Herbert David Kelleher was an American billionaire airline businessman and lawyer. He was the co-founder, later CEO, and chairman emeritus of Southwest Airlines until his death in 2019.
Frederick Wallace Smith is an American business magnate and investor. He is the founder and chairman of FedEx Corporation, the world's largest transportation company. Smith stepped down as CEO in June 2022 and was succeeded by Raj Subramaniam. He is considered one of the most successful transportation entrepreneurs in the world. He had an estimated net worth of $6.3 billion as of June 2024.
Michael Morhaime is an American video game developer and entrepreneur. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) and founder of Dreamhaven, located in Irvine, California. Morhaime is best known as the co-founder and the former president of Blizzard Entertainment, a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc., that was founded in 1991 as Silicon & Synapse. He served on the Vivendi Games executive committee from January 1999, when Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. became a subsidiary of Vivendi Games, until July 2008.
Robert William "Bob" Galvin was an American executive. He was the son of the founder of Motorola, Paul Galvin, and served as the CEO of Motorola from 1959 to 1986.
Linda Alvarado is President and Chief Executive Officer of Alvarado Construction, Inc., a large commercial and industrial general contracting/site management and design/build firm in Denver, Colorado. She is also President of Palo Alto, Inc., co-owner of the Colorado Rockies baseball team, and currently a member of the board of 3M.
Dame Theresa Elizabeth Gattung is a New Zealand businessperson and the former chief executive of Telecom New Zealand (1993–2007).
Alan George "A. G." Lafley is an American businessman who led consumer goods maker Procter & Gamble (P&G) for two separate stints, from 2000 to 2010 and again from 2013 to 2015, during which he served as chairman, president and CEO. In 2015, he stepped down as CEO to become executive chairman of P&G, eventually retiring in June 2016.
Thomas Kalinske is an American businessman who has worked for Mattel (1972–1987), Matchbox (1987-1990), Sega of America (1990–1996) and LeapFrog (1997–2006).
Patrick George Ryan is an American billionaire insurance businessman. He is the founder and retired chairman and CEO of Aon Corporation. In 2010, he founded Ryan Specialty Group (RSG) as a holding company aimed at providing specialty services to insurance brokers, agents and carriers. RSG's first subsidiary, ThinkRisk, began business in December 2009 to provide underwriting and claims management services for media, technology, advertising and network security.
Keller Williams Realty is an American technology and international real estate franchise with headquarters in Austin, Texas. It is the largest real estate franchise in the United States by sales volume as of 2022.
Robert Warren Pittman is an American businessman. Pittman was the CEO of MTV Networks and the cofounder and programmer who led the team that created MTV, and is the cofounder of iHeartMedia and Casa Dragones Tequila. Pittman joined iHeartMedia's predecessor company Clear Channel in November 2010 as an investor and the company's Chairman of Media and Entertainment Platforms, was named CEO in 2011 and chairman in 2013. Pittman led Clear Channel's transformation into iHeartMedia, Inc. in September 2014 to reflect its new multiplatform business and expanded mission. Pittman has also been the former chairman and CEO of Clear Channel Outdoor, CEO of AOL Networks, Six Flags Theme Parks, Quantum Media, Century 21 Real Estate and Time Warner Enterprises, and COO of America Online, Inc. and AOL Time Warner.
Archie Wallace Dunham served as president and chief executive officer of Conoco Inc. from January 1996 to August 2002, then as chairman of ConocoPhillips, following the merger of Conoco Inc. and Phillips Petroleum Company, until his retirement on September 30, 2004. Dunham was chairman of Chesapeake Energy from 2012 to 2015 and chairman emeritus from 2015 to 2019.
Sam Richter is the CEO and founder of SBR Worldwide, LLC, and the Know More sales and business improvement program. Richter delivers motivational keynote and workshop presentations on a variety of technology, AI, and Generative AI, sales, and marketing topics to organizations around the globe. Based on independent reviews and top industry awards including being inducted into the Professional Speakers Hall of Fame, Richter is considered one of the world's top sales keynote speakers and Generative AI keynote speakers. He uses Generative AI, ChatGPT, and search engines like Google combined with social media, including LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and other Web-based resources as business intelligence gathering and reputation management tools. In addition, Richter creates custom SaaS applications, including AI-powered intelligence gathering and Generative AI-powered business communication tools.
Douglas M. Baker Jr. is an American businessman who is the former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Ecolab, Inc., a Fortune 500 company in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services.
Gian Mark Fulgoni is a British businessman, entrepreneur and market research consultant.
Sir Lucian Charles Grainge is a British record executive who has served as chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Universal Music Group since 2010. Beginning as an A&R staffer in the late 1970s, Grainge has worked in the music industry his entire career. Billboard magazine named him the most powerful person in the music business on four occasions in the 2010s, and was named the inaugural Executive of the Decade in 2020.
Gary B. Smith is a British-American executive, and the chief executive officer of Ciena, an American telecommunications networking multinational.
Sharen Jester Turney (née Jester) is a global business leader, and former president and CEO of Victoria's Secret, a $7.7 billion company of which she led for a decade doubling the profit and increasing sales by 70%, Victoria's Secret is the largest retailer of intimate apparel, and the largest subsidiary of L Brands Inc. In 2013, Bloomberg named Jester Turney the fourth highest compensated female executive in the United States. In February 2016, she stepped down as CEO of Victoria's Secret after serving for a decade in that role and the previous six years as President and CEO of Victoria's Secret Direct.
Paul Soubry, ICD.D, is President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NFI Group Inc.
CCA Global Partners, originally called Carpet Co-op of America, is a shared services membership purchasing cooperative company that was founded in 1984 as a carpet cooperative business in Manchester, New Hampshire. It has since expanded into 14 co-ops covering a variety of different industries. CCA Global Partners includes about 4,000 stores throughout the United States, Canada and other countries. The late Alan Greenberg was a co-founder, and Howard Brodsky is a co-founder, chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer.
