Celebrating the Power of Business and Philanthropic Leadership
The Bay Area Business Hall of Fame recognizes the extraordinary achievements of individuals and families who have advanced Bay Area businesses and industries to positions of national and international prominence, and who have enriched the civic life of the Bay Area community through their philanthropic and other contributions. The Bay Area Council founded the Business Hall of Fame in 1995 to celebrate our 50th anniversary and highlight exemplary entrepreneurialism and leadership to inspire excellence in business and honor private sector innovation.
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2024 Bay Area Business Hall of Fame honorees (left to right): Nancy Robertson, accepting for her husband, Sandy Robertson (1931-2024), Founder, Robertson Stephens & Company, and Co-Founder, Francisco Partners; John Chen, Chairman, President and CEO, Sybase (1998-2012), and Executive Chairman & CEO, BlackBerry (2013-2023); and Ann Winblad, Founding Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.
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Bay Area Business Hall of Fame Selection Committee
| Alex Mehran Sr., Chairman, Sunset Development Company (Chair) | Janet Lamkin, Senior Vice President, Global Market and Community Innovation, United Airlines |
| Mary Bitterman, President, Bernard Osher Foundation | Lenny Mendonca, Director Emeritus, McKinsey & Company |
| Teresa Briggs, Vice Chair and West Region Managing Partner (ret.), Deloitte | Kausik Rajgopal, Executive Vice President, Strategy, Corporate Development and Partnerships, PayPal |
| Michael Covarrubias, Chairman & Co-CEO, TMG Partners | Rosemary Turner, Deputy Chair, San Francisco Federal Reserve; President (ret.), UPS |
| David Cush, CEO, Service King | Barry Williams, Managing General Partner (ret.), Williams Pacific Ventures |
| Mary Huss, Publisher Emerita, San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal | Jim Wunderman, President & CEO, Bay Area Council |
Business Hall of Fame Inductees
| 2024 | 2010 | |
| John Chen, Chairman, President and CEO, Sybase (1998-2012), and Executive Chairman & CEO, BlackBerry (2013-2023) Sandy Robertson Founder, Robertson Stephens & Company, and Co-Founder, Francisco Partners (posthumous) Ann Winblad, Founding Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners | Ron Conway, Angel Investor Howard Lester, Chairman Emeritus, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. Harold M. Messmer, Chairman & CEO, Robert Half International | |
| 2023 | 2009 | |
| Mary Cranston, Chair and CEO, Pillsbury Hamid Moghadam, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Prologis | The Gallo Family, E & J Gallo Winery Brook Byers & John Doerr, Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers | |
| 2022 | 2008 | |
| George Marcus and Judy Marcus, Co-Founder and Chairman of Marcus & Millichap and Co-Founder and Chairman of Essex Property Trust, Founders of the Marcus Family Foundation Lloyd Dean, Chief Executive Emeritus and Founding Executive of CommonSpirit Health and CEO of Dignity Health (2000-2019) Florence Fang, entrepreneur, publisher, and philanthropist | Ray Dolby, Founder, Dolby Laboratories Dick Kovacevich, Chairman, Wells Fargo Bank George Roberts, Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Don Terner (posthumous) & Carol Galante, Principal Founder, President & CEO of Bridge Housing | |
| 2021 | 2007 | |
| Dr. Jennifer Doudna, 2020 Nobel Prize-winning biochemist, UC Berkeley; Founder, Mammoth Biosciences, Caribou Biosciences and Scribe Therapeutics Jim Herbert, Founder, Chairman and Co-CEO, First Republic Bank John Thompson, CEO, Symantec; Chair, Microsoft; Chair, Illumina | Mimi Silbert, President, Delancey Street Foundation Ed Penhoet, President & CEO, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Co-Founder, Chiron Corporation Scott McNealy, Chairman & Co-Founder, Sun Microsystems | |
| 2020 | 2006 | |
| Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellman, President, Genentech; Chancellor, UCSF; CEO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation The Trefethen Family, Winemaker Bernard J. Tyson, Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Permanente (posthumous) | Patricia C. Dunn, Vice Chair (Non-Executive)Hewlett Packard Company and Chair, Barclays Global Investors George M. Keller, Chairman & CEO (ret.), Chevron Corporation | |
| 2019 | 2005 | |
| Meg Whitman, President & CEO, eBay; CEO, HP; CEO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Alice Waters, Founder & Owner, Chez Panisse; Founder, Edible Schoolyard Project John A. Sobrato, Founder & Chairman Emeritus, The Sobrato Organization | Gerson Bakar and Barbara Bass Bakar T. Gary Rogers, Chairman & CEO, and William (Rick) F. Cronk, III, President(ret.), Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Larry W. Sonsini, Chairman, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | |
| 2018 | 2004 | |
| Magnin Family (accepted by Ellen Magnin) Peter Magowan, Chairman & CEO, Safeway; General Managing Partner, SF Giants Joe Lacob & Peter Guber, Owners, Golden State Warriors | Richard M. Rosenberg, Chairman & CEO (ret.), BankAmerica Corporation William J. Rutter, Co-Founder & Chairman Emeritus, Chiron Corporation M. Arthur Gensler, Jr., Chairman, Gensler | |
| 2017 | 2003 | |
| Anne Bakar, President & CEO, Telecare Sir Michael Moritz, Partner, Sequoia Capital Bill Campbell, “The Coach of Silicon Valley” and Chairman and CEO, Intuit (posthumous) | Richard N. Goldman, President, Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund F. Warren Hellman, Chairman, Hellman & Friedman LLC Claude N. Rosenberg, Jr., Founder & Chairman, NewTithing Group John E. Warnock, Chairman & Founder, Adobe Systems | |
| 2016 | 2002 | |
| John Chambers, Executive Chair, Cisco Jane Shaw, Chair, Intel; Chair and CEO, Aerogen | George Lucas, Chairman and CEO, Lucasfilm Ltd. Hal Riney, CEO Emeritus, Publicis & Hal Riney Saul Zaentz, President & CEO, Saul Zaentz Company | |
| 2015 | 2001 | |
| Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, Salesforce Chuck Feeney, Founder, DFS Group & The Atlantic Philanthropies | William R. Hambrecht, Founder, Chairman & CEO, WR Hambrecht + Marion O. Sandler & Herbert M. Sandler, Chairs & CEOs, Golden West Financial Corporation A.P. Gianinni, Founder, Bank of America (posthumous) | |
| 2014 | 2000 | |
| Scott Cook, Founder, Intuit George Halvorson, Chairman & CEO, Kaiser Permanente | James C. Morgan, Chairman & CEO, Applied Materials, Inc. Eugene Kleiner & Thomas J. Perkins, Founding Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers | |
| 2013 | 1999 | |
| Larry Ellison, CEO, Oracle Steve Jobs, Co-Founder and CEO, Apple (posthumous) | Paul M. Cook, Founder & CEO, Raychem Corporation Charles Schwab, Chair & Co-CEO, The Charles Schwab Corporation | |
| 2012 | 1998 | |
| Charles Johnson, Chairman, Franklin Resources Lorry Lokey, Founder, Business Wire | Walter Shorenstein, Founder, Shorenstein Co. L.P. L.W. “Bill” Lane Jr. & Melvin B. Lane, Publishers, Sunset Magazine & Books | |
| 2011 | 1997 | |
| Doug Shorenstein, Chairman and CEO, Shorenstein Co. Regis Kelly, Director, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences | Donald G. Fisher, Chairman, Gap Inc., Robert A. Swanson & Herbert W. Boyer, Co-Founders, Genentech, Inc. | |
| 1995 | ||
| The Bechtel Family, Bechtel Group, Inc. A.W. Clausen, Chairman & CEO (ret.), BankAmerica Corporation The Haas Family, Levi Strauss & Co. William R. Hewlett & David Packard, Founders, Hewlett-Packard Company The Kaiser Family, Kaiser Enterprises Robert G. Mondavi, Chairman, Robert Mondavi Winery Gordon E. Moore, Chairman & Co-Founder, Intel Corporation Arthur Rock, Venture Capitalist |
