The University of California, Berkeley, is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. It was established in 1868 and is the state's first land-grant university. It is a founding member of the Association of American Universities and is the founding campus of the University of California system. Berkeley has the most top-ranked departments nationally and is one of the highest-ranked universities worldwide. It produces many entrepreneurs and attracts funding for startup companies with more having been founded than any other university.
Columbia Business School (CBS) is the business school of Columbia University, a private research university in New York City. Established in 1916, Columbia Business School is one of six Ivy League business schools and is one of the oldest business schools in the world.
The USC Marshall School of Business is the business school of the University of Southern California. It is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
Jeffrey Mallett is a Canadian entrepreneur and investor. He is best known for building internet giant Yahoo!. Described as Yahoo's "wizard behind the curtains pulling all the levers," Mallett manages a portfolio of Internet, sports, entertainment and real estate investments in the United States, Canada, England, and China.
RotoHog was the consumer facing fantasy sports website for Fastpoint Games, a digital platform developer that designed, implemented and marketed fantasy services for media and advertising partners. The company built, delivered, and managed co-branded fantasy sports games for major media companies, sports companies, and professional sports leagues.
Kent Smetters is an academic, entrepreneur, and former government official.
Stephen Ian McIntosh is an American author, lawyer, and entrepreneur. He was the founder and former CEO of Now & Zen, Inc., a boutique alarm clock company. He writes on the subject of integral thought.
Reginald L. Love is an American personal aide, former college basketball player, and media editor. Love served as the special assistant and personal aide, commonly referred to as body man, to U.S. President Barack Obama. Love left this position around the end of 2011 to complete his Master of Business Administration degree at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. In July 2015, Vice Media announced that Love would become an editor-at-large for its sports site, Vice Sports.
Tory Burch is an American fashion designer, businesswoman, and philanthropist. She is the Executive Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of her own brand, Tory Burch LLC. She was listed as the 88th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes in 2020.
David Karp is an American webmaster, entrepreneur, and blogger, best known as the founder and former CEO of the short-form blogging platform Tumblr.
Alan B. Miller is an American businessman who is the founder of Universal Health Services, and currently serves as the company's executive chairman. Miller founded the company in 1979 and it has grown to become a large provider of hospital and healthcare services in the US and the UK. In 2022, UHS had revenues of $13.4 billion. In September 2020, UHS announced that, consistent with the company's long-standing succession plan, Alan B. Miller would step down as CEO.
Ryan Steelberg is an American serial entrepreneur and technology executive who co-founded AdForce (IPO), 2CAN Media, and dMarc Broadcasting. Most recently, Ryan Steelberg co-founded Veritone, where he serves as its President & CEO, as well as the Chairman of the Board. Veritone, Inc. is a leading AI software and services company, public on NASDAQ (VERI).
David Semel Rose is an American serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He is an investor in startup technology companies and founder of New York Angels, an early-stage technology investment group. He is Managing Partner of Rose Tech Ventures, a venture fund focused on Internet-based business, and CEO of Gust, which operates a collaboration platform for early stage angel investing.
Scott Harris Lenet is an American venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of two venture capital firms: the corporate venture capital firm Touchdown Ventures and the seed stage venture capital firm DFJ Frontier.
Jeffrey Weiner is an American businessman. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of LinkedIn, a business-related social networking website. He started with LinkedIn on December 15, 2008, as Interim President. Weiner played an instrumental role in LinkedIn's acquisition by Microsoft for $26 billion in June 2016. Currently, he is the Executive chairman of Linkedin as of 2022. He is also the founding Partner of Next play venture capital.
Shellye Archambeau is an American businesswoman and former CEO of MetricStream, a GRC company based in Palo Alto, California. She has held executive positions for numerous companies, including a 15-year career at IBM where she became the first African American woman at the company to be sent on assignment internationally. Archambeau is a guest lecturer at her alma mater, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a writer. She wrote Unapologetically Ambitiousand co-authored Marketing That Works. Archambeau is a regular contributor for Xconomy.
Alejandro Cremades is a Spanish author and entrepreneur based in New York City.
Juliet Wiscombe Starrett is a former whitewater rafting world champion, entrepreneur, bestselling author, athlete, and podcaster. She is former co-founder and CEO of San Francisco Crossfit, and co-founder of the nonprofit Stand Up Kids. She is also the co-founder and CEO, along with her husband Kelly Starrett, of the fitness website The Ready State, formally called MobilityWOD.
Cynthia Wandia is a Kenyan electrical engineer, polyglot, entrepreneur, businesswoman and corporate executive, who is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Kwara Limited, a Kenya-based online and mobile banking platform for financial cooperatives, credit unions and community banks. She concurrently serves as the managing director of ASTRA Innovations, a German-based enterprise that she co-founded.
