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Sharon Pian Chan is an American journalist and news executive serving as vice president of philanthropy at The New York Times . [1] She was president of the Asian American Journalists Association from 2009 to 2010. From 2017 to 2019, at The Seattle Times she was Vice President of Innovation, Product and Development. [2] [3]
Michael Rubens Bloomberg is an American businessman, politician, philanthropist, and author. He is the majority owner and co-founder of Bloomberg L.P. He was the Mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013, and was a candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president of the United States.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American writer who worked as a newspaper editor and in public relations. Halsted also wrote two children's books published in the 1930s. She was the eldest child and only daughter of the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt and assisted him as his advisor during World War II.
The Philanthropy Roundtable is a nonprofit organization that advises conservative philanthropists.
Infospace, Inc. was a private label search engine, online directory, and provider of metadata feeds. Their flagship metasearch site was Dogpile; its other notable consumer brands were WebCrawler and MetaCrawler. After a 2012 rename to Blucora, the InfoSpace business unit was sold to data management company OpenMail.
King Broadcasting Company was a former media conglomerate founded in 1946 by Dorothy Bullitt and owned by the Bullitt family until it was sold to The Providence Journal in 1991. It is currently a subsidiary of Tegna as the licensee for its remaining stations. It began with one AM radio station and later an FM radio station, and it grew to include a large group of broadcast television and radio stations as well as a cable television network.
Jean Case is an American businesswoman, author, and philanthropist who is chair of the board of National Geographic, CEO of Case Impact Network, CEO of the Case Foundation. She, along with her husband, AOL co-founder Steve Case, created the Case Foundation in 1997 and they joined the Giving Pledge in 2011, committing to give away a majority of their wealth.
George Wallerstein was a United States astronomer who researched the chemical composition of stellar atmospheres. The son of German immigrants, he was raised in New York City during the Great Depression. In school he developed an interest in boxing and won the senior class boxing award. He graduated from Brown University in 1951 before receiving his M.S. and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. He served in the Navy during the Korean War, then, after teaching at the University of California, joined the astronomy department of the University of Washington in 1965. In March 1998, he retired from the University and was appointed Professor Emeritus. At the time of his death, he was married to the astronomer Julie Lutz.
Dustin Aaron Moskovitz is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes. In 2008, he left Facebook to co-found Asana with Justin Rosenstein. In March 2011, Forbes reported Moskovitz to be the youngest self-made billionaire in history, on the basis of his 2.34% share in Facebook.
Gerald Tsai Jr. was a billionaire investor and philanthropist who helped build Fidelity Investments into a mutual fund powerhouse.
Timothy L. Burgess is an American journalist and politician from Seattle, Washington. He was a member of the Seattle City Council from 2007 to 2017, and served as Mayor of Seattle for 71 days in late 2017. Prior to his political career, Burgess was a radio journalist and Seattle Police Department officer.
Marian Salzman is an American advertising and public relations executive. She is Senior Vice President, Global Communications for Philip Morris International, a tobacco company. She was formerly CEO of Havas PR North America and chaired the Global Collective, the organizing collaborative of all of the PR assets of Havas. She rejoined Euro RSCG in August 2009, having previously worked for the holding company as executive vice president, chief strategic officer, from January 2001 to October 2004.
SatyanarayanaNadella is an Indian-born American business executive. He is the executive chairman and CEO of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO and John W. Thompson in 2021 as chairman. Before becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company's computing platforms.
Pramila Jayapal is an American activist and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Washington's 7th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she represents most of Seattle, as well as suburban areas of King County. Jayapal represented the 37th legislative district in the Washington State Senate from 2015 to 2017. She is the first Indian-American woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. The district's first female member of Congress, she is also the first Asian American to represent Washington at the federal level.
Priscilla Chan is an American philanthropist and a former pediatrician. She and her husband Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of Facebook, Inc., established the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in December 2015, with a pledge to transfer 99 percent of their Facebook shares, then valued at $45 billion. She attended Harvard University and received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco.
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is an organization established and owned by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan with an investment of 99 percent of the couple's wealth from their Facebook shares over their lifetime. The CZI is set up as a limited liability company (LLC) and is an example of philanthrocapitalism. CZI has been deemed likely to be "one of the most well-funded philanthropies in human history". Its creation was announced on 1 December 2015, for the birth of their daughter, Maxima Chan Zuckerberg. Priscilla Chan has said that her background as a child of immigrant refugees and experience as a teacher and pediatrician for vulnerable children influences how she approaches the philanthropy's work in science, education, immigration reform, housing, criminal justice, and other local issues.
Bradford Lee Smith is an American attorney and technology executive currently serving as President of Microsoft, concurrently serving as chief legal officer.
Julie Haynes Lutz is an astronomer and mathematician who studies planetary nebulae and symbiotic binary stars. Lutz was the Boeing Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Science Education and director of the astronomy program at Washington State University. She moved to the University of Washington in 2000 and is now professor emeritus there.
Wanda K. Denson-Low is the former senior vice president of the office of internal governance at The Boeing Company. In 1989, while working at Hughes Aircraft Company, she became the first minority woman to become a patent counsel at a Fortune 500 company. She is vice president of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute board of trustees.
Krusteaz is a consumer food product brand in Washington state owned by Continental Mills. Its main product is a factory-prepared, shelf-stable flour and dried buttermilk mixture that can be used to make baked items including biscuits, pancakes, waffles, cobbler and dump cake, and another pre-mixed product makes pie crust. The brand name "Crust Ease", changed to "Krusteaz", was coined and the company founded in 1932 by people in a Seattle bridge club; co-founder Rose Gilbreath Charters was from a Columbia County pioneer family, and raised on a farm in Dayton before attending Washington State University. The current product was developed in 1946 or 1947 at the home economics department at University of Washington. The company Continental Mills now owns Krusteaz brand and is based in Tukwila. Production is in a Kent Valley facility constructed in 1986. The company employs over 300 people in the Kent–Tukwila facilities as of 2020.
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