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Economics
Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomia, "management of a household, administration") from οἶκος (oikos, "house") + νόμος (nomos, "custom" or "law"), hence ...
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Randy Komisar
Randy Komisar joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2005 as a
partner. For several years prior, Randy partnered with entrepreneurs
creating businesses with leading-edge technologies.He
was a co-founder of Claris Corporation, served as CEO...
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Ted Schlein
Ted Schlein joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in November
1996. His focus has been in the area of enterprise security and
applications, infrastructure and services. Ted managed the KPCB Java
Fund, formed to invest in Java technology-based...
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Greg Jones
Greg was the founder and CEO of WorldRes, one of the leading online hotel reservation companies. He grew the company network to approximately 35,000 hotels with over 2,000 web distribution partners. Despite the "dot com" collapse, he led the company...
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Steven D. Levitt
Steven David "Steve" Levitt (born May 29, 1967) is an American economist known for his work in the field of crime, in particular on the link between legalized abortion and crime rates. Winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal, he is currently the...
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- 1989
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Steven D. Levitt
Steven David "Steve" Levitt (born May 29, 1967) is an American economist known for his work in the field of crime, in particular on the link between legalized abortion and crime rates. Winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal, he is currently the...
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- 1994
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Gunnar Myrdal
Karl Gunnar Myrdal (6 December 1898 – 17 May 1987) was a Swedish economist, politician, and Nobel laureate. In 1974, with Friedrich Hayek, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for "their pioneering work in the theory of money...
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- 1927
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Frederick W. Smith
Frederick Wallace Smith (born August 11, 1944), or Fred Smith, is the founder, chairman, president, and CEO of FedEx, originally known as Federal Express, the first overnight express delivery company in the world, and the largest in the United...
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- 1966
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- 1962
Kevin Efrusy
Kevin Efrusy came to Accel Partners in 2003 and serves as a General Partner. His
background is primarily as an entrepreneur and operating executive. He
served two stints as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Kleiner Perkins
Caufield and Byers where he...
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Stefan Fölster
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John R. Torell III
Mr. Torell is a Partner of Core Capital Group, a private equity investment firm. He has been Chairman or President of a number of major American banking institutions and has participated in virtually all phases of the financial services...
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- 1961
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Steve Goldman
Steve Goldman has more than 20 years of experience in the technology
industry, with a history of managing and building emerging companies
into market leaders. Prior to joining Isilon in 2003, Steve spent six
years as a senior executive at F5...
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Steve Hafner
Steve helped found Orbitz, Inc., the online travel agency site, in
November 1999. As a member of the original start-up team, Steve
helped develop and implement the company's business strategy. During
his four-year stint with the company, he was...
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- 1991
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Irwin Federman
As former Chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association and
board member of the National Venture Capital Association, Irwin draws
on the breadth of his experience to help entrepreneurs consider their
options: Irwin was a founding or lead...
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Donald Ankeny
Donald Ankeny is President and Chief Executive Officer of Westcore
Properties, a California-based entrepreneurial real estate investment
firm, where he presides over the company’s portfolio of office,
industrial and retail properties. Additionally,...
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Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens focuses on semiconductor, software, systems and
energy-related investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 1989,
he held technical and field sales positions at Intel and was a member
of the technical staff at Hughes Aircraft....
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Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer.
A major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic...
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- 1933
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Perry Wong
Email: pwong@milkeninstitute.org Perry Wong is a Senior Managing
Economist in Regional Economics at the Milken Institute. Wong is an
expert on regional economics, development and econometric forecasting
and specializes in analyzing the structure,...
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Perry Wong
Email: pwong@milkeninstitute.org Perry Wong is a Senior Managing
Economist in Regional Economics at the Milken Institute. Wong is an
expert on regional economics, development and econometric forecasting
and specializes in analyzing the structure,...
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Warren Buffett
Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is an American investor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is one of the most successful investors in history, the primary shareholder and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, and in 2008 was ranked by Forbes as...
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- 1950
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- 1950
Warren Buffett
Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is an American investor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is one of the most successful investors in history, the primary shareholder and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, and in 2008 was ranked by Forbes as...
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- 1951
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- 1950
Lanham Napier
Lanham Napier joined Rackspace Managed Hosting as chief financial officer in April, 2000, just a few short months before
the technology industry hit rock bottom during the 2000 downturn. He is largely credited by Rackspace's own...
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Guy Piekarz
Guy manages the overall operations of Unisfair, including defining and
directing Unisfair's technology vision and strategic business goals.
Before founding Unisfair, Guy was a team leader in the R&D group of
Veon Ltd., (acquired by Philips) ,...
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Jake Nunn
Jake joined NEA in 2006 as a Partner. He focuses on later-stage specialty pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and medical device investments. Jake is actively involved with a number of NEA portfolio companies including Transcept...
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Mark Perry
Mark joined NEA as a Consultant in 1995 and became a General Partner in 1996. Mark focuses on information technology investments. Present NEA portfolio companies include Alien Technology, Glacier Bay, Interlace Systems, ISGN Technologies, NewPath...
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David Fleming
David Fleming (born on 2 January 1940) is an independent thinker on environmental issues, based in London, England. He was one of the whistle blowers on the possibility of peak oil's approach and a significant figure in the development of the UK...
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- 1983
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- 1979
David Fleming
David Fleming (born on 2 January 1940) is an independent thinker on environmental issues, based in London, England. He was one of the whistle blowers on the possibility of peak oil's approach and a significant figure in the development of the UK...
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- 1988
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- 1983
Julia Goldsworthy
Julia Anne Goldsworthy (born 10 September 1978) is a British politician. She is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Falmouth and Camborne and shadows the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in the House of Commons....
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Andy Jagoe
Andy is an entrepreneur who has spent the last ten years focused on
improving the way people work and live through the use of
communications technology. In 1996, he founded Intranet Communications.
As CEO, Andy created a MyYahoo-style Internet...
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Kitty Ussher
Katharine "Kitty" Anne Ussher (born 18 March 1971) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Burnley since 2005, succeeding Peter Pike. Ussher formerly held the position of Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury in...
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Steven C. Mayer
Steven C. Mayer joined CoGenesys at its inception. Prior to joining
CoGenesys, Mr. Mayer was the Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer of Human Genome Sciences, Inc. He joined HGS as
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer...
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Frank Slootman
Frank Slootman has served as a member of our board of directors and as our
President and Chief Executive Officer since July 2003. Prior to joining us, Mr.
Slootman served as an executive at Borland Software Corporation from June 2000
...
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Frank Slootman
Frank Slootman has served as a member of our board of directors and as our
President and Chief Executive Officer since July 2003. Prior to joining us, Mr.
Slootman served as an executive at Borland Software Corporation from June 2000
...
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Aneel Bhusri
Aneel Bhusri is Workday's co-founder and President, responsible for the company's overall strategy and day-to-day operations. He joined Greylock in 1999 from PeopleSoft, where from 1999 to 2004, he served as Vice Chairman of the Board at
PeopleSoft....
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William Sharpe
Bill co-founded Financial Engines in 1996 with the purpose of making
the kind of expert investment advice and portfolio management
previously only available to high-end institutional investors
accessible to everyone. In 1990, he received the Nobel...
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William Sharpe
Bill co-founded Financial Engines in 1996 with the purpose of making
the kind of expert investment advice and portfolio management
previously only available to high-end institutional investors
accessible to everyone. In 1990, he received the Nobel...
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William Sharpe
Bill co-founded Financial Engines in 1996 with the purpose of making
the kind of expert investment advice and portfolio management
previously only available to high-end institutional investors
accessible to everyone. In 1990, he received the Nobel...
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Scott Calder
Mr. Calder brings over 20 years of broadcast networks experience to
Mainstream Data. Mr. Calder co-founded Mainstream Data in 1985, and has
served the company as Chief Operating Officer, President, and CEO. Mr.
Calder served as Vice President of...
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Michael J. Luby
Michael J. Luby is a Co-Founder of TargetRx and has served as
President & CEO and as a member of the Board of Directors since the
Company's inception. Prior to founding TargetRx, Mike spent 10 years in
sales and marketing positions at Merck &...
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Steve Lewis
Steve Lewis - Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, is the former CEO of All Covered, the leading outsourced IT services company serving small and medium-sized businesses in the United States. Lewis was also the co-founder of Pharmanex,
a leading...
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Michael T. Fiore
Mr. Fiore joined Vantage Oncology as its Chairman and CEO in 2002 and
has more than eleven years of experience in the development and
operation of cancer treatment facilities including radiation therapy.
He was the COO of Salick Health Care, a...
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Moshe Mor
Moshe Mor joined Greylock in 2000. His areas of focus include: enterprise software, systems and services.
Previously, Moshe spent eight years at SPL WorldGroup,
a leading international provider of enterprise software and services.
He was a member...
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James Gutierrez
James Gutierrez, CEO, Co-Founder, is a serial
entrepreneur who believes in changing the world through entrepreneurship and early
stage investing. After graduating from college, James started Magic Beanstalk,
a 3rd party recruiting company that...
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Doug Mackenzie
Doug Mackenzie joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1989 and
became a Partner in 1992. Since joining KPCB, Doug has focused his
investment activities in the software sector, including enterprise
applications, entertainment and educational...
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Jim Brock
Jim Brock is the CEO and co-founder of Attributor. He most recently served
as SVP, Communications & Consumer Services at Yahoo!, where he led the highly
successful communication and broadband operating groups. Prior to joining
Yahoo!...
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Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist, statistician, and public intellectual, and a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He is best known among scholars for his theoretical and empirical...
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- 1933
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Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist, statistician, and public intellectual, and a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He is best known among scholars for his theoretical and empirical...
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Gary M. Reiner
Gary M. Reiner is senior vice president and chief information officer of GE, a position he has held since 1996.
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- 1976
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Jeffrey C. Campbell
Jeffrey C. Campbell (born 1960) is currently the chief executive officer of McKesson Corporation, a Fortune 20 healthcare services and information technology company.
Campbell has been with the company since 2003, and previously worked at AMR Corp.,...
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Lawrence Summers
Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist and the Director of the White House's National Economic Council for President Barack Obama. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University's Kennedy...
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- 1982
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Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Marie Trump (born October 30, 1981) is an American businesswoman, socialite, heiress, and fashion model. The daughter of Ivana and Donald Trump, she is Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at the The Trump Organization....
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- 2004
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John M. Deutch
John Deutch has served in significant government and academic posts throughout his career.
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Clara Furse
Clara Furse was appointed Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange in January 2001 the first woman to occupy that position. She was born in Canada in 1957 to Dutch parents. She graduated form London School of Economics in 1979 with a BSc...
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- 1979
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William B. Harrison, Jr.
William B. Harrison, Jr., born August 12, 1943 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, is the former CEO and Chairman of JPMorgan Chase. He attended high school at Virginia Episcopal School, where he was a basketball star. He attended the University of...
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John H. Biggs
John H. Biggs is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, TIAA-CREF. Mr. Biggs served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA-CREF (national teachers' pension fund) from January 1993 until November 2002. He is currently a director of...
End Date:
- 1983
