THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2019 The Boston Globe A
Roger Enrico ’65, H’
Former Chairman and
CEO of PepsiCo Inc.;
Former Executive Chair-
man of DreamWorks
Sara Blakely
Founder and CEO of
SPANX Inc.
Niraj S. Shah
CEO, Co-founder and
Co-chairman of Wayfair
Eric G. Johnson
’72, P’
President and CEO of Baldwin
Richardson Foods
Steven K. Conine
Co-founder and Co-chairman
of Wayfair
Harry Susilo P’96, G’24,
PBM
Founder and Chairman
of the Sekar Group
Juan Roig
President of Mercadona
C. Dean Metropoulos
’67, MBA’
Chairman and CEO of
Metropoulos & Co
H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin
Saeed Al Maktoum
Chairman and Chief
Executive of Emirates
Airline & Group
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
Founder, Chairwoman
and CEO of Care.com
Stephen Kaufer
CEO and Co-founder of
TripAdvisor
Dorothy Cann Hamilton
Founder of the Interna-
tional Culinary Center
Doug Rauch
Founder and President of
Daily Table; Former CEO of
Conscious Capitalism; Past
President of Trader Joe’s
Alan Trefler
Founder and CEO of
Pegasystems
Jaime Gilinski
Chairman, Banco GNB
Sudameris SA
Diane Hessan
Founder and Chairman
of C Space
Graham Weston
Former Chairman of
Rackspace Hosting Inc.
Scott D. Cook
Founder and Chairman of
the Executive Committee
of Intuit Inc.
Gururaj “Desh”
Deshpande
President and Chairman
of Sparta Group LLC
Jesse Itzler
Co-founder of
Marquis Jet
Ernesto Bertarelli’ 89
Chairman of Waypoint
Capital Group; Co-chair
of Bertarelli Foundation
Eileen Fisher
Clothing Designer and
Founder of EILEEN
FISHER Inc.
Henri A. Termeer
Former Chairman,
President, and CEO of
Genzyme Corporation
Malcolm Stevenson
“Steve” Forbes Jr.
Chairman and
Editor-in-Chief of
Forbes Media
Sunil Bharti Mittal
Founder and Chairman
of Bharti Enterprises Ltd.
Lee Man Tat
Chairman of Lee
Kum Kee
Robert K. Kraft H’
Founder, Chairman, and
CEO of The Kraft Group
Earvin “Magic”
Johnson Jr.
Founder and CEO of
Magic Johnson
Companies
Michael R. Bloomberg
Founder of
Bloomberg L.P.
Ben Cohen
Co-founder of Ben &
Jerry’s Ice Cream Inc.
Robert J. Davis MBA’
General Partner, Highland
Capital Partners; Founder,
Former President and CEO at
Lycos Inc.
Steven B. Dodge
Founder of American
Tower Corporation
Leonard Riggio
Founder and Executive
Chairman of Barnes &
Noble Inc.
Kay Koplovitz
Founder of USA Networks
Robert M. Rosenberg
H’97, P’
Former CEO of Dunkin’
Donuts and Baskin
Robbins
Robert Annunziata
Founder of Teleport
Communications Group
Geoff Molson MBA’
Owner, President & CEO
of Montreal Canadiens
Ralph J. Roberts
Founder of Comcast
Corporation
Howard H. Stevenson P’
Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation
Professor emeritus; Former Senior
Associate Dean, Director of Pub-
lishing and Chair of the Harvard
Business Publishing Company
Brian L. Roberts
Chairman and CEO of
Comcast Corporation
Robert Gray
Co-founder of St. John
Knits Inc.
Ellen Gordon
Chairman & Chief Exec-
utive Officer of Tootsie
Roll Industries Inc.
Marie Gray
Co-founder of St. John
Knits Inc.
Abraham D. Gosman
P’
Founder of The Meditrust
Companies
Masayoshi Son
Founder, Chairman, and
CEO of SOFTBANK Inc.
Richard J. Egan P’
Co-founder of EMC
Corporation
Leslie C. Quick, Jr.
Co-founder of Quick
& Reilly
Willie D. Davis
Former President and
CEO of All-Pro
Broadcasting Company
Leo Kahn
Co-founder of
Staples Inc.
Thomas G. Stemberg
Co-founder of
Staples Inc.
Sir Richard Branson
Founder of The
Virgin Group
The Honorable Craig R. Benson
’77, H’
CEO of Soft Draw Investments;
former Chairman and CEO at
Cabletron Systems, Inc.; Former
Governor of the State of New
Hampshire
Ely Callaway Jr.
Founder of Callaway Golf
A. Andronico Luksic
Former Chairman of the
Luksic Group
Arthur M. Blank ’63, H’
Owner and Chairman,
Blank Family of Businesses;
Co-founder of The Home
Depot
Edward C. Johnson III
Former Chairman and
CEO of Fidelity
Investments
S. Robert Levine
Former President and
CEO of Cabletron
Systems Inc.
George N. Hatsopoulos
G’
Co-founder of Thermo
Electron Corporation
Patricia Gallup
Chairman, CAO, and
Co-founder of PC
Connection Inc.
Pleasant T. Rowland
Founder of The Pleasant
Company (American Girl
Brand)
Ewing Marion Kauffman
Founder of Marion
Merrell Dow Inc.
Jacob Stolt-Nielsen, Jr. P’
Former Chairman and CEO,
Stolt Tankers and Terminals
(Holdings) S.A.
Robert A. Swanson
Co-founder of Genentech
Leslie H. Wexner
Founder and CEO of
The Limited Brands
Corporation
Anita Roddick
Founder of The Body
Shop
William G. McGowan
Founder of MCI Commu-
nications Corporation
Amar G. Bose
Founder of Bose
Corporation
Paul Fireman H’94, P’
Chairman of Fireman
Capital Partners
Sandra L. Kurtzig
Founder and Chairman
of Kenandy; Founder of
ASK Computer Systems
Inc.
Sir Michael W. J. Smurfit
Former Chairman and
CEO, Jefferson Smurfit
Group p.l.c.
Patrick J. McGovern
Co-founder of Interna-
tional Data Group (IDG)
Kazuo Inamori
Founder of Kyocera and
KDDI
Edward Lowe
Founder of Edward Lowe
Industries Inc. and the
Edward Lowe Foundation
J. Willard Marriott Jr.
Executive Chairman and
Chairman of the Board
of Marriott International
John C. Merritt B’
Owner and President of
Dockside Marine Supply;
Former Chairman and CEO
of Van Kampen Merritt
Holding Corp.
Leon A. Gorman
Former President
and Chairman of
L.L.Bean Inc.
Bernie Marcus
Co-founder, Chairman,
and CEO of The Home
Depot
Earl G. Graves
Founder ofBlack
EnterpriseMagazine;
Chairman of Earl G.
Graves Ltd.
Sir John Marks
Templeton H’
Founder of Templeton
Growth Fund and John
Templeton Foundation
John R. Furman
Founder of Furman
Lumber Inc.
Donald C. Burr
Founder of PEOPLExpress
Airlines
Trammell Crow
Founding Partner of
Trammell Crow Company
Henry W. Bloch
Co-founder of H&R
Block Inc.
Rupert Murdoch
Founder of News
Corporation
Peter J. Sprague H’
Chariman and Founder of
Satellite Displays; Former
Chairman of National
Semiconductor Corporation
Heinz Nixdorf
Founder of Nixdorf
Computer AG
John J. Cullinane
President of The Culli-
nane Group Inc.; Former
Chairman and CEO,
Cullinet Software Inc.
Frederic C. Hamilton ’48,
H’98, P’
Former Chairman of The
Hamilton Companies LLC
Wally Amos
Founder of Famous Amos
Chocolate Chip Co. LLC
Frederick W. Smith
Founder and Chairman
Federal Express
Corporation
William C. Norris
Former Chairman and
CEO of Control
Data Corporation
Carl G. Sontheimer
Founder of
Cuisinarts Inc.
Gustavo A. Cisneros
’68, H’
Chairman of Cisneros
Gilbert Trigano
Former President Club
Méditerranée
Godtfred Kirk
Christiansen
Former Managing Direc-
tor of The LEGO Group
Ueli Prager
Founder of Mövenpick
Hotels and Resorts
John K. Hanson
Former Chariman of
Winnebago Industries
Sidney R. Rabb
Former Chairman of The
Stop & Shop Companies
Mary Wells Lawrence
H’
Founding President of
Wells, Rich, Greene
J. Peter Grace
Former President and
CEO of W.R. Grace and
Company
Mary Hudson
Co-founder of Hudson Oil
Company
Lee Byung-chul
Founder of Samsung
Group
Lewis E. Lehrman H’
Founder of L.E. Lehrman
&Co.
Diane von Fürstenberg
Founder and Chairwom-
an of DVF Studio LLC
John H. Johnson
Founder of Johnson
Publishing Company
John Erik Jonsson
Co-founder of Texas
Instruments Inc.
Soichiro Honda
Founder of Honda Motor
Car Company Ltd.
Ray A. Kroc
Founding Chairman of
McDonald’s Corporation
Berry Gordy
Founder of Motown
Records
Royal Little
Founder of Textron Inc.
Kenneth H. Olsen
Co-founder of Digital
Equipment Corporation
An Wang
Co-founder of Wang
Laboratories Inc.
Thomas Mellon Evans
G’
Former Chairman of
Crane Company
Franklin P. “Frank”
Perdue
Former President and
CEO of Perdue Farms
Marcus Wallenberg
Former Honorary
Chairman of
Skandinaviska-Enskilda
Banken
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