- Michael Arrington
I am the editor of TechCrunch and owner of the TechCrunch Network of blog and podcasting sites.
- Naresh Goyal
Naresh Goyal is the founder Chairman of Jet Airways. The man behind Jet Airways is a proud man today. Ambitious and determined to take on the world, he has always set high targets. He started operating Jet Airways in 1993. Following the 2005 IPO of Jet Airways, Forbes magazine declared him the 16th richest person in India with a net worth of $1.9 billion. He has just taken over Air Sahara giving his company 32% of the Indian travel market.
- Frank Quattrone
Frank Quattrone (born 1956) is a former investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston who helped bring dozens of companies public during the 1990s tech boom, including Netscape, Cisco, and Amazon.com. Later he was prosecuted for interfering with a government probe into Credit Suisse First Boston's behavior in allocating "hot" IPOs. The case was eventually dropped. He was earning roughly $160 million a year during his peak at the firm.
- George Reyes
George Reyes is the Chief Financial Officer of Google, and a director of BEA Systems and Symantec. (See image.) Reyes received his Bachelor of Arts degree in accounting from the University of South Florida. He then went on to earn his masters degree in business administration from Santa Clara University. Reyes has spent 13 years at Sun Microsystems and held a variety of jobs, including Vice President and Corporate Controller from April 1994 to April 1999.
- Max Levchin
Max Levchin (b. 1975) is a Russian-born American computer scientist and entrepreneur widely known as co-founder (with Peter Thiel) and former Chief technology officer of PayPal. Originally from Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), he moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1991. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997 and co-founded two companies that made Internet-tools, …
- Bill Hambrecht
Bill Hambrecht (born 1935) is an American investment banker and chairman of W.R. Hambrecht & Co. which he founded in 1998. He helped persuade Google to use an Internet-based auction for their IPO in 2004, instead of a more traditional method using banks and other financial companies to find buyers. He is credited with popularizing this "open IPO" model, using Dutch auctions to allow anyone, not just investing insiders, to buy stock in an IPO, …
- Frank Addante
Frank Addante (born 1976) is a serial entrepreneur, early Internet pioneer and well-known blogger. Addante has a successful entrepreneurial track record, having started 5 companies, resulting in one IPO and two acquisitions.
- Yang Huiyan
Yang Huiyan (Simplified Chinese:杨惠妍, Traditional Chinese:楊惠妍, born c.1982) is the majority shareholder of Country Garden Holdings and is currently considered the wealthiest person in Mainland China, with a net worth of about $9 billion USD as of April 2007. She is the daughter of Yang Guoqiang, who transferred 70% of Country Garden's shares to her before its IPO.
- 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
- Robert S. Kaplan
Dr. Robert Kaplan , Chairman- Balanced Scorecard Collaborative & Professor- Harvard Business School; delivered a seminar on Execution as Competitive Advantage: New Strategies for the Information Age at the Oberoi Hotel, New Delhi on February 15, 2005. Amity Business School was the academic partner to bringing this world renowned management guru to .....
- 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.
- Larry Augustin
Larry Augustin is an angel investor and advisor to early stage technology companies. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Fonality, Hyperic, Medsphere, OSDL, Pentaho, SugarCRM, VA Software (NASDAQ: LNUX), and XenSource. One of the group who coined the term "Open Source", he has written and spoken extensively on Open Source worldwide. Worth Magazine named him to their list of the Top 50 CEOs in 2000.
- Steve Kirsch
Steve has been involved with the Internet and high-tech companies for more than 27 years. Steve has been involved with the Internet and high-tech companies for more than 27 years. Since the early 80s, he has founded three successful technology companies. Since the early 80s, he has founded three successful technology companies. Prior to Propel, he founded Infoseek Corporation, which was acquired by Disney in November of 1999.
- Tony Ryan
Dr. Tony Ryan, who lives in Ardclough Co. Kildare, is an Irish multi-millionaire, founder of Guinness Peat Aviation (GPA) and co-founder of Ryanair with Christy Ryan and Liam Lonergan. Ryanair is believed to be the main source of his current wealth: the company is now one of the biggest airlines in Europe and is valued at several billion euro. Tony Ryan is believed to have a personal fortune ranging between €800m and €1bn.
- Vikrant Bhargava
Vikrant Bhargava is a billionaire of Indian origin, the second richest man in Gibraltar and the Group Marketing Director of online casino operator PartyGaming. Bhargava's experience prior to joining the group included positions as a credit officer at the Bank of America, where he was responsible for managing credit exposure and revenue for a portfolio of corporate clients, and a business analyst in the business development division of British Gas.
- 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.
- Yang Guoqiang
Yang Guoqiang (Traitional Chinese:楊國強, Simplified Chinese:杨国强, a Chinese entrepreneur, is the founder and the chairman of Biguiyuan (Traitional Chinese:碧桂園, Simplified Chinese:碧桂园) Group, one of the most largest real estate developer in Guangdong Province, Mainland China. Since April 2007, his family (Most of the assets are nominally held by Yang's second daughter, …
- 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.
- Matt Moynahan
Matt Moynahan Matt Moynahan , chief executive officer of Veracode, is responsible for all aspects of the company, including strategy, operations, finance, product management, engineering, marketing, and business development. Before joining Veracode, Matt was vice president of the Consumer Products and Solutions division at Symantec, where his key responsibilities included product management, product development, and quality assurance.
- Kenneth C. Griffin
Kenneth C. Griffin (born 1968 in Daytona Beach, Florida) is an American hedge fund manager. Currently, he is Managing Director and CEO of Citadel Investment Group, a Chicago based hedge fund. A self-made billionaire, he founded and propelled Citadel to one of the largest and most successful hedge funds in the world.
- Jeff Braun
Jeff Braun is an American computer game producer and co-founder of the video game developer, Maxis. Braun had successfully published font packs for the Amiga personal computer when he met Will Wright at a pizza party hosted by Chris Doner in 1987. Wright had been unsuccessful in finding a game publisher for his city simulation computer game, "SimCity". Braun already had a wire frame jet fighter simulation game he hoped to publish, …
- Thitinan Pongsudhirak
Thitinan Pongsudhirak is a Thai political scientist and a Professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. Thitinan completed his PhD from the London School of Economics. He completed an M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University and B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Graham Love
Graham Love Chief Executive Officer Graham is a graduate of Cambridge University, and a chartered accountant. In the late Eighties he was part of the senior management team that made Shandwick plc the world's number one PR Group through a major acquisition programme involving the purchase of over 30 public relations agencies worldwide.
- Jonathan Zittrain
Jonathan Zittrain Jonathan Zittrain is a co-founder of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and from 1997 to 2000 served as its first executive director. He further holds the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and is a principal of the Oxford Internet Institute. Zittrain is the Jack N. & Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School.
- Strive Masiyiwa
Strive Masiyiwa (aka "Bill Gates of Africa") is a Zimbabwean businessman and cellphone pioneer, founding Econet Wireless. Strive Masiyiwa was born in what was Southern Rhodesia in 1961. He went to High school in Scotland; he gained a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Cum Laude) at the University of Wales, returning to newly independent Zimbabwe in 1984, where he took a job with the state-owned telephone company.
- Ramanbhai Patel
Ramanbhai B. Patel (19 August, 1925 - 19 September, 2001) was an Indian chemist who founded the operation that eventually became the Ahmedabad-based pharmaceutical company Cadila Healthcare. Patel was born at Kathor in South Gujarat and studied chemistry at Gujarat University's L.M. College of Pharmacy before becoming a lecturer there. With Indravadan Modi he founded Cadila Laboratories in 1952.
- Jim K. Omura
Jim Omura is the commitment lead for the California Institute of Technology Commitment. A UCLA professor of Electrical Engineering for 15 years, with stints in Australia and Brazil as a visiting professor, and founder of two Silicon Valley companies, Jim has extensive experience as an educator and also in the business world bringing technical products and services to market.
- George Wackenhut
George Russell Wackenhut, founder of the Wackenhut private security corporation, grew up in Upper Darby, outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Upper Darby High School in 1937. He was inducted into the school's Wall of Fame in 2000. He served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II and actually saw the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.
- Fred Thiel
Fred Thiel Fred Thiel brings over 20 years experience managing software and technology companies for rapid growth in both revenue and shareholder value. Prior to joining private equity firm Triton Pacific as a Managing Partner, Mr. Thiel was CEO of several companies, including GameSpy Industries and Lantronix.
- Capers McDonald
Capers W. McDonald , President and Chief Executive Officer of BioReliance Corporation since 1992, graduated from Duke University in 1974 with a Bachelors degree in engineering. After moving on to earn a Masters degree in engineering from MIT (1976), an MBA from Harvard Business School (1983), and establishing himself as a successful corporate leader, community member and family man, McDonald proudly admits, "I still bleed Duke Blue after all these years."
- Steve Sydness
Steve Sydness , chief executive officer, joined the BizLand team in September 1999. In addition to overseeing the company's day-to-day operation, he is principally responsible for determining its long-term strategy and directing its future growth. Steve has been instrumental in building BizLand's management team and securing its sources of capital.
- Bob Wiesner
Bob has appeared on CNN and has been cited in major publications and business journals, including The New York Times, The St. Petersburg Times, and the Houston Chronicle, providing commentary on the effectiveness of political communication throughout the 2004 presidential election campaign. Prior to joining Rogen, Bob worked for 18 years in advertising, marketing and organizational development.
- Peter Ivany
Peter Ivany is currently Executive Chairman of his own diversified investment company, Ivany Investment Group. Peter has had long involvement in the film industry. As Chief Executive of Hoyts Cinemas (1988-1999), Peter grew the company from a small cinema chain of 40 theatres in Australia to a global business with over 2,000 theatres operating in 12 countries. Peter is an active member of the arts and charities.
- Ron Bates
Ron Bates is a Managing Principal with the retained executive search firm Executive Advantage Group, Inc. His search practice focuses on mission critical retained searches for pre-IPO Venture Capital backed start-ups to Fortune500 clients. He has delivered personal executive coaching projects to former SAP, E&Y, Oracle, and WorldCom Exec's responsible for multi-billion dollar business units, and co-founded www.CV-Advantage.com a self guided job search oriented executive coaching process.
- Robert A. Rogers
ROBERT ROGERS is a serial entrepreneur. One of his many start-ups, 3PAR, just completed its' IPO. At 3PAR he was a founder and President/CEO. He has participated in 3 IPO's and two mergers during his career. He is a father of 3 beautiful daughters. He is also an avid equestrian who competes in jumpers and dressage.
- Eric di Benedetto
Professional investor in software start-ups since 1991.
- Rand Schulman
Rand is considered by many a new marketing and media pioneer and innovator. In 2005 he was named one of the Top 100 BtoB marketing executives by BtoB Magizine . He is regularly quoted in the WSJ, Investors Business Daily and Business Week and in numerous marketing & media publications, including AdWeek, and Advertising Age. He is a founder and past board member of the Web Analytics Association .
- Tony Fish
Tony Fish Tony is CEO of AMF Ventures . An experienced international business professional with a reputation of exceptional man management skills and delivery. Tony is known for his innovative approach, strategic and economic insight, analysing, matching and executing merger and acquisition activities within blue chip corporations as well entrepreneurship and shrewd business decisions with regard to early stage businesses and their growth.
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