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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, … - Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is the American multiple-Emmy Award winning host of "The Oprah Winfrey Show", the highest rated talk show in television history. She is also an influential book critic, an Academy Award-nominated actress, and a magazine publisher. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the most philanthropic African American of all time, and the world's only black billionaire for three straight years. - Jack Welch
John Francis "Jack" Welch, Jr. (born November 19 1935) was Chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. Welch gained a solid reputation for uncanny business acumen and unique leadership strategies at GE. During his tenure, GE increased its market capitalization by over $400 billion. He remains a highly-regarded figure in business circles due to his innovative management strategies and leadership style. His net-worth is estimated at $720 million. - Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki , who was Apple's software evangelist, is passionate about the idea that products and services reach critical mass 'because mere mortals spread the word for you.' He also has noted that the people who developed the original Macintosh didn't really have any idea of what people would do with the machine-and thus how its users would influence its development. We're wired to create patterns, but that doesn't mean the first patterns are necessarily useful. - Michael Arrington
I am the editor of TechCrunch and owner of the TechCrunch Network of blog and podcasting sites. - Seth Godin
Godin graduated from Tufts University in 1982 with a degree in computer science and philosophy, and he earned his MBA in marketing from Stanford Business School. From 1983 to 1986, he worked as a brand manager at Spinnaker Software, where he led the team that developed the first generation of multimedia products, working with such forward-thinking authors as Arthur C. Clarke and Michael Crichton . - Danny Sullivan
Danny wrote Yahoo Surveys Search Rewards Idea where he covers a News.com article showing how a group of Yahoo! Mail users were offered "10 different potential reward options" to take a Yahoo! search survey. Kinda funny, I told them they should do this at last years SES San Jose conference - that they don't have to necessarily pay money to get answers. I am sure it wasn't my influence, since it did take almost a year to implement. - Billy Graham
William Franklin Graham Jr. (born November 7, 1918) is a career evangelist and an Evangelical Christian. He has been a spiritual adviser to multiple U.S. presidents and was number 7 on Gallup's list of admired people for the 20th century. He is a member of the Southern Baptist Convention. - Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic. He is currently professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trade ... - Avi Arad
Avi Arad is an Israeli-American businessman. He became the CEO of the company Toy Biz in the 1990s. Arad is credited as executive producer for all of animated cartoons with Marvel characters created in the 1990s, starting with 1992's "X-Men" for Fox Kids. Arad was the Executive Producer of "Blade: The Series". - Joseph Farah
Joseph Farah is the founder, editor and chief executive officer of WorldNetDaily.com, the world's leading independent Internet news source. In addition, Farah writes a daily column for WND and a weekly newspaper column for Creators Syndicate. He is also the founder and co-publisher of WND Books, a publishing venture that has produced several New York Times best sellers in the last five years. - Michael Perry
Michael D. Perry, is a United States software engineer. He is the founder of InterCommerce Corporation. Originally a programmer and software designer, he founded Progressive Computer Services, Inc., which published utility software for the IBM PC market. The company was best-known for EZ-Menu, a utility that was declared "PC Magazine" "Editor's Choice", "PC Home Journal" "Best Product", and "Personal Computing Magazine" H "Publisher's Pick". - John Burton
John Burton is a co-founder of the nonprofit environmental organization World Land Trust, and has been its CEO since it was founded as "World Wide Land Conservation Trust" in 1989. He has previously held offices like the Chief Executive Officer of the Fauna and Flora International, and Chairman of the TRAFFIC unit of World Conservation Union (then International Union for the Conservation of Nature) in 1975. - James Surowiecki
James Michael Surowiecki is an American journalist. He is staff writer at "The New Yorker", where he writes a regular column on business and finance called "The Financial Page". Surowiecki's writing has appeared in a wide range of publications, including "The New York Times", the "Wall Street Journal", "Artforum", "Wired", and "Slate". - Steven Levy
Steven Levy (born 1951) is an American journalist who has written several books on computers, technology, cryptography, the Internet, cybersecurity, and privacy. Levy is chief technology writer and a senior editor for "Newsweek", writing mainly in the "Science & Technology" section. He also writes the column "Random Access" in the monthly feature "Focus On Technology." Levy is also a contributor to "Wired", and has had articles published on "Harper's", … - Udi Manber
Udi Manber , Vice President, Engineering - Scott Adams
Scott Raymond Adams (born June 8, 1957) is the creator of the "Dilbert" comic strip and the author of several business commentaries, social satires, and experimental philosophy books. - Andrew Grove
Dr. Andrew Stephen Grove (born 1936-09-02) is a Hungarian-American businessman. He participated in the founding of Intel and was key to the company's success. - Amory Lovins
Amory Bloch Lovins is a "consultant experimental physicist" with an MA in physics from Oxford. He is Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a MacArthur Fellowship recipient (1994), and author and co-author of books which make arguments for and popularize energy-efficiency principles to public and corporate audiences. Lovins' works include "Winning the Oil Endgame", "Factor Four" with Hunter Lovins and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, … - Justin Hall
Justin Hall (born December 16, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois), is an American freelance journalist who is best known as a pioneer blogger (internet-based diarist), and for writing reviews from game conferences such as E3 and the Tokyo Game Show. He graduated from Chicago's Francis W. Parker High School in 1993, and in 1994, while a student at Swarthmore College, started his web-based diary "Justin's Links from the Underground", … - Christian Streiff
Christian Streiff was the CEO of the aircraft manufacturer Airbus S.A.S., he was nominated to this position on 2<sup>nd</sup> July 2006. He was replaced by Louis Gallois on 9<sup>th</sup> October 2006. On October 9th, 2006, Mr. Streiff resigned as head of the European commercial aircraft manufacturer, a little more than three months after he accepted the position. - Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson "is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute . He has been the Chairman and CEO of CNN and the Managing Editor of Time Magazine. He is the author of Benjamin Franklin : An American Life (2003) and of Kissinger: A Biography (1992) and is the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986). His biography of Albert Einstein - Einstein: His Life and Universe - was released in April 2007. "Isaacson was born on May 20, 1952, in New Orleans. - Joni Eareckson Tada
Joni Eareckson Tada (born to John and Lindy Eareckson, Joni Eareckson October 15 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American Christian author, artist, and founder and CEO of "Joni and Friends", an "organization accelerating Christian ministry in the disability community". She wrote an autobiography entitled "Joni", and appeared in a film of the same name. She has a daily radio program, also called "Joni and Friends", … - Ian Smith
Ian K. Smith, M.D. (b. July 15, 1969) is a medical expert and an author best known for his appearances on VH1's Celebrity Fit Club series, "The View", and as a correspondent for NBC News. He is also the host of "HealthWatch with Dr. Ian Smith", a nationally-syndicated daily news feature heard on American Urban Radio Networks. He resides in Manhattan, New York City. - 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. - Gurcharan Das
Gurcharan Das is a columnist for "The Times of India" and other newspapers. Currently he is a venture capitalist and a consultant to Industry and Indian government. Born in 1946 at Lyallpur in Pakistan, Das spent the better half of his childhood in New York as his father was posted there. He graduated with honors from Harvard University in Philosophy and Politics. He later attended Harvard Business School (AMP), where he is featured in three case studies. - Robert David Steele
Robert David Steele Vivas (b. July 16 1952 New York City), is a former Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer for twenty years and was the second-ranking civilian (GS-14) in U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence from 1988-1992. Steele is a former clandestine services case officer with the Central Intelligence Agency. He is the founder and CEO of OSS.Net, Inc. as well as the Golden Candle Society. - Idan Gafni
Idan Gafni is an award winning mobile expert and entrepreneur. Using a creativity technique he created named “Object Pairing”, Idan harnesses innovation to create mobile value added services. Services are based on mobile interaction, contextual awareness, user-generated content, and dynamic content, using the advantages of technologies such as SMS, MMS, IVVR, and WEB technologies. In the past, Idan served as the innovation manager of Orange Israel, part of the Hutchison 3 telecom group. - Chin-Ning Chu
Chin-Ning Chu is a Chinese American business consultant, and a bestselling business management author in Asia and the Pacific Rim. The name "Chin-Ning" in Chinese means "Journey to Peace" or “Path to Peace.” Born in Tianjin, The People's Republic of China, Chu is a descendant of Yuan-Zhang Chu (personal name Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor), the pauper who became the first Emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644AD) by defeating the Mongol rule of Genghis Khan In 1949, … - Robert Shaye
Robert Shaye (Born March 3 1939), often referred to as Bob Shaye, is an American businessman, film producer, director and actor. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he is the Co-founder of the film production and distribution company New Line Cinema with Michael Lynne, where he currently holds the position of Co-chairman and Co-CEO. He is also the brother of actress Lin Shaye. - Eric Zimmerman
Eric Zimmerman is a game designer and the co-founder and CEO of gameLab, a computer game development company, which is known for the game "Diner Dash". Each year Zimmerman hosts the Game Design Challenge at the Game Developers Conference. He is also the co-author of 4 books including "Rules of Play" with Katie Salen, which was published in November 2004. He has taught at universities including MIT, the University of Texas at Austin, Parsons School of Design, … - Lillian Too
Lillian Too (born 1946 in Penang) is a best-selling author, television personality and Feng Shui practitioner from Malaysia. She has written over 80 books on the subject of Feng Shui, which have been translated into 30 languages. Her books have sold well in excess of 6 million copies, making bestseller lists around the globe. A graduate with an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1976, … - Ricardo Semler
Ricardo Semler is the CEO and majority owner of Semco SA, a Brazilian company best known for its radical form of industrial democracy and corporate re-engineering. Under his ownership, revenue has grown from $4 million US in 1982 to $212 million in 2003 and his innovative business management policies have attracted widespread interest around the world. - Patricia Seybold
Patricia B. Seybold, CEO of Patricia Seybold Group, is the author of "Customers.com", "The Customer Revolution", "Outside Innovation", and co-author of "Brandchild". Her books, (particularly "Customers.com"), discuss the impact that technology and evolving customer behavior have on business trends. Ms. - Joe Moglia
Joe Moglia is the current CEO of TD Ameritrade, the largest online discount brokerage firm in the world. Born in Queens, New York, Moglia was a football coach for 16 years, finishing as a Dartmouth College assistant from 1981-1983. After the 1983 football season ended, Moglia decided to take a break from coaching and to try out the business world and Wall Street. He decided to give it a three-year time frame to see if he would be refreshed and ready to go back to coaching. - Jon Lebkowsky
Jon Lebkowsky is a social media expert and strategist, cultural strategist, and social commentator. A web strategy consultant, he also writes about culture, technology, media, sustainability and other topics for various publications, has been blogging regularly since blogs first appeared, and has been involved in various aspects of web production since 1992. - Charles Ardai
Charles Ardai (born 1969) is an entrepreneur, writer, and editor. He is best known as the founder and CEO of Juno, an Internet company, and more recently as the founder and editor of Hard Case Crime, a line of pulp-style paperback crime novels. Ardai's writing has appeared in mystery magazines such as "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" and "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine", … - Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway is a pollster and Republican political strategist. She has logged over 1,200 media appearances including on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, and NBC as well as other cable and satellite networks. Born Kellyanne Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, she was raised in New Jersey and is a magna cum laude graduate of Trinity College, Washington, D.C., where she earned a B.A. in political science. - Jeff Briggs
Jeff Briggs (born March 10 1957 in Alabama) is founder and former President, and CEO of Firaxis Games, a computer game developer based in Hunt Valley, Maryland, United States. He was previously a game designer at MicroProse but left that company in 1996 along with Sid Meier to form Firaxis Games. Briggs holds a Doctorate in Musical Composition and Theory from the University of Illinois. His career began in New York City, where he composed music for various events, …
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