Art was appointed Chairman of the Board of Apple in November 2011. He had served as a co-lead director of Apple's board since 2005 and a director since 2000. He is Chairman of the Board of Amyris and a director of NGM Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He was a director of Google, Inc. from 2004 to 2009. He currently serves on the Board of Scientific Consultants of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the Industrial Advisory Board of the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research, the Advisory Council for the Princeton University Department of Molecular Biology and the Advisory Council for the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics.
Art has authored or co-authored more than 80 scientific articles and has been a named inventor on 11 United States patents. Art received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Washington and earned a doctorate in Biochemical Sciences from Princeton University.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is the founder chairman and CEO of Facebook, which he founded in 2004 in his college dorm room.
Mark is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy for Facebook. He leads the design of Facebook's service and the development of its core technology and infrastructure.
Mark studied computer science at Harvard University before moving the company to Palo Alto, California. In September 2010, Mark donated $100 million to the Newark Public School System to help renovate and revamp the system.
Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin, a native of Moscow, received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park. He is currently on leave from the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, where he received his master's degree. Sergey is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship as well as an honorary MBA from Instituto de Empresa. At Stanford, he met Larry Page and worked on the project that became Google. Together they founded Google Inc. in 1998, and Sergey continues to share responsibility for day-to-day operations with Larry Page and Eric Schmidt.
Sergey's research interests include search engines, information extraction from unstructured sources, and data mining of large text collections and scientific data. He has published more than a dozen academic papers, including Dynamic Data Mining: A New Architecture for Data with High Dimensionality, which he published with Larry Page.
Sergey has been a featured speaker at several international academic, business and technology forums, including the World Economic Forum and the Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference.
Anne Wojcicki
Anne Wojcicki is Co-Founder of 23andMe, a privately held personal genetics company that helps individuals understand their own genetic information through DNA analysis technologies and Web-based interactive tools. By encouraging individuals to access and learn about their own genetic information, 23andMe aims to create a common, standardized resource that has the potential to accelerate drug discovery and bring personalized medicine to the public. Anne has an extensive background in health-care investing, focused primarily on biotechnology companies. She received a bachelor's degree in biology from Yale University.
Yuri Milner
Yuri founded Mail.ru Group in 1999. Under his leadership, Mail.ru Group became the leading European Internet company. Yuri took that business public in 2010, stepping down from his role of Chairman at the beginning of 2012 to focus his efforts on global Internet investments. DST Global, a family of funds investing in Internet companies, was established in 2009 and is one of the largest Internet investors in the world.
Yuri graduated from Moscow State University in 1985 with an advanced degree in theoretical physics and subsequently conducted research at the Institute of Physics at the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2012 he launched the Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to advancing knowledge of the Universe at the deepest level by awarding annual prizes for scientific breakthroughs, as well as communicating the excitement of fundamental physics to the public.
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