- 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, …
- 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.
- Michael Powell
Michael Kevin Powell (born March 23, 1963) is an American Republican politician. He was appointed to the Federal Communications Commission by President Bill Clinton on 3 November 1997. President George W. Bush designated him chairman of the commission on January 22, 2001. Powell is the son of former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Alma Powell.
- Tom Lantos
Thomas Peter "Tom" Lantos, Ph.D (born February 1 1928, Budapest, Hungary as Lantos Tamás Péter) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1981, representing California's 12th congressional district, located in the southwest part of San Francisco County and the northern part of San Mateo County. He is the chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
- 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.
- Bill Miller
Bill Miller is Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Legg Mason Capital Management, a subsidiary of Legg Mason Inc. managing more than $60 billion of pooled assets and separate accounts. He is a portfolio manager of the Legg Mason Value Trust mutual fund (LMVTX), …
- Barry Diller
Since December 1992, beginning with QVC, Mr. Diller has served as chief executive for a number of predecessor companies engaged in media and interactivity prior to the formation of IAC. From October 1984 to April 1992, Mr. Diller served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fox, Inc. and was responsible for the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company in addition to Fox's motion picture operations.
- Bill Kovach
Bill Kovach has been a journalist and writer for 50 years. In that time he was chief of the New York Times Washington Bureau, served as editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and curator of the Nieman Fellowships at Harvard University and the founding chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists , a group that now totals more than 9,000 journalists worldwide.
- Julian Bond
Julian Bond, president of the NAACP: "He was a polarizing figure in black America. He was hostile to the generally accepted remedies for discrimination. His appointments were of people as equally hostile. I can't think of any Reagan policy that African Americans would embrace."
- Sylvester Stallone
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- John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 - May 24, 1959) served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world. He advocated support of the French in their war against the Viet Minh in Indochina and famously refused to shake the hand of Zhou Enlai at the Geneva Conference in 1954.
- Jim Jeffords
James Merrill "Jim" Jeffords (born May 11, 1934) is a former U.S. Senator from Vermont. He served as a Republican until 2001, when he left the party to become an independent.
- James R. Thompson
Governor Thompson has served on the board of Navigant Consulting, Inc. since 1998. As Illinois' longest-serving chief executive (14 years), Governor Thompson was noted for his skill in settling difficult labor-management problems, his ability to manage one of the nation's largest public budgets while maintaining one of the nation's highest state bond ratings, and his leadership among his peers.
- Joe Knollenberg
Joseph (Joe) Knollenberg (born November 28, 1933) is a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan, representing Michigan's 9th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Knollenberg was born in Mattoon, Illinois and graduated from Eastern Illinois University in 1955. After graduation, he served in the United States Army from 1955 to 1957. He became an insurance agent and moved to Oakland County, Michigan in 1967.
- Glenn Tilton
Glenn Tilton (born April 1948 in Washington, DC) is the Chairman, President, and CEO of UAL Corporation, the parent company of United Airlines. He has held this role since September 2002, 3 months before UAL Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. He came to UAL from ChevronTexaco, where he was working since 1970. Glenn Tilton originally was going to follow his father's footsteps and join the government.
- Craig Venter
J. Craig Venter (born John Craig Venter October 14, 1946, Salt Lake City) is an American biologist and businessman.
- Rob Glaser
Rob Glaser (born ca. 1963), is the founder of RealNetworks (1994) which produced RealAudio, RealVideo, RealPlayer, Helix, among other products and services. Before RealNetworks, he became a millionaire by working for Microsoft for 10 years. Glaser is a graduate of Yale University with a BA and an MA degrees in Economics and a BS degree in Computer Science. Glaser was the 22nd largest individual donor to 527 groups in the 2004 US election, …
- Larry Klayman
Larry Klayman is the chairman of Judicial Watch and, as a sought-after speaker on the topic of ethics and the need for honest government, is a frequent guest on the Fox News Network and such programs as CNN's Crossfire and ABC's Prime Time Live.
- P. Roy Vagelos
Dr. Vagelos served as Chief Executive Officer of Merck & Co., Inc. for nine years, from July 1985 to June 1994. He was first elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 and served as its Chairman from April 1986 to November 1994. He was previously Executive Vice President of the worldwide health products company and, before that, President of its Research Division, which he joined in 1975.
- Kerry Killinger
Kerry Killinger Chairman, President and CEO of Washington Mutual, Inc.
- Abraham Foxman
Abraham Henry Foxman (born 1940) is the current National Director and chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.
- Nicholas von Hoffman
Nicholas von Hoffman is an American journalist and author of German-Russian extraction, descendant of Melchior Hoffman and son of Carl von Hoffman. He became famous as a columnist for the "Washington Post" and later well-known to TV audiences as a "Point-Counterpoint" commentator for CBS's "60 Minutes," from which he was fired by Don Hewitt in 1974.
- Mark Skousen
Mark Skousen is an American economist, investment analyst, newsletter editor, college professor and author of more than 20 non-fiction books. Skousen was an economic analyst for the CIA from 1972 to 1975. He later worked as a consultant for IBM and Hutchinson Technology, among other Fortune 500 companies. He was a columnist for Forbes magazine from 1997 to 2001, …
- Peter Hansen
Peter Hansen (born June 2, 1941 in Aalborg), a Danish national, was Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from 1996-2005. After completing graduate and postgraduate studies in political science at Arhus University in 1966, he joined the staff of the University as an Assistant Professor in International Relations.
- 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.
- Craig A. Dubow
Craig Dubow was elected Gannett's chairman effective July 1, 2006. He also continues as Gannett's president and CEO, positions he has held since July 15, 2005. He also became a member of the Board of Directors at that time. Dubow joined Gannett in 1981 in advertising sales for K*USA-TV in Denver. He held various positions at KVUE-TV in Austin, TX and was named president and general manager in 1990.
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy
Steven Ferencz Udvar-Hazy (or Steve Hazy) (born 1946, Budapest, Hungary) is the Chairman and CEO of International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), which is one of the two largest aircraft lessors in the world (the other being GECAS.) As of 2006 he is the 83rd richest American with a net worth of US$3.1 billion. The Udvar-Hazy family came to the United States in 1958, fleeing the Soviet occupation of Hungary. Hazy attended the University of California, Los Angeles.
- Brock Adams
Brockman "Brock" Adams (January 13, 1927 - September 10, 2004) was an American politician and member of Congress. Adams was a Democrat from Washington and served as a U.S. Representative, Senator, and United States Secretary of Transportation before retiring in January 1993. Adams was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and attended the public schools in Portland, Oregon.
- Don Oberdorfer
Don Oberdorfer is an American professor at Johns Hopkins University and was a journalist for 38 years, 25 of them with the Washington Post. He is the author of five books and several academic papers. As a young man he graduated from Princeton University and went to South Korea as an Army lieutenant after the signing of the armistice that ended the Korean War. In 1955 he joined the Charlotte Observer, and eventually found a job with the Washington Post.
- Jerry Reinsdorf
Jerry Reinsdorf assumed the position of Chairman of the Chicago Bulls on March 13, 1985, when he led the group that purchased controlling interest in the franchise. Reinsdorf is also the Chairman of the 2005 World Champion Chicago White Sox ...
- Raul Fernandez
Raul J. Fernandez is an American entreprenuer. He is currently Chairman and CEO of ObjectVideo, co-owner of the NHL Washington Capitals, NBA Washington Wizards, and the WNBA Washington Mystics.
- Henry Chadwick
Henry Chadwick (October 5 1824 - April 20 1908), often called the "father of baseball," was a sportswriter, baseball statistician and historian. Born in Exeter, England, and raised on cricket, Chadwick was one of the prime movers in the rise of baseball to its unprecedented popularity at the turn of the 20th century. A keen amateur statistician and professional writer, he helped sculpt the public perception of the game, …
- Leroy Hood
Dr. Hood is recognized as one of the world's leading scientists in molecular biotechnology and genomics. A passionate and dedicated researcher, he holds numerous patents and awards for his work and prides himself on his life-long commitment to making science accessible to the general public. One of his foremost goals is to bring hands-on, inquiry-based science to K-12 classrooms.
- Gilbert Melville Grosvenor
GILBERT M. GROSVENOR Chairman, Board of Trustees, National Geographic Society; Chairman, Education Foundation Gilbert M. Grosvenor is chairman of the National Geographic Society's board of trustees and its Education Foundation. He retired June 1, 1996, as president of the Society, the fifth generation of his family to serve in that position.
- 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.
- Mike Francis
Michael Gordon "Mike" Francis (born 1946) is a prominent Crowley businessman who was the chairman of the Republican Party in Louisiana from 1994-2000. A staunch fiscal and social conservative, Francis was an unsuccessful candidate for Louisiana secretary of state in a special election held on September 30, 2006. He has indicated that he will seek the position again in the jungle primary on October 20, 2007. "I will work to ensure the right to vote.
- Arthur D. Levinson
Arthur D. Levinson , Ph. D. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
- Colin Dyer
Colin Dyer has been a Director of Jones Lang LaSalle since September 2004, when he was elected President and Chief Executive Officer of the firm. Before that, from 2000 to 2004, he was the founding CEO of the WorldWide Retail Exchange, an Internet-based business-to-business exchange, with offices in Washington D.C., Paris and Tokyo, whose members include more than 40 of the world's leading retailers and manufacturers. From 1996 until 2000, Mr.
- Toney Anaya
Toney Anaya (b. April 29, 1941) is a U.S. Democratic politician who was born in Moriarity, New Mexico. He went to undergraduate school at Georgetown University and graduated with a law degree from Washington College of Law in 1967. From 1975 to 1978, he served as New Mexico Attorney General. In 1978, he ran for United States Senate, but was defeated by incumbent Pete Domenici. He served as Governor of New Mexico from 1983 to 1987.
- 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.