Swedish businessman. After the collapse of his financial empire, which included Carnegie, in the early 1990s, he fought a bitter legal feud with what later became Nordea which had repossessed much of his wealth and holdings. His current company "Erik Penser Fondkommission", which runs mutual funds and of which Penser is Chairman, was severely criticised by the Swedish equivalent of the SEC in 2006 and came near to having its licence revoked.
- Christer Zetterberg
Christer Zetterberg (born 1941) is a Swedish businessman who is the current Chairman of investment bank Carnegie. Christer Zetterberg graduated with a degree in business. After starting his career in the Swedish paper industry, he became CEO of the state-owned "PK-Banken" (now a part of Nordea) in 1988. As such he took part in buying Carnegie from Erik Penser. In 1990 he moved to one of the most prestigious jobs in Swedish industry at that time - CEO of Volvo.
- Philip Orsino
Philip S. Orsino (born 1954) is a Canadian businessman. He is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Masonite International Corporation. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976 from the University of Toronto's Victoria College. He became a Chartered Accountant in 1979 and later a partner in the firm of Hilborn, Ellis, Grant, Chartered Accountants. He was made a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1997.
- Cindy Hensley McCain
Cindy McCain (Born in 1954) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the second wife of United States Senator John McCain. She serves as Chairperson of her family's business, Hensley & Company, and previously founded the American Voluntary Medical Team in 1988, leading many medical missions to developing and war-torn countries during the Team's seven-year existence.
- Gianni Paladini
Gianni Paladini is the current chairman of Queens Park Rangers football club after replacing Bill Power in a boardroom coup. He is part of the Monaco-based consortium, Wanlock LLC, that owns 30% of QPR. A promising teenage footballer, he was forced to give up the game at the age of 18, before playing a single game for his home town club Napoli - although, between 1958 and 1967, Paladini claims he was on Napoli’s books wearing the No 10 shirt, …