100 Most Influential People in IT
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Founder,
Deshpande
Center ,
MIT
School of Engineering
From financial flop to billionaire to a new way of developing tech startups.
CISO, AT&T
The chief information security officer at AT&T, Amoroso is a pioneer of security in the cloud.
78. Padmasree Warrior
CTO, Cisco
Formerly of Motorola, Warrior plays a key role in the development of Cisco technology.
79. Mark Olsen
Chairman, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
Olsen and the PCAOB are charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with setting the standards for and enforcement of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Founder, Pixel Qi
As CTO of the OLPC, Jepsen introduced innovative display technologies. Now she's applying that experience at her Pixel Qi startup, which will build components for low-cost information devices.
Founder, Thefunded.com
Ressi has built a huge following for his ratings of venture capitalists and his recounting of how they treat would-be entrepreneurs.
Security program manager, Microsoft
Matthews controls the budget for outside hacking teams hired to break Microsoft's products.
CEO, Zenith InfoTech
India to deliver affordable
managed services that resellers in the
United States could brand as their
own.
Wysopal is a poster boy for hackers made good.
Lawrence Lessig
Founder, Center for Internet and Society
With his Change Congress Web site, Lessig's goal is to reduce corruption and the influence of money in politics. Lessig is also an advocate for reduced legal restrictions on the radio spectrum and the creator of Creative Commons license.
CIO, The Kraft Group
Author
"Good to Great" is the most popular and influential book among CIOs.
Computer security and privacy and technology policy researcher,
Princeton
University
Founder, Twitter
Williams asked the question, "What are you doing right now?" and changed the way we communicate in the process.
Co-founder, WordPress
A computer science legend, Kay's most recent work has been with the OLPC, whose XO laptop is based in part on his innovations.
Former director of security, OLPC
Krstic, who left the OLPC in March, created the innovative Bitfrost security architecture for the XO. If Bitfrost proves itself on the XO, it will influence anti-malware security on mainstream operating systems.
Author
Carr shook up the industry by saying that IT doesn't matter. Agree or not, his ideas continue to shape the way that organizations look at the IT department.
Information security engineer, Google
Ormandy, one of the most visible hackers/researchers on the Google Security Team, faces the unenviable responsibility of making sure all of Google's products pass the security smell test.
Chairman and CTO, Digium
Spencer founded Asterisk and the open-source telephony movement.
Software developer and entrepreneur
Thornton
May
Florida
Community College , IT
Leadership
Academy
May is a noted technology futurist.
Cheswick
Lead member of technical staff, AT&T Labs
Author
Anderson , editor in chief of Wired, proffered
the notion of the niche in his book, "The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business
Is Selling Less of More."
Chairman, Federal Reserve Board
No one will have a bigger impact on the fate of the nation's banks and financial services companies, interest rates, or access to credit.
Founder,
From financial flop to billionaire to a new way of developing tech startups.
CISO, AT&T
The chief information security officer at AT&T, Amoroso is a pioneer of security in the cloud.
78. Padmasree Warrior
CTO, Cisco
Formerly of Motorola, Warrior plays a key role in the development of Cisco technology.
Chairman, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
Olsen and the PCAOB are charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with setting the standards for and enforcement of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Founder, Pixel Qi
As CTO of the OLPC, Jepsen introduced innovative display technologies. Now she's applying that experience at her Pixel Qi startup, which will build components for low-cost information devices.
Founder, Thefunded.com
Ressi has built a huge following for his ratings of venture capitalists and his recounting of how they treat would-be entrepreneurs.
Security program manager, Microsoft
Matthews controls the budget for outside hacking teams hired to break Microsoft's products.
CEO, Zenith InfoTech
Wysopal is a poster boy for hackers made good.
Founder, Center for Internet and Society
With his Change Congress Web site, Lessig's goal is to reduce corruption and the influence of money in politics. Lessig is also an advocate for reduced legal restrictions on the radio spectrum and the creator of Creative Commons license.
CIO, The Kraft Group
Author
"Good to Great" is the most popular and influential book among CIOs.
Computer security and privacy and technology policy researcher,
Founder, Twitter
Williams asked the question, "What are you doing right now?" and changed the way we communicate in the process.
Co-founder, WordPress
A computer science legend, Kay's most recent work has been with the OLPC, whose XO laptop is based in part on his innovations.
Former director of security, OLPC
Krstic, who left the OLPC in March, created the innovative Bitfrost security architecture for the XO. If Bitfrost proves itself on the XO, it will influence anti-malware security on mainstream operating systems.
Author
Carr shook up the industry by saying that IT doesn't matter. Agree or not, his ideas continue to shape the way that organizations look at the IT department.
Information security engineer, Google
Ormandy, one of the most visible hackers/researchers on the Google Security Team, faces the unenviable responsibility of making sure all of Google's products pass the security smell test.
Chairman and CTO, Digium
Spencer founded Asterisk and the open-source telephony movement.
Software developer and entrepreneur
May is a noted technology futurist.
Cheswick
Lead member of technical staff, AT&T Labs
Author
Chairman, Federal Reserve Board
No one will have a bigger impact on the fate of the nation's banks and financial services companies, interest rates, or access to credit.
