In 2015, Chuck Robbins became the Chief Executive Officer of Cisco, a $240 billion tech company that is considered to be one of the most influential software and hardware businesses in the world. The move marked a tremendous milestone for the American businessman, who was born in rural Georgia during the mid-1960s…
Famed for his brilliant mind and mercurial personality, theoretical physicist Richard Feynman was one of the most important scientists of the twentieth century. Born in 1918, Feynman first made a scientific name for himself as a member of the Manhattan project, where his work on nuclear bombs helped to end World War II…
As Jeff Bezos’s handpicked successor, Andy Jassy took the reins of Amazon in July 2021, making him President and Chief Executive Officer of a $1.74 trillion company with more than 1.4 million employees across the globe. After initially working as a marketing manager for Amazon’s e-commerce business…
One of the world’s most renowned literary agents, Andrew Wylie has spent the majority of his adult life in a sort of crusade for quality publishing. In 1980, Wylie founded The Wylie Agency, which now has offices in midtown Manhattan as well as London and represents over 700 of the most distinguished literary authors, both living and deceased…
A superstar among legal conservatives, Amy Coney Barrett has had a long career in law as both a distinguished professor and judge. In October 2020, following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Barrett became the fifth woman confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, making her the youngest justice confirmed since Clarence Thomas was elevated to the nation’s highest court at age 43…
After an injury to his pitching arm which ended a contract to play baseball for the Cincinnati Reds, Alan Schwartz went on to become a financial titan known for his grand slams on Wall Street. In 1976, Schwartz was 26 when he joined Bear Stearns as an institutional stock salesman…
Renowned Indian economist Urjit Patel is widely credited with helping to arrest the rupee’s decline against the USD while also promoting financial stability in India. Born in 1963, Patel received a top education at schools in London and the U.S. before joining the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1990, where he worked on the U.S., India, Bahamas, and Myanmar desks for several years…
By age 33, French businessman Stéphane Bancel was already running a multinational biotech company with a market capitalization that exceeded $3 billion. Born in 1972, Bancel first attended college in Paris before studying chemical engineering and business administration at the University of Minnesota and Harvard University, respectively…
Born in 1955, Ric Burns is an internationally recognized documentary filmmaker and writer best known for his eight-part, 17-hour public television program “New York: A Documentary Film.” Since founding Steeplechase Films in 1989, Burns has gone on to direct some of the most distinguished historical documentary programs for PBS…
Irene Pepperberg’s 30-year relationship with a parrot named Alex radically shifted our notions of bird intelligence. With help from her African Grey companion, Pepperberg found that some birds have cognitive abilities once thought to be the province of primates alone…
