Terry Semel (Full Name: Terence Steven Semel) is a popular American corporate executive who is the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Windsor Media. He is also the co-chair of the board of trustees of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Before, Terry worked as the chairman and CEO of Yahoo! Incorporated from 2001 until 2007. Prior to that, Terry spent 24 years at Warner Bros., where he worked as chairman and co-chief executive officer. He left as CEO due in part to pressure from shareholders’ dissatisfaction over his compensation in 2006, salary $1, stock options worth $70 million and performance.
Zachary Bogue ( Marissa Mayer Husband) is an American lawyer and angel investor. He is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder, of DCVC. DCVC is a Tech venture capital firm that backs entrepreneurs solving trillion-dollar problems. He is also part of the boards of Twelve PBC, Kairos Aerospace, CH4 Global, Oklo, and Recursion Pharmaceuticals.
Akiko Yamazaki is a popular Japanese woman who works as chairman of the board, of the Asian Art Museum since 2014. She is also a Board member of the United States Equestrian Team Foundation since 2010. Akiko is also a Board member of the Wildlife Conservation Network. She is known for being the wife of Taiwanese-American billionaire computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist Jerry Yang.
David Filo is a well-known American billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder of Yahoo! along with Jerry Yang. Yahoo! is one of the leading internet brands and, due to partnerships with telecommunications firms. Filo and his wife established the Yellow Chair Foundation in 2000 which helps in civil liberties, gender equality, education, and the environment.
Jerry Yang ( Full Name: Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang) is a prominent Taiwanese-American billionaire venture capitalist, internet entrepreneur, and computer programmer. He is the co-founder and previous CEO of Yahoo! Inc. Furthermore, Jerry has a net worth of $2.5 billion as of July 2023.
Wendy Schmidt (Full Name: Wendy Susan Schmidt) is a popular American businesswoman and philanthropist who is the president of the Schmidt Family Foundation, holding more than $1 billion in philanthropic assets. Following graduating in 1981 with a master’s degree in journalism, Wendy joined the marketing department of Sun Microsystems, where Eric Schmidt afterward worked as well. Wendy left Sun in 1986 to start an interior design firm, which she ran for 16 years.
Eric Schmidt is a noted American businessman. He was the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011 and the company’s executive chairman from 2011 to 2015. Schmidt has worked as executive chairman of parent company Alphabet Inc from 2015 to 2017 and was also a Technical Advisor at Alphabet from 2017 to 2020. He founded the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) in October 2021.
Scott McNealy is a prominent American businessman. He is the founder of a free online education service, Curriki. Scott founded it back in 2004. Furthermore, he is the former Chairman/CEO of Sun Micro, a computer technology company. Scott co-founded the company back in 1982 along with Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Joy, and Vinod Khosla.
Bill Joy is a famous American computer engineer and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, and Andy Bechtolsheim. He worked as the firm’s Chief Scientist and CTO at the company until 2003. In addition, Joy was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.
Andy Bechtolsheim ( Full Name: Andreas Maria Maximilian Freiherr von Mauchenheim genannt Bechtolsheim) is a German electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and investor who is the co-founder and chairman of Arista Networks, a high-speed datacenter and cloud networking company. In 1982, Andy co-founded tech hardware firm Sun Microsystems with Bill Joy, Scott McNealy, and Vinod Khosla. Oracle purchased Sun in 2010 for $7.4 billion.
