List of Wharton School alumni

Warren Buffett enrolled in Wharton's undergraduate program in 1947 and dropped out in 1949
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has over 92,000 alumni in 150 countries.[1] As of 2014, there are approximately 79,280 alumni in North America, 5,660 in Asia, 4,510 in Europe, 1,370 in the Caribbean and Latin America, 930 in Africa and the Middle East, and 380 in Australia and New Zealand.[2] This is a listing of notable Wharton School alumni.
Industry

John Sculley, President of PepsiCo (1977–1983), CEO of Apple (1983–1993), Partner at Sculley Brothers, LLC (1995–present), Co-Founder of Zeta Interactive (2007-Present)

Donald Trump, Founder and CEO of the Trump Organization, earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Wharton

Ronald Perelman, Chairman and CEO, MacAndrews & Forbes Group, earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Wharton
- Anil Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Group
- Ayman Asfari, British-Syrian billionaire, CEO of Petrofac
- Norman Blackwell, Baron Blackwell, Chairman of Interserve
- Mitchell J. Blutt, CEO Consonance Capital
- Charles Butt, Founder, Chairman and CEO, H-E-B
- Michael DiCandilo, CFO and Executive Vice President of AmerisourceBergen
- Robert Castellini, Owner, Cincinnati Reds
- Julian A. Brodsky, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Comcast Corporation[3]
- Vikram Chatwal, Hotelier
- Arthur D. Collins, Jr, Chairman and CEO, Medtronic[4]
- Robert Crandall, Chairman and CEO, American Airlines[5]
- William J. DeLaney III, CEO of Sysco[6]
- Donny Deutsch, Chairman and CEO, Deutsch Inc. and DHL
- Dominique Heriard Dubreuil, CEO of Rémy Cointreau
- Mike Eskew, Chairman and CEO, UPS[7]
- Rakesh Gangwal, Chairman and CEO, US Airways[8]
- Robert B. Goergen, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Blyth
- Chip Goodyear, CEO, BHP Billiton[9]
- Alex Gorsky, CEO, Johnson & Johnson[10]
- Leonard I. Green, founding partner of Leonard Green & Partners
- Jon Huntsman, Sr., Founder, Chairman and CEO, Huntsman Corporation
- Reginald Jones, Former Chairman and CEO, General Electric[11]
- Gerard Kleisterlee, CEO and President, Philips[12]
- Yotaro Kobayashi, Chairman and Co-CEO, Fuji Xerox[13]
- Leonard Lauder, Founder, CEO and Chairman, Estée Lauder
- Terry Leahy, CEO, Tesco
- Victoria Mars, Chairman, Mars, Incorporated
- Alan Miller, Founder and CEO, Universal Health Services[14]
- Aditya Mittal, President and CFO, Mittal Steel Company
- Phebe Novakovic, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Dynamics[15]
- Manuel Pangilinan, Chairman and CEO, First Pacific
- Nelson Peltz, CEO of Triarc Companies (Snapple, Arby's, TJ Cinnamon and Pasta Connection)
- Jay Penske, Board of Directors of the Entrepreneurial School at the Wharton School
- Ronald O. Perelman, Chairman and CEO, MacAndrews & Forbes Group
- Lewis E. Platt, Chairman and CEO, Boeing[16]
- J.D. Power III, Founder of marketing research firm J.D. Power & Associates[17]
- Edmund T. Pratt, Jr., CEO and Chairman Emeritus, Pfizer[18]
- Brian L. Roberts, Chairman and CEO, Comcast Corporation
- John Sculley, CEO, Pepsi[19]
- Toots Shor, famous New York City saloon keeper
- Joseph Segel, Founder of over 20 companies, most notably QVC[20] and Franklin Mint
- Nicholas F. Taubman, CEO and Chairman, Advance Auto Parts
- James S. Tisch, CEO, Loews Corporation[21]
- Gary L. Wilson, Chairman and CEO, Northwest Airlines[22]
- William Wrigley, Jr., Founder and CEO, Wrigley Company[23]
- Klaus Zumwinkel, former Chairman and CEO, Deutsche Post[24]
Finance

Private equity CEOs, all Wharton alumni, at the Wharton Global Alumni Forum in Milan, Italy

Daniel Och, Founder of Och-Ziff Capital Management, earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Wharton

Robert S. Kapito (far left), Founder and President of BlackRock, earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Wharton

Frank Quattrone, Founder of the Technology Groups at Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse, Founder of Qatalyst Partners, earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Wharton
- Zeti Akhtar Aziz, Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia, the Central Bank of Malaysia
- Tom Bayer, member of the Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of Vanuatu
- Alfred Berkeley, Former President and Vice-Chairman of the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc.[25]
- Richard A. Bloch, Founder and CEO, H&R Block[26]
- Mitchell J. Blutt, Founder and Chairman, Consonance Capital
- Boediono, Governor of Bank Indonesia, The Central Bank of Indonesia
- Warren Buffett, CEO Berkshire Hathaway (enrolled in 1947, dropped out in 1949, graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
- Steven A. Cohen, Founder, SAC Capital Advisors[27]
- Pridiyathorn Devakula, Governor of the Central Bank of Thailand
- William P. Egan, Founding Partner of Alta Communications, Founding Partner of Marion Equity Partners
- Catherine Austin Fitts, Managing Member, Solari Advisors
- Ashish Goyal, First visually impaired trader in the world
- C. Robert Henrikson, Chairman, President and CEO, MetLife[28]
- Vernon Hill, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Commerce Bank[29]
- Henry Jackson, Founder and CEO of Merchant Equity Partners
- Robert S. Kapito, Founder and President, BlackRock (world's largest asset manager)[30]
- Vivek Kulkarni, Founder and MD, Brickwork Ratings
- Jeffrey Alfred Legum, President and CEO, The Park Circle Motor Company
- Alexander Lloyd, venture capitalist[31]
- Adriano B. Lucatelli, Swiss manager and businessperson
- Peter Lynch, Vice Chairman, Fidelity
- William E. Macaulay, CEO and Chairman of First Reserve Corporation[32]
- Michael Milken, Inventor of the high-yield bond market. Convicted of securities reporting violations and permanently barred from the securities industry.
- Ken Moelis, Founder, Moelis & Company[33]
- Michael Moritz, Sequoia Capital
- John Neff, Chairman, Wellington Management
- Daniel Och, Founder, Och-Ziff Capital Management[34]
- Ronald Perelman, American investor and businessman.
- Frank Quattrone, Founder of the Technology Groups at Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse, Founder of Qatalyst Partners
- Raj Rajaratnam, hedge fund CEO, Galleon Group. Convicted of insider trading.
- Larry Robbins (hedge fund manager), Founder, Glenview Capital Management[35]
- Eileen Clarkin Rominger, CIO, Goldman Sachs Asset Management
- Jacqui Safra, Swiss investor, owner of the Encyclopædia Britannica and Merriam-Webster
- Michael Steinhardt, Founder, Steinhardt, Fine, Berkowitz and Company
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, founder of Empirica Capital, author of The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness
- Jacob Wallenberg, Chairman, Investor AB
- Alan Wilzig, entrepreneur and investor, various enterprises
- Robert Wolf, President and CEO, UBS Investment Bank Americas
- Peter Wuffli, former CEO, UBS AG[36]
- Martin Zweig, Investment advisor, author of Winning on Wall Street
Technology
- Len Bosack, Co-founder, Cisco Systems[40]
- Safra Catz, President and CFO, Oracle Corporation[41]
- Sam Hamadeh, Founder, Vault.com Inc.[42]
- Mark D. Kingdon, CEO, Linden Lab, parent company of Second Life
- Josh Kopelman, Founder, Half.com
- Yuri Milner, CEO, Digital Sky Technologies
- Elon Musk, Founder and CEO, Paypal,[37] CEO and CTO, SpaceX,[39] CEO and Product Architect, Tesla Motors[38]
- Ben Nelson, CEO, Snapfish
- Peter M. Nicholas, Founder, CEO and Chairman, Boston Scientific[43]
- Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google
- Mark Pincus, Founder and CEO, Zynga[44]
- Lewis E. Platt, Former Chairman and CEO, Hewlett Packard[45]
- Josh Resnick, Founder, CEO and President, Pandemic Studios Inc
- Rich Riley, Senior Vice President & Managing Director Yahoo! EMEA
- John Sculley, Former CEO, Apple Inc.[46]
- James L. Vincent, Chairman and CEO of Biogen Idec[47]
- Jeff Weiner, CEO, LinkedIn[48]
- Fred Wilson, Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures
Government, law and nonprofit

Alassane Ouattara, President of the Ivory Coast (2010-present), Governor of the Central Bank of West African States, Deputy Head of the International Monetary Fund

Cesar Virata, Prime Minister (1981-1986), Secretary of Finance (1970-1986), Philippines

Corrado Passera, Minister of Economic Development, Infrastructure and Transport, Italy
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Paul Judge, Chairman of the British Royal Society of Arts, Founder of the Judge Business School at Cambridge University
- Armand Arreza, former Administrator and CEO of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority
- Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Former President, The Government of Panama
- Boediono, Vice President (2009–present), Minister for the Economy (2005-2009), Minister of Finance (2001-2005), Indonesia
- William Brennan, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
- Patrick Chovanec, Business Professor at Tsinghua University
- Bill Cobey, former U.S. representative from North Carolina's 4th congressional district; director of the Jesse Helms Center
- James DePriest, Director and Conductor, Oregon Symphony
- Moonis Elahi, Pakistani businessman and politician
- Gary L. Gottlieb, M.D., M.B.A., President and CEO of Partners HealthCare
- Reggie Love, former body man for President Barack Obama[49]
- Edwin Feulner, President of American Heritage Foundation
- Gary Gensler, Former Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Sila María González Calderón, Puerto Rican Senator and former First Lady
- John J. Hafer, former Maryland State Senator.
- Alfred Irving Hallowell, President of the American Anthropological Association
- Paul Judge, Chairman of the British Royal Society of Arts, Founder of the Judge Business School at Cambridge University
- Neel Kashkari, Interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability in the United States Department of the Treasury, 2014 candidate for California governor[50]
- Ted Kaufman, U.S. Senator from Delaware
- Frank Lavin, former Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, former United States Ambassador to Singapore
- Lawrence Lessig, Founder and Director of Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society
- Peter Lorange, President, IMD (Switzerland)
- Cardozo M. Luna, current Philippine Ambassador to Netherlands and former Vice Chief of Staff and Lieutenant General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
- Winnie Monsod,former Director-General of National Economic and Development Authority of the Philippines and a former member of the UN Committee for Development Planning (UNCDP) from 1987 to 2000 and the Board of Trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- Ann Dore McLaughlin, former U.S. Secretary of Labor
- John W. Murphy, US Congressman from Pennsylvania
- Michael Nutter,former Mayor of Philadelphia (2008 to 2015)
- Peter O'Donnell, Texas state Republican chairman in the 1960s; Dallas investor and philanthropist[51]
- Susan Pamerleau, retired United States Air Force major general and the Republican sheriff of Bexar County, Texas, first woman elected to that office, 2012[52]
- Corrado Passera, former CEO, Banca Intesa of Italy, Italian Minister of Economic Development, Infrastructure and Transport
- Frances Perkins, Architect of Social Security System
- Sachin Pilot, Indian politician.
- Alassane Dramane Ouattara, President (2010–present), Ivory Coast, Governor of the Central Bank of West African States, Deputy Head of the International Monetary Fund
- John Quelch, Dean, London Business School
- Garrett Reisman, Astronaut, NASA
- Eli Rosenbaum, Director, Office of Special Investigations (United States Department of Justice)
- Andrew Saul, Chairman of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, Vice-Chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York) Investor, ex-owner/CEO of Brooks Brothers
- David Scott, US Congressman from Georgia
- Richard Stearns, President, World Vision
- Cathy Lynn Taylor, former White House National Security Council’s Director for International Finance Policy
- Nao Takasugi, California State Assembly and Mayor of Oxnard, California
- Rexford Tugwell, Governor of Puerto Rico
- Cesar Virata, Prime Minister (1981-1986) and Secretary of Finance (1970-1986), Philippines
- Charles Wall (c. 1903-1995), resident superintendent of George Washington's estate at Mount Vernon for 39 years starting 1937.[53]
- Adlai Wertman, Professor of clinical management and organization, USC Marshall School of Business
- Bob Ziegelbauer, Wisconsin politician
Media

Walter Annenberg (with President Ronald Reagan), Founder and CEO of TV Guide, Seventeen magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Triangle Publications
- Walter Annenberg, Founder and CEO of TV Guide, Seventeen magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Triangle Publications
- Donny Deutsch, Chairman, Deutsch, Inc. and host of CNBC's "The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch"
- Wendy Finerman, Oscar-winning film producer (Forrest Gump in 1994)
- Aaron Karo, Author and Comedian
- Laura Lang, CEO, Time, Inc.[54]
- Gerald Lestz (1935), Columnist, author, publisher, founder of the Demuth Museum.[55]
- Jay Livingston, Oscar winning composer (The Paleface in 1948, Captain Carey in 1950, and The Man Who Knew Too Much in 1956)
- Warren Lieberfarb, CEO and President, Warner Home Video
- Harold W. McGraw III, Chairman and CEO, McGraw-Hill[56]
- William S. Paley, Founder, Columbia Broadcasting System
- Manuel V. Pangilinan, President and CEO, Philippine Telephone Company
- Gregg Spiridellis, Founder, JibJab Media Inc
- Kidlat Tahimik (Eric De Guia), Filipino filmmaker
- Laurence Tisch, Former CEO of CBS[57]
- Cenk Uygur, Radio Talk Show Host, The Young Turks, Air America Radio and columnist for The Huffington Post
- David Vise, Pulitzer-prize winner, Washington Post
- Rick Yune, actor, screenwriter, producer, martial artist
- Mortimer Zuckerman, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, U.S. News & World Report
Real estate
- Jonathan Hipp, Founder, CEO and President of Calkain Companies Inc.
- William Mack, Founder, CEO and President, Mack Company and Apollo Real Estate Advisors
- Edward J. Lewis, Chairman and CEO, Oxford Development Company
- Pete Rummell, Former Chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Imagineering and St. Joe Company
- Jeffrey Sutton, President of Wharton Properties
- Donald Trump, Founder and CEO, Trump Organization, US Presidential candidate
- Donald Trump, Jr., Executive Vice President, Trump Organization
- Ivanka Trump, Executive Vice President, Trump Organization
Writers
- Nina Godiwalla, author of Suits: A Woman on Wall Street
- Jerry Mander, environmentalist and author of Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
- James Martin, Jesuit priest and writer
- Raiam dos Santos, motivational speaker and author of Brazil's #1 best-seller Hackeando Tudo.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, researcher in risk and uncertainty, author of the Black Swan theory and Fooled by Randomness
Sports
- Barney Berlinger, decathlete and winner of the Sullivan Award
- Mark DeRosa, Major League Baseball player for the Washington Nationals
Music
- Hoodie Allen, aka Steven Markowitz, hip-hop artist and rapper
References
- ↑ "Alumni Network". Wharton School. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
- ↑ "Wharton School: Facts and Figures". Wharton School. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
- ↑ http://www.cablecenter.org/honorary-board-of-directors/item/julian-brodsky.html
- ↑ A Medical Calling Redirected: Arthur D. Collins, ‘‘Wharton School’’, 03-16-2007
- ↑ He Made Airlines Fly Higher: Robert L. Crandall, ‘‘Wharton School’’, 03-16-2007
- ↑ Sysco CEO, President and Director: William J. DeLaney, ‘‘Bloomberg Businessweek’’, 05-12-2013
- ↑ He Delivers for UPS: Michael L. Eskew, ‘‘Wharton School’’, 03-16-2007
- ↑ Flying High at US Airways: Rakesh Gangwal, ‘‘Wharton School’’, 10-21-1998
- ↑ Profile: Charles ‘Chip’ Goodyear, ‘‘The Guardian’’, 09-14-2009
- ↑ Alex Gorsky, Chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson, to Keynote 2013 Wharton School MBA for Executives, ‘‘Wharton School’’, 03-12-2013
- ↑ The Business Leader as Statesman: Reginald H. Jones, ‘‘Wharton School’’, 03-16-2007
- ↑ A Plainspoken Leader for Philips: Gerard Kleisterlee, ‘‘Wharton School’’, 03-16-2007
- ↑ Forward Thinker for a Japanese/American Venture: Yotaro Kobayashi, ‘‘Wharton School’’, 03-16-2007
- ↑ Universal Health Services Founder and CEO: Universal Health Services, ‘‘Fox Business’’, 03-26-2013
- ↑ General Dynamics Executive Team: Chairman and CEO Phebe N. Novakovic, ‘‘General Dynamics’’, 03-22-2014
- ↑ Boeing Chairman Platt Talks Trust Again, ‘‘Forbes’’, 05-03-2005
- ↑ Consumer Research Pioneer: J.D. Power, ‘‘Wharton School’’, 03-16-2007
- ↑ Pfizer CEO and Chairman: Edmund T. Pratt, ‘‘Pfizer: Gallery of Leaders’’, 12-08-2013
- ↑ Marketing Genius for Pepsi and Apple: John Sculley, ‘‘Wharton School’’, 03-16-2007
- ↑ King of the Start-ups at Franklin Mint and QVC: Joseph M. Segel, ‘‘Wharton School’’, 03-16-2007
- ↑ Joseph Wharton Award for Leadership: James S. Tisch, ‘‘Wharton Alumni Club of New York’’, 10-29-2008
- ↑ Chairman Emeritus at Northwest Airlines Corporation: Gary Wilson, ‘’CrunchBase’’, 11-13-2012
- ↑ Forbes Faces: William Wrigley, ‘‘Forbes’’, 02-23-2001
- ↑ Chairman and CEO of Deutsche Post: Klaus Zumwinkel, ‘‘Encyclopedia of Business, 2nd ed’’, 07-18-2013
- ↑ President of NASDAQ: Alfred Berkeley, ‘‘Forbes’’, 04-14-2008
- ↑ H&R Block Newsroom: Richard A. Bloch, ‘‘H&R Block’’, 02-10-1997
- ↑ The Most Powerful Trader on Wall Street You’ve Never Heard Of, ‘‘Bloomberg Businessweek’’, 07-20-2003
- ↑ MetLife President and COO C. Robert Henrikson Re-elected Chair of Huebner Foundation, ‘‘Business Wire’’, 11-28-2005
- ↑ Wharton Entrepreneurship Alumni Impact: Vernon Hill, ‘‘Wharton Entrepreneurship’’, 10-07-2011
- ↑ BlackRock President, Director and Founder: Robert S. Kapito, ‘‘Wharton Alumni Club of New York’’, 09-17-2009
- ↑ "School News". The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
- ↑ Chairman and CEO: William E. Macaulay, ‘‘First Reserve’’, 05-12-2013
- ↑ Ken Moelis: Founder of Moelis & Company, ‘‘Bloomberg’’, 08-10-2009
- ↑ Och-Ziff Capital Management: Daniel Och, ‘‘The Richest’’, 03-04-2013
- ↑ Forbes: The World's Billionaires - Larry Robbins August 2014
- ↑ An Understated Integrator for UBS AG: Peter A. Wuffli, ‘‘Wharton School’’, 03-16-2007
- 1 2 He Won’t Back Down: Elon Musk, ‘‘Wharton School’’, 09-01-2010
- 1 2 Entrepreneur Elon Musk: Why It’s Important to Pinch Pennies on the Road to Riches, ‘‘Knowledge@Wharton’’, 03-27-2009
- 1 2 SpaceX Leadership: Elon Musk, ‘‘SpaceX’’, 11-21-2011
- ↑ Len Bosack, Co-Founder of Cisco Systems, ‘‘Wharton Entrepreneurship Club’’, 12-04-2011
- ↑ Oracle’s President and CFO: Safra Catz, ‘‘Wharton School’’, 03-16-2007
- ↑ "University of Pennsylvania: Famous Alumni". Retrieved 2012.
- ↑ Devices with Minimal Invasion, Maximum Benefit: Peter M. Nicholas, ‘‘Wharton School’’, 03-16-2007
- ↑ Founder of Zynga: Mark Pincus, ‘‘Bloomberg Businessweek’’, 02-27-2014
- ↑ A Gentleman in Silicon Valley: Lewis E. Platt, ‘‘Wharton School’’, 03-16-2007
- ↑ Biography: John Sculley, ‘‘A&E Television Networks, LLC: Biographies’’, 07-12-2008
- ↑ James L. Vincent Helped Turn Biotech into a Winner, ‘‘The Boston Globe’’, 12-16-2013
- ↑ http://www.crunchbase.com/person/jeff-weiner
- ↑ Kantor, Jodi (November 11, 2011). "Leaving Obama’s Shadow, to Cast One of His Own". The New York Times. p. A24. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
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- ↑ "A Lifetime of Dedicated Service: Sheriff Susan Lewellyn Pamerleau, Major General (Ret.)". University of Wyoming. September 2013. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
- ↑ Thomas, Robert McG., Jr. "Charles Wall, 91, Long Director Of George Washington's Home", The New York Times, May 5, 1995. Accessed July 23, 2010.
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- ↑ "Obituary of Gerald S. Lestz". Lancaster Newspapers, Inc. Retrieved 2009-09-21.
- ↑ A Publishing Giant Goes Digital: Harold W. McGraw, ‘‘Wharton School’’, 03-16-2007
- ↑ Dreamer Behind a Born in Brooklyn Empire: Laurence A. Tisch, ‘‘Wharton School’’, 03-16-2007
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