Rupert Murdoch is the Chairman and CEO, News Corp. News Corp. is a global force across the board - film, television, print, and even online (it owns the social networking site MySpace). Murdoch wanted more, and he got it with the $5 billion acquisition of Dow Jones. It was the crowning achievement of a career that started in 1953 when... read full bio
"Phil Knight, co-founded Nike, Inc., with his former college track coach Bill Bowerman. He earned his MBA from Stanford's business school, Knight returned to the University of Oregon to propose to Bowerman that they go into business selling shoes -- Bowerman would be in charge of design, with Knight taking care of the business end. At first, Bowerman... read full bio
Carla A. Harris has been a force on Wall Street for over 20 years. She is currently Vice Chairman of Wealth Management and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley, providing investment advice to corporations, public pension plans, foundations and endowments. She formerly headed the equity capital markets effort for the Consumer and Retail industries and was responsible for raising private... read full bio
"Jordan Belfort is one of the country's most talked-about speakers. His story is the ultimate tale of how the pursuit of wealth can often trump the importance of ethics in the business world. In the 1990s, Belfort built one of the most dynamic and successful sales organizations in the nation's financial circles before his well-publicized fall. During that time, he... read full bio
Sara Blakely started SPANX with a dream and $5,000. She invented Footless Body-Shaping Pantyhose and launched a brand that has been revolutionizing the industry for more than a decade. Selling over 50,000 pair in its first three months from the back of her apartment, Sara Blakely's SPANX footless pantyhose even captured the attention of Oprah and landed on Oprah's Favorite... read full bio
Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus continue to defy odds. Winning the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship yesterday afternoon, Johnson and Knaus earned their sixth NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship in 12 years, including five in row from 2006-2010. The most successful driver/crew chief partnership in NASCAR history, Johnson and Knaus have created a winning team by fostering confidence, trust... read full bio
Arthur C. Brooks is an expert on public policy and economics who has published extensively on social entrepreneurship, the connections between culture, politics, and economic life. A behavioral economist by training, he has written three books on the social value and economic impact of nonprofits, volunteerism, and charitable giving. He is the author of a major study of association membership... read full bio
Tony Fernandes, founder of Tune Air Sdn Bhd in 2001, is the Group CEO of Air Asia. Known as the Richard Branson of Asian air travel, he turned the bankrupt carrier into the World’s Best Low-Cost Airline and has revolutionised the aviation industry in Asean. After graduating from the London School of Economics in 1987, he worked as an accountant... read full bio
Social media entrepreneur and web developer Matt Mullenweg is best known as the creator and developer of WordPress, which is free and open web software and blog site. He dropped out of college to focus on his work, and he went on to found Automattic, which is the company behind WordPress.co. Automattic is also behind web tools including Polldaddy,... read full bio
Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and academician Steve Blank is most recognized for developing the Customer Development method and a founder of the Lean Startup movement. Blank dropped out of school after one semester, and he hitchhiked his way over to Miami, where he found a job loading racehorses onto aircraft at the Miami International Airport. This job piqued his interest... read full bio
Noted computer scientist Paul Graham is also an essayist and a venture capitalist. He is noted for his work with LISP, a computer programming language, and he also co-founded the Yahoo! Store (previously known as Viaweb). Viaweb, which was founded by Graham and Robert Morris, was the first application service provider on the market, and it allowed its users to... read full bio
John Donahoe is a noted businessman and former CEO of the popular e-commerce site, eBay. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Intel Corp and eBay, and he is the chairman of PayPal. He serves as the president and CEO of a cloud company called ServiceNow. Prior to eBay, Donahoe acquired his B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth... read full bio
As the former CEO of Zenefits and founder of Yammer, David Sacks is an entrepreneur, executive, and internet technology investor. Previously, Sacks worked as a management consultant for the McKinsey Company and later left to work as the CEO of PayPal. A member of the PayPal Mafia, a group of tech whizzes who went on to found a number... read full bio
Online entrepreneur Drew Houston is best known for being the mastermind behind Dropbox, an online sharing and backup storage apparatus. Previous to his work on Dropbox, Drew worked with multiple startups including Hubspot, Accolade, and Bit9, among others. Born and raised in Acton, Massachusetts, Drew learned BASIC programming on his very first computer that his father bought for him. He... read full bio
Co-founder and CEO of about.me, Tony Conrad created the site as a platform for users to represent their personal identity on the web. Prior to creating about.me, Tony also co-founded Sphere and served as its CEO, and he has invested in multiple companies including Danger, Post Communications, Milk, OnTheAir, Iconoculture, Stonyfield Farms, Sabrix, and MusicNow, among many others. He also... read full bio
As the Editor-at-Large of TechCrunch, a tech news company, Mike Butcher MBE keeps up with the current trends, fads, and successes in the tech world. Mike also founded TechHub, a site meant to connect communities with startups. An esteemed writer as well, Mike has written for many publications including The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, and... read full bio
One of the most sought-after tech conference speakers in the world, Stephen Master is the Senior VP- Global Head of Sports Practice at The Nielson Company. Nielson is the global leader of marketing information, audience measurement and business media products and services. The Sports Practice division works closely with every major sports property, such as the USOC, NASCAR, NFL, NHL,... read full bio
Chief Executive Officer of The Priceline Group, Glenn Fogel has been with the company for over sixteen years. Prior to becoming CEO, he was the Head of Strategy and Planning for seven years, and EVP of Corporate Development for a year. While with The Priceline Group, Fogel has lead global corporate strategy, worldwide mergers and acquisitions, business development initiatives and... read full bio
Danish technology entrepreneur Jimmy Maymann has served as the Executive VP and President of AOL Content and Consumer Brands, and then as the CEO of The Huffington Post. Working alongside editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington, Maymann spearheaded the Huffington Posts rapid traffic expansion from 45 million to 200 million monthly visitors, as well as its global staff increase to 1,000 people. He... read full bio
Soon after Peter Fredell established his own investment banking boutique, named Fredell & Co., the company became one of the top players in the European asset backed debt market. Fredell & Co. also experienced success in their emerging markets operations, with significant mandates in Russia, Lebanon, Georgia, the Czech republic, and Hungary. Along with ABB, The Belgian Government and Boufonds,... read full bio
