PAST VISIONARY HONOREES
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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
