Business & Leadership Speakers — Page 3

Ben Horowitz co-founded Andreessen Horowitz after successfully building and selling the cloud computing company Opsware to HP for $1.65 billion. His book 'The H...

Michael Porter is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School and is widely recognized as the father of modern competitive strat...

Fred Smith founded FedEx in 1971 after writing a college paper outlining the concept of overnight delivery, which his professor gave a C. His legendary overnigh...

Bill Ackman is the founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, one of the most successful hedge funds in history, known for its high-conviction, long...

Carl Icahn is one of Wall Street's most storied investors and corporate raiders, whose activist campaigns have shaken up companies from TWA to Apple. With a net...

Michael Dell founded Dell Technologies from his University of Texas dorm room at age 19 and built it into one of the world's largest technology companies. After...

Brian Chesky co-founded Airbnb in 2008 with Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk, turning the concept of renting air mattresses in a San Francisco apartment into a...

Dara Khosrowshahi became CEO of Uber in 2017, inheriting a company embroiled in multiple controversies, and led a remarkable cultural and strategic turnaround t...

Ginni Rometty served as Chairman and CEO of IBM from 2012 to 2020, leading the 108-year-old technology giant through a historic strategic transformation toward ...

Co-CEO of Ariel Investments, Chair of Starbucks' Board, and financial literacy advocate whose TED Talk 'Color Blind or Color Brave?' has over 5 million views. S...

Former CEO of Merck who led development of one of the most effective COVID-19 antiviral treatments and famously resigned from Trump's business advisory council ...

CEO of ServiceNow and former CEO of SAP, author of 'Winners Dream,' who grew up working-class and built himself into a Fortune 500 CEO. He speaks on the power o...

Former SVP of Retail at Apple and former CEO of Burberry who transformed both companies' retail experiences through radical human-centric approaches. She speaks...

Safra Catz is the CEO of Oracle Corporation and one of the highest-paid female executives in the world. Born in Israel, she has led Oracle through major acquisi...

Rex Tillerson served as CEO of ExxonMobil and then as U.S. Secretary of State under President Trump. He led the world's largest publicly traded oil company for ...

John Chambers served as CEO of Cisco Systems for 20 years, growing the company from $70 million to $47 billion in revenue and making it the most valuable compan...

Abigail Johnson is the CEO and Chairman of Fidelity Investments, one of the world's largest financial services companies managing over $4 trillion in assets. Sh...

Ajay Banga served as CEO of Mastercard and is now President of the World Bank. Born in India, he transformed Mastercard into a technology company focused on fin...

Co-founder and co-chairman of The Carlyle Group and author of 'How to Lead,' who has interviewed hundreds of the world's most powerful leaders. He speaks on lea...

Founder and CEO of ARK Invest who became the most prominent female investor in America with her focus on disruptive innovation and exponential growth technologi...

Author of 'Emotional Intelligence' which has sold over 5 million copies and introduced the concept of EQ to the mainstream, fundamentally changing how we think ...

Co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios and author of 'Creativity, Inc.' which is widely regarded as the best book ever written on managing creative organizations...

Former CEO of Nike, eBay, and ServiceNow who has led iconic consumer brands through digital transformation. He speaks on leadership, digital commerce, and corpo...

Former CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance and COO of Starbucks, one of the most prominent Black female executives in American corporate history. She speaks on lead...