Martha Diaz Aszkenazy Martha Diaz Aszkenazy is president of Pueblo Contracting Services, Inc., a Southern California general contracting firm that provides diversified construction services, including real estate development, construction management, and general contracting. More »
	Douglas Barnhart Doug Barnhart is chief executive officer of Barnhart, Inc., a San Diego-based full service general building and engineering, and construction management company. More »
	Ernest A. Bates, M.D. Dr. Ernest Bates, a San Francisco neurosurgeon, founded American Shared Hospital Services in 1977 and today is its chairman and CEO. American Shared Hospital Services is a publicly traded healthcare company with corporate offices in San Francisco, providing services to hospitals in 22 states. More »
	Frank E. Baxter Frank Baxter is Chairman Emeritus of Jefferies & Company, Inc., the principal operating subsidiary of Jefferies Group, Inc., a full-service investment bank and institutional securities firm, with 1,400 employees worldwide. New York -based Jefferies has a market capitalization of more than $1 billion. More »
	Ralph Baxter Ralph Baxter is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, a position he has held since 1990. Under Mr. Baxter’s leadership, Orrick has expanded, diversified, and extended its geographic reach, transforming from a domestic firm with California origins to one of the world’s largest and most prominent law firms, with more than 900 lawyers in 18 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. More »
	Andrew R. Berliner Andy Berliner is the co-founder and President of Amy’s Kitchen. He was raised in Chicago and graduated from Purdue University. More »
	Rachel Berliner Rachel Berliner co-founded Amy’s Kitchen, the nation’s leading natural and organic food company, with her husband Andy in their Petaluma barn in 1987. Named that year after their newborn baby daughter Amy, the company has grown into a $100 million-a-year producer of convenient, delicious, healthful vegetarian meals made from innovative recipes using fresh organic and natural ingredients. More »
	David G. Booth David Booth is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Dimensional Fund Advisors (Dimensional). Dimensional is one of the pioneers of the application of academic research on capital market behavior to the practical world of managing investment portfolios. More »
	John Bryson John Bryson is president and chief executive officer of Edison International and chairman of Southern California Edison. Based in Rosemead, California, Edison International is the parent company of Southern California Edison, Edison Mission Energy, and Edison Capital. More »
	Peter Chernin Peter Chernin is the president and chief operating officer of News Corporation and the chairman and chief executive officer of The Fox Group. Mr. Chernin is also a member of the Board of Directors for News Corporation and The Fox Entertainment Group. More »
	Lee Clow Lee Clow is a member of the One Club Hall of Fame, the Art Directors Hall of Fame, and the Museum of Modern Art’s Advertising Hall of Fame. He was named 1997 Creative Executive of the Year by USA Today. More »
	John C. Cushman, III John Cushman is the chairman of Cushman & Wakefield, Inc., a global real estate services firm. More »
	Peter Darbee Peter A. Darbee, a veteran of the energy, telecommunications and investment banking industries, is President and Chief Executive Officer of PG&E Corporation. Based in San Francisco, PG&E Corporation is a $34 billion energy-based holding company that owns Pacific Gas and Electric Company, one of the largest combination natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. The utility serves 14 million people throughout a 70,000-square-mile service area in Northern and Central California. More »
	Lloyd H. Dean Lloyd Dean is president and chief executive officer of Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) –www.chwhealth.com-one of the leading not-for-profit health care systems in the U.S. Mr. Dean is responsible for $5.4 billion in assets, and the overall management, strategy and direction of CHW’s integrated health care system of 41 acute care hospitals, two medical practice groups, 36,000 employees, and 7,000 physicians in California, Arizona and Nevada. More »
	Robert C. Dynes Robert C. Dynes, a physicist and an expert on semiconductors and superconductors, is the 18th president of the University of California. More »
	Jim Earp Jim Earp is Executive Director of the California Alliance for Jobs, a business-labor partnership that represents more than 1,700 contractors in the heavy construction industry and the 50,000 union members they employ throughout northern and central California. More »
	Donald G. Fisher Donald Fisher is the founder and chairman of Gap, Inc., the San Francisco-based retail clothing chain. More »
	Paul F. Folino Paul Folino is the chairman and chief executive officer of Orange County’s Emulex Corporation, a high-technology network storage company. Mr. Folino served on Governor Schwarzenegger’s transition team and his Economic Recovery Council. More »
	Barbara Grimm-Marshall Barbara Grimm-Marshall is the co-owner of Grimmway Farms, the world’s largest grower, packer and shipper of fresh, processed, and frozen carrots. More »
	F. Warren Hellman - Co Chairman A member of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s transition team and Economic Recovery Council, F. Warren Hellman is the Chairman and co-founder of San Francisco-based Hellman & Friedman, LLC, a private equity investment firm. More »
	Sandra R. Hernández, MD Sandra R. Hernández, MD, is chief executive officer of The San Francisco Foundation, a community foundation serving the five San Francisco Bay Area counties. One of the largest community foundations in the nation, its mission is to mobilize resources and act as a catalyst for change to build strong communities, foster civic leadership, and promote philanthropy. More »
	Richard M. Kovacevich Richard Kovacevich is the chairman and chief executive officer of Wells Fargo & Company of San Francisco, a diversified financial services company. Mr. Kovacevich became president and chief executive officer of Wells Fargo & Company when the company merged with Norwest Corporation in 1998. He was named chairman in 2001. More »
	Hong Liang Lu Hong Liang Lu is the president and chief executive officer of UTStarcom Inc., a telecommunications company that supplies equipment for wireless local-loop networks. With 85 percent of its business in Mainland China, UTStarcom is among the most successful U.S. business operating in Asia. More »
	Angelo R. Mozilo Angelo Mozilo is chairman and chief executive officer of Countrywide Financial Corporation. More »
	Dominic Ng Dominic Ng is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of East West Bancorp, Inc., the parent company of East West Bank, which trades publicly on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol EWBC. Ng has led East West since 1992, building the institution into one of the premier U.S. banking franchises. Now the largest Chinese bank in the United States and the second largest bank based in Los Angeles, The Wall Street Journal this year ranked East West in the top 25 best five-year performers among all publicly traded companies and 3rd among banks. More »
	Ronald L. Olson - Co Chairman Ranked first on California Law Business’s list of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in 1998, Ron Olson advises many of the nation’s most important businesses. More »
	Patricia Salas Pineda Patricia Salas Pineda is vice president of human resources and legal and corporate secretary for New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI). More »
	Art Pulaski Art Pulaski, 51, is the executive secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO – www.calaborfed.org. The federation represents 2.1 million members of 1,300 manufacturing, service, retail, construction, public sector and private industry unions. More »
	Duane J. Roth Duane Roth is chairman and chief executive officer of Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp., a company developing pharmaceutical and biotechnology products. Prior to co-founding Alliance in 1989, Roth was employed by Johnson & Johnson and American Home Products Corporation (now Wyeth), where he held senior management positions in their operating companies. More »
	Steven B. Sample Steven Sample is the tenth president of the University of Southern California (USC). He became president in 1991. Sample came to USC from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he had served as president since 1982. More »
	Terry Semel Terry Semel was appointed Yahoo!’s chairman and chief executive officer in May 2001. More »
	John S. Shegerian John S. Shegerian is the Chairman and CEO of Electronic Recyclers, Inc. (ERI). Established in 2002, ERI is an Electronic Waste collector and recycler, specializing in the environmentally safe and socially responsible dismantling of electronic items such as computers, televisions and monitors. Electronic Recyclers is recognized as the Number One Electronic Waste Recycler in the state of California and one of the largest in North America. More »
	George P. Shultz George P. Shultz is the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He was sworn in on July 16, 1982, as the sixtieth U.S. secretary of state and served until January 20, 1989. In January 1989, he rejoined Stanford University as the Jack Steele Parker Professor of International Economics at the Graduate School of Business and a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution. More »
	Paul D. Wachter Paul Wachter is the founder and chief executive officer of Main Street Advisors, a Santa Monica, California financial advisory firm to corporations and high net worth individuals. He was a key advisor to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s transition team and has advised Schwarzenegger for more than 20 years. More »

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