Haas School of Business - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Scott Adams, MBA 86, Creator of Dilbert
• Margo Alexander, BS 68, Chairman, Acumen Fund, former Executive Vice President, UBS Paine Webber
• Bengt Baron, BS 85, MBA 88, President, Absolut Vodka
• Khalil M. H. Al-Shamma', Ph.D, Business Administration 62,Vice President Of the Arab Academy for Banking And Financial Sciences, Chairman,Board Of Directors Of PCT Group
• Richard Blum, BS 59, MBA 59, Founder, American Himalayan Foundation
• Rick Cronk, BS 65, Chairman and President, Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream (retired)
• Barbara Desoer, MBA 77, President, Consumer Products, Bank of America
• Stephanie DiMarco, BS 79, Chairman, Advent Software
• Noah Doyle, MBA 96, Co-founder of MyPoints (acquired by United Online)
• Tom Fanoe, MBA 69, President, Joe Boxer
• Donald Fisher, BS 50, Chairman & Founder, Gap Inc.
• Michael R. Gallagher, BS 67, MBA 68, CEO, Playtex Products
• Deborah E. Gallegos, MBA 95, CIO, City of New York
• John Garamendi, BS 66, Congressman, former Lieutenant Governor, State of California
• Barry Gilbert, MBA 77, CEO, Smith & Hawken
• Walter A. Haas, Jr., BS 37, President, CEO, and Chairman, Levi Strauss & Co.
• Walter A. Haas, Sr., BS 10, President and Chairman, Levi Strauss & Co.
• John Hanke, MBA 96, Founder and CEO of Keyhole, Inc., Co-creator and Product Director of Google Earth
• Allan Holt, MBA 76, Managing Director, Carlyle Group Co-Head of US Buyout
• Michele Lamarche, MBA, Managing Director, Lazard, Lead Advisor to Greece on its debt restructuring during 2010-2012
• Robert O'Donnell, BS, MBA, Former Vice Chairman of the Board, Senior Vice President and Director of Capital Research & Management Company
• Andrew Rudd, MBA 76, PhD, Co-Founder and former CEO and Chairman of Barra, Inc.
• James Ohlson, MBA 68, PhD 72, Chair of the Accounting Department at Stern School of Business, New York University
• Kenneth Reid, PhD 82, Co-Founder of AXA Rosenberg Group, a quantitative investment firm
• Richard Lindsey, PhD, Former Head of Prime Brokerage and Clearing Services and member of the Management Committee of Bear Stearns, former Chief Economist at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
• Leif Andersen, MBA, Head of FX, rates and credit quantitative research at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, laureate of Risk Magazine's 2001 Quant of the Year Award
• Bjorn Flesaker, PhD, Managing Director and Head of Fixed Income Quantitative Research at Prudential Financial
• Tom Byers, MBA 80, PhD 82, Founder and Co-Director of Stanford Technology Ventures Program; former Executive Vice President and General Manager of Symantec
• Michael Homer, BS 81, Chairman and CEO, Kontiki
• N. W. Jasper, MBA 71, President and CEO, Dolby Laboratories
• Joe Jimenez, MBA 84, CEO, Novartis
• Tom Kelley, MBA 83, General Manager, IDEO, and Author of The Art of Innovation
• Linda A. Lang, BS 80, Chairman and CEO, Jack in the Box, Inc.
• Allen J. Lauer, MBA 65, Chairman, Varian, Inc.
• Cathie Lesjak, MBA 86, CFO, Hewlett-Packard
• Robert Lutz, BS 61, MBA 62, Chairman, North America, and Vice Chairman, Product Development, General Motors
• Paul Merage, BS 66, MBA 68, Co-founder, Chef America, co-inventor of Hot Pockets, and benefactor of Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine
• Michael Milken, BS 68, Highly influential in developing the market for junk bonds (a.k.a. "high-yield debt")
• Norman Mineta, BS 53, US Secretary of Transportation
• Jorge Montoya, MBA 71, Present, Procter & Gamble, Latin America (retired)
• Sung Nak-Yang, MBA 96, former CEO of Yahoo! Korea
• Shantanu Narayen, MBA 93, CEO of Adobe Systems
• Douglas Ose, BS 77, Congressman
• Paul Otellini, MBA 74, President and CEO Intel
• Darrell Rodriguez, MBA, Former President of LucasArts
• Rudolph A. Peterson, BS 1925, President and CEO of Bank of America
• Rodrigo Rato, MBA 74, Former Managing Director of International Monetary Fund, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy, Spain
• John Riccitiello, BS 81, CEO of Electronic Arts, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Elevation Partners
• Paul Rice, MBA 96, CEO Transfair USA
• Arun Sarin, MBA 78, ex-CEO, Vodafone
• Thomas Schneider, MBA 62, Chairman, Ansett Worldwide
• Peter Schiff, President, Euro Pacific Capital
• Roger Siboni, BS 76, President and CEO, E.piphany
• Ned Spieker, BS 66, Managing Partner, Spieker Partners (real estate)
• Pete Stark, MBA 60, Congressman
• Paul Stephens, BS 67, MBA 69, founder of Robertson Stephens
• Gordon Stitt, MBA 82 - Co-founder and CEO of Extreme Networks
• Natasha Raja, MBA 02, Designer of Khawaish, Co-founder of Medicomm, Head of CRM at eBay
• Hirotaka Takeuchi, MBA 71, PhD 77, Dean, Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy
• Marcelo Trivelli, MBA 80, President of Regional Council, Regional Government of Santiago, Chile
• Michael Wood, MBA 79, Founder, Leapfrog Enterprises
• Rha Woong-Bae, PhD 68, former Finance and Economy Minister, Republic of Korea
• Donald Wurster, MBA 80, President, National Indemnity Co.