Musk is the founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX, a company that is creating a new model - to develop launch vehicles that will ultimately reduce the cost and increase the reliability of space access and re-ignite humanity's efforts to explore and develop space. The SpaceX Falcon 1 was the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to reach orbit. Musk... read full bio
The often described enthusiastic CEO of Microsoft Corporation Ballmer is CEO of Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing. He joined Microsoft in 1980, the first business manager hired by his former classmate at Harvard, Bill Gates. Variously described as focused, hard charging and energetic, Ballmer grew up near Detroit, where his father worked... read full bio
Sundar Pichai is the current CEO of both Google Inc. and it's parent company Alphabet Inc. In 2019, it was published that the companies have experienced an annual revenue increase of almost $90 billion dollars and Sundar Pichai became one of the highest paid CEO's in the world after receiving $281 million dollars in compensation for one year. Born... read full bio
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Chad Hurley is an American politician and co-founder and former CEO of YouTube and MixBit. Prior to working on YouTube and MixBit, Hurley worked for PayPal where he designed the logo. During his high school years Hurley became interested in computers and electronic media and was a member of the Technology Student Association. He went on to graduate with a... read full bio
Alexia Tsosis is a former co-editor at the major technology news site, TechCrunch. After graduating from the University of Southern California in LA with her degree in Writing and Painting, she made her move to New Cork City to make a name for herself in the media industry. She attended New York University for four years before deciding to... read full bio
Chamath Palihapitiya is a distinguished Silicon Valley venture capitalist, with early investments in Palantir, Pure Storage, Playdom (acquired by The Walt Disney Company), and Bumptop (acquired by Google). He established The Social+Capital Partnership (now Social Capital), a renowned firm distinguished for its strategic focus on technology in healthcare, financial services and education, and on software as a service. The fund... read full bio
Tony Fadell is an expert in his field, and hes well known as an angel investor, designer, inventor, and entrepreneur. Known as one of the fathers of the iPod, Tony worked as the senior vice president of the iPod division at Apple Inc. He is also the founder of Nest Labs, which created the revolutionary Nest Learning Thermostat. Google acquired... read full bio
Gwynne Shotwell is the President and Chief Operating Officer at SpaceX. She has been noted by Forbes magazine as the 76th most powerful woman in the world. Shotwell began her research at the Aerospace Corporation. Later, she joined Microcosm Incorporated, and then SpaceX. Well-versed in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, Shotwell educates people worldwide about the future of technology and... read full bio
The Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner has made history in extreme sports with his breath-taking leaps and record-breaking accomplishments. Baumgartner, who is renowned for his fearlessness and unwavering dedication, has pushed the limits of what is possible for humans. His list of accomplishments is outstanding in every way. In a series of mind-blowing parachute jumps, Baumgartner defied gravity and captured the world's... read full bio
Tim Ferriss, nominated as one of Fast Companys Most Innovative Business People of 2007, is an angel investor (StumbleUpon, Digg, Twitter, etc.) and author of the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been sold into 35 languages. He is also the author of the best-selling follow-ups The 4-Hour Body and The... read full bio
John Chambers, Executive Chairman of the Board for Cisco, is a working chairman with key areas of responsibility that include: focusing on country digitization and building relationships with government and business leaders, shareholders, and board members. He is an advisor to CEO, Chuck Robbins, on the company’s strategy, digital transformation, security and relationships and strategic partnerships, among other areas. Chambers... read full bio
Uber Co-Founder, Oscar Salazar is also a founder of the medical start-up Pager, and VP of Technology at the tech start-up, Ride. He has raised more than $25 million in funding for current ventures. Ride is a carpooling app, which companies sign up for to advertise to their employees. This revolutionary ride-sharing app uses algorithms to group employees together based... read full bio
Recognized as one of the top tech conference speakers, Kristian Segerstrale is the CEO at Super Evil Megacorp, a leading game developer. Kristian has also been named among the Top 50 most influential executives in Mobile Entertainment by ME Magazine. He has spearheaded the ever-changing game industry for over a decade. Previously, as VP of Production at EMEA, he led... read full bio
Canadian computer programmer and online entrepreneur Ryan Holmes is known as the creator, founder, and CEO of Hootsuite, a platform created to manage social media and integrate social networks. Holmes grew up on a farm that had no electricity. He started his first business in high school, which was a paintball field turned online retailer. His second business was... read full bio
"Technology industry veteran Pat Gelsinger is a businessman in the technology industry who serves as the CEO of VMWare. Prior to his time at VMWare, Pat was president and COO of EMC’s Infrastructure Products, and he worked for Intel for 30 years and served as the company’s first CTO, helping develop crucial technology such as Wi-Fi and USB connection. Pat... read full bio
Chief technology officer and vice president of online shopping industry giant Amazon.com, Werner Vogels is an innovative thinker and go-getter who focuses on time saving and scalability. He has won the CIO/CTO of the Year Award from Information Week for his role in cloud computing, and he was voted the Clouds Most Influential Executive by readers of ReadWriteWeb. ExecBank... read full bio
Martin Bryant is a technology journalist and editor at Tech North, a web publication focused on growing the digital business sector in the North of England. He is formerly an editor-at-large at The Next Web, another well-known online publication in the technology industry. Martin is especially interested in apps, digital media, and European startups. Martin has led panel discussions at... read full bio
Patrick Lee is a serial entrepreneur who has founded multiple companies and startups. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Rotten Tomatoes, an extremely popular entertainment site that largely focuses on movie reviews; it is one of the top 600 most trafficked sites in the world. He has also co-founded Hobo Labs, a creator of casual mobile games. He... read full bio
Kate Matsudaira is a technology, computer science, and leadership speaker. Her expertise is creating and running large-scale web applications/ websites. She has spent a good chunk of her career forming and overseeing high performance teams that develop remarkable technology as solutions to important problems. Kate has worked with some of the worlds leading companies, including Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, and Amazon.com.... read full bio
