Accel Partners
James Breyer, Bruce Golden, and Eli Cohen, Partners
Founded in 1983, Accel has a history of partnering with outstanding management teams to build sustainable world-class companies. With over $3 billion under management, Accel maintains a sharp focus in the fundamentally important areas of Communications, Software and the Internet. Within these sectors, Accel brings a solid base of domain knowledge, relevant experience and industry contacts to its portfolio companies. Accel’s investments include UUNet, RealNetworks, Veritas Software, and Foundry Networks, along with other successful companies. Golden and Cohen are partners at the venture capital firm; Breyer has been Managing Partner since 1990.
American Express Corporation
Kenneth Chenault, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
American Express Company is a diversified worldwide travel, financial and network services company founded in 1850. The company is a world leader in charge and credit cards, Travelers Cheques, travel, financial planning, business services, insurance and international banking. Chenault has held various management positions with American Express since 1981, including being named President, Travel Related Services in 1990. In 2001, the year he become Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chenault ranked 23rd in Worth magazine’s Best CEO of the Year. He has been listed among the Top Blacks in Corporate America ranking by Black Enterprise magazine, and was named a Top 25 Manager of the Year by BusinessWeek magazine.
Bain & Company
Orit Gadiesh, Chairman
A global management consulting firm, Bain was founded on the principle that consultants must measure their success in terms of their clients' financial results. Bain helps top management teams make critical decisions on strategy, operations, mergers and acquisitions, and organization. Bain's clients have historically outperformed the stock market by 3:1. Bain has more than 2,000 employees in 25 offices worldwide. Gadiesh has repeatedly been honored as one of the 50 Most Powerful U.S. Businesswomen by Fortune magazine.
Bank of America Corporation
Kenneth D. Lewis, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Steele Alphin, Principal Personnel Executive
Bank of America, the nation’s first coast-to-coast bank as a result of the 1998 merger of NationsBank and BankAmerica, has offices in nearly 40 other countries and an expanding Internet presence in its four key lines of business: consumer and commercial banking, international investment banking, asset management and equity investments. Bank of America has more than 140,000 employees operating from 38 countries, and has $600 billion in assets. Alphin has been with the bank since 1977. A 30-year veteran of the banking industry, Lewis has been in his current post since April 2001. In addition, he Chairs the National Urban League.
BEA Systems
William Coleman, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer
Since its founding in 1995, BEA Systems has become a leading provider in the highly competitive application server software sector through a combination of focused acquisition and strategic alliances. Its e-commerce platforms, WebLogic and Tuxedo, have set industry standards for quality, and the company and its co-founders have won numerous awards and accolades from technology and business publications including Forbes ASAP, Fortune, BusinessWeek, Software Business and Investor Relations Magazine. Coleman co-founded BEA Systems.
California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS)
William D. Crist, President and Chairman of the Board of Administration
CalPERS, with more than $150 billion in assets, is the largest public pension system in the United States, managing retirement and health plans for 1.2 million beneficiaries from more than 2,500 government agencies. Through its extensive investment program, which includes U.S. and foreign securities, real estate, venture capital, hedge funds and private equity in financial services firms, CalPERS has become a leading voice in the dialogue on corporate governance issues in the international business community. Crist has served as President since 1992.
Cap Gemini SA
Geoff Unwin, Chairman and Former Chief Executive Officer
Cap Gemini focuses its information technology and consulting services around core sectors, including financial services, life sciences, manufacturing, health care, telecommunications, utilities and the public sector. With the 2001 acquisition of Ernst & Young, the Paris-based firm created a strong U.S. presence. It continues to expand its range of products and services in areas such as supply chain management, enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management and the creation of electronic marketplaces, often through alliances with such industry icons as Microsoft and Oracle. Unwin served as Chief Executive Officer from May 2000 until being named Chairman in early 2002.
Carlyle Group LP
David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder, Managing Director and Partner
Carlyle Group, based in Washington, D.C., is a global private equity firm with more than $12.5 billion under management. Carlyle’s mission is to generate extraordinary returns by employing a conservative, proven, and disciplined approach to investing. Carlyle invests in buy-outs, real estate, high-yield, and venture in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Asia, focusing on aerospace and defense, consumer and industrial, energy, healthcare, technology, real estate, and telecommunications and media. Since 1987, the firm has invested $6.4 billion and achieved a realized internal rate of return of 36 percent. The Carlyle Group has more than 500 employees in 24 offices in 13 countries. Rubenstein helped form the firm in 1987. Previously, he served for six years as a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge where he was counsel on a number of major corporate acquisitions and mergers. At the age of 27, Rubenstein became Deputy Domestic Policy Assistant to the President of the United States, a position he held until 1981.
Celestica, Inc.
Eugene V. Polistuk, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Celestica is a world leader in electronics manufacturing services for industry-leading original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). With facilities in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America, Celestica provides a broad range of services including design, prototyping, assembly, testing, product assurance, supply chain management, worldwide distribution and after-sales service. Polistuk is a recipient of Electronic Business Magazine’s Outstanding CEO Award. Under his leadership, Celestica has been recognized as the No. 1 ranking company on BusinessWeek’s 2001 InfoTech 100 list and as Canadian Business’ Company of the Year in the publication’s 2001 Tech 100 issue.
Celtic House International
Andrew Waitman, Managing General Partner
Celtic House, an early-stage technology venture capital firm established in 1994, has offices in Ottawa, Toronto and London, England. Funded by Mitel and Newbridge Networks founder Terence Matthews, it has more than 30 companies under management in its portfolio. A recent winner of the Canadian Venture Capital Association’s “Deal of the Year,” and the European Technology Forum’s “Seed Investor of the Year” for 2001, Celtic House invests in companies that specialize in telecommunications, storage, networking and Internet infrastructure. Waitman’s corporate experience before joining Celtic House includes founding a high-tech investment boutique firm and a stint at CitiBank Canada.
The Charles Schwab Corporation
David S. Pottruck, President and Co-Chief Executive Officer
The Charles Schwab Corporation is one of the nation’s largest financial services firms serving 7.8 million active accounts with $790.1 billion in client assets. The San Francisco-based company offers access to its brokerage services, investment advice and a full range of financial and investment products through a mix of the Internet, 24-hour telephone service centers, 430 nationwide branch offices and approximately 6,000 independent fee-based investment managers. The company is listed in Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For and Global Most Admired Companies rankings as well as the Fortune e-50 Stock Index and Hoover’s 500. During his tenure as Co-Chief Executive Officer, Pottruck has been recognized as a Chief of the Year by InformationWeek, and he has been ranked as a CEO of the Year by both Worth magazine and Morningstar. He serves on the Board of Governors of the Nasdaq Stock Market.
China Netcom Corporation
Edward Tian, President and Chief Executive Officer
China Netcom Corporation (CNC) is the leading integrated facilities-based broadband telecommunications operator in China. In 2000, CNC launched its national fiber optic backbone network, CNCNet, with a 40 Gbps overall bandwidth covering 17 major cities throughout the nation. The network is also the first in the world to deploy IP over DWDM optimized optic fiber telecommunications technology on a large scale. Starting from international gateways, through CNC’s national backbone, to local access networks, down to the very last mile, CNC’s “end-to-end” network provides customers with revolutionary gateway into the world of broadband. China Netcom is focused on providing integrated telecom services, including bandwidth, managed network, Internet data, satellite and voice products to business customers in China and the world. Tian was named “Star of Asia” by BusinessWeek magazine, a “Global Leader for Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum, and a Top 10 Entrepreneur by Red Herring magazine.
Conseco, Inc.
Gary Wendt, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Conseco, with an array of insurance, investment and lending products, has approximately $93.5 billion in managed assets and a strong middle-American franchise, reaching out to more than 50 million potential customer households. The company was incorporated in 1979 and went public in 1985. Its three-pronged mission: to be more efficient than other insurance companies; to actively manage its investments to generate greater returns with no additional risk; and to develop products that meet real market needs and find more effective channels for distributing them. Its distinctive “Step Up” brand reflects its dedication to consistently seeking the next highest level of accomplishment and performance. After 24 years at GE, Wendt was tapped to be Conseco’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in June 2000.
Dell Computer Corporation
Michael Dell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Dell is the world’s No. 1 computer systems company. The company ranks No. 48 on the Fortune 500, No. 122 on the Fortune Global 500 and No. 7 on the Fortune "most admired" lists of companies. The company employs approximately 34,400 team members around the globe and has revenues of approximately $32 billion. In addition to several other accolades, Michael Dell has been ranked among Worth magazine’s Best CEO of the Year, Upside magazine’s Elite’s 100, BusinessWeek magazine’s Top 25 Executives, Time magazine’s Top 50 Cyber Elite, Financial World magazine’s CEO of the Year, Inc. magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year, and PC magazine’s Man of the Year.
Deutsche Post World Net
Klaus Zumwinkel, Chairman of the Board of Management
Deutsche Post World Net (DPWN) is a leading provider of mail communication, parcels and express delivery, and logistics and financial services in Europe and an expanding network of global markets. With more than 300,000 employees, DPWN is one of the largest high-performing logistics companies in the world. With four flagship brands, Deutsche Post, DHL, Postbank, and Danzas, the company offers integrated solutions over a broad range of logistic and financial services sectors.
FedEx Corporation
Frederick W. Smith, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Federal Express, the world’s No. 1 express delivery company, is the flagship business of Memphis-based FedEx Corp., a holding company organized to offer a growing customer base a single source for a variety of delivery services. It has 56,000 drop-off locations, 640 aircraft and nearly 54,000 vehicles delivering more than three million packages to 210 companies and territories during a working day. Under the leadership of Smith, FedEx continues to innovate and build new opportunities for growth through strategic alliances complementing the core business. These include a strategic contract with the U.S. Postal Service and other FedEx operating companies: FedEx Ground, FedEx Freight, FedEx Custom Critical and FedEx Trade Networks. Smith is a director of the Business Roundtable, the Cato Institute, and numerous other industry, civic and business organizations. He also serves as Chairman of the U.S.-China Business Council.
Goldman Sachs
Steven Kerr, Chief Learning Officer
In the highly competitive arena of investment banking and brokerage, The Goldman Sachs Group is an unquestioned leader, both in terms of the number of Initial Public Offerings produced in the United States and Europe, and in terms of public image. It is ranked 15th in Fortune Magazine’s Best Companies to Work For listing and 13th in Fortune’s Global Most Admired Companies. Before joining Goldman Sachs as Chief Learning Officer (CLO) and Managing Director, Kerr was CLO and Vice President of Leadership Development at General Electric where he was responsible for its leadership education center at Crotonville. Prior to joining GE, he was on the faculty of the University of Michigan, and before that was dean of the faculty of the University of Southern California business school.
Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc.
Gerard R. Roche, Senior Chairman John T. Thompson, Vice Chairman
Roche was named “Recruiter of the Century” by his peers in an industry-wide poll late 1999. Since 1990, he has been recognized as the No. 1 General Management recruiter in three editions of HarperCollins’ Career Makers. Thompson has also been recognized in Career Makers as one of America’s most respected executive search consultants. Roche and Thompson are widely recognized as the leading CEO recruiters in the United States. In their 50+ collective years of executive search, they have conducted hundreds of senior-level search assignments for startups, mid-cap companies, and multinational organizations across a broad spectrum of industries. Together with John T. Gardner and other Vice Chairmen of Heidrick & Struggles, they lead the firm’s Office of the Chairman (OOC) that focuses on identifying, creating, and providing cutting-edge thought leadership for clients’ intellectual and human capital development. The charter of the OOC is to provide the highest quality search execution at the Board and chief executive level for clients worldwide.
Human Genome Sciences, Inc.
William A. Haseltine, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Human Genome Sciences is a pioneer in the use of genomics—the study of human genes—and the development of new pharmaceutical products. HGS’ mission is to develop new means to prevent and cure disease through understanding human genes. The company’s goal is to become a global pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures and sells its own genomics-based drugs. Haseltine founded in 1992. He holds a doctorate from Harvard University in Biophysics and was a Professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health from 1976 to 1993. He has a distinguished record of academic achievement in both cancer and AIDS research, for which he has received numerous awards and honors. He is the author of more than 250 published scientific manuscripts. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the online journal E-Biomed: The Journal of Regenerative Medicine and is former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of AIDS. Haseltine is President of The William A. Haseltine Foundation for Medical Sciences and the Arts, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Health Museum of Washington, D.C., a member of the Executive Committee of the Brookings Institution Board of Trustees, and a member of the Trilateral Commission and the French-American Business Council.
IBM Corporation
Linda Sanford, Senior Vice President and Group Executive, Storage Systems Group
IBM, the world’s largest computer company, makes software, personal computers, mainframe and server systems, notebooks, microprocessors and peripherals and also offers the world’s largest, and still growing, service business for computer products. The giant known as “Big Blue” continues to move its software operations away from an operating focus toward database, messaging and server software, while reorganizing its hardware business by merging the desktop and laptop operations and concentrating on its leading enterprise server and storage products. Continuing its long history of technological innovation, the company is at the forefront of today’s leading-edge technologies such as the Linux operating system, Bluetooth wireless networking and biotechnology. Sanford has been named one of the Top Ten Innovators in the Technology Industry by Information Week, one of Working Woman Magazine’s Ten Most Influential Women in Technology and one of Fortune’s 50 Most Influential Women in Business.
JPMorgan Partners
Dana Beth Ardi, Human Capital Partner
JPMorgan Partners (JPMP), formerly Chase Capital Partners, is a global partnership with over $25 billion under management. It is a leading provider of private equity and has closed over 1,800 individual transactions since its inception in 1984. JPMP has more than 160 investment professionals in eleven offices throughout the world. The company’s primary limited partner is J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., one of the largest financial institutions in the United States.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Ray Lane, General Partner
Lane is the former President and Chief Operating Officer of Oracle Corporation, where he led what some have described as “the transformation of the century.” Under his eight years of leadership, Oracle grew into an e-business and consulting powerhouse, seeing a tenfold increase in revenues and an increase of more than 9,600 percent in market capitalization. Today, Oracle is the second largest software company in the world. Consulting and related services account for more than half of the company $10 billion business. Previously, Lane held a variety of management or consultancy roles with Booz-Allen, Electronic Data Systems and IBM Corporation.
Lehman Brothers
J. Stuart Francis, Managing Director and Head of Global Technology Investment Banking
Lehman Brothers, an innovator in global finance, serves the financial needs of corporations, governments and municipalities, institutional clients, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Founded in 1850, Lehman Brothers maintains leadership positions in equity and fixed income sales, trading and research, investment banking, private equity, and private client services. The firm is headquartered in New York, London, and Tokyo, and operates in a network of offices around the world. Francis is Head of Global Technology Investment Banking and a member of Lehman Brothers' Operating Committee. During his 25-year career as a technology investment banker, he has been the senior client banker on hundreds of financing and M&A transactions for technology clients. Lehman Brothers' Global Technology Investment Banking Group includes technology bankers in nine countries across the globe.
Manugistics Group, Inc.
Gregory J. Owens, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Manugistics Group is a premier provider of Enterprise Profit Optimization (EPO) solutions—the powerful combination of supply chain management and pricing and revenue optimization initiatives—for enterprises and marketplaces. Its supply chain management software directs the flow of products from the raw-material stage through manufacturing, distribution and delivery. Its Web-based NetWORKS suite provides tools for capacity management, demand forecasting and inventory replenishment. Through acquisitions, the firm has moved beyond these core areas of expertise into the rapidly expanding arena of applications in revenue optimization. The Maryland-based firm has offices in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan and the United Kingdom as well as the United States. Before joining Manugistics in April 1999, Owens was formerly Global Managing Partner for Accenture's Supply Chain Management Practice.
National Association of Corporate Directors
B. Kenneth West, Chairman
Founded in 1977, the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) is the premier educational, publishing, and consulting organization in board leadership, and the only membership association for boards, directors, director-candidates and board advisors. The NACD, representing 3,000 total members, is an authoritative voice and vital forum on matters related to board and governance policy and practice. West is also Senior Consultant for Corporate Governance for Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF). (See TIAA-CREF below for a full description of its business.)
Onex Corporation
Gerald Schwartz, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Onex Corp. is the Toronto-based holding company and investment umbrella for Celestica Inc., ClientLogic Corp., Lantic Sugar Ltd., Dura Automotive Systems, Inc., J.L French Automotive Castings, Inc., MAGNATRAX Corp., InsLogic Corp., Performance Logistics Group, Inc., Radian Communication Services Corp. and Galaxy Entertainment, Inc. It was founded in 1983 by Schwartz, whose dynamic style of leadership drives its continuing expansion into new business sectors. The third-largest company in Canada, Onex had consolidated annual revenues of $24.5 billion in 2000. With consolidated assets approaching $20 billion, the firm has 97,000-plus employees engaged in building industry-leading companies to continually enhance value for its shareholders. Before establishing Onex in 1983, Schwartz was the co-founder and President of CanWest Capital, now CanWest Global Communications. Prior to that, he worked at a major Wall Street investment banking firm where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions.
Orbitz
Jeffrey Katz, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Orbitz is a full-service online travel agency offering consumers the widest selection of low airfares, as well as deals on lodging, car rentals, cruises, vacation packages and other travel. Orbitz’ state-of the-art flight search engine searches 450 airlines—up to two billion flight and fare options—offering the most unbiased and comprehensive list of airfares and schedules. According to Nielson Net Ratings, the Orbitz launch in June 2001 was one of the biggest e-commerce launches since 1999. Founded by the world’s leading airlines—American, Continental, Delta, Northwest and United airlines—Orbitz also has the Internet’s biggest collection of low-cost, web-only fares—from a wide array of airlines. Katz is a 20-year veteran in the airline industry and an expert in electronic reservations systems technology.
PBS Corporation
Pat Mitchell, President and Chief Executive Officer
The Public Broadcasting Service is the nation’s largest and only non-commercial broadcasting system, comprised of nearly 350 member stations reaching more than 99 percent of U.S. television households and an increasing number of digital multimedia households. A private, non-profit media enterprise, PBS uses the power of non-commercial television, the Internet and other media to enrich the lives of Americans, reaching nearly 100 million people each week with quality programs and education services. Mitchell began at PBS in March 2000, after a distinguished career in television. She has worked for all three broadcast networks, as well as cable with Turner Broadcasting, and founded her own production company. She has served as a news reporter, anchor, talk show host, producer and executive. Documentaries produced under Mitchell’s direction have won more than 100 major awards, including 41 Emmys, seven Peabodys and 35 CableACEs.
Pearl Meyer & Partners
Pearl Meyer, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Pearl Meyer & Partners is a leading executive compensation consulting firm specializing in the creation of innovative compensation programs to attract, retain, motivate and reward key executives and board members. Meyer, who founded the consultancy in 1989, is a nationally known expert on corporate governance issues and a regular speaker at events of the National Association of Corporate Directors, WorldatWork, American Management Association and the Conference Board. The firm is a Clark/Bardes consulting practice.
PepsiCo, Inc.
Steve Reinemund, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Lucien Alziari, Vice President, Staffing and Executive Development
PepsiCo has diversified beyond its soft drink business anchored by the world’s No. 2 soft drink brand, Pepsi-Cola, into related and faster-growing segments of the beverage and food industries with such recent initiatives as Aquafina, a bottled-water category leader, and SoBe, the non-carbonated beverage brand of South Beach Beverage Co. in which PepsiCo holds a majority stake. With the acquisition of The Quaker Oats Co. in 2001, the company landed the dominant sports drink brand, Gatorade, as well as a number of leading food brands to complement its market-leading salty snacks brands managed by its Frito-Lay division. The firm’s diversification away from lower margin soft drink bottling operations into niche foods and beverages accommodating growing demand for nutritionally fortified and health-enhancing products has enabled it to continue building brand leadership as well as profitability on a global basis. Reinemund started his career at PepsiCo in 1984; Alziari in 1991.
PeopleSoft, Inc.
Craig Conway, President and Chief Executive Officer
PeopleSoft is the world’s leading provider of software for enterprise collaboration. Its industry leading applications include Customer Relationship Management, Enterprise Service Automation, Supply Chain Management, Human Resources Management, Financial Management, and Enterprise Performance Management. More than 4,700 organizations in 107 countries run on PeopleSoft software. PeopleSoft is ranked No. 33 on BusinessWeek’s InfoTech 100. Conway joined the company in 1999. In March 2001, a study by McKinsey & Company called PeopleSoft's turnaround "an excellent example of how a company can improve financial returns by strengthening its performance environment."
Pfizer
Hank McKinnell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Pfizer, following its 2000 acquisition of Warner-Lambert, is the world’s most valuable pharmaceutical company. Its products include category-leading Lipitor, a cholesterol-lowering drug; Viagra to treat erectile dysfunction; and Norvasc, a treatment for hypertension. Pfizer also markets leading consumer brands such as Benadryl, Neosporin, Schick and Wilkinson Sword shaving products, Halls and Visine. Pfizer has the world’s largest privately funded biomedical research effort and markets its products in more than 150 nations. The company is also entering new fields such as a joint-venture software initiative to automate clinical procedures in physicians’ offices. McKinnell, with Pfizer since 1992, served as the 2001 Chairman of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association. He is a director of the Business Roundtable and is Vice Chairman of the Committee for Economic Development.
Procter & Gamble Company
A.G. Lafley, President and Chief Executive Officer
Procter & Gamble, with more than 250 household product brands available in over 140 countries, is a corporate institution in the global marketplace and a leader in innovative product development, sales and marketing. The Cincinnati-based giant, with $40 billion in annual revenues and nearly 106,000 employees, is responsible for some of the world’s best-loved and longest-lived brands including Pampers, Tide, Always, Actonel, Pantene, Bounty, Pringles, Folgers, Charmin, Downy, Iams, Olay, Crest, and Vicks. The company has steadily enhanced its lineup both through R&D and strategic acquisition, including its 2001 acquisition of Clairol, the largest deal in the company’s history. Under the leadership of Lafley, who began his P&G career as a brand assistant and moved up through the ranks, the company is focused on building its biggest brands globally and increasing its leadership in faster-growing, higher-margin, more asset-efficient businesses such as health care and beauty care.
Research in Motion Ltd.
Donald H. Morrison, Chief Operating Officer
Research in Motion (RIM) is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the mobile communications market. Through development and integration of hardware, software and services, RIM provides solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information including email, messaging, Internet- and intranet-based applications. RIM technology also enables a broad array of third-party developers and manufacturers around the world to enhance their products and services with wireless connectivity. RIM’s portfolio of award-winning products includes the RIM Wireless Handheld™ product line, the BlackBerry wireless email solution, wireless PC card adapters, embedded radio modems and software development tools. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, RIM was founded in 1984 and has offices in Canada, the United States and Great Britain. Prior to joining RIM, Morrison held a series of successively responsible positions at AT&T Canada, ACC TelEnterprises and Bell Canada.
Sempra Energy
Stephen L. Baum, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Sempra Energy, based in San Diego, is a Fortune 500 energy services holding company with annual revenues of approximately $9 billion. Through its eight principal subsidiaries—Southern California Gas Company, San Diego Gas & Electric, Sempra Energy Solutions, Sempra Energy Trading, Sempra Energy International, Sempra Energy Resources, Sempra Communications and Sempra Energy Financial—the Sempra Energy companies’ 12,000 employees serve more than nine million customers in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, South America and Asia. Baum has been with Sempra since 1998 and in his current post since September 2000. Previously, Baum served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Enova Corporation, the former parent company of San Diego Gas & Electric. Prior to that, he held legal positions with New York Power Authority and Orange & Rockland Utilities.
Siemens AG
Heinrich von Pierer, Chief Executive Officer
Siemens is a world leader in electronics and electrical engineering, operating in the energy, industry, information and communications, healthcare, transportation and lighting sectors. With annual revenues in excess of $78 billion, Siemens operates in more than 190 countries and has over 450,000 employees. Pierer serves on the Board of Directors of several German companies including Bayer and Volkswagen. He joined Siemens in its legal department in 1969 and has been the company’s Chief Executive Officer since 1992.
Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF)
John H. Biggs, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
For 80 years, TIAA-CREF has provided pensions and life insurance to educators and researchers. As a major institutional investor in corporations both in the U.S. and abroad, TIAA-CREF maintains an active interest in corporate governance and has taken positions on a number of stockholder issues that range from executive compensation to board diversity and anti-takeover initiatives. As an actuary and economist, Biggs has long been involved in corporate and public finance and in the move for global accounting and auditing standards. He serves on the boards of the Boeing Company, the J. Paul Getty Trust, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Washington University in St. Louis, and is a member of the Business Roundtable. He is past chairman of the United Way of New York City.
Unisys Corporation
Lawrence A. Weinbach, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Unisys is a major provider of consulting, network integration, project management, systems support and other high-tech services, focusing on the financial services, communications, transportation, publishing, commercial and public market sectors. The company has moved away from low-margin hardware and redirected its technology focus toward high-end servers through co-branding alliances with other manufacturers, and toward high-growth technology markets such as customer relationship management, e-commerce and mobile commerce. Weinbach, formerly Managing Partner-Chief Executive of Andersen Worldwide, led Andersen to global market leadership in its field during his tenure there, and has moved rapidly toward an innovative and dynamic repositioning of Unisys since being named its CEO in 1997.
WWF International
Claude Martin, Director General
WWF, the conservation organization, is dedicated to the protection of the world’s wild plants and animals through the conservation of forests, oceans and freshwater ecosystems and through countering climate change and toxic pollution. Its ultimate goal is to build a future in which humans can live in harmony with nature. For this work, WWF receives funding from foundations, corporations, governments and individuals. Since becoming Director General of WWF International in 1993, Martin has initiated several new approaches in conservation. He is a member of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, a Board member of the Ghana Heritage Conservation Trust, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science & Technology. His career with the conservation organization began in the early ‘70s.
Academia and Leadership Experts
Jim Collins
Leadership Expert and Author
Collins describes himself as a student and teacher of enduring great companies—how they grow, how they attain superior performance and how they sustain greatness over time. In more than a decade of research on the subject, he has co-authored four books, including the classic Built to Last, which remained on BusinessWeek’s Best Seller List for more than five years, generating over 70 printings and translation into 17 languages. His work has been featured in a wide variety of publications ranging from USA Today to the Harvard Business Review. His latest book is Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t. A New York Times bestseller, the book is based on five years of research into the question of what distinguishes a good company from a great one. From his management research laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, Collins teaches and consults for both corporate and non-profit organizations. Formerly a faculty member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Collins is a recipient of its Distinguished Teaching Award.
Jay Conger
Professor of Organizational Behavior, London Business School and Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Formerly the Executive Director of the Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California, Conger is one of the world’s experts on leadership. An author of over eighty articles and ten books, he researches leadership, innovation, boards of directors, organizational change, and the training and development of leaders and managers. He has been selected by BusinessWeek as the best business school professor to teach to executives. In 2001, he was chosen by BusinessWeek as the No. 5 out of the Top Ten management gurus in the world.
John Hagel
Business Consultant and Author
Hagel is a business consultant and the best-selling author of Net Gain: Expanding Markets through Virtual Communities and Net Worth: Shaping Markets When Customers Make the Rules. In October 2002, Harvard Business School Press will release his latest book titled Out of the Box: Strategies for Achieving Profits Today and Growth Tomorrow through Web Services. Hagel spent 16 years at McKinsey & Co. where he was a leader of the Strategy Practice and founder and global leader of the E-Commerce Practice. He also served as Chief Strategy Officer of 12 Entrepreneuring, Inc., a new form of operating company focused on building and operating businesses to deploy Web services technology. Hagel brings distinctive expertise on the role of information technology in shaping business strategy, organization and opportunities for economic value creation.
John P. Kotter
Retired Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Harvard Business School
Kotter is one of the world’s most highly regarded speakers on the topics of leadership and change. Kotter made history at Harvard when he was given tenure at a full professorship at the School in 1980 at the age of 33—one of the youngest faculty members in the history of the university to be so honored. His Harvard Business Review articles over the past 25 years have sold over a million and a half reprints. He is the author of a number of path-breaking books, including What Leaders Really Do, Matsushita Leadership, Leading Change, Corporate Culture and Performance and A Force for Change. His latest book is on the subject of navigating change. His many honors include the Exxon Award for Innovation in Graduate Business School Curriculum Design and the Johnson, Smith & Knisely Award for New Perspectives in Business Leadership. Matsushita Leadership won first place in the Financial Times/Booz Allen Global Business Book Competition. His works have been printed in more than 70 foreign languages editions, with total sales approaching two million copies.
Henry Mintzberg
Professor of Management, McGill University
Mintzberg joined the Montreal-based McGill University’s Faculty of Management in 1968 and has earned a worldwide reputation as a global scholar on the topic of management. The first Fellow to be elected to the Royal Society of Canada from the field of management, Mintzberg is also a past president and founding member of the Strategic Management Society, which is an association of 1,800 academicians and practitioners from 44 countries. He holds honorary doctorates from 12 universities and has been a visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon, the London Business School, the Ecole des Haute Etudes Commerciales in Montreal, INSEAD, and the University of Aix-Marseilles in France. His many publications include The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, which was named best book of 1995 by the Academy of Management.
Elspeth Murray and Peter Richardson
Professors of Strategic Management, School of Business, Queen’s University
Murray researches and teaches in the area of strategic management, with a special interest in innovation and the management of new ventures. Her prior corporate experience includes stints at IBM and Accenture and as an owner-operator of a series of Canadian Tire retail stores. In addition to her teaching and research activities, Murray also consults to corporations on strategic management and new venture management. Some of her clients include Microsoft Canada, Bombardier, Roche Canada, GlaxoSmithKline, Working Ventures, Bell Canada, Med-Eng Systems, and MDS Capital. Richardson is an authority on leading strategy implementation and change, focusing on innovation as it relates to business performance. He has developed a novel, strategic approach to cost management and margin improvement which has been adopted by public and private sector organizations around the world. His books include the groundbreaking Cost Containment: The Ultimate Advantage and a co-authored book with Murray titled Fast Forward: Implementing Rapid Organizational Change. Richardson’s clients include Inco Ltd., GlaxoSmithKline, Acklands-Grainger, The Supreme Court of Canada, and Falconbridge.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Thomas Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Pfeffer has authored or co-authored numerous articles and 10 books on organizational design and development, including The Human Equation: Building Profits By Putting People First and Competitive Advantage Through People: Unleashing the Power of the Work Force. Many of his publications have been translated into other languages. He serves on several corporate boards as well as the Academy of Management. Formerly Director of Executive Education at Stanford, he teaches executive seminars for companies all over the globe and lectures and consults for many organizations in the private and public sectors. His many accolades include the Richard D. Irwin Award for Scholarly Contributions to Management.
Mohanbir Sawhney
McCormick Tribune Professor of Electronic Commerce and Technology, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Sawhney is also the Director of the Center for Research in Technology Innovation and E-Commerce at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He has created three new MBA courses at Kellogg—Technology Marketing, TechVenture and Technology & Global Resource Arbitrage—as well as a popular executive course, Winning Strategies for e-Business. He has co-authored two recent books, The Seven Steps to Nirvana: Strategic Insights into eBusiness Transformation and Techventure: New Rules for Value and Profit from Silicon Valley, and authored many articles in leading business publications, including The Financial Times, CIO magazine, and Business 2.0. His many awards and accolades include BusinessWeek’s list of the 25 Most Influential People in e-Business and Outstanding Business Professor of the Year at Kellogg.
The Book
Overview
Inside the Bookcover
Foreword
Preface
Excerpts
Chapter 1 - Leadership
Chapter 2 - Managing Human Capital
Chapter 3 - Competitive Advantage
Chapter 4 - Strategic Change
Chapter 5 - The Stakeholder's View
Prologue
List of Featured Executives
Executive & Company Bios
Fast Facts
About the Editors
Contact the Editors