Saturday, May 10, 2008

"73 Biggest Brains in Business"

Executives

May 2008 - "Condé Nast Portfolio talked to scores of C.E.O.'s, economists, and power players, identified 29 of capitalism's headliners, 44 others making a difference":

1) upstarts: Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey - Co-founders of 23andMe (biotech); Jacqueline Novogratz - C.E.O. of Acumen Fund; Lee Scott - C.E.O. of Wal-Mart; Max Levchin - C.E.O. of Slide.com;

2) game changers: Rupert Murdoch - Chairman and C.E.O. of News Corp.; Lloyd Blankfein -
C.E.O. of Goldman Sachs; Paul Buchheit - Co-founder of FriendFeed; Ratan Tata - Chairman of Tata Group; Jamie Dimon - C.E.O. of J.P. Morgan Chase; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala - Managing director of World Bank; Jeff Immelt - C.E.O. of General Electric;

3) connectors: Jonelle Procope - C.E.O. of Apollo Theater Foundation; Bob Barnett - Partner, Williams & Connolly; Larry Page and Sergey Brin - Co-founders of Google; Muhammad Yunus - Founder, Grameen Bank; Julian Robertson - Philanthropist, Retired (Tiger Management Group);

4) rebels: Danny Hillis - Co-founder of Applied Minds; Marc Jacobs - Co-founder of Marc Jacobs International; Steven Spielberg - Co-founder of Dreamworks SKG.



Opinions of: Rick Wagoner (CEO - GM), Sallie Krawcheck (CEO - Citgroup Wealth Management), Marc Benoff (CEO - Salesforce.com)

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