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The 50 most powerful people

Our annual look at the influential personalities shaping your network infrastructure
By Julie Bort and Beth Schultz , Network World , 12/22/2006
Category Name Title Company
POWER ELITE John Chambers CEO  Cisco
  Larry Ellison CEO Oracle
  Bill Gates Chairman Microsoft
  Sam Palmisano Chairman and CEO IBM
  Ivan Seidenberg Chairman and CEO Verizon
  Joe Tucci President and CEO EMC
  Edward Whitacre Chairman and CEO The new AT&T
       
ENTERPRISE NETWORK EXECUTIVES David Barnes Senior vice president and CIO UPS
  Robert Carter CIO FedEx
  Tom Gergets Director of networks & infrastructure McDonald’s U.S.A.
  Chad Mead Global head of security event
management
JPMorgan Chase
  John Partridge President and CEO Inovant
  Ralph Szygenda CIO GM
  Fred Wettling Technology strategy manager Bechtel
       
ENTERPRISE COMPUTING Steve Ballmer CEO Microsoft
  Diane Greene President VMware
  Mark Hurd Chairman and CEO HP
  Bob Moffat Senior vice president, Integrated Operations IBM
  Paul Otellini President and CEO Intel
  Hector Ruiz Chairman and CEO Advanced Micro Devices
  Matt Szulik Chairman and CEO Red Hat
  Daniel Warmenhoven CEO Network Appliance
       
APP INFRASTRUCTURE Shai Agassi President, Product and Technology Group SAP
  Marc Benioff Chairman and CEO Salesforce.com
  Aneel Bhusru Partner Greylock Partners
  Greg Gianforte Chairman and CEO RightNow Technologies
  Ray Ozzie Chief software architect Microsoft
  Eric Schmidt CEO Google
  Ann Winblad Partner Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
       
NET INFRASTRUCTURE Brad Booth President Ethernet Alliance
  John D’Ambrosia Chair IEEE 802.3 Higher Speed Study Group
  Louis D’Ambrosio President and CEO Avaya
  Charlie Giancarlo Senior vice president and chief development officer Cisco
  Kelly Herrell CEO Vyatta
  Scott Kriens CEO Juniper
  Mark Spencer President Digium
  Peter Stanforth Vice president, Mesh Networking Motorola
  Mike Zafirovski President and CEO Nortel
       
COMMUNICATIONS Craig McCaw Founder and co-CEO, Clearwire
  Gary Forsee Chairman, president and CEO Sprint Nextel
  John Scanlon CEO Yipes Enterprise Services
       
NET SECURITY Steve Hanna Distinguished engineer Juniper
  Suzanne Gorman Managing director of corporate information security Securities Industry Automation Corp. (SIAC)
  Eugene Spafford Executive director, Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security Purdue University
  John Thompson Chairman and CEO Symantec
  Bill Yerazunis Senior research scientist Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
       
REGULATORY Christopher Cox Chairman Securities and Exchange Commission
  Greg Garcia Assistant secretary for cybersecurity and telecommunications U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  Kevin Martin Chairman Federal Communications Commission
  Ted Stevens Chairman Senate Commerce Committee
       
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huH!!By Anonymous on June 24, 2008, 9:26 amdo you mean.. John Chambers is the most powerful person in the whole world??..in what ways?...really huH!!!!!

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The 50 most powerful peopleBy Dianne Moen on January 22, 2007, 10:04 amYou completely left out DoD's chief information officer and assistant secretary of Defense for networks and information integration. Mr. John Grimes

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I'm curious that on thatBy Frank Martin on January 11, 2007, 9:39 amI'm curious that on that list no IETF Working Group chair appears. After all the Internet is developped inside IETF. VoIP/SIP and IPv6 were made by IETF.

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Re: Nope, Jobs not that powerfulBy Randy Grein on January 9, 2007, 1:51 pmAnonymous speaks like a true head-in-the-sand IT drone. No vision, no understanding and no clue. iPods are in use in many hospitals to carry hi-def radiology images...

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The World goes beyond USABy Anonymous on January 9, 2007, 12:53 pmThe World goes beyond USA borders !!!

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