Gerald D. Cohen

CEO and founder of Information Builders, Cohen started an early enterprise database software company.

Jeremy Stoppelman

CEO of Yelp, Stoppelman co-founded the company in 2004 and has led it as chief executive since its inception.

Charles Ranlett Flint

Founder of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), which later became IBM, Flint transformed the landscape of business computing. In 1868, Charles Flint graduated from the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, and in 1871 entered the...

Paul Gardener Allen

Co-founder of Microsoft, Allen launched the company with Bill Gates in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1975, and began marketing a BASIC programming language interpreter. In 1980, after promising to deliver IBM a...

James Goodnight

CEO of SAS Institute, Goodnight co-founded the company and has remained active in developing its products. SAS Institute puts a quarter of its profits into research & development and develops business intelligence...

Albert S. Hoagland

Early designer of random access disk storage, Hoagland played a key role in magnetic head design and recording for the Random Access Method of Accounting and Control (RAMAC) disk drive, the first...

James Henry Rand, Jr.

Founder and President of Remington Rand, Rand built what became the largest business machine manufacturing plant in the world and showed remarkable foresight in purchasing the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation in 1950, whose...

Donald Valentine

Referred to as the "grandfather of Silicon Valley venture capital," Valentine was an American venture capitalist who concentrated mainly on technology companies in the United States. Valentine grew up in the Bronx,...

Tom DeMarco

Known as one of the developers of Structured Analysis, DeMarco began his career at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1963, where he participated in the ESS-1 project to develop the first large-scale Electronic...

Travis Cordell Kalanick

Co-founder of Uber, the transportation network company connecting passengers with drivers of vehicles for hire and ridesharing services, Kalanick is an American entrepreneur who also co-founded the peer-to-peer file sharing company Red...

Carla Gomes

Founding Director of the Institute for Computational Sustainability at Cornell University, Gomes was a Portuguese-American computer scientist noted for pioneering work in developing computational methods to address challenges in sustainability. Her research spanned...

Sudha Murthy

Founder-Chairperson of the Infosys Foundation, Murty built the non-profit charitable organization into a vehicle for wide-ranging social impact across India. She founded several orphanages, supported rural development efforts, and championed a movement...

Christopher Curry

Co-founder of Acorn Computers, Curry has played a significant role in the early development of personal computing in Britain. In April 1966, Curry joined Sinclair Radionics, a company founded by Clive Sinclair in...

Sonja Bernhardt

Founder and Inaugural President of Women in Technology (WiT) in Queensland in 1997, Bernhardt was a prominent Australian figure in efforts to bring more women and girls into technology careers. She also...

Barry James Mailous

One of the editors of the original Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68, Mailous also served as a contributing editor to the Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68. In...

George Schussel

Inventor of computer industry trade shows worldwide, Schussel is recognized for underlining and explaining technical issues while focusing on the business benefits and uses of technology. He became best known as the...

Reid Garrett Hoffman

Co-founder of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking, Hoffman is best known as one of Silicon Valley's most influential entrepreneurs and investors. He was born in Palo Alto,...

John Cullinane

Founder of Cullinet, one of the first software companies to go public, Cullinane is recognized as the creator of the packaged software market. His company claimed many industry firsts: first packaged application, first...

John Richard Patterson

Pioneer of computer dating outside America, Patterson was the first to use a computer to professionally match couples in the 1960s. He was the founder of Dateline Computer Dating.

Craig Alexander Newmark

Founder of Craigslist, the San Francisco-based website, Newmark is an Internet entrepreneur.