President computer pioneers
Below is a listing of computer pioneers that have been tagged as a President. Clicking on any of the below links will open the biography for that person.
Abhay Bhushan Author of FTP. Category: Chairman, Engineer, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Al Gore American politician, advocate, author, philanthropist, and environmental activist. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Alfred Aho Canadian computer scientist and author known for the Aho-Corasick string matching algorithm. Category: Manager, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer | |
Andrew Kay Computer pioneer and founder of Kay Computers. Category: CEO, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Andy Rubin Co-founder and former CEO of Danger Inc. and Android Inc. Category: CEO, Engineer, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Anthony Wood Pioneer and innovator in TV and digital media and founder and CEO of Roku. Category: CEO, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Armas Markkula Angel investor and second CEO of Apple Computer. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Investor, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Bailey Diffie American cryptographer and pioneer of public-key cryptography. Category: Manager, President, and Writer | |
Barbara Simons American computer scientist and former president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Category: Director, Female , Founder, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer | |
Benjamin Franklin Author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, and much more. Category: Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer | |
Bill Gates Founder of Microsoft. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer | |
Bob Kahn Internet pioneer, engineer, and computer scientist who helped develop TCP/IP. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer | |
Carol Bartz Former president and CEO of Yahoo! Category: CEO, Chairman, Female , Manager, President, and Writer | |
Christopher Weaver Software developer and game programmer and contributor to the real-time sports simulation technology. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer | |
Cindy Bates Vice president of SMB (Small-to-Midsized Business) at Microsoft Company. Category: Female , Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Clay Shirky American writer, consultant, lecturer, and teacher. Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Craig Federighi Senior vice president of Software Engineering at Apple Inc. Category: Manager, President, and Writer | |
Dale Dougherty Founder, President, and CEO of Maker Media and founder of MAKE Magazine. Category: CEO, Coined, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Dan Bricklin Creator of VisiCalc. Category: Entrepreneur, Father, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
David Lee Chinese-American business executive and inventor of the daisywheel printer. Category: CEO, Chairman, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer | |
David Packard Co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard (HP) company. Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer | |
David Patterson American computer pioneer who coined and contributed to RISC. Category: Coined, Manager, President, Professor, and Writer | |
Dov Frohman Israeli electrical engineer and former vice president of Intel Corporation. Category: Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Ed Colligan Former President and CEO of Handspring. Category: CEO, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Edwin Catmull Computer scientist and President of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios. Category: Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer | |
Edwin Turney Co-founder of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Federico Faggin Italian physicist and engineer who helped design the first commercial microprocessor. Category: CEO, Engineer, Founder, Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer | |
Frank Pearce Co-founder and executive vice president of product development of Blizzard Entertainment. Category: Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Gene Golub Renowned numerical analyst, professor, and author. Category: Analyst, Editor, Founder, Manager, President, Professor, Researcher, and Writer | |
Gordon Bell American computer engineer, manager, entrepreneur, and investor who oversaw the development of the VAX. Category: Engineer, Entrepreneur, Investor, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Gordon Eubanks Microcomputer pioneer and author of CBASIC. Category: CEO, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Gordon Moore Co-founder and former CEO of Intel. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Grace Hopper Female officer who extended the meaning of debug and is erroneously credited as coining the term bug. Category: Female , Inventor, Manager, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer | |
Hector De Jesus Ruiz Chairman and CEO of Advanced Nanotechnology Solutions and former CEO of AMD. Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Herman Lukoff Computer pioneer who helped develop the ENIAC and the EDVAC computers. Category: Manager, President, and Writer | |
Jack Tretton Former President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Jake Winebaum American entrepreneur and founder of FamilyFun magazine, Business.com, and Brighter.com. Category: Chairman, Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
James Ready American businessman and technologist and founder of MontaVista Software. Category: Founder, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Jeff Bezos Founder, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of Amazon. Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Jeffrey Raikes Chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Category: Manager, President, and Writer | |
Jeffrey Skoll Canadian engineer and Internet entrepreneur known for being the first employee and president of eBay. Category: Chairman, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Jen-hsun Huang Taiwanese-American entrepreneur and co-founder of Nvidia. Category: CEO, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Jenni Flinders American born vice president of the U.S. Partner Group at Microsoft. Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Joe Belfiore Corporate vice president of Operating Systems Group and Windows Phone at Microsoft. Category: Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
John Bennet Australia professor of computer science and the founding president of the Australian Computer Society. Category: Founder, Manager, President, Professor, and Writer | |
John Chambers Chairman of the board and CEO of Cisco. Category: CEO, Chairman, Director, Manager, President, and Writer | |
John Dvorak American columnist and broadcasters in the areas of technology and computing. Category: Editor, Manager, Personality, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
John Hollar President and CEO of the Computer History Museum. Category: CEO, Manager, President, and Writer | |
John Kemeny Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist and co-developer of the BASIC computer programming language. Category: Manager, Mathematician, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer | |
John Neumann Helped developed von Neumann architecture. Category: Manager, Mathematician, President, Scientist, and Writer | |
John Opel Computer businessman who served as the president of IBM. Category: CEO, Chairman, Manager, President, and Writer | |
John Ousterhout Professor of computer science at University of California where he created Tcl scripting language and Tk platform. Category: Chairman, Founder, Manager, President, Professor, Programmer, and Writer | |
John Sall Co-founder and executive vice president of SAS Institute. Category: Founder, Manager, President, and Writer | |
John Scully Former CEO of Apple between 1977 and 1983. Category: CEO, Coined, Manager, President, and Writer | |
John Thomson Former vice president at IBM and former CEO of Symantec. Category: African American, CEO, Manager, President, and Writer | |
John Warnock Co-founder of Adobe. Category: CEO, Chairman, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer | |
Jonathan Ive English designer and the former senior vice president of industrial design at Apple Inc. Category: Manager, President, and Writer | |
Joseph Canion American computer scientist and co-founder of Compaq Computer Corporation. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer | |
Joshua Lederberg American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the US space program. Category: Manager, President, and Writer | |
Justin Rattner Corporate vice president, chief technology officer (CTO) and director of Intel Labs. Category: Director, Manager, President, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer | |
Kim Stevenson Vice president and chief information officer of Intel. Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Louis Ridenour American physicist instrumental in U.S. development of radar. Category: Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer | |
Lynn Conway American computer scientist, electrical engineer, and inventor who invented the generalized dynamic instruction handling. Category: Engineer, Female , Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer | |
Marc Benioff Chairman and CEO of Salesforce. Category: CEO, Chairman, Coined, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Marissa Mayer Former Google vice president and Yahoo CEO. Category: CEO, Engineer, Female , Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Mark Hurd Co-president, director, and board member of Oracle Corporation. Category: CEO, Chairman, Director, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Marques Brownlee American video producer, tech-reviewer, and YouTube star. Category: African American, Manager, Personality, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Meg Whitman American business executive and president of Hewlett-Packard. Category: CEO, Chairman, Female , Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Megan Smith Vice president, Google[x] at Google and former vice president of business development. Category: CEO, Manager, Personality, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Mike Culbert Apple engineer and vice president of architecture at Apple Computers who played key role in the Apple Newton. Category: Engineer, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Mike Morhaime Co-founder, CEO, and president of video game developer Blizzard Entertainment. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Mina Rees American mathematician, and the first female President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Category: Female , Manager, Mathematician, President, and Writer | |
Mochio Umeda Japanese IT enterprise management consultant, author, and one of the most well-known commentators on IT. Category: Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Morton Meyerson Former president and vice chairman of Electronic Data Systems, Inc. Category: Chairman, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Nate Silver American statistician, sabermetrician, psephologist, and writer of FiveThirtyEight blog. Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Noam Chomsky Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and historian. Category: Father, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer | |
Patrick Gelsinger Chief executive officer at VMware and former president and chief operating officer at EMC Corporation. Category: Manager, President, Programmer, and Writer | |
Paul Otellini American businessman and current president of Intel. Category: Director, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Philip Estridge Led the development of the original IBM Personal Computer (PC). Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Philip Zimmerman Creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Randy Eisenman Founder of Satori Capital and Handango in 1999 where he served as president and chief executive officer. Category: Founder, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Randy Pausch American professor of computer science and human computer interaction at CMU. Category: Founder, Manager, President, Professor, and Writer | |
Regina Dugan 19th (and the first woman) Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Category: CEO, Director, Engineer, Female , Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Reynold Johnson Inventor of the disk drive and videocassette tape. Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Richard Branson English business magnate and investor and founder of Virgin Group. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Richard Hamming American mathematician and author who invented Hamming codes - computer error-detecting and correcting codes. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer | |
Ronald Schafer American electrical engineer known for his work with signal processing. Category: Editor, Engineer, Manager, President, Professor, and Writer | |
Saadia Muzaffar Marketing, sales, and business executive and organizer of Startup Weekends. Category: Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Safra Catz Israeli-born American business executive at Oracle Corporation. Category: CEO, Female , Manager, President, and Writer | |
Sam Altman Former CEO of OpenAI and president of Y Combinator. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Samuel Hopkins First person granted U.S. patent. Category: Manager, President, and Writer | |
Samuel Palmisano President and chief executive officer of IBM from 2000-2012. Category: Chairman, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Satya Nadella Indian-American business executive and current CEO (chief executive officer) of Microsoft. Category: CEO, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Scott Forstall Senior vice president of iOS Software at Apple Inc. Category: Director, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Scott Guthrie Known for his work on ASP.NET. Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Scott Mueller Author of books about personal computers and one of the most trusted authoritative hardware voices in the industry. Category: Manager, President, and Writer | |
Sheryl Sandberg American businesswoman and chief operating officer of Facebook. Category: Female , Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Simon Phipps And open source advocate and founder of IBM's Java Technology Center. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer | |
Stanley Gill British computer scientist known for inventing the first computer subroutine. Category: Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer | |
Stephanie Shirley British businesswoman and philanthropist who is best known for founding the software company F.I. Group. Category: Female , Founder, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Stephen Hawking British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author. Category: Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer | |
Steve Wolff One of the fathers of the Internet and developer of NSFNET. Category: Director, Father, Manager, President, Researcher, and Writer | |
Steven Bourne British computer scientist known for authoring the Bourne shell. Category: Manager, Mathematician, President, Scientist, and Writer | |
Steven Sinofsky President of the Windows Division at Microsoft from July 2009 through his departure on November 12, 2012. Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Stuart Feldman Creator of the computer software program Make for UNIX systems and author of the first Fortran 77 compiler. Category: Manager, President, and Writer | |
Susan Decker American business executive and former president of Yahoo! Inc. Category: Analyst, Director, Investor, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Thomas Cover Information theorist and professor at Stanford University. Category: Manager, President, Professor, and Writer | |
Thomas Watson Early chairman and CEO of IBM. Category: CEO, Chairman, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Thomas Watson Jr Jr. an American businessman, political figure, and philanthropist and 2nd president of IBM. Category: Father, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Tom Anderson Co-founder of Myspace. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Tony Fadell Known as the father of the Apple iPod. Category: Entrepreneur, Father, Founder, Inventor, Investor, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
Victor Alhadeff Business executive known as the founder and CEO of Egghead Software. Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Vida Ilderem Vice president of Intel Labs and director of the Integrated Platform Research Lab. Category: Director, Manager, President, and Writer | |
Vint Cerf Father of the Internet. Category: Father, Founder, Manager, Personality, President, Scientist, and Writer | |
William Coolidge American physicist known for his work with incandescent electric lighting. Category: Director, Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer | |
William Davidow American engineer, author, marketing executive, and venture capitalist. Category: Engineer, Investor, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer | |
William Hewlett Co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard (HP) company. Category: CEO, Chairman, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer | |
William Lowe American businessman who managed the team that developed the first IBM personal computer. Category: Father, Manager, President, and Writer | |
William Stevens Author of computer science books, in particular books on UNIX and TCP/IP. Category: Manager, President, Programmer, and Writer |