Recent Speakers
Recent Speakers & Other Notable Speakers
Don Allen, CEO, Cupertino National Bank
Noah Alper, Founder, NOAH’s Bagels
Ed Asner, Actor
Andy Ball, CEO, WebCor
Dick Bolles, Author, What Color is your parachute?
Joe Canon, Athlete, San Jose Earthquake’s (ML Soccer)
David Cay Johnson, Reporter, NY Times/Author
Greg Chamitoff, Astronaut
John Chiang, Controller, State of California
Ward Connerly, UC Regent, Retired
Phil Cosentino, Founder, Cosentino Groceries
James Dover, CEO, O’Connor Hospital
Dan Duckhorn, CEO, Duckhorn Winery
Firoozhe Dumas, Funny in Farsi
Dan Gordon, CEO, Gordon Biersch
Dr. Fran Harvey, Secretary of the Army, Retired
Greg Jamison, CEO, San Jose Sharks
Greg Kihn, Musician
Kathy Levinson, COO, E*Trade
Abel Maldonado, LT Governor
Bob Mazucca, CEO, Boy Scouts of America
Lee-Anne Mulholland, World Peace Fellow
Barry McCaffrey, Army General and US Drug Czar
Gavin Newsom, LT Governor
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker, US House of Representatives
Michael Powell, Federal Communications Commission
Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women
T.J. Rodgers, CEO Cypress Semiconductor
Linda Ronstadt, Entertainer
Elliot Schrage, VP, Facebook
Jackie Speier, Member of Congress
Mike Splinter, CEO Applied Materials
Godfrey Sullivan, COO, Hyperion
Dick Tomey, San Jose Football
David Walker, US Comptroller
Tony West, Assistant, US Attorney General
Lew Wolff, Owner Oakland Athletics
John Woolard, CEO, BrightSource
Bruce Woolpert, CEO, Graniterock
Betty Yee, Board of Equalization
Jed York, Owner, SF 49ers
Other Past Prominent Speakers
Phil Angelides, Treasurer, State of California
Jerry Brown, Governor of California
Tom Campbell, U.S. Representative/Dean Haas School of Business
John Crummey, Founder FMC Corporation
George Deukmejian, Governor, State of California
Elizabeth Dole, U.S. Senator
Gerald Ford, President of the United States
Anthony Frank, Postmaster General
John Garamendi, State of California Lt. Governor
Bing Gordon, Founder Electronic Arts
Billy Graham, Evangelist
Ellen Hancock, CEO Exodus Communications
Paul Harris, Founder, Rotary International
Reed Hastings, CEO Netflix
Herbert Hoover, President of the United States
Greg Joswiak, V.P. Marketing Apple Computer
Dennis Kucinich, U.S. Representative/Presidential Candidate
Tony LaRussa, Baseball Manager
Ronnie Lott, Hall of Fame San Francisco 49er
Sanford McDonnell, CEO McDonald Douglas
Bruce McPherson, State of California Secretary of State
Franklin Mieuli, Owner Golden State Warriors
Norman Y. Mineta, U.S. Secretary of Transportation
Susan Packard Orr, CEO Packard Foundation
William Perry, U.S. Secretary of Defense
Steve Poizner, Insurance Commissioner, State of California
Richard Riordan, Mayor, City of Los Angeles
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
T.J. Rodgers, CEO Cypress Semiconductor
Frederick Smith, CEO FedEx Corporation
Mike Splinter, CEO Applied Materials
Edward Teller, PhD, Nuclear Physicist
Robert Trent Jones, Golf Course Designer
John Tunney, U.S. Senator
Ted Turner, Businessman/Philanthropist
Peter Uberroth, Commissioner of Major League Baseball
Bill Walsh, Hall of Fame Football Coach
Steve Westley, Controller, State of California
Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder, Apple Computer