The Boston Globe - 19.09.2019

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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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