His official bio on HuffingtonPost.com, where he contributes as a guest columnist, credits Trevor Traina as a San Francisco-based technology entrepreneur, but he also sits on the boards of DriverSide, Verdiem, MyEtone and SchemaLogic. And then there’s his half-brother Maxx Traina, the son of Danielle Steel and vintner John Traina, another respected member of San …

A champion of competition, Sanders, as co-founder and CEO of semiconductor manufacturer AMD, competitor to Intel. Before he stepped aside in 2002, AMD thrived while thousands of firms ended up in the tech graveyard. What is truly remarkable about Sanders is his love for the people in his company. His motto is “people first, products …

Sandberg is COO of Facebook, growing its user base to 800 million and counting – she also helped monetize the social networking site. Sandberg’s responsibilities at the mogul social networking site include sales, marketing, business development, human resources, public policy and communications. Before her time at Facebook, she was Vice President of Global Online Sales …

He’s the founder of the free Internet bulletin board Craigslist in 1995, which nearly single-handed did away with newspaper classified, this is one savvy haute lister. In March of this year, Newmark founded craigconnects, a social media platform. Newmark has an estimated net worth of $400 million.

Silicon Valley’s preeminent eco investor—named No. 1 venture capitalist by both Fortune and Forbes—Khosla invested more than $300 million of his personal fortune into start-up green technologies. Khosla was formerly a general partner at Kleiner Perkins and founder of Sun Microsystems. He created venture capital firm Khosla Ventures in 2004 to build businesses for the …