- Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock. "Forbes" magazine's list of The World's Billionaires has ranked him as the richest person in the world since 1995, …
- Craig Venter
J. Craig Venter (born John Craig Venter October 14, 1946, Salt Lake City) is an American biologist and businessman.
- Bruce Perens
Bruce Perens is a former Debian GNU/Linux Project Leader, the primary author of the Open Source Definition, a founder of Software in the Public Interest, founder and first project leader of the Linux Standard Base project, the initial author of BusyBox, a founder of the UserLinux project, and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Perens also has a book series with Prentice Hall PTR called the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series.
- Reed Hastings
Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings, Jr.) is the founder of Netflix. He is currently Netflix's chief executive officer, president and chairman of the board, and was the founder of Pure Software. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Microsoft Corp. His father was a lawyer who once served in the Nixon administration, serving as general counsel in the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
- Washington Sycip
Mr. SyCip was previously a member of the International Boards of AT&T Corp., United Technologies Corp., Caterpillar, Inc., Owens-Illinois, Australia & New Zealand Banking Group, Pacific Dunlop Limited, Australia, and LucasVarity Corporation, USA. He was a member of the International Advisory Board of Chase Manhattan Bank and an Advisor to Arthur Andersen.
- C. Fred Bergsten
C. Fred Bergsten, (born 1941), is an American economist, author, and political adviser. He has served as Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department and has been president of the Peterson Institute, formerly the "Institute for International Economics", since its foundation in 1981. Bergsten received his BA degree from Central Methodist University and MA, MALD, and Ph.D. degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
- Kevin Zeese
Kevin B. Zeese is President of Common Sense for Drug Policy . He is one of the nation's foremost authorities on drug policy issues. He has worked on a wide array of drug related issues ( Curriculum Vitae ) since he graduated from George Washington University Law School in 1980. He is the author of Drug Testing Legal Manual , Drug Testing Legal Manual and Practice Aids and co-author of Drug Law: Strategies and Tactics , all three published by Clark Boardman Callaghan .
- Mark Scrimshire
Technology aware Management Consultant with over 25 years experience in multi-national environments. Recent experience has been in delivering programs in the Telecommunications Industry but experience also encompasses other industries that depend upon technology including: - Government; - Energy; - Financial Services; I specialize in rapid deployment of solutions to address business problems using Web 2.0 technologies and techniques. I am looking for project opportunities that will . . .
- Bill Gates
"Swiftwater" Bill Gates was an American frontiersman and fortune hunter, and a fixture in stories of the Klondike Gold Rush. He made and lost several fortunes, and died in Seattle in 1935. Despite the similarity in name and geography, there is no apparent family relationship between "Swiftwater Bill" and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
- Madeleine Korbel Albright
Madeleine Albright (1937 - ) was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. As the Nazis invaded that country before World War II, Albright and her family fled and eventually settled in the U.S. She graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and she later received master's and doctorate degrees from Columbia University in New York. By the late 1970s, she was working in the White House for President Jimmy Carter 's national security team.
- John Baden
John A. Baden is founder and chairman of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE), and Gallatin Writers, Inc. FREE's focus is environmental economics and policy analysis. Gallatin works with writers of the West. Both are 501 (c)(3) organizations with a shared office in Bozeman, MT. Dr. Baden received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1969 and then was awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in environmental policy.
- Stedman Graham
As the chairman and CEO of S. Graham & Associates, a management and marketing consulting company that specializes in the corporate and educational markets. Author of You Can Make It Happen: A Nine Step Plan for Success , his clients include Hyatt Hotels and GlaxoWellcome.
- Rahul Bhandari
Rahul Bhandari is the Founding Managing Director of Paras Ventures LLC, an investment and consulting group for high-tech companies. He leverages over fifteen years of experience in venture development, M&A integration, and leading large-scale complex change programs to help companies succeed on a strategic and tactical basis.
- Aaron Dixon
Aaron Dixon (born January 2, 1949) is an American activist and former captain of the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party. In 2006, he ran for the United States Senate in Washington state on the Green Party ticket.
- Bristow Adams
Bristow Adams was an American journalist, professor, forester, and illustrator. He taught at Cornell University from 1914 to 1945. Adams also founded the Stanford Chaparral, the oldest humor magazine in the west, in 1899.
- John Gottman
World renowned for his work on marital stability and divorce prediction, involving the study of emotions, physiology and communication, John Gottman was recently voted as one of the Top 10 Most Influential Therapists of the Past Quarter-Century by the Psychotherapy Networker magazine. 30 years of breakthrough research on marriage and relationships have earned him numerous major awards.
- Julius Bartels
Julius Bartels was a German geophysicist and statistician. He was awarded his Ph.D. from Göttingen in 1923, then worked at the Potsdam magnetic observatory as a post-doctorate. In 1928 he was named professor at Eberswalde, teaching meteorology. He became full professor at Berlin University in 1936, and director of the Potsdam Geophysical Institute. From 1931 until the second year of World War II he was also a research associate at the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
- Oberon Zell Ravenheart
Venerend Oberon Zell-Ravenheart (formerly known as Otter G'Zell, born Timothy Zell) (on November 30, 1942 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a co-founder with R. Lance Christie of the Church of All Worlds (CAW) on April 7, 1962, serving as both High Priest and also Primate of the church for many years, and a leading figure in the Neo-Pagan religious community. He holds a Bachelor's degree in psychology from Westminster College in Fulton, …
- Arthur H Rosenfeld
Dr. Arthur H Rosenfeld (b. 1927) is a Commissioner of the California Energy Commission since 2000. Rosenfeld earned a PhD (1954) in Physics from the University of Chicago where he was the last graduate student of Enrico Fermi. 1955-1973 He worked in physics group at University of California, Berkeley where he did some of the key development of bubble chamber physics, particularly the hardware and software for photographing, measuring and analyzing data.
- Arthur A. Collins
Arthur A. Collins (1909-1987) founded Collins Radio Co., which is now a part of Rockwell Collins, Inc.. Art Collins' father owned several thousand acres of farmland. After graduating from Washington High School (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Collins attended college and later started a very successful radio business, Arthur began to take his business into more research and development. Art's father managed the financial end of his son's business until his death, when afterward, …
- Ken Auletta
Ken Auletta is a U.S. media critic for "The New Yorker" from Brooklyn, New York, who has written over 10 books, several of which have become "New York Times" best-sellers. Auletta has written about media empires, the George W. Bush administration, and Microsoft.
- Rosemary Fernandes
Rosemary Fernandes, President, Phoenix Rose LLC and Vice-President, Ferntech Incorporated, has been instrumental in achieving various technological firsts for Ferntech Incorporated by nurturing a highly dedicated team giving it a technical edge that set the standards in global software development for the company. Having the foresight to see the long-term advantages of offshore offices, she has established and operated offshore facilities since 1997 in India and Malaysia at phenomenally . . .
- Shirley Jackson
Dr. Jackson has been President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since July 1999. She was Chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from July 1995 to July 1999 and Professor of Physics at Rutgers University from 1991 to 1995. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Physical Society.
- Gigi Sohn
Gigi Sohn , President and Co-Founder, Public Knowledge. Ms. Sohn is an internationally known communications attorney. In September 2001, she founded Public Knowledge with Laurie Racine and David Bollier . Gigi serves as PK's chief strategist, fundraiser and public face. Gigi is a Non-Resident Fellow at the University of Southern California Annenberg Center, and a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Faculty of Law.
- William J. Bennett
William Bennett, a self-appointed moral compass for America, has been a key right-wing player for decades. He is the founder of a string of advocacy groups that promote conservative social policies and hawkish foreign policies, including Americans For Victory over Terrorism and Empower America. Bennett first rose to prominence in the early 1980s when he was appointed to head the National Endowment for the Humanities, and then later -- in 1985 -- to be Secretary of Education.
- Adam Ostrow
Adam Ostrow / Mashable! : Super Wall Worth $10 Million+? RockYou's CEO Thinks So
- Maryam Ahranjani
Maryam Ahranjani , "We The Students" Teaching Manual ( Updated Annually, 2001-2005). Maryam Ahranjani , “We The Students” Student Workbook ( Update Annually, 2003-2005). Maryam Ahranjani , “We The Students” Student Workbook Key ( Updated Annually, 2003-2005). Maryam Ahranjani , "Marbury v. Madison Lesson Plans" for the Educational Outreach Office of the U.S. Federal Courts ( 2003).
- Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama is Bernard Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. A prolific writer, his most well-known book is The End of History and the Last Man (1992), in which he argued that the progression of human history as a struggle between ideologies is largely at an end, with the world settling on liberal democracy after the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
- Erik Anderson
Erik Anderson is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of AF4C. He is also President of WestRiver Capital, a private investment company; Chairman of Tachyon Networks, Inc., an advanced satellite-based internet solutions company; vice-Chairman of Montgomery & Co., LLC, an investment bank serving growth companies in technology, media and healthcare; Chairman of Zula, LLC, a science education company; and a Board member of GEI, a leisure business based on golf entertainment.
- Dale Minami
Minami was born in Los Angeles , California , graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1968 from the University of Southern California , and received his Juris Doctor degree in 1971 from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley . Minami's cases have often involved the civil rights of Asian-Pacific Americans and other minorities.
- Rupert Murdoch
"Today, to the extent anyone is a destination, itâs the internet portals: the Yahoos, Googles, and MSNs. I just saw a report that showed Google Newsâs traffic increased 90 percent over the past year while the New York Timesâ excellent website traffic decreased 23 percent. The challenge for us â for each of us in this room â is to create an internet presence that is compelling enough for users to make us their home page.
- Anousheh Ansari
Anousheh Ansari (born 12 September 1966) is the Iranian-American co-founder and chairman of Prodea Systems, Inc. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI). The Ansari family is also the title sponsor of the Ansari X PRIZE. On September 18, 2006, just a few days after her 40th birthday, she became the first female and fourth overall space tourist, the first female Muslim, and first Iranian in space.
- Peter Gleick
Dr. Peter Gleick President
- Gary A. Oster
Gary Oster - Senior Vice President, Business Development Gary A. Oster is Senior Vice President of Business Development and joined the Travel Industry Association in 2005. He is responsible for overseeing TIA's business development activities which include membership, strategic partnerships, sponsorships, exhibition sales, advertising and publication/subscription sales.
- Bruce Zagaris
Mr. Zagaris has served as an expert witness and/or consultant on several occasions. During 1992-93, he served as a consultant and expert witness on a money laundering case concerning video poker. In the 1990s, he served as a consultant in the case of Robert Doorn, a Dutch businessman charged in several U.S. district court cases with money laundering and securities-related crimes.
- Nariman Farvardin
Nariman Farvardin became dean of the A. James Clark University in 2001, after serving five years as chair of the department of electrical and computer engineering. He joined the university in January 1984, as a professor of electrical and computer engineering with a joint appointment with the Institute of System Research. Dean Farvardin was also a visiting professor at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France, during 1990-91.
- John Kovalic
USA TODAY called John Kovalic a "Hot Pick." His creations include the hit comic book DORK TOWER, as well as DR. BLINK: SUPERHERO SHRINK, SNAPDRAGONS, and many other features. His work has appeared everywhere from THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST and ROLLING STONE to DRAGON MAGAZINE. John is co-founder, co-owner and Art Director of OUT OF THE BOX GAMES (producers of the multi-million-selling, multi-award-winning APPLES TO APPLES among many other best-selling games).
- Gene Baur
Gene Baur is co-founder and president of Farm Sanctuary, America's leading farm animal protection organization. He holds a masters degree in agricultural economics from Cornell University and has conducted hundreds of visits to farms, stockyards, and slaughterhouses to document conditions. His pictures and videotape, exposing factory farming cruelty, have been aired nationally and internationally, educating millions.
- Frank Gilbane
Frank serves on the board of directors of APT (Art Plus Technology), a Boston-based firm specializing in communications strategies, information delivery, and document processing solutions for the financial industry. Before founding Gilbane Group Inc. Frank was with the market research and consulting firm CAP Ventures, Inc., an Inc. 500 company in both 1997 and 1998.
- David
David Swanson is the Washington Director of Democrats.com and of ImpeachPAC.org . He is co-founder of the AfterDowningStreet.org coalition, creator of MeetWithCindy.org , and a board member of Progressive Democrats of America , and of the Backbone Campaign . He was the organizer in 2006 of Camp Democracy. He serves on the steering committee of the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice and on a working group of United for Peace and Justice .