Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Rawi Abdelal | 1993 | Professor of business administration at Harvard Business School | [14] |
Dean Alford | 1976 | President and CEO of Allied Energy Services; convicted criminal | [15] |
Ronald W. Allen | 1964 | President, chairman and CEO of Delta Air Lines (1987–1997); chairman and CEO of Aaron's, Inc. (2012–2014) | [16] |
Gil Amelio | 1965 | CEO emeritus of National Semiconductor and Apple; IEEE Fellow | [17] |
Charles "Garry" Betty | 1979 | President and CEO of EarthLink (1996–2007) | [18] |
W. Frank Blount | 1961 | Businessman, chairman and CEO of venture capital firm JI Ventures, Inc.; former chairman and CEO of Cypress Communications Inc.; former director and CEO of Telstra in Australia | [19] |
John F. Brock | 1971 | Chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. | [20] |
Paul J. Brown | 1989 | CEO at Inspire Brands | [21] |
Gary C. Butler | 1968 | CEO of Automatic Data Processing | [22] |
Brook Byers | 1968 | Venture capitalist of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers | [23] |
Ben Chestnut | 1998 | Co-founder and CEO, MailChimp | [24] |
George G. Crawford | 1890 | Headed the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company | [2] |
Cecil B. Day | 1958 | Founder of Days Inn Hotels | [25] |
David Dorman | 1975 | Chairman and CEO emeritus of AT&T Corporation | [26] |
Mike Duke | 1971 | Former President and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores | [27] |
Walter Ehmer | 1989 | President and CEO of Waffle House | [28] |
David C. Garrett Jr. | 1955 | CEO of Delta Air Lines (1978–1987) | [29] |
Jaime Gilinski | 1978 | Chairman of JGB Financial Holding Company | [30] |
Frank Gordy | 1929 | Founder of The Varsity chain, which includes the world's largest drive-in | [31] |
James Gulliver | 1950 | Founder of Argyll Foods, one of the United Kingdom's largest retail businesses | [32] |
Dennis Hayes | 1973 | Founder of Hayes Communications, an early developer of PC modems | [33] |
Ed Iacobucci | 1975 | Leader of the IBM OS/2 Design Team; founder of Citrix Systems; president and CEO of DayJet; member of SCO Group's board of directors | [34] |
Chris Klaus | 1994 | Founder and current CEO of Kaneva, Inc.; co-founder and former CTO of Internet Security Systems; His company was acquired by IBM for over $1.3 Billion. He donated $15 million to Georgia Tech toward the construction of the Klaus Advanced Computing Building which is named after him. | [35] |
Roger Krone | 1978 | CEO of Leidos Holdings Inc. | [36] |
Alan J. Lacy | 1975 | Last chairman and CEO of Sears, Roebuck and Company | [37] |
Mike Levy | 1969 | Founder and current CEO of Maxxpoint.com; founder and former president, chairman and CEO of Sportsline.com, now CBSSports.com | [38] |
David S. Lewis Jr. | 1939 | Major force in the aerospace and defense industry for three decades | [39] |
Calvin Mackie | 1996 | Award-winning mentor; motivational speaker; entrepreneur | [40] |
Scottie Mayfield | 1973 | President of Mayfield Dairy Farms | [41] |
Robert Milton | 1983 | Former chairman, president and CEO of Air Canada. Former chairman of the board of directors of United Continental Holdings which is the parent company of United Airlines. | [42] |
Charles Moorman | 1975 | Former CEO of Norfolk Southern, current CEO of Amtrak [43] | [44] |
Blake Moret | 1985 | Current president and CEO of Rockwell Automation Inc. | [45] |
David Perdue | 1972 | Former CEO of Dollar General and Reebok International; Former Georgia US Senator | [46] |
J. Paul Raines | 1985 | CEO of GameStop | [47] |
Hazard E. Reeves | 1928 | Introduced magnetic stereophonic sound to motion pictures; was president of over 60 companies, including Cinerama | [48] |
Glen P. Robinson | 1948 | Researcher at the Georgia Tech Research Institute; went on to found Scientific Atlanta | [49] |
James D. Robinson III | 1957 | CEO of American Express Co. (1977–1993); director of The Coca-Cola Company (1975–present) | [50] |
Joe Rogers Jr. | 1968 | Longtime CEO of Waffle House | [51] |
Chuck Sannipoli | 1967 | Executive in the data networking industry; Senior Member of the IEEE | [52] |
Derek V. Smith | 1979 | CEO of ChoicePoint (1997–2008) | [53] [54] |
Mark C. Smith | 1962 | Co-founder of ADTRAN, Inc. | [55] [56] |
E. Roe Stamps | 1967 | Founding managing partner of venture capital firm Summit Partners; member of the Georgia Tech Foundation Board of Trustees | [57] |
Henry Grady Weaver | 1911 | Director of Customer Research Staff for General Motors Corporation, appeared on the cover of the November 14, 1938 issue of Time magazine | [58] |
George W. Woodruff | 1917 | Engineer, businessman, and philanthropist who gave generously to both Georgia Tech and Emory University; namesake of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering | [59] |