Chris Albrecht Chairman and CEO Home Box Office	Chris Albrecht is responsible for overall management of HBO, the world's largest premium television company, which operates multiple premium networks in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Latin America; he is also responsible for HBO's many other lines of business. Named to his current position in 2002, Mr. Albrecht served as president of HBO Original Programming since 1995 and continues to direct all day-to-day operations of both West and East Coast original programming for HBO, Cinemax, and HBO Independent Productions. With the addition of HBO Sports and HBO Film Programming, he oversees all programming for HBO and Cinemax services. Serving from 1990 to 1995 as president of HBO Independent Productions, a business unit dedicated to developing and producing comedy series for distribution on HBO and the broadcast networks, Mr. Albrecht was responsible for Martin, as well as Everybody Loves Raymond, the critically acclaimed series now in syndication. He joined HBO in 1985 as senior vice president, original programming, West Coast. Before joining HBO, he was with International Creative Management (ICM) for five years and was instrumental in signing such talents as Jim Carrey, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Billy Crystal, and Whoopi Goldberg. From l975 to l980, he was co-owner of the Improvisation nightclub in New York City. During those years, he was also a new talent management consultant for ABC in New York City. In 2003 Mr. Albrecht was honored with the prestigious National Cable Television Association Vanguard award for programming.
Chris Bangle Director of Design BMW Group	Christopher Bangle became director of design for the Development Division of BMW AG in 1992. After studying the liberal arts at the University of Wisconsin in the mid-1970s, Mr. Bangle earned a BS degree with honors at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 1981. While at the Art Center College, he was assistant designer at Hartkopf Associates from 1978 to 1981. He began as an interior designer at Adam Opel AG in 1981 and rose to deputy head of the Interior Design Studio in 1983. He joined Fiat Centro Stile in 1985 and served as head of the Exterior Studio until 1991, then as head of Exterior Design. He was director of Fiat Centro Stile/Design in 1992 before joining BMW in his current role later that year.
Billy Beane Vice President and General Manager The Oakland A's	Billy Beane's accomplishments as vice president and general manager of the Oakland A's include four straight post-season appearances; four straight seasons of at least 90 wins, including two 100-win campaigns; three American League West Division titles; and the second-most wins in baseball over the last four years. He has molded the A's into a perennial World Series contender without jeopardizing the organization's financial framework. Under his watch, the A's have compiled a 553-418 (.570) record over the last six seasons, the fourth-best record in baseball during that time frame. Mr. Beane joined the A's front office staff in 1990 as the club's major league advance scout. He was promoted in 1993 to the assistant general manager's position and became general manager in 1997. A first round pick of the New York Mets in the 1980 June Free Agent Draft, Mr. Beane played six major league seasons as an infielder, outfielder, and catcher for the Mets, Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers, and Oakland A's; he retired as an active player in 1990. His executive talents and the organization's baseball philosophy was the subject of Michael Lewis' best-selling book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. Mr. Beane was named the Sporting News Executive of the Year in 1999 and earned Major League Baseball's Executive of the Year honors by Baseball America magazine following the 2002 season. In 2001, he was named to Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal's 40 Under 40 list.
Tim Bennett President Harpo Productions, Inc.	Tim Bennett is president of Harpo Productions, Inc., the company that produces The Oprah Winfrey Show that is syndicated to 215 domestic markets and broadcast internationally in 117 countries. In addition to his corporate role and responsibilities, Mr. Bennett is an officer and a director for Oprah's Angel Network and The Oprah Winfrey Foundation. As program director and promotion manager at WLS-TV, an ABC O&O, he oversaw the syndication transition of The Oprah Winfrey Show from its 1984 origin as a half-hour local program, A.M. Chicago. He also has served as president and general manager of WTVD, the Capital Cities/ABC-owned station in Raleigh-Durham, N.C. A Chicago native, Mr. Bennett earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from Northern Illinois University in 1971.
Barbara A. Block Marine Scientist and Professor Stanford University	Barbara Block received her Ph.D. from Duke University. Her research is focused on how large open fishes utilize marine environment. Prof. Block and her colleagues investigate ecology, physiology, and genetics of tunas, sharks, and billfishes. Lab research is interdisciplinary, combining biology, oceanography, engineering, and computational informatics. Prof. Block and colleagues at the Monterey Bay Aquarium have also established the Tuna Research and Conservation Center, the only facility in North America that conducts research on captive tunas. They are employing new techniques in wildlife telemetry and molecular genetics to directly examine the short- and long-term movement patterns, stock structure, and behavior of tunas and billfishes in the wild. The Block lab also engages in research at sea to understand the movements and physiological ecology of tunas and billfishes. She and her colleagues are conducting research with a new type of remote telemetry device, call pop-up satellite, and archival data storage tags. This technology's successful implementation has provided marine researchers with new tools for studying inaccessible marine vertebrates. Prof. Block is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Award, and the Pew Foundation Conservation Fellowship.
Jonathan Blum Senior Vice President, Chief Public Affairs Officer Yum! Brands, Inc.	Jonathan Blum is senior vice president, chief public affairs officer, of Yum! Brands, the world's largest restaurant company in terms of system units, with some 34,000 restaurants in 100-plus countries and territories, more than 850,000 employees worldwide, and more than $9 billion in total revenues, including company sales and franchise fees, in 2004. Mr. Blum serves on Yum! Brands' partner's council, which sets the corporation's overall strategy. In this role, he leads the company's global government affairs, nutrition, issues management, internal and external communications, diversity, community relations and corporate philanthropy. Before this appointment, Mr. Blum was vice president of public affairs for Taco Bell Corp., a Yum! Brands subsidiary. Before joining Taco Bell in 1993, Mr. Blum served as Asia-Pacific regional director for Ogilvy & Mather Public Affairs. He also was managing director of Ogilvy & Mather's public affairs offices in Chicago, Singapore, Hong Kong, and China. He is the only foreigner to have addressed China's Cadre Party Training School comprised of the country's 300 senior-most political leaders. Earlier Mr. Blum served as one of the youngest White House staff assistants to former President Jimmy Carter. He also participated in an LBJ Congressional internship on Capitol Hill.
Prof. Franz Brandstetter President, Polymer Research Division BASF AG	Prof. Franz Brandstetter was born in 1945 in Hörmannsberg, Germany. He studied chemistry at Tübingen University and earned his doctorate there in 1974. After a one-year post-doctoral stint at Lomonosov University in Moscow, Prof. Brandstetter joined BASF's Plastics Laboratory in 1975. He became assistant to the board member responsible for research in 1984, head of the engineering plastics research department in 1985, head of the Styrene Copolymers business unit in 1993, and head of the Ultra-plastics business unit in 1999, before assuming his current role in 2000. He was appointed an honorary professor at Tübingen University in 1995.
William Bratton Chief of Police Los Angeles Police Department	William Bratton, appointed the 54th chief of the LAPD in 2002, oversees the operations of one of this country's largest major municipal law enforcement agencies. His responsibilities include supervision of 9,304 sworn and 3,055 civilian employees. Chief Bratton directs all patrol, investigative, and administrative operations, and administers an annual budget of $927 million. He initiated a major re-engineering of the LAPD, moving towards a decentralized police bureaucracy with stronger area commands that are more responsive to local community needs, and better trained and motivated police officers. His vision includes a comprehensive and assertive strategy for reducing crime, disorder, and fear in Los Angeles, with emphasis on gang-related crimes and the culture that creates it. Chief Bratton's 30-plus-year career in public and private sector law enforcement includes his 1994 appointment by Mayor Giuliani as the 38th police commissioner of New York City, where he reorganized the 50,000-person department with a $2.3 billion budget that resulted in a 39% decline in serious crimes and a 50% reduction in homicides. Among many honors, he holds the Schroeder Brother's Medal, the highest award for valor given by the Boston Police Department, which he served in the 1970s and 1980s in various supervisory capacities.
Geoff Colvin Senior Editor at Large FORTUNE	Geoffrey Colvin is a leading thinker, writer, broadcaster, and speaker on today's most significant trends in business. As a longtime editor and columnist for FORTUNE, he has become one of America's sharpest and most respected commentators on leadership and management, the shareholder value imperative, corporate governance, the infotech revolution, and related issues. The global debate on corporate governance and shareholder value, which has become particularly intense in recent months, has been a central interest of Mr. Colvin's for the past decade. In addition to directing FORTUNE's coverage of the issue for several years, he has served on the National Association of Corporate Directors' Blue Ribbon Commission on CEO Pay. He has spoken these subjects at the Directors' Institute at the Wharton School, at the Kellogg School, and at corporate gatherings in the U.S. and the U.K. He has also advised Japan's Ministry of Finance on these issues. Mr. Colvin is heard daily on the CBS Radio Network, where he has made more than 7,000 broadcasts. He is also the former co-anchor of PBS's Wall Street Week with FORTUNE, which had the largest audience reached by any business television program in America.
Scott Cook Founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee Intuit Inc.	Scott Cook co-founded Intuit Inc. in 1983 and now serves as executive committee chairman. Before founding Intuit, Mr. Cook managed consulting assignments in banking and technology for Bain & Co., a corporate strategy consulting firm. He previously served Procter & Gamble in various marketing positions, including brand manager, for four years. Mr. Cook is a board member of eBay; Procter & Gamble; the Asia Foundation; the Harvard Business School Dean's Advisory Board; the Center for Brand and Product Management at the University of Wisconsin; and the Intuit Scholarship Foundation. He earned an MBA degree from Harvard University and received a bachelor's degree in economics and mathematics from the University of Southern California.
Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H. President, Product Development Genentech	Susan Desmond-Hellmann is responsible for Genentech's medical affairs, regulatory affairs, product development, development sciences, and quality functions, as well as business development and strategic pipeline development. Dr. Hellmann joined Genentech in 1995 as a clinical scientist and was named executive vice president, development and product operations, in 1999, and later chief medical officer. Before joining Genentech, Dr. Hellmann was associate director of clinical cancer research at Bristol-Myers Squibb's Pharmaceutical Research Institute. While at Bristol-Meyers Squibb, she was the project team leader for Taxol. In addition to her work at Genentech, she is an adjunct associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She has also served UCSF as assistant professor, hematology-oncology. Board-certified in internal medicine and medical oncology, she completed her clinical training at UCSF. During her nine years of training in internal medicine and oncology, Dr. Hellmann spent two years as visiting faculty at the Uganda Cancer Institute studying AIDS and cancer. She also served two years in private practice before returning to research. Dr. Hellmann was named to FORTUNE's 2004 list 50 Most Powerful Women in Business. The same year, the Wall Street Journal listed her as one of its Women to Watch. In 2002, she was named to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Regulatory Reform, and in 2001 she was named to the board of the Biotechnology Industry Organization. Since 1980, she has received many honors and awards for her work in oncology and AIDS research.
James Euchner Vice President, Advanced Concepts & Technology Pitney Bowes Inc.	Jim Euchner is responsible for the development of new product and business concepts and for exploring emerging technologies of potential interest to Pitney Bowes. He is particularly interested in the innovation process and in the customer-centered design of new technologies. He manages an organization that includes not only technologists, but ethnographers, designers, and concept prototypers. Areas of current technical focus include cryptography, network security, Internet technologies, advanced printing and tagging technologies, and technologies at the interface between paper and electronic media. Before assuming his current position, Mr. Euchner was vice president, network systems advanced technology, at Bell Atlantic. In that role, he was responsible for the development of advanced operations support systems for building and maintaining the telecommunications network. He managed a wide range of advanced information technologies, including expert systems, geographic information systems, groupware, CAD systems, robotics, and handheld computing. He began his career at Arco Oil and Gas Co., where he developed instrumentation for operating in hazardous environments. Mr. Euchner is a co-founder of the MIT Lead User Laboratory, a consortium to nurture innovation in organizations.
Richard Foster Managing Partner Foster Health Partners, LLC	Richard Foster is the Managing Partner of Foster Health Partners, LLC. Prior to forming Foster Health Partners, Mr. Foster was, for 22 years, a senior partner and director of McKinsey & Company, where his most recent position was as Managing Director of McKinsey's Private Equity practice. Dr. Foster joined the Firm in 1973, was elected Partner in 1977, and Senior Partner in 1982.
Peter Georgescu Former Chairman and CEO, Young & Rubicam Author, The Source of Success	Peter Georgescu, in his book The Source of Success: Five Enduring Principles at the Heart of Real Leadership, offers new leaders five guiding principles to grow value and sustain success, developed from his work inside one of the world's most powerful companies and brands. During his tenure with Young & Rubicam, the firm's revenues climbed by 300% and profits by almost 1000%, and Mr. Georgescu worked with major clients, including Ford, Colgate, Chevron/Texaco, AT&T, Xerox, Ericsson, Johnson & Johnson, KFC, MetLife, and the U.S. Army. He also helped smaller, entrepreneurial companies develop into powerhouse brands (Dr. Pepper, Accenture, Danone). Currently he is on the boards of Levi Strauss, Briggs & Stratton, EMI Group, Toys "R" Us, and International Flavors and Fragrances. Based in New York, he is a sought-after counselor to global corporations and start-up companies, and is a former advisor to the Stanford Business School.
W. Bingham (Bing) Gordon Founder, Executive Vice President, and Chief Creative Officer Electronic Arts (EA)	Bing Gordon has been involved in design and production of more than 20 different award-winning game franchises, including John Madden Football, Need For Speed, and The Sims, and is revered for his leadership and creative contribution to EA and the game industry. Before his appointment as chief creative officer in 1998, Mr. Gordon served as executive vice president of marketing, overseeing EA's teams in California, Texas, Florida, Vancouver, and London. Earlier he was executive vice president of EA Studios and senior vice president of entertainment production, responsible for the design, development, and production of entertainment titles and creative properties. After founding EA with colleagues in 1981, Mr. Gordon played a vital role in the launch of EA's first game in 1983 and in development of the company's first brand, EA Sports. While leading and contributing to the development of many blockbuster games and franchises, he pioneered educational programs, including the Emerging Leaders, Creative Leaders, and EA Executive Development program. He is a leader in EA's college outreach program, which brings summer interns to the company from top colleges and universities worldwide. In 2004, he was appointed the endowed faculty chair at the University of Southern California School of Film, Television and Digital Entertainment. He is also a trustee at the Urban School of San Francisco and a board member for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team. He also launched and co-taught "Videogame Prototype Design" course at Stanford University.
Minda Gralnek Vice President, Creative Director Target Corp.	Minda Gralnek is vice president, creative director, for Target Corp., a $48 billion company that operates 1,330 Target stores in 47 states, as well as the online business, Target.com. Ms. Gralnek joined Target in 1990 as a creative director and was promoted to her current position in 2002. She leads a team that has worked hard to challenge the conventional image of a discount retailer. Championing the notion of design democracy, Ms. Gralnek and her team are responsible for the innovative advertising, branding, marketing, packaging, and in-store communications that have helped develop Target's image as a destination for great design, everyday, for everyone. Before joining Target, Ms. Gralnek was creative director of U.S. Communication, a marketing and promotions company whose clients included Microsoft, Apple Computers, and Kraft Foods. Earlier she was executive art director for Dayton Hudson Department Stores, a traditional department store that emphasized fashion leadership, which is now Marshall Field's. Involved in many civic and cultural organizations, she currently serves on the board of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, Minn.
John Hagel Co-author The Only Sustainable Edge Former Principal McKinsey & Company	John Hagel is a management consultant and author. He works with senior management of large enterprises worldwide to shape business strategies and improve business performance. His experience includes senior management positions in technology businesses and 16 years as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, which he continues to serve as a senior advisor. Mr. Hagel is co-author (with John Seely Brown ) of his latest book, The Only Sustainable Edge, and author of the best-selling business books Net Gain, Net Worth, and Out of the Box. He also received two awards for best articles published in the Harvard Business Review.
John Huey Editorial Director Time Inc.	John Huey was named editorial director of Time Inc., the second-highest editorial management position in the company, in 2001. The managing editors of the four national weekly magazines—Time, Sports Illustrated, People, and Entertainment Weekly—report to Mr. Huey, who also is responsible for the business titles: FORTUNE, Money, Business 2.0, and FSB. In addition, Mr. Huey works with the Time Inc. editor in chief on providing overall editorial guidance to all of the magazines. Mr. Huey previously served as editor of the FORTUNE Group, and is a former managing editor of FORTUNE. Mr. Huey began his career in journalism at the DeKalb New Era, moved to the Atlanta Constitution, then to the Dallas bureau of the Wall Street Journal. After a stint as the Journal's Atlanta bureau chief, he went to Brussels in 1982 to help launch the Journal's European edition as its founding managing editor. Mr. Huey joined FORTUNE in 1988. In 1992, he co-authored, Sam Walton: Made in America.
Glen Hutchins Co-founder and Managing Director Silver Lake	Glenn Hutchins has spent his business career as a private equity investor in growth companies and large-scale buyouts. Before founding Silver Lake, Mr. Hutchins was a senior managing director and general partner of the Blackstone Group, LP. At Blackstone, he was a senior member of investment teams and served on the firm's investment committee, which was responsible for all capital commitments made by Blackstone's second and third merchant banking funds. Before joining Blackstone, he was a managing director of Thomas H. Lee Co. (THL). Mr. Hutchins joined THL in 1985 and, over the next decade, assisted Mr. Lee in building the firm and assembling its investment track record. Mr. Hutchins is also active in public and charitable service. Between his stints at THL and Blackstone, Mr. Hutchins served President Clinton in both the transition and the White House as a special advisor on economic and health care policy. After leaving government, Mr. Hutchins was appointed by President Clinton to chair an initiative on privatization in the former Soviet Union and by Secretary Rubin to serve on the Treasury Department's advisory committee on financial services. Mr. Hutchins is a trustee of the Lawrenceville School, the Brookings Institution, and the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and a director of Ameritrade Holding Corp., Gartner, Inc., and Seagate Technology.
Geoff Keighley Contributing Editor Business 2.0	Geoff Keighley, as a contributing writer to both Business 2.0 and Entertainment Weekly magazines, covers the convergence between entertainment and technology, with a specific focus on the videogame industry. He was recently named one of the Top 30 Journalists under 30 by NewBios. Mr. Keighley has also written on a wide variety of other topics for Business 2.0, including pieces on the websites The Drudge Report and The Onion, and gave the magazine an in-depth look at the business behind the new-age entertainment company, Cirque du Soleil. On television, he is a correspondent on the show Electric Playground (G4TV/MTV Canada) and has also appeared on CNNfn's The Biz and NBC's Extra. Based in Pacific Palisades, Calif., Mr. Keighley is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Southern California. Most of his work is accessible through his website, GameSlice.com.
W. Chan Kim Co-author Blue Ocean Strategy Bruce D. Henderson Chair Professor of Strategy and International Management INSEAD	W. Chan Kim, before joining INSEAD (the world's second-largest business school), was a professor at the University of Michigan Business School. He has served as a board member as well as an advisor for a number of multinational corporations in Europe, the U.S., and Pacific Asia. He is also an advisory member for the European Union, and a fellow of the World Economic Forum. Mr. Kim co-founded (with Renée Mauborgne) the Value Innovation Network (VIN), a global community that practices the Value Innovation family of concepts that they created. He and Ms. Mauborgne also wrote articles for the Harvard Business Review that have sold 500,000 reprints. Mr. Kim and Ms. Mauborgne are co-winners of the Eldridge Haynes Prize, awarded by the Academy of International Business and the Eldridge Haynes Memorial Trust of Business International, for the best original paper in the field of international business. They were selected for Thinkers 50, the global ranking of business thinkers, and they were named "the No. 1 gurus of the future" by L'Expansion, one of France's leading business magazines.
David Kirkpatrick Senior Editor, Internet and Technology FORTUNE	David Kirkpatrick, senior editor, Internet and technology, at FORTUNE, specializes in the computer and technology industries, as well as in the impact of the Internet on business and society. He writes a column that appears weekly on fortune.com and through e-mail subscription. Mr. Kirkpatrick joined Time Inc. in 1978 while working as a video artist, and started at FORTUNE in 1983. In 1991 he began covering the computer beat. In 1990 his story "Will You Be Able to Retire?" was a finalist for the National Magazine award in the personal service journalism category. Marketing Computers regularly ranks him among the country's top five most influential technology journalists. A regular commentator on CNNfn and TechTV, he has also appeared frequently as a technology industry expert on CNN and PBS. Working with other FORTUNE editors, he developed Brainstorm, a multi-disciplinary conference that brings together global leaders to interact and discuss the future. The conference, first held in 2001, is produced in partnership with the Aspen Institute.
Steven J. Klinger Executive Vice President and President, Packaging Georgia-Pacific Corporation	Steven Klinger, as Georgia-Pacific's executive vice president and president of the Packaging Division, is responsible for 55 packaging operations and four containerboard mills throughout the U.S., including manufacturing, sales, marketing, and logistics, that generate $3 billion in total sales and have more than 9,000 employees. Georgia-Pacific's Strategic Sourcing and Procurement Group also reports to him. Mr. Klinger joined Georgia-Pacific in 1982 as an accountant in the Corporate Payroll Group. From 1983 to 1992, he held operating and finance positions in the Distribution Division, corporate controllers, internal audit, softwood lumber, and forest resources. Between 1992 and 1994, he was director of acquisitions and divestitures, leading key corporate development activities. He joined the Packaging Group as division controller in 1994 and was promoted to division controller, containerboard and packaging, the next year. He was named regional manager, Packaging, with responsibility for seven packaging plants in 1996 and later added responsibility for five additional packaging plants in the Southeast. He was promoted to vice president of packaging operations in 2002, and assumed his current role in the Packaging Division in 2001. He is a chairman of the Fibre Box Association's executive committee and a member of the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation's CorrAlliance.
Prof. Nancy F. Koehn Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business School	Nancy Koehn is an authority on business history. Her research focuses on business strategy, leadership, and connection with customers in the Information Revolution. Her most recent book, Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell (Harvard Business School Press, 2001) examines six entrepreneurial visionaries who have created powerful brands and best-of-class companies in moments of great change. Prof. Koehn is also the author of The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire (1994), and a contributor to numerous other books published in the last decade. She has written and supervised cases on Oprah Winfrey, Starbucks Coffee Co., Wedgwood, Williams-Sonoma, Estée Lauder, Henry Heinz, Marshall Field, Dell Computer, Ernest Shackleton, and other companies and leaders. At the Harvard Business School, she teaches the MBA elective in business history, "The Coming of Managerial Capitalism," one of the school's most popular courses. Prof. Koehn consults with many companies and speaks frequently before business leaders on a range of subjects including leading in turbulent times, the power of strong brands, visionary entrepreneurs, and learning from history. Before coming to HBS in 1991, she was a member of Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences for seven years.
Randy Komisar Partner Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers Author, The Monk and the Riddle	Randy Komisar joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a partner in 2005. For several years earlier he partnered with entrepreneurs creating businesses with leading-edge technologies. He was a co-founder of Claris Corp., served as CEO for LucasArts Entertainment and Crystal Dynamics, and acted as a "virtual CEO" for such companies as WebTV, Mirra, and GlobalGiving. He was a founding director of TiVo, where he is currently chairman of the nominating and governance committee. Earlier he served as CFO of GO Corp., and senior counsel for Apple Computer following a private practice in technology law. Mr. Komisar is a consulting professor of entrepreneurship at Stanford University and author of the best-selling book, The Monk and the Riddle, as well as several articles on leadership and entrepreneurship.
Richard Koshalek President, Art Center College of Design	Richard Koshalek was appointed the fourth president of Art Center College of Design in 1999. Under his leadership, Art Center has embarked on a landmark program to invigorate the college's educational goals and expand both its programs and its campus. The college is also working with the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry on the expansion of Art Center's hillside campus and has also established a new South Campus facility in downtown Pasadena. He also conceived and led a collaborative design project entitled "LA Now" to focus creativity on downtown Los Angeles and its potential for future development. Mr. Koshalek is an international board member of the Wexner Center for the Arts and a board member of the American Federation of Arts. He was director of the Museum of Contemporary Art from 1982 to 1999. He previously served as director of the Fort Worth Art Museum; assistant director of the visual arts program of the National Endowment for the Arts; and as a curator, assistant curator, and exhibitions coordinator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Robert Kotick Chairman and CEO Activision, Inc.	Robert Kotick has served as a director and the chairman and CEO of Activision, Inc. since 1991. He had acquired a controlling interest in Activision in 1990, with a goal of building the world's leading videogame company. Activision posted net revenues of $1.4 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005. Based in Santa Monica, Calif., Activision is a leading worldwide developer, publisher, and distributor of interactive entertainment and leisure products. Before acquiring his controlling interest in Activision, Mr. Kotick was chairman and CEO of Four Kids Entertainment, Inc., a public company in the licensing and merchandising business. He was also a founder of International Consumer Technologies and acted as its president, as well as a director, from its inception in 1986 to 1995. Mr. Kotick currently serves as a board member of Yahoo. He is also a trustee for the Center for Early Education and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Clifton Leaf Executive Editor FORTUNE	Clifton Leaf is an executive editor at FORTUNE, where he directs Wall Street and investing coverage, as well as two annual special issues, the summer and year-end investor's guides. In addition, he edits other feature stories and packages for the magazine, and wrote FORTUNE's provocative March 18, 2002, cover story on white-collar criminals, documenting how little prison time corporate offenders then served. Before joining FORTUNE, Mr. Leaf was executive editor of SmartMoney, where a piece he wrote shared in a nomination for a National Magazine award. Before coming to SmartMoney as a senior editor in 1996, Mr. Leaf held editorial positions at Fitness magazine and Harper's Bazaar. He has written for many national publications and has been a featured guest on CNN, CNBC, National Public Radio, and most major television networks.
John M. Leonard, MD Vice President, Global Medical and Scientific Affairs Abbott	John Leonard joined Abbott in 1992 as head of the antiviral venture in the Pharmaceutical Products Division. He has held several positions in the same division, most recently, vice president, global pharmaceutical development. He assumed his current role in 2005. Before joining Abbott, Dr. Leonard was senior director for clinical research at G.H. Besselaar Associates in Princeton, N.J. He is board certified in internal medicine and is licensed to practice in Illinois and Maryland. After earning his medical degree at Johns Hopkins and completing his internship and residency at Stanford University Hospital, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular virology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Leonard is a member of many professional groups and serves on PhRMA's science and regulatory affairs committees. Named 2004 Inventor of the Year by the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago, Dr. Leonard published more than 50 times and co-authored four books.
Ken Lombard SVP and President Starbucks Entertainment	Ken Lombard joined Starbucks in his current role in 2004. In this newly created position, Mr. Lombard leads the vision and strategy for Starbucks' enhanced involvement in music and entertainment. Before joining Starbucks, Mr. Lombard served as president of Johnson Development Corp. (JDC) from its inception in 1992. In that role, he helped the company fulfill its mission to become one of the nation's foremost urban development companies by bringing entertainment complexes, coffee houses, restaurants, and retail centers to underserved communities while providing jobs for local residents, and employing local minority contractors and service vendors. He became familiar with Starbucks through Urban Coffee Opportunities, LLC, a partnership formed in 1998 between JDC and Starbucks to enhance the development of Starbucks retail stores in ethnically diverse urban and suburban neighborhoods nationwide. As JDC president, Mr. Lombard, along with Earvin "Magic" Johnson, was presented with the City of Angels Corporate award at the Getty House Foundation's ninth annual City of Angels awards ceremony. He was also the recipient of the 2002 Community Leadership award from the Los Angeles Business Journal. Mr. Lombard currently serves as a board member for Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and on an advisory committee for Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn.
Mike Milken Chairman, FasterCures Chairman, Prostate Cancer Foundation Co-founder, Milken Family Foundation	Mike Milken was the subject of a 2004 cover story in FORTUNE about how he has shaken up the medical community and saved lives. In 1972, three years after he began his Wall Street career, his mother-in-law was diagnosed with breast cancer and he began a search for medical solutions. He is now recognized for driving medical research toward cures and improved treatment outcomes for all serious diseases. In 1982 he co-founded the Milken Family Foundation, which has supported a broad range of education programs and inner-cities solutions, assistance to families of children with cancer, and research on pediatric neurology, nutrition, brain and breast cancers, and leukemia. His latest medical initiative is FasterCures, a Washington-based think tank dedicated to shortening the time it takes to make progress on the most deadly and debilitating diseases. In 1993 he founded the Prostate Cancer Foundation, the world's largest philanthropic funder of prostate-cancer research. He also chairs the Milken Institute, a nonpartisan economic think tank. As a financier, Mr. Milken is said to have revolutionized modern capital markets, making them more democratic and dynamic by innovating a wide range of financing techniques previously unavailable to most companies. Starting in 1969, he financed thousands of companies that created millions of jobs.
Shantanu Narayen President and COO Adobe	Shantanu Narayen is responsible for engineering and marketing all of Adobe's products and driving development and execution efforts around the company's Intelligent Document Business Unit. Mr. Narayen's responsibilities include ensuring the delivery of Adobe's award-winning enterprise, creative professional, digital imaging, and digital video products such as Adobe® Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop® CS, Adobe InDesign® CS, Adobe Acrobat®, Adobe After Effects®, and Adobe GoLive® CS. Before becoming executive vice president of worldwide products, Mr. Narayen was senior vice president of worldwide product development, where he successfully oversaw all product research and development for Adobe's award-winning products for more than two years. He also held positions as vice president and general manager of Adobe's Engineering Technology Group, where he helped grow the Adobe India development center, oversaw mergers and acquisitions, and started the Product Technology Integration Group to focus on customer workflows. Before joining Adobe, he co-founded Pictra, Inc., in 1996. Pictra received the Photo Marketing Association's most innovative software award in 1997 for its PictraShare and PictraNet software, making him an early pioneer of digital photo sharing over the Internet. Earlier he held senior management positions at Silicon Graphics and Apple Computer.
Navi Radjou VP Forrester Research	Navi Radjou, a vice president in the Enterprise Applications team at Forrester Research, investigates how globalized innovation is driving new market structures and business processes that the firm calls "Innovation Networks." Mr. Radjou also covers collaborative technologies, such as product life-cycle management (PLM), that companies can use to market new products and services more rapidly and cost effectively, and maximize the value of their intellectual property. During his five years at Forrester, Mr. Radjou has advised senior executives worldwide on issues related to innovation, supply chain, and customer service. He was named by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine as one of the Pros to Know, a feature that honored an elite group of professionals who have excelled in the innovative use of supply chain technologies and practices within user companies. Before joining Forrester, Mr. Radjou was an IT consultant in Asia. In Singapore, as a consultant to the National Computer Board, he contributed to the launch of its Center for Strategic Process Innovation. In Thailand, for the Ministry of Science, he built an intranet system that was recognized in 1998 by the Smithsonian Institution as a best example of technological innovation and placed in its permanent research collection.
Sir Ken Robinson Senior Adviser, Education The Getty Foundation	Sir Ken Robinson is a leading international force in the development of creativity and human resources. In 2003 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his outstanding achievements as a writer, speaker, and leader in creativity. As senior advisor to the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles, he advises on that entity's national and international roles in the arts and creative education. Sir Ken's reputation is based on his own groundbreaking research and leadership. His vision and expertise is widely sought by leading business, educators, and community leaders who recognize the urgent need to unleash stronger powers of creativity, communication, and innovation within their organizations. A world renowned speaker, he was recently praised by the World Bank in Washington as "simply, the best speaker we have ever had."
Shane V. Robison Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer Hewlett Packard	Shane Robison is responsible for shaping HP's overall corporate strategy and technology agenda. He steers the company's nearly $4 billion research and development investment and fosters development of the company's 25,000-plus technical community. All of the company's senior chief technology officers and the director of HP Labs report to him. Mr. Robison also leads the company's strategy and corporate development efforts, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, intellectual property licensing, venture capital community, and partnerships. In 2004, @InfoWorld@ declared him one of the world's 25 most influential chief technology officers. Mr. Robison was senior vice president and chief technology officer of strategy and technology at Compaq Computer Corp. Before joining Compaq, Mr. Robison was president of Internet technology and development at AT&T Labs, where he led the 2,000-person team responsible for the architecture, planning, and development. Before joining AT&T, Mr. Robison was executive vice president, research and development, and then served as president of the Design Productivity Group at Cadence Design Systems, the world's leading supplier of electronic design products and services. Mr. Robison also served seven years at Apple Computer Corp., where he managed research on a wide range of architectures and multimedia technologies, including processors, video, telecommunications, I/O, and audio.
Daniel Roth Senior Editor FORTUNE	Daniel Roth writes features about the most powerful businesses and business people—and the innovators who aim to unseat them. Recent stories include an inside look at the enigmatic founder of Nike, Phil Knight, and a piece that outlined the rise of the do-it-yourself economy. From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Roth served as FORTUNE's tech editor, overseeing all of the IT coverage, as well as the magazine's bureaus in Austin, Palo Alto, and San Francisco. Before joining FORTUNE in 1998, Mr. Roth was a reporter for Forbes, where he worked for two years. He also worked for the Triangle Business Journal in Raleigh, N.C. Mr. Roth's story on the founders of Skype was named Best Story on Entrepreneurship at the 2005 Business Journalist of the Year awards. He is also a five-time winner of the TJFR Business News Reporter's Top 30 Business Journalists under the Age of 30.
Burt Rutan Aerospace Developer, SpaceShipOne Winner, Ansari XPrize CEO, Scaled Composites	Burt Rutan and his company, Scaled Composites, developed SpaceShipOne, which won Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine's Current Achievement award for the first privately funded manned space flight in 2005. Mr. Rutan served the U.S. Air Force from 1965 until 1972 as flight test project engineer at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., where his projects ranged from fighter spin tests to the XC-142 VSTOL transport. In 1972, Mr. Rutan became director of the Bede Test Center for Bede Aircraft in Newton, Kan. Two years later he formed the Rutan Aircraft Factory to develop light homebuilt aircraft. Through this company, the VariViggen, VariEze, NASA AD-1, Quickie, Defiant, Long-EZ, Grizzly, scaled NGT trainer, Solitaire, Catbird, and the world-flight Voyager aircraft were developed. In 1982, Mr. Rutan founded Scaled Composites to develop research aircraft; today the entity is the world's most productive aerospace prototype development company, developing new aircraft types at a rate of one each year. A few of the many professional awards Mr. Rutan has received are the EAA Outstanding New Design award for 1975, 1976, and 1978; the Presidential Citizen's Medal presented by Ronald Reagan in 1986; and the Lindbergh award by the Lindbergh Foundation in 2000. Mr. Rutan was named to Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2005.
Linda Sanford Senior Vice President, Enterprise On Demand Transformation &Information Technology IBM	Linda Sanford is leading IBM's internal transformation to the industry's premier on-demand business. In this role, she is responsible for working across IBM to transform core business processes, create an IT infrastructure to support those processes, and help create a culture that recognizes the value that on-demand leadership can bring to IBM. Previously Ms. Sanford was senior vice president and group executive, IBM Storage Systems Group, where she helped take IBM to second place, from fifth place, in the storage market in two years. Before assuming that position, Ms. Sanford headed IBM Global Industries, the organization that manages relationships with IBM's largest customers worldwide and is responsible for generating almost 70% of IBM's revenue. Earlier Ms. Sanford was general manager of IBM's S/390 Division, which develops, manufactures, and markets large-enterprise systems. One of the highest-ranking women at IBM, Ms. Sanford is a member of the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame and the National Association of Engineers. She has been named one of the 50 Most Influential Women in Business by FORTUNE, one of the Top Ten Innovators in the Technology Industry by Information Week magazine, and one of the Ten Most Influential Women in Technology by Working Woman magazine.
Horst Schulze Founding President and former COO The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C Chairman, President and CEO The West Paces Hotel Group	Horst Schulze is the founding president and former COO of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co., LLC. Under his leadership, the company won an unprecedented two Malcolm Baldridge National Quality awards in the service category, and has been continuously voted "best hotel company in the world" by convention and trade publications. Mr. Schulze is a recognized leader in the service world. His vision has helped reshape customer service concepts in both the hospitality and the service industries. Among many professional awards, he received the Hotel Sales and Marketing Association's International Lifetime Achievement award in 2002. He is a charter member of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co., which he joined in 1983 and from which he retired in 2001, after expanding the company to more than 40 hotels worldwide. He currently serves as chairman, president, and CEO of The West Paces Hotel Group, a hotel management company. Previously, he served nine years with Hyatt Hotels Corp., where he held several positions including hotel general manager, regional vice president, and corporate vice president. Before his association with Hyatt he worked for Hilton Hotels. He began his hotel career in Europe and also spent a year as a steward for Holland American Steamship Lines.
Elizabeth A. Smith Executive Vice President and Brand President, Global Marketing Avon Products, Inc.	Liz Smith, who joined Avon in 2005 in her current roles, is also a member of the company's operating council, and works closely with president and COO Susan Kropf and the Operating Business Unit leaders. In this role, Ms. Smith is responsible for leading Avon's brand strategies worldwide. Before joining Avon, she was with Kraft Foods Inc. for 14 years, most recently as group vice president and president of the U.S. Beverages and Grocery sectors, where she was responsible for $6 billion in sales. Previously, she served as group vice president of Kraft Foods North America and president of Kraft Beverages, Desserts, and Cereals. Between 2000 and 2002, Ms. Smith was executive vice president and general manager of the Beverage Division and oversaw the expansion of the Ready-to-Drink businesses. Her career at Kraft also includes serving as category business director and general manager for Kraft's Callard & Bowser-Suchard, where she helped develop Altoids mints into a leading brand. Earlier she supervised the revitalization of the Jell-O brand and was recognized by Advertising Age as one of the top marketers in 1996. Before joining Kraft, she was a financial analyst and an associate in private placement at Paine Webber, Inc.
Frederick W. Smith Chairman, President and CEO FedEx Corporation	Frederick Smith heads FedEx Corp., a $29-billion global transportation and logistics company, where he is responsible for providing strategic direction for all FedEx Corp.'s operating companies, including FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, FedEx Freight, and FedEx Kinko's. FedEx serves more than 220 countries and territories with more than 670 aircraft and over 70,000 vehicles. More than 250,000 employees and independent contractors worldwide handle more than 6 million shipments each business day. Since founding FedEx in 1971, Mr. Smith has been an active proponent of regulatory reform, free trade, and "open skies agreements" for aviation worldwide. In 1990, FedEx became the first service company to win the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality award. FedEx has also been ranked on FORTUNE's industry lists, including World's Most Admired Companies (No. 8, 2005) and America's Most Admired Companies (No. 6, 2005), and has claimed a spot on the 100 Best Companies to Work For list since its inception (1998-2005). Mr. Smith is co-chairman of the U.S. World War II Memorial Project and the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Professional advisory board, chair of the Business Roundtable's Security Task Force, and a member of the Business Council, the CATO Institute, and the Mayo Foundation.
Eric Von Hippel Professor and Head of the Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group MIT Sloan School of Management	Eric von Hippel, whose academic research examines the sources and economics of innovation, is a recipient of an honorary doctorate from Ludwig-Maximillians University in Munich, was a fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and served as Sir Walter Scott Distinguished Professor at University of New South Wales in Australia. He has founded and participated in startup firms, and is a founder of the entrepreneurship program at MIT. He serves on numerous editorial advisory boards for academic journals and is an active researcher with numerous international collaborators. His most recent book is Democratizing Innovation (MIT Press, 2005). Mr. Von Hippel is known for pioneering research that has shown how product "lead users" are often the developers of successful new products, rather than the manufacturers as has been commonly assumed. This research, along with that of collaborators and others, is now triggering a major rethinking of how the innovation process works. The emerging view that users are at the center of the innovation process promises to trigger major changes in company business models and also in government policymaking on innovation-related matters. Mr. von Hippel has developed practical tools that enable product manufacturers to more efficiently participate in user-centered innovation processes.
Brenda Way Founder and Artistic Director ODC/San Francisco	Brenda Way received her early training at the School of American Ballet and Ballet Arts in New York. She is the founder and artistic director of ODC/San Francisco and creator of the ODC Performance Gallery, a community performance and training facility in San Francisco's Mission District. Ms. Way created ODC and an inter-arts department at Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music in the late 1960s before relocating to the Bay Area in 1976. She has choreographed some 70 pieces over the last 30 years. Among her many commissions are Remnants of Song (2003) for Stanford Lively Arts; Scissors Paper Stone (1994) for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Western Women (1993) for Cal Performances, Rutgers University, and Jacob's Pillow; Ghosts of an Old Ceremony (1991) for Walker Art Center and The Minnesota Orchestra; Krazy Kat (1990) for the San Francisco Ballet; and This Point in Time (1987) for the Oakland Ballet. Ms. Way is a national spokesperson for dance, has published widely, and has received numerous awards and 20 years of support from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a 2000 recipient of the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim fellowship.
Tom Wilson President and COO Allstate	Thomas Wilson, in addition to his corporate roles at Allstate, is also president of Allstate Protection and a member of the Allstate senior management team. As Allstate's president and COO, he is responsible for all of the company's insurance operations, including those of Allstate Protection and Allstate Financial. Under his leadership, Allstate Protection significantly increased its profitability and has begun to grow market share. Mr. Wilson was formerly chairman and president of Allstate Financial, where he spearheaded that business unit's drive into the design and distribution of an expanded range of financial products aimed at meeting the retirement needs of Allstate customers. Earlier he served as Allstate's CFO. Before joining the company in 1995, he was vice president of strategy and analysis at Sears, Roebuck and Co. From 1986 to 1993 he was managing director of mergers and acquisitions at Dean Witter Reynolds. He also held various financial positions at Amoco Corp. from 1980 to 1986. In 1998, Mr. Wilson was one of nine CFOs chosen for CFO magazine's Excellence award.
Bob Wright Chairman and Chief Executive Officer NBC Universal	Bob Wright became chairman and chief executive officer of NBC Universal in May 2004, in conjunction with the combining of NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment. He joined the National Broadcasting Company as president and chief executive officer on September 1, 1986, and became chairman and chief executive officer on June 4, 2001. Wright has had one of the longest and most successful tenures of any media company chief executive. Under his leadership, NBC was transformed from a broadcast network into a global media powerhouse with leadership in television programming, station ownership, and television production. With the formation of NBC Universal, Wright takes the reins of one of the world's fastest-growing and most-profitable media and entertainment companies, and a leader in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Wright is also vice chairman of the board, executive officer and a member of the Corporate Executive Office of the General Electric Company.
Keith Yamashita Founder Stone Yamashita Partners	Keith Yamashita founded Stone Yamashita Partners more then a decade ago to help CEOs change and transform their organizations. Stone Yamashita Partners' purpose is to envision, believe in, and fight for greatness. Along the way, Stone Yamashita Partners helps leaders create higher employee engagement and superior financial performance. The firm has worked with CEOs and executives at HP, PBS, IBM, Mercedes-Benz, Nike, and Gap Inc., among others. Mr. Yamashita and the firm have been featured in leading publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, and FORTUNE. He earned a master's degree in organizational behavior and a bachelor's degree in quantitative economics from Stanford University.

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