List of University of California, Berkeley alumni in business and entrepreneurship

This page lists notable alumni and students of the University of California, Berkeley. Alumni who also served as faculty are listed in bold font, with degree and year.

Notable faculty members are in the article List of UC Berkeley faculty.

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See also: University of California, Berkeley School of Law

Founders and co-founders

• Tom Anderson, B.A. 1998 – co-founder of social networking website MySpace (acquired by News Corporation for $580 million)
• Ashar Aziz, MS CS – founder, Vice Chairman of the Board Chief Strategy Officer and former CEO of NASDAQ-listed computer security company FireEye
• Stephen D. Bechtel, 1954 (honorary) – founder of Bechtel Corporation and the largest engineering company in the United States
• Brian Behlendorf – co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation, Mozilla Foundation board member, co-founder and CTO of CollabNet
• Joan Blades, B.A. 1977 – co-founder of software company Berkeley Systems (acquired by Sierra Online for $13 million), co-founder of political activist group MoveOn.org
• Richard C. Blum, B.S. 1958, M.B.A. 1959 – founder of private equity firm Blum Capital and the American Himalayan Foundation, Regent of the University of California
• Richard Bolt B.A. 1933, M.A. 1937, Ph.D. 1939 – co-founder of ARPANET developer Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN)
• Eric Brewer, B.S. EECS 1989 – co-founder of web search engine company Inktomi (acquired by Yahoo! for $235 million), director of Intel Labs Berkeley; lead researcher at Google
• Evan Brooks, B.A. – co-founder (with Peter Gotcher, BA 1981) of NASDAQ-listed audio technology company Digidesign (acquired by Avid for $205 million and renamed to Avid Audio), co-creator (with Peter Gotcher BA 1981) of the Grammy Award-winning audio editing software Pro Tools
• Deng-Kai Chen, BS Business 2007 – co-founder of Distill (acquired by Yahoo)
• Gary Chevsky, attended for undergraduate degree 1990-1994 – co-founder and chief architect of web search engine company Ask Jeeves (known now as Ask.com, and acquired by InterActive Corp for $1.9 billion), Senior VP at Symantec and YouSendIt
• Andy Chou, BS 1999 – CTO and co-founder of Coverity (acquired for $375 million by Synopsys)
• Cormac Conroy, PhD EECS 1994 – co-founder (with Beomsup Kim, PhD EECS 1990) of radio frequency integrated circuits company Berkana Wireless (acquired by Qualcomm for $56 million)
• Frederick Gardner Cottrell, B.S. Chemistry, 1896 – founder of patent holding company Research Corporation (which held the rights to the patent for Ernest O. Lawrence's cyclotron); inventor of the electrostatic precipitator, which removes pollution from factory exhaust fumes; inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1992
• Ed Crane, B.S. 1967 – founder of the Cato Institute
• David Culler, B.A. 1980 – Chair of the Department of Computer Science at UC Berkeley, associate Chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (UC Berkeley), and Associate CIO of the College of Engineering (UC Berkeley); co-founder of smart grid monitoring company Arch Rock (acquired by Cisco Systems)
• Weili Dai, B.A. Computer Science 1984 – co-founder (with Sehat Sutardja MS 1983, PhD 1988 EECS and Pantas Sutardjai MS 1983, PhD 1988 ) of NASDAQ-100 broadband technology company Marvell Technology Group; namesake of Sutardja-Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus
• James Dao, B.S. EECS 1960 – founder and former CEO of electron beam lithography company Etec Systems, Inc. (acquired by Applied Materials for $1.78 billion); founder and CEO of Genyous Biomed
• Dennis DeAndre, B.A. Business – founder of LoopNet, a NASDAQ-listed commercial real estate listing services company (acquired by CoStar Group for $860 million)
• Niket Desai, B.S. Industrial Engineering 2009 – co-founder of loyalty service program Punchd (acquired by Google for over $10 million)
• Stephanie DiMarco, B.S. Business 1979 – co-founder (with Steve Strand, B.S. EECS 1979) and CEO of NASDAQ-listed financial software company Advent Software (acquired by NASDAQ-listed SS&C Technologies for $2.3 billion )
• Joel Downs, B.S. Business 1979 – founder of Answerbag
• Dean Drakoco, MS EE 1988 – co-founder, CEO and Chairman of NASDAQ-listed computer security security company Barracuda Networks
• Pierre-Yves Droz, MS – co-founder (with Anthony Levandowski BS 2002, MS 2003 and Andrew Schultz, MS 2006) of the secretive robotics hardware company 510 Systems, which developed the technologies for Google Street View and Google Car, and was acquired by Google)
• Senh Duong, B.A. 1995 – originator and co-founder (with Patrick Lee BA Cognitive Science 1992 and Stephen Wang BA CS 1997) of film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes (acquired by IGN for $10 million)
• Tony Dykes, BA 2000 – co-founder (with Andrew Schmeder, BA Math 2002) and CEO of EnChroma (a research and development company that produces corrective lenses for the anomalous trichromacy form of color blindness)
• Ben Elowitz, B.S., B.A., 1994 – co-founder of NASDAQ-listed online retailer Blue Nile Inc. and social network service provider Wetpaint
• Robert Epstein, PhD EECCS – co-founder and former Executive Vice President of Sybase (acquired by SAP SE for $5.8 billion)
• Jan Fandrianto, B.S. EECS 1982 – founder, President, and CEO of Sipura Technology Inc. (acquired by Cisco Systems for $68 million)
• Robert Fanini, B.S. EECS 1981 – co-founder of application performance monitoring software company Foglight Software (acquired by Quest Software for $83.4 million);General Partner of venture capital investment company Inspiration Ventures LLC
• Lee Felsenstein, B.S. EECS 1972 – founder of Community Memory, designer of Osborne 1 computer, mediator of Homebrew Computer Club, from which would emerge 23 companies, including Apple Inc.
• Charles H. Ferguson, B.A. 1978 – co-founder of Vermeer Technologies Incorporated (acquired by Microsoft for $133 million), founder and president of Representational Pictures, winner of an Academy Award for Best Documentary for Inside Job (2010), Academy Award nomination for the documentary film No End in Sight (2007), former fellow at the Brookings Institution, lifelong member of the Council on Foreign Relations (also listed in "Academy Awards" section)
• Donald Fisher, B.S. 1951 – founder and former CEO of NYSE-listed S&P 500 clothing retailer The Gap, which is the largest apparel retailer in the United States
• Lyle Fong, B.A. 1996 – co-founder and CEO of social CRM solutions provider Lithium Technologies
• Rob Fulop, B.S. CS 1980 – co-founder of video game companies Imagic and PF Magic (creator of first virtual pets such as Dogz), Atari engineer, developed Missile Command and Night Driver
• Coleman Fung, B.S. IEOR 1987 – founder of financial trading and risk management software company OpenLink Financial, Inc., namesake of the Coleman Fung Risk Management Research Center at UC Berkeley
• Robert Gaskins, M.A. 1974 – creator of PowerPoint (acquired by Microsoft for $14 million as its "first significant software acquisition")
• Frank Gennari, MS 2001, PhD EECS 2004 – co-founder (with Michael Lam, BS EECS 1992 and Greg McIntyre, PhD EECS 2006) of electronic design automation software company CommandCAD (acquired by Cadence Design Systems)
• Steve Gibson (attended) – founder of software security company Gibson Research Corporation and co-host of Security Now!
• Dave Gilboa, BS – co-founder of eyeglass company Warby Parker
• Daniel Goldman, B.A. 1998 – founder of online gaming company Total Entertainment Network, which became Pogo.com (acquired by Electronic Arts)
• Peter Gotcher, B.A. 1981 – co-founder (with Evan Brooks, BA), former CEO, and former Chairman of NASDAQ-listed audio technology company Digidesign (acquired by Avid for $205 million and renamed to Avid Audio), co-creator (with Evan Brooks, BA) of the Grammy Award-winning audio editing software Pro Tools; Chairman of the Board of Directors at audio technology company Dolby
• Diane Greene, MS CS 1988 – co-founder (with Mendel Rosenblum MS 1989, PhD 1992 and Edward Wang BS EECS 1983, MS 1988, PhD 1994) of NYSE-listed company VMWare
• Garrett Gruener, M.A. Political Science 1977 - co-founder of web search engine company Ask Jeeves (known now as Ask.com, and acquired by InterActive Corp for $1.9 billion)
• Paul Gulick, BS EECS – "father of the digital projector", co-founder of DLP and LCD digital projector manufacturing company InFocus, founder and former CEO of digital display company Clarity Visual Systems (acquired by Planar Systems for $46 million )
• Ashraf Habibullah, S.E., M.S. 1970 – co-creator of the first computer-based structural-engineering applications and founder, President, and CEO of the structural-engineering software company Computers and Structures, Inc.
• John Hanke, MBA 1996 – founder and CEO of Keyhole, Inc. (acquired by Google, renamed to Google Earth)
• F. Warren Hellman, BA 1955 – founder of Hellman & Friedman and Matrix Partners, former chairman, head of Investment Banking Division at Lehman Brothers; founder of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, founder of The Bay Citizen (which later merged with the Center for Investigative Reporting)
• Mike Homer, B.S. 1981 – co-founder and former CEO of networking company Kontiki (acquired by VeriSign for $62 million)
• David T. Hon B.S. 1964 - physicist and founder of Dahon folding bicycles
• James Hong, BS 1995, MBA 1999 – co-founder (with Jim Young, BS 1994, MS 1997) of Internet rating site Hot Or Not (acquired by Avid Life Media for $20 million)
• Chenming Hu, MS EE, PhD EE – Distinguished Professor of Microelectronics at UC Berkeley, co-founder and chairman of Celestry Design Technologies (acquired by Cadence Design Systems for over $100 million) ; recipient of the Phil Kaufman Award; co-inventor of the 3D transistor (the FinFET)
• Charles Huang, PhD EE – co-founder and Executive Vice President (1985–present) of NASDAQ-listed Anadigics,
• Charles Huang, BA 1992 – co-founder (with Kai Huang BA 1994) of video game company RedOctane (publisher of Guitar Hero and acquired by Activision for $99.9 million)
• Kai Huang, B.A. 1994 – co-founder (with Charles Huang BA 1992) and president of video game company RedOctane (publisher of Guitar Hero and acquired by Activision for $99.9 million)
• John Hughes, MBA 2007 - co-founder (with Mark Rotblat, MBA 2007) and President of Products at NASDAQ-listed enterprise software for digital branding company TubeMogul
• Remo Jacuzzi, B.S. Business 1958 – founder and President of hydrotherapy (hot tub) company Jason International Company
• InaMari F. Johnson, BA Social Science – Chief Human Resources Officer and Senior Vice President at NASDAQ-listed UTI Worldwide Inc.
• Bill Joy, M.S. 1982 – co-founder of computer software and hardware manufacturer Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle Corporation for $7.4 billion)
• Noah Kagan, founder of AppSumoa "daily deal" start up for technology and info products with over 700,000 users; former executive at Mint.com, Facebook and Intel
• Gene Kan, B.S. 1997 – founder of distributed search engine InfraSearch (acquired by Sun Microsystems for $12 million)
• Glenn Kelman, B.A. 1993 – co-founder of Plumtree Software (acquired by BEA Systems for $200 million)
• Keomsup Kim, PhD EECS 1990 – co-founder (with Cormac Conroy, PhD EECS 1994) of radio frequency integrated circuits company Berkana Wireless (acquired by Qualcomm for $56 million)
• Mike Kwatinetz, M.S., Ph. D 1962 – founding general partner of venture capital firm Azure Capital Partners
• Michael Lam, BS EECS 1992 – co-founder (with Frank Gennari, PhD EECS 2004 and Greg McIntyre, PhD EECS 2006) of electronic design automation software company CommandCAD (acquired by Cadence Design Systems)
• Daryn Lau, B.S. EE 1986 – Senior vice-president of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, co-founder of semiconductor company ZettaCom (acquired by Integrated Device Technology for $35 million)
• James Lau, B.A. Math and C.S. 1981 – co-founder and executive vice-president of NASDAQ-100 computer network storage company NetApp ; recipient of a Lifetime Achievement award from the UC Berkeley School of Engineering
• Patrick Lee, B.A. Cognitive Science 1992 – co-founder (with Senh Duong BA 1995 and Stephen Wang BA CS 1997 ) and former CEO of film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes (acquired by IGN for $10 million)
• Robert D. Lent, BS Business – co-founder of NASDAQ-listed procurement software company Ariba (acquired by SAP SE for $4.3 billion )
• Anthony Levandowski, B.S. Industrial Engineering 2002, M.S. IEOR 2003 – co-founder (with Andrew Schultz MS 2006 and Pierre-Yves Droz MS) of the secretive robotics hardware company 510 Systems, which developed the technologies for Google Street View and Google Car, and was acquired by Google)
• Brian P.Y. Liu (BS Biochemistry) – Chairman and co-founder (along with attorney Robert Shapiro) of Internet-based self-help legal documents company LegalZoom
• Thomas J. Long, B.S. 1932 – Founder of pharmaceutical retailer Longs Drugs (acquired by CVS Caremark for $2.54 billion)
• Hong Liang Lu, B.S. 1978 – founder and former CEO of NASDAQ-listed Fortune 1000 networking company UTStarcom (named by the World Economic Forum to its Technology Pioneers list)
• Samuel Madden, PhD – co-founder of Vertica Systems (acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $350 million, 2005 Technology Review Top 35
• Brian Maxwell, B.A. 1975 – co-founder (with Jennifer Maxwell, BS 1988) of energy bar food company PowerBar (acquired by Nestlé for $375 million); namesake of the Maxwell Family Field on the UC Berkeley campus
• Jennifer Maxwell, BS 1988 – co-founder (with Brian Maxwell, BA 1975) of energy bar food company PowerBar (acquired by Nestlé for $375 million); namesake of the Maxwell Family Field on the UC Berkeley campus
• Steve McCanne, B.S. 1990, Ph.D. 1996 – Co-developer of MBone, co-founder of Internet broadband technology company FastForward Networks (acquired by Inktomi for $1.3 billion), co-founder and CTO of NASDAQ-listed networking hardware company Riverbed Technology (acquired by Thoma Bravo for $3.6 billion)
• Greg McIntyre, PhD EECS 2006 – co-founder (with Frank Gennari, PhD EECS 2004 and Michael Lam, BS EECS 1992 ) of electronic design automation software company CommandCAD (acquired by Cadence Design Systems)
• Nick McKeown, MS 1992, PhD 1995 – co-founder and former CTO of Abrizio (acquired by PMC-Sierra for $400 million), co-founder and former CEO of Nemo Systems (acquired by Cisco Systems for $12.5 million), co-founder of software-defined networking company Nicira Networks (acquired by VMWare for $1.26 billion); Kleiner Perkins Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University
• Milo Medin, B.S. 1985 – founder of Internet broadband company @home Network, (acquired by AT&T for $307 million)
• Sanjay Mehrotra, B.S. 1978, M.S. EE 1980 – co-founder and president of NASDAQ-100 flash memory manufacturer SanDisk
• Richard W. Melmon, B.A. Physics 1961 – the 2nd co-founder and former Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing of NASDAQ-listed video game company Electronic Arts
• Teresa H. Meng, Ph.D. 1988 – co-founder of NASDAQ-listed wireless networking semiconductor company Atheros Communications (acquired by Qualcomm for $3.2 billion); member, National Academy of Engineering, Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, IEEE Fellow
• Paul Merage, B.S. Business 1966, MBA 1968 – co-founder and former CEO of Hot Pockets frozen food company Chef America Inc. (acquired by Nestlé for $2.6 billion)
• Alan Miller, B.S. EECS 1973 – co-founder of first independent video game publisher Activision (known now as the NASDAQ-100 video game company Activision Blizzard), co-founder and former CEO of video game company Accolade (acquired by Infogames for $60 million )
• Gordon Moore, B.S. 1950 – co-founder of NASDAQ-100 company Intel, originator of Moore's Law
• Kate and Laura Mulleavy, B.A. (art history and English, respectively) 2001 – founders of clothing and fashion accessories brand Rodarte.
• Clark Nguyen, BS EECS 1989, MS 1991 EECS, PhD 1994 EECS – professor of EECS at UC Berkeley researching microelectromechanical systems, founder of MEMS company Discera (acquired by Micrel)
• Lowell North, B.S .1951 – gold medalist at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, founder of North Sails ("the world's leading sailmaker" )
• Michael Olson, B.A. 1991, M.A. 1992 – founder and CEO of commercial Apache Hadoop vendor Cloudera; former CEO of database software company Sleepycat Software (acquired in 2006 by Oracle Corporation), co-author of database software BerkeleyDB
• Pierre Omidyar, attended to complete his undergraduate degree in computer science – founder of NASDAQ-100 web auction site eBay
• Bhavin Parikh, M.B.A. 2010 and Hansoo Lee, M.B.A. 2010 - Founders of Berkeley startup Magoosh, an online test prep company.
• Anupam Pathak, BS Mechanical Engineering 2004 – founder of robotic accessibility devices research company Lift Labs (acquired by Google)
• Robert S. Pepper, B.S. 1957, M.S. 1959, Ph.D. 1961 – founder and CEO of Level One Semiconductor (acquired by Intel for $2.11 billion)
• Kris Pister, MS EE 1989, PhD 1992 –professor of EECS at UC Berkeley researching smart dust, founder of Dust Networks (acquired by semiconductor company Linear Technology)
• Kim Polese, B.S. 1984 (biophysics) – CEO of software company SpikeSource; original product manager of the Java at Sun Microsystems; co-founder and former CEO of software company Marimba (acquired by BMC Software for $239 million)
• Rhea Posedel, B.S. EE 1965 – founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor testing company Aehr Test Systems
• Lars Rasmussen, Ph. D 1992 – co-founder of Where 2 Technologies (which was acquired by Google and renamed to Google Maps); co-founder of Google Wave; researcher at Facebook
• In Sik Rhee, B.S. EECS 1993 – co-founder (with Marc Andreessen) of software company LoudCloud (which was renamed to Opsware and was acquired by HP for $1.6 billion)
• Danae Ringelmann, MBA 2008 – co-founder (with Eric Schell, MBA 2008) of Internet crowdfunding company IndieGoGo
• Warren Robinett, M.S. C.S. 1976 – originator of Easter eggs, co-founder of edutainment software company The Learning Company (acquired by Mattel for $3.8 billion)
• Mendel Rosenblum, MS 1989, PhD 1992 – co-founder (with Diane Greene MS CS 1988 and Edward Wang BS EECS 1983, MS 1988, PhD 1994) of NYSE-listed software company VMWare
• Mark Rotblat, MBA 2007 – co-founder (with John Huges, MBA 2007) of NASDAQ-listed enterprise software for digital branding company TubeMogul
• John Schaeffer, 1971 – Founder of NASDAQ-listed solar energy retailer Real Goods Solar and the Solar Living Center
• John Scharffenberger, 1973 – co-founder of the Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker company (acquired by Hershey's for $20 million)
• Klaus Schauser, PhD CS 1994 – founder and CTO (1996-2006) of Citrix co-founder of GoToMyPC (acquired by Citrix for $225 million )
• Eric Schell, MBA 2008 – co-founder (with Danae Ringelmann, MBA 2008) of Internet crowdfunding company IndieGoGo
• Andrew Schmeder, BA Mathematics 2002 – co-founder (with Tony Dykes BA 2000) and Vice President of Technology at EnChroma (a research and development company that produces corrective lenses for the anomalous trichromacy form of color blindness)
• Ronald V. Schmidt, B.S. EECS 1966, M.S. EECS 1968, Ph.D. EECS 1971– "the man who brought Ethernet to the masses" while a researcher at XEROX Parc, co-founder and CTO of semiconductor electronics firm SynOptics, Vice President at Bell Labs/Lucent
• Andrew Schultz, MS 2006– co-founder (with Anthony Levandowski BS 2002, MS 2003 and Pierre-Yves Droz, MS) of the secretive robotics hardware company 510 Systems, which developed the technologies for Google Street View and Google Car, and was acquired by Google)
• Jim Simons, Ph.D. 1972 – founder of $20 billion hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, mathematician, philanthropist
• Charles Simonyi, B.S. 1972 – founder of Intentional Software; former head of Microsoft's flagship Office applications; fifth space tourist; at Xerox PARC he created the first WYSIWYG word processor, Bravo; joined Microsoft to spread the WYSIWYG and computer mouse gospel; originally from Hungary, he is the "Hungarian" in Hungarian notation, which he created
• Roger Sippl, B.A. CS 1977 – co-founder of software database company Informix (acquired by IBM for $1 billion)
• James Solomon, B.S. EE, M.S. EE – founder of electronic design automation company SDA Systems (became NASDAQ-listed Cadence Design Systems); recipient of the Phil Kaufman Award, the "Nobel Prize" of the electronic design industry"
• Masayoshi Son, B.A. 1980 – founder and CEO of TYO-listed Japanese telecommunications and media giant Softbank, venture capital firm Softbank Capital
• Cornelius Vander Starr (attended) – founder of AIG Corporation
• Paul Stephens, B.S. 1967, M.B.A. 1969 – investment banker, co-founder of Robertson Stephens & Company
• Gordon Stitt, MBA – co-founder of NASDAQ-listed computer security company, co-founder and former CEO (1996-2006), former Chairman (1996-2004) and former Director (1996-2011) of NASDAQ-listed enterprise computer network infrastructure company Extreme Networks
• Kevin Stone, BS EECS 1994, MS EE 1995 – co-founder of BeVocal (acquired by Nuance Communications for $140 million )
• Steve Strand, B.S. EECS 1979 – co-founder (with Stephanie DiMarco, BS Business 1979) of NASDAQ-listed financial software company Advent Software (acquired by NASDAQ-listed SS&C Technologies for $2.3 billion))
• Pantas Sutardja, B.S. 1983, M.S. 1985, Ph.D. 1988 EECS – co-founder (with Sehat Sutardjai, MS 1983, PhD 1988; and Weili Dai, BA Computer Science 1984) of NASDAQ-100 technology company Marvell Technology Group; namesake of Sutardja-Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus
• Sehat Sutardja, M.S. 1983, Ph.D. 1988 EECS – co-founder (with Weili Dai BA Computer Science 1984 and Pantas Sutardjai MS 1983, PhD 1988) of NASDAQ-100 broadband technology company Marvell Technology Group; namesake of Sutardja-Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus
• Marc Tarpenning, B.S. EECS 1985 – co-founder of NASDAQ-listed electric car company Tesla Motors; co-founder of NuvoMedia (acquired by Gemstar-TV Guide for $187 million)
• Ralph Ungermannn, B.S.E.E. 1964 – co-founder of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor company Zilog (the company whose Z80 architecture was used in the CPU for the Nintendo handheld video game units Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance; the company was later acquired by IXYS Corporation for $62.4 million)
• Jon F. Vein, B.A., founder of MarketShare (subsidiary of Neustar, also Emmy Award-winning producer.
• Craig Walker, B.A. 1988, J.D. 1995 – co-founder and CEO of Internet software company GrandCentral (acquired by Google for $50 million)
• Robert Walker, B.S. EE 1958 – co-founder of NYSE-listed S&P 500 semiconductor ASIC company LSI Logic(acquired by Avago for $6.6 billion
• Cher Wang, M.A. 1981 – founder and chairperson of TWSE-listed smartphone manufacturer HTC Corporation and TWSE-listed electronics manufacturer VIA Technologies
• Chris Wang, B.A. 2003 – co-founder (with Ling Xiao, BS 2004 ) of social online gaming developer Playdom (acquired by The Walt Disney Company for $763 million)
• Edward Wang, B.S. EECS 1983, M.S. 1988, Ph.D. 1994 – co-founder (with Diane Greene MS CS 1988 and Mendel Rosenblum MS 1989, PhD 1992) and Principal Engineer of NYSE-listed software company VMware
• Stephen Wang, B.A. C.S. 1997 – co-founder (with Senh Duong BA 1995 and Patrick Lee BA Cognitive Science 1992) and former CTO of film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes (acquired by IGN for $10 million)
• Jay Ward, BA 1941 – co-founder (with UC Berkeley fraternity brother Alex Anderson ) and namesake of animation studio Jay Ward Productions (which created Rocky & Bullwinkle, Peabody & Sherman, Dudley Do-Right)
• Ralph Warner, Law, ca. 1966 – founder of Nolo Press, pioneer in the legal self-help book industry
• Alice Waters, B.A. 1967 – celebrity chef, founder of Chez Panisse, originator of the California cuisine; 2015 National Humanities Medal recipient for "celebrating the bond between the ethical and the edible. As a chef, author, and advocate, Ms. Waters champions a holistic approach to eating and health and celebrates integrating gardening, cooking, and education, sparking inspiration in a new generation."; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; recipient of five James Beard Foundation Awards (1984 Who's Who of Food & Beverage, 1997 Fruits & Vegetables, 1992 Outstanding Chef, 1992 Outstanding Restaurant, 1997 Humanitarian of the Year, 2004 Lifetime Achievement)
• David Wilner, BS CS c. 1975, co-founder of Wind River Systems (acquired by Intel for $884 million)
• Brett Wilson, MBA 2007– Co-founder and CEO of NASDAQ-listed enterprise software for digital branding company TubeMogul
• Dean Witter, 1909 – co-founder and partner, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
• Steve Wozniak, class of 1976, graduated B.S. 1986 – co-founder of NASDAQ-100 computer software and hardware manufacturer Apple Inc, member of the National Academy of Engineering; Chief Scientist of flash memory enterprise company Fusion-io (when it was acquired by SanDisk for $1.3 billion)
• Johns Wu, B.A. 2007 – founder and CEO of Bankaholic (acquired by Bankrate for $15 million)
• Ling Xiao, B.S. 2004 – co-founder (with Chris Wang, BA 2003) of social online gaming developer Playdom (acquired by The Walt Disney Company for $763 million)
• Alisa Yaffa, B.A. 1986 – co-founder of semiconductor company Synplicity (acquired by Synopsys for $227 million)
• Michael Yang, B.S. 1983, MBA 1995 –founder of Become.com; co-founder of MySimon.com ( acquired by CNET for $700 million)
• Allen Yee, BA, 1996 - co-founder of multimedia interactive design studio Cloudred
• Jim Young, BS 1994, MS 1997 – co-founder (with James Hong, BS 1995, MBS 1999) of Internet rating site Hot Or Not (acquired by Avid Life Media for $20 million)

Chairs, presidents, and CEOs

• Ginetto Addiego, B.S. EE 1981, Ph.D. EE 1990 – President and Chief Operating Officer of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor equipment supplier Ultra Clean Holdings, - former Executive Vice President of semiconductor company Novellus Systems
• Charles Anderson, BS Chemistry 1938 – CEO and President (1958-1980) of Stanford Research International (known now as SRI International)
• Mitchell Baker, B.A. 1979, J.D. 1987 – current Chairperson and former CEO of the web browser company Mozilla Corporation, current Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation, recipient of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award in 2008; inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame
• William F. Ballhaus, Jr., B.S. 1967, M.S. 1968, Ph.D. 1971 – director of NASDAQ company OSI Systems, former president and CEO of Aerospace Corporation, former director of NASA's Ames Research Center
• Brian Barish, B.A. 1991 – President of the investment firm Cambiar Investors, LLC.
• Bengt Baron, B.S. 1985, M.B.A. 1988 – CEO of V&S Group (Stockholm, Sweden); former CEO of Absolut Vodka; 1980 Summer Olympics Gold Medalist in 100m Men's Backstroke
• Jeff Berg, BA 1969 – chairman and chief executive of entertainment talent agency International Creative Management
• Andy Choy, B.A. 1996 – CEO of the Riviera hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip
• Philip M. Condit, B.S. 1963 – Chairman and CEO of NYSE-listed S&P 500 aerospace corporation The Boeing Company from 1996 to 2003
• Rick Cronk, B.S. Business 1965 – co-owner and former President (1977–2003) of NASDAQ-listed ice cream company Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream (acquired by Nestlé in a $2.8 billion deal in 2002) ; former national president of the Boy Scouts of America and the outgoing chairman of the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement
• John Danne, B.S. EECS 1986 – President and CEO of NASDAQ-100 semiconductor company Altera, former vice-president at NYSE-listed S&P 500 semiconductor company LSI Logic
• Sue Desmond-Hellman, Masters of Public Health – CEO of the philanthropic Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Robert V. Dickinson, B.A. Physics – President and CEO of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor company California Micro Devices (acquired by ON Semiconductor for $108 million)
• Patricia Dunn, B.A. 1975 – former Chairwoman of NYSE-listed S&P 500 computer products company Hewlett-Packard
• John East, B.S. 1966 – CEO of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor company Actel
• Richard D. Fain, B.S. Economics – Chairman and CEO of NYSE-listed cruise line company Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
• David Feinberg, B.A. 1984 Economics – CEO of the UCLA Hospital System
• John Foraker, M.B.A. 1994 – CEO of NYSE-listed organic food product company Annie's Homegrown(acquired by General Mills for $820 million)
• Michael R. Gallagher, B.A. Business 1967, MBA 1968 – former CEO and Director of Playtex Products, Inc., from 1995 to 2004
• Mandy Ginsberg, BA – former CEO of Internet dating site Match.com (NASDAQ-listed IAC-subsidiary), CEO of instructional web site Tutor.com (subsidiary of NASDAQ-listed IAC)
• Clarence Granger, BS Industrial Engineering – Chairman and CEO of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor equipment supplier Ultra Clean Holdings
• Andrew Grove, Ph.D. 1963 – 4th employee of NASDAQ-100 semiconductor company Intel, and eventually its President, CEO, and Chairman, and TIME magazine's Man of the Year in 1997
• Timothy Guertin, B.S. 1972 – President and Chief Executive Officer of medical technology company Varian Medical Systems
• Walter A. Haas, Sr., B.S. 1910 – former President and CEO of clothing manufacturer Levi Strauss & Co.
• Walter A. Haas, Jr., B.S. 1937 – former President and CEO of Levi Strauss & Co.
• Kirk S. Hachigian, B.S. Business 1982 – Chairman, President, and CEO of NYSE-listed electrical equipment and tool manufacturing company Cooper Industries
• H. Robert Heller, Ph.D. Economics 1965 - President and CEO of VISA U.S.A. and Federal Reserve Board of Governors
• Mark Hoffman, BA Sociology – CEO and President of financial news cable television network CNBC
• Paul E. Jacobs, B.S. 1984, M.S. 1986, Ph. D 1989 – CEO of NASDAQ-100 wireless telecommunications semiconductor company Qualcomm
• Joseph Jimenez M.B.A. 1984 - Chief Executive Officer, Novartis
• Pradman Kaul, M.S. 1968 – Chairman and CEO of NASDAQ-listed broadband satellite services company Hughes Communications, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Glenn Kelman, B.A. 1993 – President and CEO of online real estate brokerage Redfin
• Linda A. Lang, B.S. Business 1980 – Chairman of the Board and CEO of NASDAQ-listed restaurant franchise company Jack in the Box
• Douglas Leeds, B.A. Political Economy – CEO, Ask.com (subsidiary of NASDAQ-listed IAC )
• Howard Lincoln, B.A. 1962, J.D. 1965 – former Chairman of video game company Nintendo of America (the American branch of TYO-listed video game company Nintendo), Chairman and CEO of the Seattle Mariners; recipient of the inaugural Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Lifetime Achievement Award
• Mark Liu, PhD EECS – President and Co-Chief Executive Officer of NYSE-listed semiconductor fabrication plant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
• Lothar Maier, B.S. Chem. E. 1978 – CEO of NASDAQ-100 semiconductor company Linear Technology
• Shantanu Narayen, M.B.A. 1993– President and CEO of NASDAQ-100 software company Adobe Systems Inc.
• Paul Otellini, M.B.A. 1974 – CEO of NASDAQ-100 semiconductor company Intel (2005–present)
• Rudolph A. Peterson, B.S. 1925, President and CEO of NYSE-listed S&P 500 financial services company Bank of America
• Arvind Raghunathan, Ph.D. 1988 – CEO of Roc Hedge Fund, former Managing Director and Head of Global Arbitrage, Deutsche Bank, Fellow of the Institute for Combinatorics
• Tom Reilly, B.S. ME – President and CEO of security software company ArcSight (acquired by Hewlett Packard for $1.5 billion); CEO of Internet software cloud database company Cloudera
• John Riccitiello, B.S. 1981 – CEO of NASDAQ-100 video game company Electronic Arts (April 2007–March 2013); managing director and co-founder of Elevation Partners; former president and chief operating officer (October 1997 to April 2004) of Electronic Arts (grew the company from $673 million to $3 billion, increased profits over 900%); former President and Chief Executive Officer, Bakery Division, at Sara Lee; former President and Chief Executive Officer of Wilson Sporting Goods
• Arun Sarin, M.S. 1978, M.B.A. 1978 – CEO of London-based NASDAQ-100 wireless service provider company Vodafone (2003–present)
• Eric Schmidt, M.S. 1979, Ph.D. 1982 – Inaugural CEO of NASDAQ-100 Internet search company Google (2001–2011); executive chairman at Google (2011–present), 136th-richest person in the world in 2011
• Jeff Shell, BAS Economics and Applied Math– Chairman of Universal Filmed Entertainment and Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors
• Willy Shih, Ph.D. – Chairman of the Board of NASDAQ-listed wireless networking semiconductor company Atheros Communications when it was acquired by Qualcomm for $3.2 billion; Professor of Management Practice at The Harvard Business School
• Stephen A. Skaggs, B.S. 1984 – President and CEO of NASDAQ-listed Lattice Semiconductor
• Masayoshi Son, B.A. 1980 - President and CEO of Japanese Telecommunication Company Softbank
• Sumant Sridharan, B.S. EECS and B.A. Economics – President of Product at NASDAQ-listed online retailer of mass customization products CafePress
• Nancy Tellem, B.A. – President of Entertainment & Digital Media at NASDAQ-100 software company Microsoft; former president of CBS Network Television Entertainment Group; inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame
• Robert Tjian, BS Biochemistry – molecular biologist, president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• Cher Wang, M.A. 1981 – Chair of computer motherboard manufacturer TWSE-listed VIA Technologies and TWSE-listed portable electronics manufacturer HTC Corporation
• Raymond Watson, BA Architecture 1951, MA Architecture 1953 – 2011 Disney Legend; counselor to Walt Disney on the design of EPCOT; chairman of Walt Disney Productions (1983-1984), member of the Disney board of directors (1972-2004) ; president of the Irvine Company (1973-1977), which planned the City of Irvine, California and the University of California, Irvine)
• Hal Zarem, B.S. Physics 1980 – Chief Executive Officer, Silicon Light Machines division of NASDAQ-listed Cypress Semiconductor

Vice presidents, CFOs, and CTOs

• Adnan Asar, B.S. EECS – Vice President of Engineering of Tiny Prints Inc (a subsidiary of NASDAQ-listed Internet-based personal imaging publishing service company Shutterfly )
• Maury Austin, B.S. – CFO of NASDAQ-listed microprocessor design company MIPS Technologies
• Paul Bennett M.S. - Vice President and Treasurer of Chevron
• Jeffrey C. Benzing, B.S. Mech. Eng. – Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor company Novellus Systems
• Andy Bodea, BS Math – Chief Global Operations Officer at NYSE-listed consumer credit reporting agency Equifax
• Anthony C. Bonora B.S. ME 1964, M.S. ME 1966 – Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor company Asyst Technologies
• Stephen Brobst, B.S. EECS – Chief Technology Officer at NASDAQ-listed computer data analytics and data warehousing software company Teradata
• Elizabeth Brown, BA - Vice President of Human Resources at NASDAQ-listed Internet real estate search engine Trulia when it was acquired by Zillow for $3.5 billion
• Tim Campos, BS EE, MBA 2011 – Chief Information Officer at[NASDAQ-listed social networking company Facebook
• Greg Chang, BA – Vice President of Asia & 3rd Party Publishing at NASDAQ-listed freemium video game development and publishing company Glu
• Alon Chaver, B.S., J.D. – Vice President of Industry Services at NYSE-listed web-based real estate company Trulia when it was acquired by Zillow for $3.5 billion
• Roawen Chen, Ph.D. EECS – Vice President of Manufacturing Operations at NASDAQ-100 broadband technology company Marvell Technology Group
• Arthur Chong, A.B. - Senior Vice President, General Counsel of NASDAQ-100 broadband semiconductor company Broadcom
• Frank Cooper III B.S. - Global Chief Marketing Officer for PepsiCo
• David R. Ditzel, M.S. EECS – Vice President and Chief Architect for Hybrid Parallel Computing for the Intel Labs at NASDAQ-100 semiconductor company Intel
• Kevin Donelly, B.S. EECS 1985 – Senior Vice-President of Engineering at NASDAQ-listed semiconductor RAM interface company Rambus
• Keith Eadie, MBA – Chief Marketing Officer at NASDAQ-listed enterprise software for digital branding company TubeMogul
• Ben Elowitz, B.S., B.A., 1994 – Vice-president and co-founder of NASDAQ-listed online retailer Blue Nile Inc.
• Matthew K. Fawcett, B.A. – Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary of NASDAQ-100 computer network storage company NetApp
• Craig Federighi, B.S. EECS, M.S. CS - Senior Vice President of Mac Software Engineering at NASDAQ-100 computer technology company Apple Inc.
• Heather Mirjahangir Fernandez, B.A. Political Science – Vice President of Agent Services at NYSE-listed web-based real estate company Trulia
• John Fogelin, B.A. CS – former Vice President of Engineering and CTO of Wind River Systems (acquired by Intel for $884 million ), current Vice President of Engineering for human robotic exoskeleton company Berkeley Bionics (developers of the Human Universal Load Carrier and eLegs, which allows paraplegics to walk upright)
• Charles Giancarlo, M.S. EECS 1980 – Chief Development Officer of NASDAQ-100 networking technology company Cisco Systems
• Rachel Glaser, B.A. – Chief Financial Officer at NASDAQ-listed real estate search engine company Move
• Joseph D. Greco, M.S. EECS – Senior Vice President of the Advanced Technology Group at NASDAQ-100 video graphics card company Nvidia
• David Greene, B.A. CS – Chief Marketing Officer of NASDAQ-listed networking hardware company Riverbed Technology
• Neeraj Gunsagar – Senior Vice President, Revenue of TrueCar, at NASDAQ-listed Internet-based car buying website TrueCar
• Steven T. Holmes, B.S. Mechanical Engineering – Vice President of Intel Architecture Group (IAG) and general manager of Intel's Smart Devices Innovation team at NASDAQ-100 semiconductor company Intel
• David Allen Hoyt, B.B.A. – Senior Executive Vice President of Wholesale Banking at NYSE-listed bank Wells Fargo & Company
• Larry Illg, B.A. Economics, M.B.A. – Vice President of New Ventures at NYSE-listed web-based real estate company Trulia
• Bruce Jaffe, B.S. – Corporate Vice-President and head of Mergers & Acquisitions of NASDAQ-100 software company Microsoft Corporation; CFO of Glam Media
• Monica Johnson, B.A. Economics – Chief Financial Officer of NASDAQ-listed online retailer of mass customization products CafePress
• Gani Jusuf, B.S. EECS, M.S. EECS, Ph.D. EECS –Vice President of Product Development, Communications and Consumer Business Group at NASDAQ-100 broadband company Marvell Technology Group
• Michael C. Kavanaugh, B.S. 1961, M.S. 1974 – Vice-President of the environmental engineering firm of Malcolm Pirnie, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Paul Keswick, B.S. 1979 – Executive Vice President of NASDAQ-listed Cypress Semiconductor
• Jonathan Khazam, MBA – corporate vice president of the Intel Architecture Group and general manager of the Visual and Parallel Computing Group at NASDAQ-100 semiconductor company Intel
• Neil Y. Kim, B.S. EECS – Senior Vice President, Operations and Central Engineering of NASDAQ-100 broadband semiconductor company Broadcom
• E. Floyd Kvamme, B.S. EECS 1959 – former vice-president and president at NYSE-listed S&P 500 semiconductor manufacturer company National Semiconductor, former vice-president at Apple Computer, venture capitalist Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
• Ernest Lam, B.S. EECS – former Vice President of Engineering at Teracent Corporation (when it was acquired by Google)
• Bryan Lamkin, BS Business, MBA –Senior Vice President, Technology and Corporate Development at Nasdaq-listed multimedia tools software company Adobe
• John Lautze, MBA Vice President, Finance at NASDAQ-100 semiconductor company Intel
• Lin Lee, B.A. C.S. – Vice president of Global Communities at computer manufacturer Sun Microsystems, former Vice President of Product Development for W-Phone, co-founder of database software company CenterView (acquired by Informix)
• Wayne Lee, B.S. Business - Chief Financial Officer of NASDAQ-listed Internet media tourism company Travelzoo
• Bruce H. Leising, B.S. 1976– Vice President of the Technology and Manufacturing Group at NASDAQ-100 semiconductor company Intel
• Judy Lin, dual B.A.'s in C.S. and European History – former Executive Vice President of NASDAQ-100 network infrastructure company VeriSign
• Benjamin Ling, B.S. EECS – Chief Operating Officer at Badoo, former Product Management Director of Search Products and Local Business Products at Google
• Joel Linzer, J.D. – Executive Vice President of NASDAQ-100 video game company Electronic Arts
• Wei-Jen Lo, PhD Solid State Physics and Surface Chemistry – Senior Vice President, Research & Development of NYSE-listed semiconductor fabrication plant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
• Byron Lok, B.S. CS 1976 – Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of NYSE-listed S&P 500 semiconductor company LSI Logic
• Craig London, B.S. Physics – Executive Vice President of electronics manufacturing services company Solectron (acquired by Flextronics for $3.6 billion)
• Jason Lopatecki, BS EECS – Chief Strategy Officer at NASDAQ-listed enterprise software for digital branding company TubeMogul
• Michael J. Loughlin, BA 1978 – Chief Risk Officer and Senior Executive Vice President at NYSE-listed banking and financial services company Wells Fargo
• Michael Luby, PhD CS – VP, Technology at NASDAQ-listed Qualcomm; co-founder and CTO of mobile TV company Digital Fountain (acquired by Qualcomm )
• Bob Lutz, B.S. 1961, M.B.A. 1962 – General Motors Vice Chairman, Product Development, and Chairman, General Motors North America, former Vice Chairman for Chrysler
• Arun Majumdar, PhD 1989 – Vice President for Energy at NASDAQ-listed Internet search engine company Google, former Almy and Agnes Maynard Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley, Jay Precourt Provostial Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University
• Amy Maniatis, B.A. – Chief Marketing Officer at the National Geographic Society; former Vice President of Marketing at NASDAQ-listed online retailer of mass customization products CafePress
• Yoky Matsuoka, B.S. 1993 – neuro-robotics researcher, Vice President of Technology at Tony Fadell "smart-thermostat" company Nest Labs when it was acquired by Google for $3.2 billion; founding member of Google X; 2007 MacArthur Fellowship
• Michael C. Mayberry, Ph.D. Physical Chemistry – Corporate Vice President of the Technology and Manufacturing Group and director of Components Research at NASDAQ-100 semiconductor company Intel
• Jack McCauley, BS EECS 1986 – engineer who designed the devices used in the video game Guitar Hero and has co-developed the virtual reality goggles known as Oculus Rift from Oculus VR; Vice President of Engineering at Oculus VR (acquired by Facebook for $2 billion)
• Thomas McKeever, B.A. – Senior Vice President at NASDAQ-listed data analytics software company Actuate Corporation, former counsel at NASDAQ-listed computer company Sun Microsystems
• Stanley Meresman, B.S. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research – former Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of NYSE-listed Silicon Graphics, Inc, former Vice President of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer of NASDAQ-listed Cypress Semiconductor, director of NASDAQ-listed Riverbed Technology, NASDAQ-listed Zynga, and NASDAQ-listed LinkedIn
• Jason Mikami, B.A. Oriental Languages (Japanese) 1992 and B.S. EECS 1998 - Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Bitcasa, Founder/Owner of Mikami Vineyards
• Brian Millham, B.A. 1991 – Executive Vice President, Global Commercial Sales, at NASDAQ-listed customer relationship management software and cloud computing company Salesforce.com
• Ken Milnes, B.S. EECS 1977 – Senior Vice-President of television technology company Sportvision, winner of 4 Emmy Awards in broadcasting technology
• Stuart Nichols, B.A. 1983 – Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of NASDAQ-listed microprocessor design company MIPS Technologies
• Burke Norton, J.D. – Chief Legal Officer at NASDAQ-listed customer relationship management software and cloud computing company Salesforce.com
• David Nguyen, B.S. – Vice President of Engineering at NASDAQ-listed semiconductor RAM interface company Rambus
• Tim O'Brien, B.S. Business 1996 - former Vice President of Business Development for Tapulous when it was acquired by The Walt Disney Company; current Vice President of Business Development for Disney Mobile
• Raffy J. Ohannesian, B.A. Legal Studies 1991 - Chief Financial Officer, Fox Rent-A-Car, Inc.
• George Palmer, B.S. EECS – Vice President of Operations at semiconductor company SiBEAM
• Denny Parker, B.S. 1965, M.S. 1966, Ph.D. 1970 – Senior Vice-President, Brown and Caldwell; member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Anne Marie Peters, BS Molecular and Cell Biology – General Counsel and Vice President, Legal of NASDAQ-listed haptic feedback company Immersion Corporation
• Raja Petrakian, PhD Industrial Engineering and Operations Research– Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations, at NASDAQ-listed FPGA semiconductor company Xilinx
• Kathleen Phillips, BA – Chief Operating Officer at NASDAQ-listed Internet real estate company Zillow
• Mark Pittman, B.A. 1982 – Vice President of Sales, MIPS Processor Group, at NASDAQ-listed microprocessor design company MIPS Technologies
• Ashu Rege, PhD CS – Vice President of Engineering, Computer Vision at NASDAQ-listed video card manufacturing company NVIDIA
• Satish Rishi, MBA – Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor RAM interface company Rambus
• Kate Rundle, B.A. 1978 – Executive Vice-President and General Counsel of optical semiconductor company Bookham, former Vice President and General Counsel of microprocessor design company MIPS Technologies
• Alan Saldich, BSME 1987 –Vice President of Marketing at cloud-database company Cloudera, former (2002-2009) Vice President Product Marketing at NASDAQ-listed Internet technology equipment company Riverbed Technology
• Margret Schmidt, BS EECS 1992 - Vice President of Design & Engineering and Chief Design Officer at NASDAQ-listed digital video recorder company TiVo; recipient of the 2006 Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Interactive Television; Industry Faculty lecturer at UC Berkeley
• Daniel Schotland, BS Business – VP of Operations at NASDAQ-listed enterprise software for digital branding company TubeMogul
• Steve Schumann, B.S. EECS 1982 – Vice president and general manager at NASDAQ-listed semiconductor company Atmel
• Shaival Shah, BS Biochemistry 1997 – former GM & VP Business Development at analytics marketing company Hunch (acquired by eBay for $80 million)
• Rama K. Shukla, Ph.D. – Vice President, Intel Architecture Group at NASDAQ-100 semiconductor company Intel
• Dave Singhal, B.S. EECS - Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at NASDAQ-listed microprocessor design company MIPS Technologies
• Steve Sloan, BS – Senior Vice President, Products and Engineering, at NASDAQ-listed marketing automation software company Marketo
• Emily Smith, BA – Senior Vice President, Digital, at the Los Angeles Times Media Group
• Sumant Sridharan, B.S. EECS and M.A. Economics – Vice President of Product at NASDAQ-listed online retailer of mass customization products CafePress
• Betsy Sutter, B.A. – Senior Vice President at NYSE-listed software company VMWare
• Adam Tachner, B.A.– Vice President and General Counsel of NASDAQ-listed wireless networking semiconductor company Atheros Communications when it was acquired by Qualcomm for $3.2 billion
• Vincent Tong, B.S. EECS – Vice-president of Worldwide Quality and Reliability Engineering at NASDAQ-100 semiconductor company Xilinx
• David Torre, B.S. Business, MBA - Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of NASDAQ-listed wireless networking semiconductor company Atheros Communications when it was acquired by Qualcomm for $3.2 billion
• Stephen T. Tso, PhD Materials Science and Engineering – Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of NYSE-listed semiconductor fabrication plant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
• Vanessa Washington J.D. - Senior Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Bank of the West
• Geoffrey Weber, B.A. math — Vice President of Internet Operations at NASDAQ-listed Internet-based personal imagine publishing service company Shutterfly
• Vincent Win, B.S. EECS – former Vice President of video card manufacturer ATI Technologies when it was acquired by AMD for $5.4 billion, former Vice President at NYSE-listed S&P 500 semiconductor company AMD
• Albert Wu, Ph.D. EE – Vice President of Operations at NASDAQ-100 broadband technology company Marvell Technology Group
• David Wu, B.A. CS, M.S. CS – Chief Technology Officer of NASDAQ-listed networking hardware company Riverbed Technology
• Julie K. Xanders, JD – Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Los Angeles Times Media Group
• Ian A. Young, Ph.D. EE – Senior Fellow of the Technology and Manufacturing Group at NASDAQ-100 semiconductor company Intel
• Robert Yung, B.A. 1985, M.S. EECS 1988, Ph.D. EECS 1998 – Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor company PMC-Sierra, former Chief Technology Officer for the Asia division of Sun Microsystems, named in 2000 as one of the "Top 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum
• Steve Zadesky, BS Mechanical Engineering 1995 – Vice President iPod/iPhone Product Design (1999–present) at NASDAQ-listed computer hardware and software company Apple Inc.
• David A. Zapolsky, J.D. - Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at NASDAQ-100 web-based retailer Amazon.com

Other

• Stewart Blusson, Ph.D. 1964 – multimillionaire diamond magnate (Ekati Diamond Mine) and philanthropist
• Dipanjan Deb, BS EECS – co-founder of private equity firm Francisco Partners, member of the Board of Directors of NASDAQ-listed computer security company Barracuda Networks
• Jean Paul Getty (transferred to the University of Oxford) – founder of the Getty Oil Company
• Rachel Glaser, BA Organizational behavior and psychology – member of the board of directors for NASDAQ-listed Internet real estate company Move Inc. when it was acquired by NewsCorp for $950 million
• Don Graham – developer of the Ala Moana Center
• William Randolph Hearst, Jr. (attended) – newspaper publisher
• Ben Ling, BS EECS – investment partner at venture capital firm Khosla Ventures, founder and former General Manager of Google's Commerce Group, former Senior Director of Search Products and Local Business Products at Google, former Senior Director of Partnerships and Platform at YouTube, former Director of Facebook Platform at Facebook,
• Sonita Lontoh, B.S. 1999 - Green Technology Executive
• Stanley J. Meresman, BS Industrial Engineering and Operations Research– high technology company executive, current and former director of many Silicon Valley companies (NASDAQ-listed LinkedIn, NASDAQ-listed Zynga, NASDAQ-listed Riverbed Technology, NYSE-listed VMWare)
• Michael Milken, B.S. 1968 – billionaire financier, Drexel Burnham Lambert, philanthropist
• Thomas M. Neustaetter, BA – Managing Director, JK&B Capital, member of the board of directors at NASDAQ-listed big data analytics company Splunk
• Susan Samueli, B.A. 1972 – co-owner of the Anaheim Ducks
• Douglas W. Shorenstein, BA - Real estate developer, served as chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
• Edgar Steele - author and disbarred trial attorney, defense attorney for Richard G. Butler, of Aryan Nations, convicted of murder-for-hire
• Nicholas G. Sturiale, MBA – Managing Partner at venture capital firm Ignition Partners LLC, member of the board of directors at NASDAQ-listed big data analytics company Splunk
• Mark G Tobin - Treasurer, Louisiana-Pacific Corp.

Wine

• Jim Bundschu, B.A. 1968 - Gundlach Bundschu, Sonoma Valley winery
• Meredith (Merry) Edwards, B.A. 1970 – Merry Edwards Wines, a premium Pinot Noir producer
• William Harlan, B.A. 1963 – Harlan Estate, Bond, the Napa Valley Reserve, a cult wine Cabernet Sauvignon producer
• Jess S. Jackson, J.D. 1974 – founder, Kendall Jackson Wine Estates
• Charles P. Karren, B.A. 1990 – grower and owner of Terra de Promissio, a Sonoma Coast vineyard for cult Pinot producers Kosta-Browne, Kistler, Land of Promise, and Williams Selyem
• Jason Mikami, B.A. 1992, B.S. EECS 1998 - Mikami Vineyards, artisan winery focused on Zinfandel
• Michaela Rodena, M.B.A. 1980 – CEO of St. Supery Winery
• Eugene E. Trefethen, Jr, B.A. 1930 – Trefethen Winery, Napa Valley

See also

• List of UC Berkeley faculty