Lou Gerstner ( Full Name: Louis Vincent Gerstner Jr.) is a prominent American businessman. He is best recognized for his tenure at IBM as chairman of the board and chief executive officer from April 1993 until 2002, when he retired as CEO in March and chairman in December.
Lawrence Bacow ( Full Name: Lawrence Seldon Bacow) is a prominent American economist and retired university administrator. From 2018 to 2023, he was previously the 29th president of Harvard University. Prior to Harvard University, Lawrence worked at Harvard Kennedy School as the Hauser leader-in-residence at the Center for Public Leadership.
Steve Eisman is a well-known American businessman and investor. He founded Emrys Partners with $23 million in seed capital in March 2012. He works as a managing director and a portfolio manager for the Eisman Group within Neuberger Berman’s Private Asset Management division. In addition, he is famous for being shortlisted in the CDOs, thereby profiting from the collapse of the US housing bubble in 2007–2008.
Gunjan Banerji is a popular American journalist who writes about markets and investing for The Wall Street Journal. She is also a contributor at CNBC. Gunjan’s articles and videos have covered the biggest stories in financial markets of the past decade, spanning stocks, bonds, and derivatives. She led WSJ’s award-winning coverage of retail investing and the meme stock mania that swept markets in 2021.
Adam Aron is a well-known American businessman. He works as the chairman and CEO of AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. He is also a co-owner of the Philadelphia 76ers where he was the CEO from 2011 to 2013. From 1993 to 1996, he worked as President and CEO of Norwegian Cruise Line. Moreover, he was Chairman and CEO of Vail Resorts from 1996 to 2006. In addition, Aron formed a personal consultancy, World Leisure Partners, Inc. in 2006.
Mimi Sternlicht is a popular American Creative Director and Social Entrepreneur who is the founder of Bread Ventures, née Bread + Buzz LLC, a boutique creative business development agency. Previously an Award-winning copywriter for Y&R and DDB Needham Advertising, Mimi left the advertising world in 2006 to start her own IPs, The Loading Dock venue, the only loft event space in Fairfield County CT (later sold to Abigail Kirsch Catering) and Campus Goose LLC, a working model for student support hiring empty nesters.
Barry Sternlicht ( Full Name: Barry Stuart Sternlicht) is a popular American billionaire who is the co-founder chairman, and CEO of Starwood Capital Group, an investment fund with over $60 billion in assets under management. He founded Starwood Capital Group in 1991 with Bob Faith. Barry is also chairman of Starwood Property Trust. Barry is the co-founder of Starwood and worked as its CEO from 1995 until 2005. As of May 2023, Barry’s net worth was estimated at $4.6 billion.
Bruce Flatt is a prominent Canadian businessman. Currently, he works at Brookfield Asset Management as the Chief Executive Officer. In 1990, Bruce joined Brookfield and became CEO in 2002. Additionally, due to his “value” investment style, extended tenure as CEO, and large investment in Brookfield, he has been referred to as “Canada’s Warren Buffett.”
Ryan Cohen is a well-known Canadian entrepreneur and activist investor. In 2011, he co-founded the e-commerce company Chewy where he was the CEO until 2018. Currently, he is the chairman and CEO of GameStop. Additionally, Cohen disclosed a nearly 10% stake in GameStop in September 2020 becoming the company’s biggest individual investor.
Marc Faber (nicknamed “Dr. Doom”) is a popular Swiss investor based in Thailand who is the publisher of the Gloom Boom & Doom Report newsletter, as well as the director of Marc Faber Ltd, which acts as an investment advisor and fund manager. He also works as a director, advisor, and shareholder of a number of investment funds that focus on emerging and frontier markets, such as Asia Frontier Capital Ltd.’s AFC Asia Frontier Fund.