Osama bin Laden family members invested $10M in an equity
fund run by former Bechtel unit. May 5, 2003: 2:17 PM EDT
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The Bush administration launched a war on terror because
of the alleged acts of Osama bin Laden. Ironically, one of the companies the administration
has picked to rebuild Iraq after the latest phase of that war has ties to bin Laden's
family, according to a published report.
Bechtel Corp., a private construction firm based in San Francisco, recently was
awarded a State Department contract, potentially worth more than $600 million, to
help rebuild Iraq's infrastructure after the recent U.S.-led war there.
The Bush administration pushed for that war, in part, because it said the regime
of Saddam Hussein, former leader of Iraq, had ties to the al Qaeda terror network,
headed by bin Laden, the group allegedly responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks in the United States.
According to an article in the May 5 issue of New Yorker magazine, several
bin Laden family members -- part of a large, Saudi Arabian family that made a fortune
in the construction business -- invested about $10 million in a private equity fund
operated by former subsidiary of Bechtel before Sept. 11.
Fremont Group, a San Francisco-based private investment firm, once was a unit of
Bechtel, and its board still includes Bechtel CEO Riley P. Bechtel and former U.S.
Secretary of State and former Bechtel President George P. Shultz, along with several
current Bechtel directors.
Bechtel could not be reached for comment.
Fremont spokeswoman Pat Harden confirmed bin Laden's family had invested $10 million
in a Fremont fund, but she said the family had no ownership stake in Fremont and
its investment was made "well before the events of Sept. 11."
"Our concern is that it be clear they're investors, like many, in one of our many
private equity funds," Harden said, noting that the Patriot Act of 2001 requires
such investors to be screened for connections to terrorism. "This is all totally
legal and above-board."
Harden didn't know exactly when bin Laden's family invested in the equity fund.
Fremont general counsel Rick Kopf told the New Yorker bin Laden's family
had invested nothing in Fremont since Sept. 11.
None of bin Laden's family members has been charged with any crimes, and the family
denounced Osama bin Laden in the mid-1990s. Some family members also have publicly
denounced the Sept. 11 attacks.
Saying they feared for their safety, about two dozen family members living in the
United States left the country as soon as airports re-opened after Sept. 11.
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Note: Contra Costa Times reporter Michael Taugher left BANG to Dept. of Fish and Game as PIO, he drowns and this same club lead to State Senator Don Perata daughter in-law drowned months apart and near President Obama there is the death of Ashley Turton but near Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton is Ambassador Stevens death in Benghazi.
Rep. Ellen Tauscher, of Alamo, is the Obama administration's pick for a key State Department post for arms control issues.
Tauscher is regarded as one of the most knowledgeable members of Congress on the nation's nuclear arsenal and a moderate who walks a fine line to balance support for nuclear weapons research at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, which is in her district, and the demands of peace activists.
"There is some skepticism among the nuclear control and disarmament community," said Christopher Paine, nuclear program director for the environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council.
Paine nonetheless called the pick a good one.
"Certainly, she has the potential to do a terrific job," Paine said.
Tauscher has not been vetted for the job, a process that can take weeks or months. The position also requires Senate confirmation. If Tauscher is appointed, a special election would be held to replace her for the rest of her two-year term ending January 2011.
The choice of Tauscher was first reported by The Associated Press. Congressional sources confirmed the AP's story for MediaNews.
If confirmed as undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, Tauscher would serve as a senior adviser on arms control, nonproliferation and disarmament issues to the president and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, whom Tauscher supported in last year's Democratic presidential primaries.
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Experts said that among the tasks Tauscher would take on would be working with Russia to reduce nuclear stockpiles in the two countries, dealing with countries who might be seeking nuclear power and trying to limit small arms markets around the world.
The highest profile arms control challenges — Iran and North Korea, for example — would more likely be dealt with within the White House between President Barack Obama and the National Security Council, said Steven Weber, director of UC Berkeley's Institute of International Studies.
"There's some other issues we don't want to forget about," Weber said.
Developing a coherent approach to nations that are seeking nuclear power — and that therefore could eventually develop nuclear weapons — could be a key task facing the next undersecretary, Weber said.
"It's wrong to say you can wall off military uses for nuclear power," he said. "It's going to be managing the process inside the government and coming up with a coherent position for the government."
Tauscher, 57, was first elected to Congress in 1996 after an upset of two-term Republican incumbent Bill Baker. Tauscher, a wealthy former investment banker, spent $1.7 million of her own money on the election.
The chairman of a coalition of centrist congressional Democrats, Tauscher has remained moderate on political issues, occasionally angering more liberal members of her party.
Tauscher chairs the strategic forces subcommittee, which oversees the nation's nuclear weapons.
"She knows the U.S. nuclear arsenal better than probably any other member of Congress at this point," said Stephen Young, a senior analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists. "She doesn't have as much background on arms control as other candidates, but I expect her to be a quick study."
Some activists remain unsatisfied with Tauscher's stances on issues ranging from the war in Iraq to bankruptcy reform and have called in recent years for someone to challenge her in a Democratic primary election.
She was challenged in last year's general election by Republican Nicholas Gerber of Moraga, who got 31.1 percent of the vote.
The 10th District includes much of eastern and central Contra Costa County as well as Livermore in Alameda County; Dixon, Fairfield, Suisun City and Elmira in Solano County; and Isleton and Walnut Grove in Sacramento County. The most recent voter-registration reports show the district is about 47 percent Democrat, 29 percent Republican and 20 percent decline-to-state.
Staff writer Josh Richman contributed to this story.
Rep. Ellen Tauscher
Residence: Alamo
Education: B.A., Seton Hall University, 1973
Background: Wall Street investment banker, 1974-1988; founder and CEO of Child Care Registry, 1992-1996
First Elected: 1996, beating two-term incumbent Bill Baker
Leadership positions: Chairwoman, Strategic Forces Subcommittee of House Armed Services Committee; chairwoman, New Democrat Coalition, a group of centrist congressional Democrats.
BRIGHTSOURCE ENERGY OFFERED NEARLY $1.4 BILLION IN LOAN GUARANTEES FROM THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
(OAKLAND, CA) February 22, 2010 – BrightSource Energy, Inc., developer of utility-scale solar thermal power plants, announced today that the U.S. Department of Energy has conditionally committed to provide $1.37 billion in loan guarantees to support the financing of BrightSource’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System.
The commitment to provide loan guarantees marks a key milestone in the development of the Ivanpah project, California’s first large-scale commercial solar thermal power plant in nearly two decades. When constructed, Ivanpah will be the world’s largest solar energy project, nearly doubling the amount of solar thermal electricity produced in the US today.
“This clean-energy investment will help create up to 1,000 construction jobs in California,” said California Senator Barbara Boxer. “In these tough times, we need investments like this to create good clean-energy jobs for Californians, increase our energy independence, protect our children from pollution and ensure American leadership in the clean energy economy.”
“As home to some of the world’s best solar fields and the nation’s largest green economy, it is no surprise the world’s largest solar energy project would choose California,” said Governor Schwarzenegger. “Our ambitious environmental policies are promoting the growth of clean, reliable energy in our communities and growing green jobs up and down the state. And, it is projects like this one that will help us meet our long-term energy and climate change goals while creating jobs and moving us towards a cleaner more sustainable future.”
"I am very happy to see utility-scale solar projects like this one moving forward with strong Administration support, and I am hopeful that this project will serve as a cornerstone of the clean energy economy in the Southwestern U.S.,” said Nevada Senator Harry Reid. “I look forward to BrightSource and other solar companies putting more Nevadans to work by building major projects like this in Nevada very soon."
“The loan guarantee commitment from the U.S. Department of Energy serves as a tremendous validation of our technology, the BrightSource team’s ability to execute, and the Ivanpah project’s role in meeting our nation’s large-scale renewable energy needs,” said John Woolard, CEO of BrightSource Energy. “We’re truly humbled by the opportunity to help build our nation’s green energy economy by creating good jobs for local communities. We look forward to beginning construction on the Ivanpah project, making a real and substantive impact on climate change, and creating a model for environmentally-responsible energy projects.”
The loan guarantee is made possible by the Department of Energy’s Title XVII loan guarantee program, which was started in 2005 under the Energy Policy Act to support commercially proven technology in addition to innovative renewable energy technology. Under Section 1703 of the program, the Department of Energy issues a conditional commitment to guarantee loans to be provided by the U.S. Treasury’s Federal Financing Bank. Execution of the final loan guarantees is subject to the satisfaction of various conditions specified in the conditional commitment.
The Ivanpah Project: Clean Energy, Union Jobs, Environmentally-Responsible Design The Ivanpah project, located in southeastern California, is an approximately 400 megawatt solar power facility consisting of three separate solar thermal power plants. When constructed, the project will produce enough clean energy to power 140,000 homes and nearly double the amount of solar thermal energy produced in the U.S. today.
The power generated from these solar plants will be sold under separate contracts with Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) and Southern California Edison (SCE). PG&E will purchase approximately two-thirds of the power generated at Ivanpah and SCE will purchase approximately one-third. In all, BrightSource has contracted with PG&E and SCE to deliver more than 2,600 megawatts of electric power.
"In today’s challenging economy, the conditional loan guarantee commitment from the DOE for the Ivanpah project provides vital support for building California’s first utility-scale solar thermal project in nearly two decades," said Peter A. Darbee, PG&E Corporation Chairman, CEO and President. "We’re thrilled to be a part of this historic project, which will deliver additional clean energy to our customers and help advance California's renewable energy and economic development goals."
“The conditional loan guarantee commitment from the DOE for the Ivanpah project illustrates the important role that utility-scale solar must play in meeting our state’s clean energy and economic goals,” said Pedro Pizarro, executive vice president of Power Operations for Southern California Edison. “Addressing climate change and building our economy requires that we bring innovative technologies to market that can reliably deliver competitively priced clean energy at scale.”
Ivanpah: Creating Union Jobs BrightSource and Bechtel, the engineering and construction contractor for the Ivanpah project, estimate that construction of the Ivanpah project will require approximately four million job hours of work and 1,000 union jobs at the peak of construction. In December 2009, Bechtel signed a project labor agreement with the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California (SBCTC) and the Building & Construction Trades Council of San Bernardino and Riverside counties to ensure that California’s local workforce benefits from the project. The project will also provide $400 million in local and state tax revenues, and produce $650 million in wages, over its first 30-year life.
“We are pleased that President Obama’s vision of a clean energy economy creating thousands of good jobs is beginning to become a reality” said Bob Balgenorth, President of the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California. “By committing to a union workforce, this project will be training and employing the middle class workers that support our state’s economy.”
Ivanpah: An Environmentally-Responsible Project The Ivanpah project will reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by more than 400,000 tons annually, which is the equivalent of taking more than 70,000 cars off the road. The project is also designed in an environmentally responsible manner. Instead of the extensive land grading and concrete pads employed by other competing solar technologies, BrightSource mounts mirrors on individual poles that are placed directly into the ground, allowing the solar field to be built around the natural contours of the land and avoid areas of sensitive plant species.
In order to conserve precious desert water, the Ivanpah project will employ an air-cooling system to convert the steam back into water in a closed-loop cycle. By using dry-cooling, the project will use only 100 acre feet of water per year; less than ten percent of the water used by the adjacent golf course and 25 times less water than competing solar thermal technologies that use wet-cooling.
In addition to employing an environmentally low impact technology, the company recently submitted an alternative design for the Ivanpah project, which would further reduce the project’s footprint and significantly minimize any potential environmental impacts. The alternative mitigation proposal and the DOE loan guarantee represent two key steps towards the construction of the Ivanpah project.
The Ivanpah project is scheduled to begin construction in the second half of 2010 following issuance of permits by the California Energy Commission and the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management. The project has also been identified as a “fast-track” priority by the U.S. Department of Interior for obtaining federal stimulus benefits for California under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
In September 2009, BrightSource selected Bechtel as the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for the Ivanpah project. Bechtel Enterprises, the project development and financing arm of the Bechtel organization, has committed to become an equity investor in all of the Ivanpah solar power plants. In December 2008, BrightSource signed an agreement with Siemens for the largest ever solar-powered steam turbine generator, which will be used for the first of the three Ivanpah plants.
“The DOE Loan Guarantee program serves as a tremendous catalyst for building our clean energy infrastructure,” said Ian Copeland, president of Bechtel Renewables. “The Ivanpah project will usher in a new era of advanced solar power, and help the state and local economies by providing new jobs. We are pleased to not only support BrightSource as the engineering and construction contractor but also as an investor, which reflects our confidence in the project and our commitment to developing clean, renewable power projects.”
Luz Power Tower 550 (LPT 550) Technology The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Facility will utilize BrightSource Energy’s proven Luz Power Tower 550 technology (LPT 550). The system produces electricity the same way as traditional power plants – by creating high temperature steam to turn a turbine. However, instead of using fossil fuels or nuclear power to create the steam, BrightSource uses sunlight, reflected by thousands of small mirrors called heliostats onto a boiler filled with water that sits atop a tower. When the sunlight hits the boiler, the water inside is heated and creates high temperature steam. The steam is then piped to a conventional turbine which generates electricity. This fully integrated system takes advantage of high operating efficiencies and low capital costs to provide reliable and low-cost carbon-free energy.
Today, the company’s LPT 550 solar system is employed at the Solar Energy Development Center (SEDC) in Israel’s Negev Desert. Operating over the past year, the SEDC is producing the world’s highest temperature turbine quality steam from solar energy.
For its technological leadership, BrightSource was selected as a 2009 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. The only solar company to win the prestigious award in 2009, BrightSource Energy was recognized for helping global utility and industrial customers reduce their dependence on fossil fuels by providing clean, low-cost and reliable solar energy.
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About BrightSource Energy, Inc. BrightSource Energy, Inc. provides clean, reliable and low cost solar energy for utility and industrial companies worldwide. The BrightSource Energy team combines nearly three decades of experience designing, building and operating the world’s largest solar energy plants with world-class project development capabilities. The company now has contracted to sell more than 2.6 gigawatts of power to be generated using its proprietary solar thermal technology. BrightSource Energy’s solar plants are designed to minimize their impact on the environment and help customers reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. Headquartered in Oakland, Calif., BrightSource Energy is a privately held company with operations in the United States, Israel, and Australia. To learn more about BrightSource Energy and solar thermal energy, visit www.brightsourceenergy.com.
Interruptible foldback (IFB), also known as interrupted foldback or interruptible feedback, is a monitoring and cueing system used in television, filmmaking, video production, and radio broadcast for one-way communication from the director or assistant director to on-air talent or a remote location.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Less common names for the system include program cue interrupt (PI), switched talkback and interrupt for broadcast.[11][12]
In everyday context, an IFB is the earpiece that on-air persons wear to get cues, feedback or direction from their control rooms.
The IFB is a special intercomcircuit that consists of a mix-minus program feed sent to an earpiece
worn by talent via a wire, telephone, or radio receiver (audio that is
being "fed back" to talent) that can be interrupted and replaced by a television producer's or director's intercom microphone.[13] On a televisionnews program for example, a producer can talk to the news anchors, to tell them when they are live on the air and when to begin reading off the script on the teleprompter or cue cards. In live television, some news anchors are seen listening to IFBs in order to report breaking news and announcements.
In electronic news gathering (ENG), the IFB can be sent through a telephone hybrid, or some other return link in a broadcast auxiliary service. Because of the physics of electronics, all signals will suffer a time delay
as they travel through a wire, or during the conversion to radio
frequency and then back to electronic audio, or in the conversion from
analogue to digital signal and back again to the analogue realm. To
achieve the mix-minus program to the IFB, certain audio elements that
originate remotely from the mix point will be eliminated from the mix
sent back to the remote site to avoid an undesirable echo.
Wired or wireless in-ear monitors (IEMs) may be used to carry the IFB audio to the on-air talent.
Blum is finance capital personified, and Feinstein precisely illustrates the ... an entire 161 room San Francisco hotel (The Carlton) and at least six other homes. ... to Private Equity Sources, lists Blum Capital Partners as a firm "investing own ...
The largest portion of her assets lies in investments including Carlton Hotel Properties, which ... 6, Blum Capital Partners L.P., Investments, Spouse, $1,000,001.
Real Estate Investment Opportunities - ReAlert offers institutional buying and real estate ... 6, Fairmont San Francisco Hotel, 591, Mirae Asset, Oaktree, Woodbridge, ... 18, Grand Del Mar Hotel, San Diego (88% stake), 249, Blum Capital, Doug ...
I first met Justin in 2012 and he was always concerned about events. He is the outsider that was elected by accident and they couldn't stop him like they stopped Matt Delima owner of Blu 42 Lounge.
Connecting Blum Capital Partners to Fremont Group, CBRE and Philip Anschutz the Denver Billionaire.
PLaintiff Pete Bennett in the matter of Bennett v. Southern Pacific his case went down in flames
one day on the courthouse steps.
These details are here for investigators to follow.
1998 Advanced Telecom Group, founded Santa Rosa,
CA
2000 ATG Acquires other CLECs and moves into other
states
2001 ATG Santa Rosa, CA begins collapsing, forced sale to
alleged stronger partners in the interest of consumers old to
TPG for the deeply discounted valuation of $500,000
Fact #1 About 200 employees provided friends of Richard Blum
a significant discount of about $300,000 for the line sales to
customers on a fake all out run for new accounts. ATG acquired
assets for significant discount thus striping investors of about
500M while acquiring assets sold for the meager price of $500,000 to
Telepacific Group owned by Texas Pacific Group. Fact #2 In
2001, I was employed by ATG where I was practically forced to take
the job. What wasn't known was the connections where Richard
Blum, took the assets from ATG leaving employees unpaid and that
some Alamo 1st Mormons were connected to Richard Blum. Fact
#3My documents were taken in 2004 by Alamo 1st
Mormons, the how not important, but what was lost is important.
Files: Albert D. Seeno Discovery Homes (Fraud and RICO Charges)
$850M fraud case
$40M fraud case
SBC Services
Contracts for project around 9/11
Attorney Client Communications
Payroll / Business Records
Names of witnesses murdered
Copy of litigation, witness statements
Settlement Papers
Contracts connected to ;the murders of several of my
customers.
Sully attends Danville Community Church and lives near my friend who son killed the mom (Peter Mantas) using the Porter Ranch mess, Peter's company Spillgaurd technology
The curious question would be did someone possibly override the LRAD?
2012 Peter Branagh Sevier County Banker
2008 Erik Nunn Candidate for Office - ,
Influence over CNWS
Knew Concord City Attorney Mark Coon Oct 6th 2014 Suicide,
Mr. Coon was pushed
Arguing with Major
Gen. Dan Helix is responsible, h
Dead grandson in LVNV, suspicious terms
See Adam Elliot
2013 Matt Moody
Butte County CA -
PG&E Survey plane goes out over the Butte and flips?
According official reports plane flipped when the wing went over the Buttes well known for strong updrafts
TWA-800
I know the litigators of TWA as he was he was y next door neighbor. I always suspect about this flight and never understood how he'd be involved with complex large aircraft litigation as he had Zero Aeronautical Training.
TWA-800 Missile Theory
In 1989 the San Pablo Armory suffered devastating losses of 850 M-16s, C-4 and most that took the time learned about SAMS.
Long suspected to be inside job plus officers arrested in cases near endless nightmare were found with C-4.
CBRE
IN 2004 persons well known to Richard Blum are fully knowledgeable to the Bennett Arson in August 2004, they are aware the attempted murder of Bennett by Gary Collins now deceased, they all know Patricia Noel (suicide), Nate Greenan (murder), and Bishop Lyons (Seizure) Accenture Employee
TGP acquires ATG - Bennett loses over 30K in commissions due, company was folded leaving employee empty handed. See Diane Feinstein's response to her husbands failure to pay employees.
In 2004 my F-250 exploded into a ball of fire via accelerant on NB-680 years later I connect these same players to Alamo 1st, Alamo CA, to other fires like Mission Bay now owned by George Marcus.
I am taking this opportunity to reach out given your role in President Obama's appearance today at Moffett Field.
Your current proximity is critical to my arguments about PG&E San Bruno Explosion being a planned event, the Metcalf Station Sniper attack, the April 17th 2015 explosion in Fresno CA.
I am just a citizen who has lived and continues to live intense threats and untenable living conditions.
My story is likely going to span 40 years to Lt. George Bush in Ft. Myers FL to several DC-3 crashes with drugs. For decades I assumed those planes were flown by Columbians.
In 2012, I met Phillip Marshall who was the likely source of for Merc Reporter Gary Webb which are several several stories, one is Iran Contra, the other is his books on 9/11 counter the official stories. They are both dead from suicides.
In 2004 a pipeline exploded belonging to Kinder Morgan, who is really ENRON where five were killed, Eight months later my friend and daughter killed in Murder Suicide, shortly after a revised story ran in 2014 I had pieced together unknown facts about that explosions ranging #deadwitness to to #deadstudents to the uncanny connection that the Driscolls are connected therefore they are connected to an explosion and suspect murder suicide friends brother being connected to the explosion.
Building Inspector Death Beech St, East Palo Alto, CA 94303 Gary Collins - Bennett v. Collins PG&E Metcalf Transmission Substation, 150 Metcalf Road, San Jose, CA 95138 Sniper Attack San Bruno Explosion 2010 - Crestmoor Dr, San Bruno, CA 94066
Asiana F-212 - San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA 94128
Miltpitas Pump - electrical failure when changing power systems
"Transformation" is the $2.2 billion (U.S.) adventure with Accenture that has caused the biggest company reorganization failure in PG&E's 100 year history.
The U.S. Department of State (DOS) has awarded eight task orders to Accenture Federal Services to enhance the Integrated Logistics Management System ...
Apr 15, 2015 - In February 2002, Donald Rumsfeld, then U.S. Secretary of Defense, stated at a briefing: “There are known knowns. These are things we know ..
DLA reached out to Accenture in 2000 for help with modernizing ... Accenture and the Defense Logistics Agency ... imperatives tied to the Base Realignment and.
Apr 9, 2007 - Valued at $155 million, this base contract has options that can be ... DLA in performing its expanded mission under the Base Realignment and ...
The Salesforce board of directors is an exceptional group of individuals who have helped, advised, and established many of the premier companies of Silicon Valley.
The current board of directors at Salesforce is comprised of:
Marc Benioff is chairman and CEO of Salesforce. One of the pioneers of cloud computing, Benioff founded the company in 1999 with a vision to create an on-demand, information management service to replace traditional enterprise software technology. Under his leadership, Salesforce has grown from a groundbreaking idea into the fastest growing top ten software company in the world and the largest customer relationship management (CRM) company.
Salesforce’s mobile, social and connected cloud technologies help companies create deeper, more meaningful connections with their customers. For its revolutionary approach, Salesforce has been named the World’s Most Innovative Company four years in a row by Forbes Magazine. Fortune Magazine named Salesforce as the World’s Most Admired Company in the software industry two years in a row, and ranked the company #7 among the World’s Best Places to Work.
Benioff has been widely recognized for his visionary leadership and pioneering innovation. He was named Businessperson of the Year by Fortune readers, one of the Best CEOs in the World by Barron’s, and he received The Economist’s Innovation Award. He served as co-chairman of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee from 2003–2005.
Throughout his career, Benioff has evangelized a new model of integrated corporate philanthropy. In 2000, he launched the Salesforce Foundation and established the “1-1-1 model,” whereby the company contributes one percent of product, one percent of equity, and one percent of employee hours back to the communities it serves globally. Today, the Foundation has inspired other leading corporations to adopt the 1-1-1 model. Benioff has focused his personal philanthropy on advancing children’s health care through UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals.
Benioff is a 35-year veteran of the software industry. Prior to launching Salesforce, he spent 13 years at Oracle Corporation. He founded his first company, Liberty Software, which created video games, at the age of 15. He also worked as an assembly language programmer in Apple Computer’s Macintosh Division during his college years. Benioff received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 1986 and an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 2014 from the University of Southern California.
He is the author of three books, including the national best-seller, Behind the Cloud.
Keith Block Vice Chairman and President
As Vice Chairman, a member of the Board of Directors and President of Salesforce, Keith Block leads the company’s Distribution Organization, which includes global sales, alliances and channels, customer support, and consulting services. With a focus on customer transformation and building long-term relationships, Block has managed world-class sales, consulting and engineering teams for nearly 30 years.
At Salesforce, he is tasked with driving the company’s next decade of growth by expanding Salesforce’s high-performing sales organization, growing its market-leading alliances and channels program, extending the company further into international markets, and applying Salesforce’s award-winning platform to key industries, such as healthcare, financial services, retail, manufacturing and more.
Prior to joining Salesforce, Block served as Oracle’s executive vice president of North America Sales and Consulting, leading an 11,000-person team and building a multi-billion dollar sales business unit that achieved record revenue and margin during his tenure. He began his career at Booz Allen Hamilton as a senior consultant to Air Force executives.
Block currently serves on Salesforce’s Board of Directors, the Board of Trustees at the Concord Museum, the Advisory Board at Carnegie-Mellon University Heinz Graduate School, the President’s Advisory Council and Board of Trustees for Carnegie Mellon University.
Block holds an Master’s of Science degree in Management and Policy Analysis and a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Information Systems from Carnegie-Mellon University
Craig Conway Former CEO, PeopleSoft
Craig Conway has enjoyed one of the most distinguished and successful careers in the technology industry. He has been recognized as one of the Top 25 Managers by BusinessWeek, one of the Ten Most Influential People In High Technology by , and one of the Fifty Most Powerful People in Networking by NetworkWorld.
As president and chief executive officer, Conway has led several technology companies to success including most recently, PeopleSoft. Conway joined PeopleSoft in 1999 and began one of the most dramatic turnarounds in the technology industry. His vision to develop the industry's first pure Internet architecture, determination to expand into new products and markets, and intense focus on execution drove PeopleSoft to become the world's second-largest provider of business software. In 2002 Fortune magazine named PeopleSoft the Second Most Admired Company, and Forbes magazine named PeopleSoft one of Five Overachieving Companies.
On June 2, 2003, Conway announced the acquisition of JD Edwards, making PeopleSoft a $2.9 billion company with 12,000 customers in 150 countries and starting a wave of industry consolidation. Four days later PeopleSoft itself became a takeover target by Oracle, and so began the longest hostile takeover attempt in history. Eighteen months later PeopleSoft was sold for $10.3 billion, almost $4 billion more than Oracle's initial offer and $7 billion more than the value of the company when Conway took over as CEO.
Conway has also served as president and CEO of TGV Software and One Touch Systems. He has also held executive management positions at a variety of leading technology companies including executive vice president at Oracle.
Alan Hassenfeld Director, Hasbro, Inc.
Alan Hassenfeld is a director of Hasbro, a worldwide leader in children's and family leisure time entertainment with $2.9 billion in revenues and an impressive blue-chip portfolio of familiar and popular brand names such as PLAYSKOOL, TONKA, MILTON BRADLEY, and PARKER BROTHERS. Hassenfeld began his career at Hasbro in 1970. He was appointed vice president of marketing and sales in 1978, became the president of the company in 1984, and received the titles of chairman and CEO in 1989. In May 2003, he passed on the responsibilities of CEO in order to fully concentrate on his position as chairman and served as chairman until February 2008. Hassenfeld sits on the board of the Salesforce Foundation as well as Hasbro's two philanthropic divisions, the Hasbro Charitable Trust and the Hasbro Children's Foundation. He is the former chairman of the Right Now! Coalition and Admiral of Rhode Island Commodores (a governor-appointed business advisory group). Hassenfeld is the recipient of the Honorary Doctor of Humanities Award from Bryant College and the Honorary Doctor of Business degree from Roger Williams University and Johnson and Wales University.
Colin Powell General, Former U.S. Secretary of State, Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Colin Powell is a retired four star general and served for 35 years in the United States Army. He has served as U.S. National Security Advisor, Commander of the U.S. Army Forces Command, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and he was the 65th Secretary of State of the United States. He is the recipient of numerous U.S. military awards as well as two Presidential Medals of Freedom. General Powell is a strategic limited partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. General Powell is the Chair of the Board of Visitors of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at his alma mater, the City College of New York. The Powell School was inaugurated May of 2013 and stands alongside CCNY’s other premiere named schools. He is the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the America’s Promise Alliance, dedicated to forging a strong and effective partnership alliance committed to seeing that children have the fundamental resources they need to succeed.
Sanford Robertson Principal, Francisco Partners
Sanford Robertson pioneered the creation of West Coast technology banking as an industry in the late 1960s and has remained one of the industry's most renowned participants. He served as vice president and director at Smith Barney before founding a firm that later became Montgomery Securities. In 1978, he founded Robertson, Stephens & Co, one of the most significant underwriters of IPOs, mergers, and acquisitions. After selling the company in 1998, he founded Francisco Partners, the world's largest technology-focused private equity fund. Robertson has had significant financing involvement in over 500 growth technology companies, including 3Com (NASDAQ: COMS), America Online (NYSE: AOL), Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT), Ascend, Dell Computer (NASDAQ: DELL), E*Trade (NYSE: ET), Siebel, and Sun (NASDAQ: SUNW). He serves on the boards of Dolby Laboratories, Pain Therapeutics (NASDAQ: PTIE), and the Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving, as well as on the President's Board at the University of Michigan.
John V. Roos Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
John Roos is a former United States Ambassador to Japan and a former technology lawyer. Before accepting the ambassadorship from President Barack Obama, Roos was the CEO of Silicon Valley-based law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
Roos served as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 2009 to 2013, a historic period in U.S.-Japan relations where he played a key role in managing the relationship through major transitions of government. Roos led the American mission to support Japan's response to the devastating 9.0 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis on March 11, 2011. In October 2011, citing his tireless and effective leadership after March 11, the Department of State awarded Roos the prestigious Sue E. Cobb 2011 Award for Exemplary Diplomatic Service.
Prior to his ambassadorship, Roos served as Chief Executive Officer and Senior Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the leading law firm in the U.S. in the representation of technology, life sciences, and emerging growth companies. There he helped lead his firm during the waves of innovation in Silicon Valley, from the growth of software and communications, to the Internet Age, to the emergence of biotechnology, clean technology and renewable energy, to the social media revolution.
Roos grew up in San Francisco and attended Stanford University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors and Distinction, and Stanford Law School, earning his Juris Doctor in 1980, achieving Order of the Coif. Throughout his career, Roos has been active in public service, serving on a public school board in California from 1991 to 1999. Prior to becoming Ambassador to Japan, Roos served on the Stanford School of Education Dean's Advisory Board and on the Law School Dean's Advisory Council. He was elected to membership in the Stanford Associates for his long-standing volunteer service to the University.
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Larry Tomlinson Former Senior Vice President and Treasurer, Hewlett-Packard
With over 35 years of global financial and administrative experience in a Fortune 15 corporation, Larry Tomlinson has substantial expertise in focusing management on achieving revenue and margin objectives during periods of both double-digit and slow growth. Since beginning his career at Hewlett-Packard in 1965, Tomlinson has held management and executive positions in multiple domestic and international divisions with responsibilities spanning controllership, tax, treasury, order fulfillment, information technology, distribution, logistics, and financial strategic alliances. He formerly served as senior vice president and treasurer for Hewlett-Packard. Tomlinson currently serves as a director of Coherent.
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Robin L. Washington Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Gilead Sciences Inc.
Washington joined Gilead in 2008 and is currently Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer where she oversees the Global Finance and Information Technology organizations. Washington was previously Chief Financial Officer of Hyperion Solutions, which was acquired by Oracle Corporation in March 2007. Prior to that, Washington served in a number of executive positions with PeopleSoft, most recently in the role of Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller.
Washington previously served on the Board of Directors of Tektronix, Inc. (acquired by Danaher), the Board of Directors of MIPS Technologies Inc. (acquired by Imagination), and currently is a member of the Board of Directors of Honeywell, the Board of Directors of the San Jose Children's Discovery Museum and the Board of Visitors, Graziadio School of Business and Management, Pepperdine University.
Washington is a certified public accountant and holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Michigan and a M.B.A. from Pepperdine University.
Maynard Webb Chairman, Yahoo! Inc.
Maynard Webb is chairman of Yahoo! Inc and a director at Everwise and VISA. He has more than 30 years of experience developing and leading high-growth companies. Webb served as chief executive officer for LiveOps from 2006 to 2011. Prior to LiveOps, he was the chief operating officer at eBay from 2002 to 2006 and was responsible for the company-wide implementation of all business strategies. Previously, he served as president of eBay Technologies, where he was responsible for all engineering and technical operations at eBay, including product and technology strategy, engineering, architecture, site operations, and customer support.
Prior to joining eBay, Webb was senior vice president and chief information officer at Gateway, where he contributed to the company's rapid expansion and Internet-enabled business operations. In years prior, he has also worked at Quantum, Thomas-Conrad Corporation, Bay Networks, and IBM. Webb is the founder of the Webb Investment Network, an early-stage venture capital firm in Los Gatos, Calif., and co-founder of Everwise, a cloud-based mentoring program.
Webb received a bachelor's degree from Florida Atlantic University.
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Susan Wojcicki CEO, YouTube
Susan Wojcicki is CEO of YouTube, the world’s most popular digital video platform used by a billion people across the globe to access information, share video, and shape culture. An early champion of online video, Wojcicki was instrumental in Google's 2006 acquisition of YouTube. She now oversees YouTube's content and business operations, engineering, and product development.
Prior to joining YouTube in February 2014, Wojcicki was senior vice president of Advertising & Commerce at Google, where she oversaw the design and engineering of AdWords, AdSense, DoubleClick, and Google Analytics. She joined Google in 1999 as the company's first marketing manager and led the initial development of several key consumer products, including Google Images and Google Books. In 2002, Wojcicki began working on Google’s advertising products and over the next 12 years she led teams that helped define the vision and direction of Google’s monetization platforms.
Wojcicki graduated with honors from Harvard University, holds a master's in Economics from University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MBA from UCLA.
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