1. Lawrence J. Ellison , Oracle (ORCL)
Ellison and his partners won a two-year contract to build a relational database management system (RDBMS) for the CIA. The project’s code name: Oracle. They finished the project a year ahead of schedule and used the extra time to develop their system for commercial applications. They named their commercial RDBMS Oracle as well. In 1980, Ellison’s company had only eight employees, and revenues were less than $1 million, but the following year, IBM itself adopted Oracle for its mainframe systems, and Oracle’s sales doubled every year for the next seven years,. The million dollar company was becoming a billion dollar company. Ellison renamed the company Oracle Corporation, for its best-selling product.
source: http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/historyoftechindustry/a/larry_ellison.htm
2. Robert A. Kotick, Activision Blizzard (ATVI)
Mr. Kotick has been a director of Activision Blizzard since February 1991 and was our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from February 1991 until July 2008, when he became our President and Chief Executive Officer in connection with the Combination. Mr. Kotick is also a member of the board of directors of The Coca-Cola Company, a multinational beverage corporation, and the boards of trustees for The Center for Early Education and The Harvard Westlake School. He is also chairman of the committee of trustees at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
source: http://www.forbes.com/profile/robert-kotick/
3. James Q. Crowe, Level 3 Communications (LVLT)
James Q. Crowe has been our Chief Executive Officer since August 1997, and our director since June 1993. Mr. Crowe was also our President until July 2000. Mr. Crowe is Chairman of the National Telecommunications Security Advisory Committee, a group of chief executives of major telecommunications companies which provides advice to the President of the United States concerning matters of telecommunications services security.
4. Paul A. Ricci, Nuance Communications (NUAN)
Mr. Paul A. Ricci has been Chairman of Nuance Communications, Inc. (Formerly, Scansoft, Inc.), of BeVocal, Inc. since March 2, 1999 and Chief Executive Officer since August 21, 2000. Mr. Ricci joined ART Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc. in September 2000. From January 1998 to August 2000, he served as the Vice President, Corporate Business Development of Xerox. Prior to 1998, Mr. Ricci held several positions within Xerox, including serving as President, Software Solutions Division and as President of the Desktop Document Systems Division.
5. Marissa A. Mayer, Yahoo (YHOO)
Marissa Mayer’s first edict after taking the top spot at Yahoo! in July 2012 after 13 years at Google: a major overhaul of Flickr, the site’s photo-sharing service, followed by a home-page redesign and a string of acquisitions, including $1.1 billion for blogging platform Tumblr and $30 million for story-shortener Summly. Mayer faces intense pressure to modernize the pioneer portal with 700 million monthly users.
6. Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com (CRM)
Marc Benioff is chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. He founded the company in 1999 with a vision to create an on-demand information management service that would replace traditional enterprise software technology. Benioff is now regarded as one of the pioneers of cloud computing and has been instrumental in driving businesses to transform by embracing social and mobile cloud technologies to connect with customers, partners and employees in new ways.
7. Randall L. Stephenson, AT&T (T)
Mr. Randall L. Stephenson has been the Chief Executive Officer of AT&T Inc. (formerly, SBC Communications, Inc.) since May 9, 2007 and has been its President since June 2007. Mr. Stephenson serves as the Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of AT&T Corp. He has background in Telecommunications. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of SBC Communications Inc., Pension Arm. He served as the Chief Operating Officer of AT&T from April 30, 2004 to May 9, 2007, Chief Financial Officer and Senior Executive Vice President from August 2001 to May 2004 and also served as its Principal Accounting Officer.
8. Gregg A. Lowe, Freescale Semiconductor (FSL)
Mr. Gregg A. Lowe serves as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. of Freescale Semiconductor India Pvt., Ltd. since June 2012. Mr. Lowe has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Freescale Semiconductor Holdings I, Ltd. add Freescale Semiconductor, Ltd. since June 5, 2012. Mr. Lowe has an extensive semiconductor experience. Mr. Lowe served as Senior Vice President of the Analog business unit for Texas Instruments Inc., which includes high-performance analog, power management and high-volume analog, and logic.
9. Paul E. Jacobs, Qualcomm (QCOM)
Dr. Paul E. Jacobs is chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Qualcomm Incorporated. A leader in the field of mobile communications for more than 25 years and a key architect of Qualcomm’s strategic vision, Dr. Jacobs’ responsibilities include leadership and oversight of all the Company’s initiatives and operations.
10. Paul S. Otellini, Intel (INTC)
Paul S. Otellini has been a director of Intel since 2002 and President and CEO since 2005. Mr. Otellini has been with Intel since 1974 and has also served as Intel’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) from 2002 to 2005; Executive Vice President and General Manager, Intel Architecture Group, from 1998 to 2002; and Executive Vice President and General Manager, Sales and Marketing Group, from 1996 to 1998. Mr. Otellini is a member of the board of directors of Google Inc.
Sources:
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