Until recently head of Hewlett-Packard. Hewlett-Packard is one of the most important computer makers in the world.
Co-founder of Broadcast.Com which sold out to Yahoo and made him a billionaire. According to an article in the Dallas Morning News, he grew up in Pittsburgh to Jewish parents.
President and CEO of Veritas Software Company, the leading information storage software company in the world. In 1999, the company ranked in the top ten of Fortunes list of the one hundred fastest growing companies.
co-founder and CEO of Facebook
Founder, Chairman and CEO of the Dell Computer Corporation. Texas-born and raised--he is a major benefactor of the Austin Jewish community. Dell is the largest private employer in Austin.
Founder of Lotus Software. The first successful spreadsheet program. He was a radio disc jockey and a full-out hippie before he got into computing. Now he is a venture capitalist and has his own foundation. His views are still far from the mainstream.
creator of the Camera Phone, Founder of Fullpower, Borland
Tinkerer, inventor, consummate TV pitch man. His father was definitely Jewish (no info. on mother)& continued the inventor, street vendor business started by Rons Great Uncles and Grandfather. The business was known as Gadget Master, then Popeil, & then Ronco. Ron has gone up-scale--we doubt we will see spray-on hair again.
Chairman of the "Deutsche Telekom", the German AT&T; born in Haifa.
CEO and President Global Software Inc.
Citroën was a French industrialist. He is remembered chiefly for the make of car named after him, but also for his application of double helical gears.
CEO of Intel Corp. He was a refugee, who came to the United States following the 1956 Hungarian revolution.
CEO and founder of Compaq Computer. Born in New Orleans, his parents divorced when he was young and his mother raised the family alone on a secretarys salary. He and his brother became engineers. Rosen moved on to being a technology analyst on Wall Street. He quickly spotted and helped direct capital to promising PC companies. He recently took over Compaq again and is a hands-on manager.
Israeli-American founder CEO and president of Packard Bell Electronics
CEO and founder of Applied Materials, one of the most impt. high-tech firms in Silicon Valley. A native Israeli. The company has major investments in Israel. Maydan and his wife Dalia (who taught physics) are major benefactors of the Northern California Jewish community.
Founder of Polaroid. Family came from Russia and "landed"--thats how he got his last name.
Founder and CEO of 3-Com corporation. Its most famous product is the Palm Pilot.
President of General Electric from the 1920s until the late 40s. Was one of the few Jews who rose, or was allowed to rise, to the head of a major US industrial company before WWII. Made GE the "powerhouse" it still is. Advocated "welfare capitalism" for employees & accepted unionization more easily than most. Major early donor to Israel.
co-founder of Google, Inc.
CEO and Founder of Oracle Corporation
