Honored Persons Database
Displaying 121 – 140 of 152 Honorees (Category: Business Entrepreneur, with portraits)
Robert (Bob) Cohn
Co-founder of Octel Communications, the company that commercialized voice mail and made it ubiquitous on cell phones, in companies, and on residential phones, Cohn established Octel with Peter Olson in 1982. Octel...
Floyd (Earl) Kvamme
One of five founders of National Semiconductor in 1967, Kvamme went on to work at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and has served in science and technology policy on behalf of the...
Ruzena Bajcsy
Founding director of the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, Bajcsy is an American engineer and computer scientist specializing in robotics. She also served as head of...
L. John Rankine
Recognized for advancing international standardization in information technology, Rankine received the Steinmetz Medal in 1997 for this achievement. A graduate of the University of Glasgow with the engineering qualifications of B.Sc. (Eng),...
Tom Anderson
Founder of the social networking website MySpace, Anderson co-founded the site in 2003 with Chris DeWolfe. Anderson has served as president of MySpace, and later became a strategic adviser for the company....
Pierre Morad Omidyar
Founder and chairman of eBay, Omidyar is a French-born Armenian-Iranian entrepreneur, philanthropist, and economist. Omidyar and his wife Pam are well-known philanthropists who founded Omidyar Network in 2004 in order to expand...
Yogen Dalal
Member of the original Star and Ethernet development teams at Xerox, Dalal is also a co-author of the TCP Specification, whose team's pioneering work on the design of the TCP protocol has...
Lawrence (Larry) Page
Co-founder of Google Inc., Page is an American computer scientist who founded the company alongside Sergey Brin.
Jeffery D. Stein
Founder and Chairman of the IT History Society, Stein has also served as the Founder and CEO of On-Line Business Systems and Convene.com, and has been active on many boards and non-profits.
Donna Dubinsky
A pioneer in the development of personal digital assistants (PDAs), Dubinsky served as CEO of Palm, Inc. and co-founded Handspring with Jeff Hawkins. She went on to co-found the brain research company...
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...
Jeffrey (Jeff) Preston Bezos
Founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Bezos graduated from Princeton University as a member of Tau Beta Pi and worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. before founding Amazon...
Gerald D. Cohen
CEO and founder of Information Builders, Cohen started an early enterprise database software company.
Michael Saul Dell
Founder and CEO of Dell Inc., Dell is an American business magnate who has been among the richest people in the world, with a net worth of US$13.5 billion in 2010.
James H. Clark
Founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, Clark is recognized as one of Silicon Valley's most prolific entrepreneurs. His research work in computer graphics led to the development of systems for fast rendering...
Charles M. Sporck
Former CEO of National Semiconductor, Sporck led one of the most influential semiconductor companies of its era.
Biz Stone
Co-founder of Twitter, Stone also served as its Creative Director and helped to create and launch Xanga, Blogger, Odeo, and Obvious. Stone published two books about blogging, including *Blogging: Genius Strategies for...
D. (Jim) James Guzy, Sr.
An Angel Investor of numerous computer corporations, Guzy has served as an Intel Board member for 38 years. He has been a Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of SRC Computers, LLC...
Morton (Mort) H. Meyerson
Founding Chief Executive of EDS, Meyerson began his business career in 1963 at Bell Helicopter. In 1966, he joined Electronic Data Systems, Inc. as a systems engineer trainee, ultimately becoming President and...
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...