Where did the chief technology officer of the largest chain of private, family-owned appliance, television, electronics, and mattress stores in the US go to school?
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Steven Wolk Steven Wolk is the chief technology officer of P. C. Richard & Son. He graduated from New York Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Computer Science.
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P. C. Richard &amp; Son P.C. Richard & Son, commonly known as simply P.C. Richard, is the largest chain of private, family-owned appliance, television, electronics, and mattress stores in the United States. Its stores are located in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, with the majority of the stores located on Long Island and in the New York City boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn. The company is also known for its trademark whistle jingle created by Soundsmith worker Leer Leary. It is used by the New York Yankees after striking out an opposing batter at Yankee Stadium.
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Derek Atkins Derek A Atkins is a computer scientist specializing in computer security. He studied electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In June 2014, he became the chief technology officer of SecureRF.
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Barnaby Dorfman Barnaby Dorfman is an American businessman. He is Chief Engineering Officer and General Manager of the PayScale Consumer Products Division. He is the founder and former CEO of Foodista. His previous employment includes a role as chief product officer at kyte.tv, and executive positions at Peerflix.com and Amazon's A9.com.
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Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (Korean: 삼성전자; Hanja: 三星電子 (Literally "tristar electronics")) is a South Korean multinational electronics company headquartered in Suwon, South Korea. Through extremely complicated ownership structure with some circular ownership, it is the flagship company of the Samsung Group, accounting for 70% of the group's revenue in 2012. It is the world's second largest information technology company by revenue after Apple. Samsung Electronics has assembly plants and sales networks in 80 countries and employs around 370,000 people. Since 2012, Kwon Oh-hyun has served as the company's CEO.
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Warren Stephens Warren Amerine Stephens (born February 18, 1957) is an American businessman. He is the chairman, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Stephens Inc., a full service, privately held investment bank. On the "Forbes" 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked #722 with a net worth of US$2.4 billion. Stephens lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Paul Kim (academic) Paul Kim (born 1970) is a Korean-American chief technology officer and assistant dean at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and has held this position since 2001.
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Brian C. Griffin Brian C. Griffin (born 1953) is an American businessman from the Oklahoma who currently serves as the chairman of the board of directors for Clean Energy Systems, a private Rancho Cordova, California based energy technology innovations firm.
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Chris Terrill (executive) Chris Terrill is an American businessman and is currently the chief executive officer of HomeAdvisor (formerly ServiceMagic).
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Jay Christopher Jay W. Christopher is the chairman and founder of Thatcher Technology Group Inc. and is a 1967 graduate of Valparaiso University.
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Kenton Clarke Kenton J. Clarke (born November 7, 1951) is an American entrepreneur and musician. He graduated from Norwalk State Technical College in 1972 and the University of New Haven in 1979. He is the founder of Computer Consulting Associates International and Omnikal.
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Dan Pickett Daniel T. Pickett III (born July 27, 1968) is an American technology entrepreneur, private equity investor and philanthropist. He is the chairman, chief executive and co-founder of nfrastructure, a privately held networking and IT services firm. He is also President of Hudson River Capital Holdings, a private investment company in New York.
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Safi Qureshey Safi Urrehman Qureshey is a Pakistani-American entrepreneur. He was the co-founder and CEO of AST Research, Inc., a personal computer manufacturer acquired by Samsung Electronics in 1997. Qureshey is involved with several start-up technology companies as an advisor, board member and seed investor. Qureshey currently serves as regent's professor at the University of California, Irvine's (UCI's) Graduate School of Management, and also actively supports U.C. Irvine's Bonney Center for Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. Qureshey graduated from The University of Texas at Arlington in 1975 as a Computer Science Major. In 2000 he created the eponymous "Safi Qureshey Foundation" to provide "a conduit of support for socially and economically underserved children and adults to build better and more secure futures".
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David P. Reed David Patrick Reed (born January 31, 1952) is an American computer scientist, educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known for a number of significant contributions to computer networking and wireless communications networks.
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David Edmondson David J. Edmondson (born June 10, 1959) is an American businessman, known for his career at RadioShack and his termination as CEO for falsifying his educational background.
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HPTi High Performance Technologies, Inc. (HPTi) was an IT consulting firm based in Reston, Virginia. Founded in 1991, the company is notable for several high-profile solutions for the federal government. For instance, the company developed a Linux-based supercomputer for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that ranked as the 8th fastest supercomputer in the world in 2002. HPTi also developed the Secure Payment System for the Department of the Treasury - a system that processes payments totaling $1.5 trillion annually. HPTi was recently in the news for winning the American Business Award for Best Executive (Computer Hardware or Services in 2007), Best Technical Professional (2008 and 2009), Best Support Staffer (2007) and Best Overall Company (2009). HPTi was wholly acquired by Dynamics Research Corporation in June, 2011.
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Advanced Technologies Academy Advanced Technologies Academy (A-TECH) is a magnet public high school in Las Vegas, Nevada with a focus on integrating technology with academics for students in grades 9-12. As of now, Advanced Technologies Academy is ranked #1 in the state of Nevada and #287 nationally by US News and World Report. The magnet school program was founded in 1994 and is part of the Clark County School District. The first year included only 9th and 10th grade, adding a grade each year. The first graduating class was 1997, and the first graduating class with all four years of attendance was 1998. As of 2011, the school had an enrollment of 1,059 students and 60 classroom teachers on a FTE basis, for a student-teacher ratio of 18:1. The magnet school focuses on computer and technology related study fields.
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Michigan Institute of Aviation and Technology The MIAT College of Technology (formally referred to as Michigan Institute of Aviation and Technology) is a certified Federal Aviation Administration Part 147 school for aircraft maintenance, and also offers Energy Technology and Transportation Dispatch programs. Facilities are located in Canton, Michigan and Houston, Texas in the United States. The school was originally the Detroit Institute of Aeronautics, which was later renamed the Michigan Institute of Aeronautics. Around 2005, due to an increased demand for technical careers outside of aviation, the school expanded its curriculum to include Energy Technology and Global Logistics & Dispatch, and became known as the Michigan Institute of Aviation and Technology. Today MIAT has College of Technology locations in Canton Michigan as well as Houston, Texas.
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Louis Hsieh Louis Tung-jung Hsieh (, born 1965) is a Chinese businessman and lawyer and currently holds the position of Chief Financial Officer at NIO (or NextEV), a global startup based in China which designs and develops premium, smart electric vehicles and autonomous driving vehicles. He also serves as a Senior Advisor and a Board Director of New Oriental Education and Technology Group (NYSE: EDU), China’s largest private educational services provider. He was the company's president from May 2009 to January 2016. He is also the Independent Director and Audit Chairman for each of JD.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: JD), China's largest direct sales Internet company, YUM China Holdings (NYSE: YUMC), the restaurant owner in China operating KFC, Pizza Hut, Little Sheep Hot Pot and Taco Bell, and Nord Anglia Education, Inc. (NYSE: NORD), a global schools organization. He is also a board member at United Information Technologies, a Chinese storage solutions company.
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Michael Grimes Michael David Grimes (born November 25, 1966 in Los Angeles, California) is a Managing Director and Head of Global Technology Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley.
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Travis Kalanick Travis Cordell Kalanick ( ; born August 6, 1976) is an American businessman.
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Thom McKee Thom McKee (born 1955) is a former United States Navy officer and 1977 graduate of the Naval Academy, who was a long-running contestant on "Tic-Tac-Dough", an American game show, in 1980. He set a number of game show records for the time, appearing on 46 episodes of the series and winning $312,700 in cash and prizes. This total made him the biggest winner in the history of television game shows at the time.