THE TITANS OF TECH

Photograph by Pete Souza / The White House


President Barack Obama joins a toast with Technology Business Leaders at a dinner in Woodside, California, Feb. 17, 2011. Going clockwise from President Obama:

– Steve Jobs, CEO Apple
– Steve Westly, Managing Partner and Founder, Westly Group
– Ann Doer, Host and wife of John Doerr (unconfirmed)
– Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO, Google
– Arthur Levinson, former Chairman and CEO, Genentech
– John Chambers, Chairman and CEO, Cisco Systems
– John Doerr, Host and Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
– Larry Ellison, Co-Founder and CEO, Oracle
– Reed Hastings, CEO, Netflix
– John Hennessy, President, Stanford University
– Carol Bartz, President and CEO, Yahoo!
– Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter
– Unknown
– Mark Zuckerberg, Founder, President and CEO, Facebook

The wealth and power in this photograph is mind-blowing. I wonder what the toast was? My guess: To infinity and beyond!


via The White House on Flickr




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