- 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, … - Paul Smith
Paul Christopher Richard Smith (born 14 February 1959 in Woking, England) is a television executive. Paul (not to be confused with the Paul Smith who owns Celador) is a BBC executive who has worked for the corporation for 27 years. In that time, he has worked mainly on programming and services aimed at young people and children. He is also responsible for finding and/or developing many of the names presenting on mainstream television in the UK, … - George Harrison
George Harrison is the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Communication at Nintendo of America. - David Gill
David A. Gill (born 5 August 1957 in Reading, Berkshire) is currently Chief Executive of Manchester United Football Club, vice-chairman of the G-14 management committee, and a member of The Football Association's board. - Peter Moore
Peter Moore (Born 1955 in Liverpool, England) is best known for his position as Corporate Vice-President of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business division, which includes the Xbox and Xbox 360 game consoles. Moore announced his resignation from Microsoft on July 17, 2007 to take over the Sports Division of Electronic Arts California. - Howard Schultz
Howard Schultz (b. July 19, 1953) is an American businessman and entrepreneur most widely known as the chairman of Starbucks and a former owner of Seattle SuperSonics which he sold to Oklahoma businessman Clayton Bennett. Howard Schultz co-founded Maveron, his investment group, in 1998 with Dan Levitan. He grew up in a subsidized public housing project (Bay View Houses) in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, New York. - Peter Robinson
Peter Robinson (1785-July 8 1838) was born in New Brunswick, the eldest son of Christopher Robinson (an officer of the Queen's Rangers) and Esther Sayre, daughter of Rev. John Sayre. He had two brothers, John Beverley and William Benjamin, and two sisters. The family settled first at Kingston in 1792 and then York in 1798. Peter fought during the War of 1812, where he commanded a rifle company at the capture of Detroit. - Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is a self-described authority on emerging digital technology, and considered a founding member of the digerati. Esther Dyson is the daughter of Freeman Dyson, a physicist, and Verana Huber-Dyson, a mathematician, and the sister of the digital technology historian George Dyson. After graduating from Harvard in economics, she joined Forbes as a fact-checker and quickly rose to reporter. - Ken Lewis
Kenneth D. Lewis (Born 9 April 1947 in Meridian, Mississippi) is the current Chairman, CEO, and President of Bank of America, one of the largest banks in the United States, positions he has held since the retirement of Hugh McColl in 2001. He joined the organization (at that time NCNB) as a credit analyst in 1969, and served as the head of both international and domestic operations during his tenure at NationsBank. He is a graduate of Georgia State University, … - Jeffrey Katzenberg
Jeffrey Katzenberg (born December 21, 1950 in New York City) is an American film producer and CEO of DreamWorks Animation SKG. He is perhaps most famous for his period as studio chairman at The Walt Disney Company, and for producing the movie "Shrek" (2001). - Ben Silverman
Ben Silverman (born August 15, 1970, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) is the new chairman of NBC Entertainment and NBC Universal Television Studio. Silverman is also the founder and CEO of Reveille, an independent television and film production and distribution company. He is the executive producer of such shows as NBC's "The Office," "The Biggest Loser," and ABC's "Ugly Betty," as well as several cable shows, … - Michael Johns
Michael Johns (born September 8, 1964 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American health care executive, former federal government of the United States official and conservative policy analyst and writer. - Brad Anderson
Bradbury "Brad" Anderson (born 1949) is the current CEO and Vice Chairman of consumer electronics retailer Best Buy. His annual compensation for fiscal year 2007 was $5.6 million, including $1,172,995 in salary, plus $2,650,969 in incentive-plan compensation; in fiscal 2006, he earned a salary of $1,164,283 and a bonus of $2,692,250. - Samuel Huntington
Samuel Huntington (July 3, 1731-January 5, 1796) was an American jurist, statesman, and revolutionary leader from Connecticut. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress where he signed the Declaration of Independence, as Governor of Connecticut, and later as the first President of the United States in Congress Assembled, that is, the presiding officer of the Congress of the Confederation, … - Brian Burke
Brian P. Burke (born June 30, 1955 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an executive in the National Hockey League and currently the general manager and executive vice president of the Anaheim Ducks. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Burke graduated from Providence College in 1977 with a BA in History. While attending Providence, he played for the Friars Division-I ice hockey team, where, during his senior year, he served as captain. The team was coached by Lou Lamoriello. - Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 - August 2, 1923) was an American politician and the twenty-ninth President of the United States, from 1921 to 1923, when he became the sixth president to die in office. A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential newspaper publisher with a commanding presence and a flair for public speaking. He served in the Ohio Senate (1899-1903) and later as lieutenant governor of Ohio (1903-1905) and as a U.S. Senator (1915-1921). - Al Davis
Allen "Al" Davis (born July 4, 1929 in Brockton, Massachusetts) is a jewish American football executive, who currently serves as the president and managing general partner of the NFL's Oakland Raiders. - T.I.
Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. (born September 25, 1980 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA), best known by the stage name T.I., and also by his alter ego T.I.P., is an American Grammy Award-winning rapper, songwriter, actor, record and executive producer as well as the Co-CEO of Grand Hustle Records. According to the Grand Hustle website, T.I. has a clothing line, "AKOO" (A King Of Oneself), launching later in 2007. - Susan Decker
Susan L. Decker is the President of Yahoo! Inc.. Previously she was director of Costco Corporation. She graduated from Tufts University with Bachelor of Science in computer science and economics. She then graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School. Susan Decker is on the board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway, Intel and Costco. - David Bernstein
David Bernstein is a British business executive who is the former chairman of French Connection and Manchester City F.C.. Bernstein oversaw the controversial f.c.u.k. advertisement campaign at French Connecton in 1997, and replaced Francis Lee as Manchester City chairman in the 1998. His spell as Manchester City chairman saw the team return to the Premiership from Football League Division Two. - Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt is the owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2004, he purchased a controlling interest of the Dodgers from Fox Entertainment Group, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Prior to purchasing the professional sports team, McCourt was a real estate developer, whose family resided in Brookline, Massachusetts. - Malcolm Fraser
Sir Malcolm Fraser KCMG (1834–17 August 1900) was a powerful public servant in colonial Western Australia in the 1870s and 1880s. Malcolm Fraser was born in Gloucestershire, England in 1834. Nothing is known of his early life, except that he must have qualified as a surveyor at some stage, and that he emigrated to New Zealand. From 1857 to 1859, Fraser worked as a surveyor in Auckland. - Donny Deutsch
Donald Jay "Donny" Deutsch (born November 22, 1957 in Queens, New York) is an advertising executive and talk show host. Deutsch is the chairman of Deutsch, Inc., a $2.7 billion marketing company founded by his father that is the 10th-largest U.S. agency. In 2000, Donny sold his agency to the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) for a reported $300 million. He is also the managing partner of Deutsch Open City, an independent production company. - John Hogan
John Hogan is CEO of Clear Channel Radio (a subdivision of Clear Channel Communications) in San Antonio, Texas. A 25 year radio veteran, he is responsible for the operations of nearly 1200 U.S. radio stations and nationally syndicated radio shows; including those of Rush Limbaugh, Ryan Seacrest, Casey Kasem, and Donald Trump. - David Neeleman
David G. Neeleman (born October 16, 1959) is the founder and former CEO of JetBlue Airways. Neeleman, an American of Dutch descent, was born in Brazil. He attended Brighton High School in Cottonwood Heights, Utah, and attended the University of Utah for three years before dropping out. He served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was co-founder (with June Morris) of charter airline Morris Air, a low-fare airline. - Andy Duncan
Andy Duncan (born July 31 1962) is the chief executive of Channel 4 television in the United Kingdom. He was previously Director of Marketing, Communications and Audiences at the BBC. Duncan graduated with a BSc in Management Sciences from UMIST in Manchester. In 1984 Duncan joined Unilever and worked his way up through various divisions of the company. In 1995 he was appointed Van Den Bergh Foods Business Unit Chairman and Marketing Controller for spreads and margarines. - Scott Sullivan
Scott D. Sullivan is an American Certified Public Accountant and the former Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, and Secretary of WorldCom, who engineered WorldCom's $11-billion accounting fraud, the largest scandal of its kind in U.S. history. Sullivan entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to five years in prison as part of a plea agreement in which Sullivan testified against former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers, … - James Thomson
Dr. James A. Thomson has been RAND Corporation's president and chief executive officer since August 1989 and a member of the RAND staff since 1981. - Barry Jones
Barry Jones is the former chief executive of the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA). In a speech given in Adelaide on 20 February 2006, Clive Hamilton (director of The Australia Institute) identified Jones as one of Australia's climate change "dirty dozen" (or Greenhouse Mafia), a group of climate change skeptics with considerable influence over Australian Government policy (others are : Hugh Morgan, John Eyles, Ron Knapp, Alan Oxley, … - Brian O'Neill
Brian Francis O'Neill (born January 25, 1929 in Montreal, Quebec) was an executive within the National Hockey League. O'Neill oversaw the NHL's expansion draft in 1967 and later looked after the NHL Entry Draft until he took over as executive vice-president after Clarence Campbell stepped down in 1977. With this new position, he doled out punishment on any disciplinary cases. He would also represent the league in the international front. - Pat Ryan
Pat Ryan was the founder and is the executive chairman of Aon Corp.. He is the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid Chairman and CEO. He is also a leading benefactor of the Art Institute of Chicago Building's Modern wing addition. - Steve Stoute
Steve "The Commissioner" Stoute is an American record executive, most famous for being rapper Nas's off-and-on manager since 1995. Nas first hired Stoute after the absence of commercial success from his first album, "Illmatic". Stoute helped the rapper develop a new, Mafioso-based image, and the re-invented "Nas Escobar" released "It Was Written", which was a double-platinum success. Stoute also helped Nas form a super group called The Firm with Foxy Brown, … - Tommy Mottola
Thomas Daniel 'Tommy' Mottola is a music executive and co-owner of Casablanca Records in a joint venture with the Universal Music Group and former husband of singer Mariah Carey. He headed Sony Music Entertainment, parent of the Columbia label, for nearly 15 years. Apart from his experience in managing music outfits, Mottola is known as a mentor and former talent manager. His most famous proteges were Hall & Oates, Carly Simon, John Mellencamp, Dr. - Lachlan Murdoch
Lachlan Keith Murdoch (born September 8, 1971), is the elder son of media mogul, Rupert Murdoch and the former Anna Torv. He resigned from his executive positions at News Corporation on 29 July 2005. Subsequently, younger brother James Murdoch is now viewed as his father's heir-apparent. Their sister Elisabeth Murdoch, an able businesswoman in her own right, is married to publicity wizard Matthew Freud. - Gordon Bethune
Gordon M. Bethune (born August 1941) is the chairman of the board of Aloha Airgroup, parent company of Aloha Airlines. He was CEO of Continental Airlines from 1994 until his retirement at the end of 2004. From 1996 on, he also served as chairman of the board at that airline. He also serves on the boards of Honeywell, Sprint Nextel, Prudential Financial, and the Wills Group. Prior to joining Continental, he was an executive at Boeing. - Charles Wang
Charles B. Wang (born August 19, 1944) is the co-founder of Computer Associates International, Inc. (now CA, Inc.) and owner of the New York Islanders ice hockey team. He was born in Shanghai, but moved to Queens, NY, when he was eight years old. He attended the elite Brooklyn Technical High School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Queens College in New York, and began working at Columbia University. - George Simpson
Sir George Simpson (1787 - 7 September 1860) was a Scots-Quebecer and employee of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). His title was Governor-in-Chief of Rupert's Land and the Indian Territories in British North America (now Canada) from 1821 to 1860. George Simpson was born in Dingwall, Ross-shire, Scotland, the only son of George Simpson, Sr., a writer in Dingwall. - 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. - Donald Bren
Donald Leroy Bren (born 1932) is a US real estate mogul born in Los Angeles, and currently residing in Newport Beach, CA. He is the son of Hollywood producer Milton Bren and the stepson of actress Claire Trevor. He attended the University of Washington, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi, on a ski scholarship and tried out for the Olympic team in 1956. He holds a degree in business administration and economics. After college he served in the Marines. - Martha Burk
Dr. Martha Burk is a political psychologist and women's equity expert who is co-founder and President of the Center for Advancement of Public Policy, a research and policy analysis organization in Washington, D.C. Dr. Burk currently serves as Chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations (NCWO), a network of nearly 200 national women's groups collectively representing ten million women.
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