PAST VISIONARY HONOREES
Visionary Honorees 2020

Sallie Krawcheck CoFounder & CEO, Ellevest // Forbes World's 100 Most Powerful Women (#7)
Forbes World's 100 Most Powerful Women (#7)

Roya Mahboob CoFounder & CEO, Digital Citizen Fund & President, ACSC // TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People In The World
TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People In The World

Mustafa Suleyman CoFounder, DeepMind AI // Led the AI Lab to the largest acquisition in Europe's history
Led the AI Lab to the largest acquisition in Europe's history

Julie Wainwright Founder & CEO, The RealReal // Inc.’s Female Founders 100 list Fast Company’s Most Creative People In Business
Inc.’s Female Founders 100 list Fast Company’s Most Creative People In Business

RISING STAR: Daniela Fernandez Founder & CEO, Sustainable Ocean Alliance // Award-winning social entrepreneur and international speaker
Award-winning social entrepreneur and international speaker

Visionary Honorees 2018

Kimberly Bryant Founder, Black Girls Code

Vivek Wadhwa Academic, Researcher, Writer & Entrepreneur

Astro Teller Captain of Moonshots, Google X

Caterina Fake Co-Founder, Flickr / Hunch, Author, Entrepreneur, and Angel Investor

Visionary Honorees 2017

Don Eigler Director at the Wetnose Institute for Advanced Pelagic

Linda Rottenberg CEO and Cofounder, Endeavor

Megan Smith 3rd U.S. CTO, Entrepreneur, Engineer

Neri Oxman Architect, Designer, Inventor and Professor, MIT's Med

Visionary Honorees 2016

Jennifer Pahlka Founder, Code for America

Chairman Tom Wheeler Chairman, FCC

Carl Bass CEO, Autodesk

Andrew Stephen Grove Founder and CEO, Intel Corporation

Visionary Honorees 2015

Anne Wojcicki CEO and Co-Founder, 23andMe

David Kelley Founder and Chairman, IDEO

Katie Linendoll Reporter and Journalist, Today Show

Tony Fadell Founder and CEO, Nest

Visionary Honorees 2014

Tim Draper Founding Partner, DFJ

Jessica Jackley Entrepreneur, Author, Investor

Tim O’Reilly Founder, O'Reilly Media

Tina Seelig Prof of the Practice, Department of MS & E, Stanford University

Visionary Honorees 2013

Steve Blank Serial-entrepreneur and Academician

Peter Diamandis Chairman and CEO, X PRIZE Foundation

Ray Kurzweil Author, Inventor, Futurist

Padma Warrior Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, Cisco

Visionary Honorees 2012

Jim Breyer Partner, Accel

David Kirkpatrick Founder and CEO, Techonomy Media

Salman Khan Founder, Khan Academy

Elon Musk Founder and CEO, Tesla Motors

Visionary Honorees 2011

Promod Haque Managing Partner, Norwest Venture Partners

Dr. Hermann Hauser Co-Founder, Amadeus Capital Partners

Guy L. “Bud” Tribble VP of Software Technology, Apple

T.J. Rodgers Founder, President, CEO and Director, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

Visionary Honorees 2010

Reid Hoffman Co-Founder, Executive Chairman and Partner, LinkedIn and Greylock Partners

Arthur C. Patterson Co-Founder, Accel Partners

Brent Schlender Executive Director and Co-Founder, Techonomy Media

Chris Shipley Chairman and CEO, Guidewire Group

Visionary Honorees 2009

James H. Clark Co-Founder, Silicon Graphics and Netscape

Judy Estrin CEO, Jlabs

Vinod Kohsla Co-Founder, Sun Microsystems

Kay Koplovitz Founder, USA Network

Visionary Honorees 2008

Forest Baskett General Partner, NEA

Diane Greene President and CEO, Vmware

Reed Hastings Founder and CEO, Netflix

Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs Chairman and Co-Founder, Qualcomm

Steven Levy Senior Writer, WIRED

Visionary Honorees 2007

Craig McCaw Founder, Chairman and CEO, Eagle River Investments

Michael Moritz Partner, Sequoia Capital

Walt Mossberg Columnist, Wall Street Journal

Heidi Roizen Venture Capitalist, Mobius Venture Capital

Visionary Honorees 2006

Vinton G. Cerf VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Chairman, IBM Corporation

John L. Hennessy Prof. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University

Terry Semel Chairman and CEO, Yahoo
Visionary Honorees 2005

Carol Bartz Chairman, President and CEO, Autodesk

Carly Fiorina Former Chairman and CEO, HP

William H. Draper, III Managing Director, Draper Richards L.P.

Ray Ozzie CTO, Microsoft
Visionary Honorees 2004

Craig R. Barrett Retired CEO and Chairman of the Board, Intel

Marc Benioff Chairman and CEO, Salesforce

John Chambers President and CEO, Cisco Systems

Scott D. Cook Co-Founder and Chairman, Intuit
Visionary Honorees 2003

Andy Bechtolsheim VP and General Manager, Gigabit Systems, Cisco

Eric Benhamou Chairman, 3Com Corporation

Dr. JoMei Chang Founder and CEO, Vitria

Alfred Chuang CEO, BEA Systems

Kamran Elahian Chairman, Global Catalyst Partners
Visionary Honorees 2002

Sandra Kurtzig Former CEO, ASK Computer Systems

Nolan Bushnell Founder, Atari Corporation and Chuck E. Cheese

Grady Booch Chief Scientist, Rational Software Corporation

John Seely Brown Former Director, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

Jimmy Treybig Former CEO, Tandem Computers

Gordon E. Moore President, CEO and Chairman, Intel

Dick Kramlich Chairman and Co-Founder, NEA
Visionary Honorees 2001

Catherine Muther Founder, Astia, Three Guineas Fund

Sandy Robertson Founding Partner, Francisco Partners

Arthur Rock Principal, Arthur Rock & Co

Jeff Skoll Philanthropist, eBay Pioneer

Steve Wozniak Co-Founder and Technical Visionary, Apple
Visionary Honorees 2000

Ronald Conway Founding General Partner, Angel Investors L.P.

Charles M. Geschke Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, Adobe Systems

Gerald W. Kearby Co-Founder, President, CEO and Director, Liquid Audio, Inc

Steve Kirsch CEO, Propel

Alain Rossman Founder, Chairman and CEO, Phone.com

Larry Sonsini Chairman and CEO, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati

John E. Warnock Co-Founder, Co-Chairman and CEO, Adobe Systems
Visionary Honorees 1999

Marc Andreessen CTO, AOL

Doug Engelbart Inventor, Discoverer, and Dreamer

Bill Gates Founder and CEO, Microsoft

James Gosling VP and Fellow, eBay

Ann Winblad Founding Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Visionary Honorees 1998

Edwin Catmull Executive VP and CTO, Pixar

Alan Cooper President, Cooper Interaction Design

John Doerr Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers Venture Capital

Donna Dubinsky Co-Founder, Handspring

Jeff Hawkins Co-Founder, Handspring

Esther Dyson Chairman, EDventure Holdings

Guy Kawasaki CEO, Garage Technology Venture

Scott McNealy Co-Founder, Sun Microsystems

Robert Metcalfe Co-invented Ethernet, Founder, 3Com

Nathan Myhrvold CTO, Microsoft
