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Honor Database

Displaying 21 – 40 of 51 Honorees (Category: Finance, with portraits)

  • 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...

  • Gary Morganthaler

    Co-founder and former CEO and Chairman of Ingres Corporation, a leading relational database software company, Morganthaler has a national reputation as a successful executive in the software industry and has emphasized investments...

  • L.J. Sevin

    A significant leader in the founding and growth of the U.S. high tech industry, Sevin co-founded Mostek Corporation in 1969 and later co-founded the venture capital firm Sevin Rosen Funds (SRF) with...

  • Harry Max Markowitz

    Co-developer of SIMSCRIPT, the first simulation programming language, Markowitz also received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990 while a professor of finance at Baruch College of the City University...

  • Ken Howery

    Co-founder of PayPal, Howery is an American investor who graduated from Stanford University in 1998 with a B.A. degree in Economics. That same year, he co-founded PayPal with Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek,...

  • Thomas James Perkins

    The first General Manager of HP's computer divisions who helped shepherd Hewlett-Packard's entry into the minicomputer business, Perkins was also one of the founders of the leading venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins...

  • Founder board member of the IT History Society and Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Withington began his career as a programmer at NSA in 1953. Over the years he worked for computer makers...

  • 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,...

  • Randy Eisenman

    Founder and CEO of Handango, which he positioned as the global leader in the smartphone content market, Eisenman drove the company's strategy and built a world-class team after founding the company in...

  • Gary Morgenthaler

    Builder of the high-speed interface for TYMCOM-10 and TYMNET network—"the Internet before the Internet"—Morgenthaler has a national reputation as a successful executive in the software industry and has emphasized investments in information...

  • Bernard (Bernie) Goldstein

    A leading mergers and acquisitions advisor in the software industry, Goldstein has enjoyed a remarkably diverse career during his more than four decades in the computer industry. He founded and ran many...

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    Jerry Yang

    Co-founder of Yahoo!, Yang is a Chinese American entrepreneur who also served as the company's CEO (Chief Yahoo). Born in Taiwan in 1968, Yang immigrated to the United States with his family at...

  • Michael 'Mike'  Rubens Bloomberg

    Founder and CEO of Bloomberg L.P., a global financial services, mass media, and software company, Bloomberg is an American businessman, author, politician, and philanthropist. His net worth is estimated at US$ 53.4...

  • Laurence (Larry) Spitters

    Co-founder of Memorex, the first company to manufacture chromium dioxide cassettes in substantial volume, Spitters is an American industrialist in the field of magnetic recording media. He received a B.A. from Western...

  • Michael J. Maples, Sr.

    Advisor to Microsoft on strategic relationships and management initiatives, Maples is an Angel investor who has been active in the computer industry for more than 30 years, and is sometimes described as...

  • Paul Levine

    Producer of Telco central office-based voice mail, Levine has served as an Instructor at the Boston University School of Management and a member of the ITEC faculty, and as a Venture Partner...

  • Jeffery D. Stein has spent six decades building technology businesses. A serial entrepreneur since 1960, he founded and led On-Line Business Systems, Inc. of San Francisco, a pioneer in online real-time transaction...

  • John F. Shoch

    Contributor to the development of computer networking — particularly the PARC Universal Protocol (PUP), an important predecessor of TCP/IP — Shoch attended Stanford, where he earned a B.A. in political science (1971);...

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    Bob Metcalfe is most famous for his co-invention of the Ethernet in the 1970s as Xerox. He also made the statement that the value of a network is roughly proportional to the...

  • Jay N. Goldberg

    Purchaser of Money Management Systems, Inc. (MMS) in 1986, Goldberg acquired the firm — which sold software and services to banks and broker-dealers for securities trading activities — from Ziff-Davis, later selling...