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Matthew Bishop
Matthew Bishop is the U.S. business editor and New York bureau chief of The Economist. His new book, The Road from Ruin: How to Renew Capitalism and Put America Back on Top, with Michael Green, was published by Crown in February 2010. Philanthrocapitalism, his previous book (also with Mr. Green) was on the global revolution under way in philanthropy. Mr. Bishop is also the author of Essential Economics, The Economist's official layperson's guide to economics. Mr. Bishop is the author of several of The Economist's special report supplements, most recently "A Bigger World," which examines the opportunities and challenges accompanying the rise of emerging economies and firms. Before joining The Economist, Mr. Bishop was on the faculty of London Business School.
Pat Gelsinger
Pat Gelsinger is president and chief operating officer of EMC Information Infrastructure Products. With 2009 revenues of $14 billion and approximately 43,000 employees, EMC is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Mr Gelsinger is responsible for EMC's Information Infrastructure product portfolio, including its Information Storage, RSA Information Security, Information Intelligence Group, and Ionix IT management divisions. Before joining EMC, Mr Gelsinger was senior vice-president and co-general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, the company's largest business group accounting for more than half of Intel's annual revenue. Under Gelsinger's leadership, that group was responsible for Intel's enterprise products including clients (PC's), Server (Xeon and Itanium), Embedded, Communications, Visualization and Storage products. The group was also responsible for the award-winning Nehalem microarchitecture product development. Prior to this, Gelsinger led Intel Labs, which encompasses many of Intel research activities, including leading Corporate Technology Group and Intel Research. As Intel's first chief technology officer, he managed Intel's longer-term research efforts and helped ensure consistency from Intel's emerging computing, networking and communications products and technologies.
Jim Goodnight
Jim Goodnight is co-founder, president and CEO of SAS, the world's leading business analytics software vendor. Dr Goodnight's commitment to progressive work-life programmes such as on-site child care, health care and recreation and fitness center have consistently put SAS at the top of Fortune's list of "100 Best Companies to Work For." Dr Goodnight put education at the top of SAS' philanthropic efforts by co-founding the SAS Institute France Cary Academy, a college-preparatory day school for grades 6-12 that integrates technology into all facets of education. From 1972 to 1976 Dr Goodnight was a professor at North Carolina State University. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association, he has authored numerous papers on statistical computing.
Padmasree Warrior
Padmasree Warrior is Senior Vice-president of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer at Cisco.
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- Economist, The
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