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.
Bay Area Business Hall of Fame Selection Committee
| Alex Mehran Sr., President & CEO, Sunset Development Company (Chair) | James Manyika, Chairman and Director, McKinsey Global Institute |
| Mary Bitterman, President, Bernard Osher Foundation | Lenny Mendonca, Director Emeritus, McKinsey & Company |
| Michael Covarrubias, Chairman & CEO, TMG Partners | Kausik Rajgopal, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, PayPal |
| David Cush, CEO, Service King | Richard Rosenberg, Chairman & CEO Emeritus, Bank of America |
| Mary Huss, President and Publisher, San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal | Rosemary Turner, Deputy Chair, San Francisco Federal Reserve; President (ret.), UPS |
| Richard Kovacevich, former Chairman and CEO, Wells Fargo Bank; 2008 Hall of Fame inductee | Barry Williams, Managing General Partner (ret.), Williams Pacific Ventures |
| Janet Lamkin, California State President, United Airlines | Jim Wunderman, President & CEO, Bay Area Council |
Thank you to our 2021 Annual Dinner and Business Hall of Fame Supporters
Business Hall of Fame Inductees
| 2021 | 2008 |
| 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 | Ray Dolby, Founder, Dolby Laboratories Dick Kovacevich, Chairman, Wells Fargo Bank George Roberts, Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Don Terner (posthumously) & Carol Galante, Principal Founder, President & CEO of Bridge Housing |
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| 2020 | 2007 |
| 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) | 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 |
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| 2019 | 2006 |
| 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 | Patricia C. Dunn, Vice Chair (Non-Executive)Hewlett Packard Company and Chair, Barclays Global Investors George M. Keller, Chairman & CEO (ret.), Chevron Corporation |
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| 2018 | 2005 |
| Magnin Family Peter Magowan, Chairman & CEO, Safeway; General Managing Partner, SF Giants Joe Lacob & Peter Guber, Owners, Golden State Warriors | 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 |
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| 2017 | 2004 |
| Anne Bakar, President & CEO, Telecare Sir Michael Moritz, Partner, Sequoia Capital Bill Campbell, “The Coach of Silicon Valley” and Chairman and CEO, Intuit (posthumously) | Richard M. Rosenberg, Chairman & CEO (ret.), BankAmerica Corporation William J. Rutter, Co-Founder & Chairman Emeritus, Chiron Corporation M. Arthur Gensler, Jr., Chairman, Gensler |
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| 2016 | 2003 |
| John Chambers, Executive Chair, Cisco Jane Shaw, Chair, Intel; Chair and CEO, Aerogen | 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 |
| 20 | |
| 2015 | 2002 |
| Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, Salesforce Chuck Feeney, Founder, DFS Group & The Atlantic Philanthropies | George Lucas, Chairman and CEO,Lucasfilm Ltd. Hal Riney, CEO Emeritus, Publicis & Hal Riney Saul Zaentz, President & CEO, Saul Zaentz Company |
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| 2014 | 2001 |
| Scott Cook, Founder, Intuit George Halvorson, Chairman & CEO, Kaiser Permanente | 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 |
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| 2013 | 2000 |
| Larry Ellison, CEO, Oracle Steve Jobs, Co-Founder and CEO, Apple (posthumous) | James C. Morgan, Chairman & CEO, Applied Materials, Inc. Eugene Kleiner & Thomas J. Perkins, Founding Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers |
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| 2012 | 1999 |
| Charles Johnson, Chairman, Franklin Resources Lorry Lokey, Founder, Business Wire | Paul M. Cook, Founder & CEO, Raychem Corporation Charles Schwab, Chair & Co-CEO, The Charles Schwab Corporation |
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| 2011 | 1998 |
| Doug Shorenstein, Chairman and CEO, Shorenstein Co. Regis Kelly, Director, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences | Walter Shorenstein, Founder, Shorenstein Co. L.P. L.W. “Bill” Lane Jr. & Melvin B. Lane, Publishers, Sunset Magazine & Books |
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| 2010 | 1997 |
| Ron Conway, Angel Investor Howard Lester, Chairman Emeritus, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. Harold M. Messmer, Chairman & CEO, Robert Half International | Donald G. Fisher, Chairman, Gap Inc., Robert A. Swanson & Herbert W. Boyer, Co-Founders, Genentech, Inc. |
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| 2009 | 1995 |
| The Gallo Family, E & J Gallo Winery Brook Byers & John Doerr, Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers | 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 |
