Dick Costolo was the CEO of which company before the co-founder took over in 2015?
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Dick Costolo Richard William "Dick" Costolo ( ) was the CEO of Twitter from 2010 to 2015; he also served as the COO before becoming CEO. He took over as CEO from Evan Williams in October 2010. On June 11, 2015, it was announced that Costolo would step down as CEO on July 1, 2015 and would be replaced by Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey on an interim basis until the Board of Directors could find a replacement. On August 8, 2015, The New York Times reported that Costolo would be leaving Twitter's Board of Directors by the end of the year or when a new CEO is appointed.
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Jack Dorsey Jack Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) is an American computer programmer and internet entrepreneur widely known as a co-founder and CEO of Twitter, and as the founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company. In 2008, he was named to the "MIT Technology Review" TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35. For 2012, "The Wall Street Journal" gave him the "Innovator of the Year Award" for technology.
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Carprice The company was founded in 2014 by Eduard Gurinovich and Oskar Hartmann. In October 2016 Denis Dolmatov became CEO of the company.
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David Giampaolo David Anthony Giampaolo (born 1958) is the chief executive of Pi Capital, a London-based investor club. He is also a noted entrepreneur in the global health and fitness sector. He has been described as “…London’s most networked man” by "The Times" and other newspapers. He has co-founded or served on the board of several large businesses, including Fitness First, 24 Hour Fitness, Zumba and GlobalFit. He is a trustee of Speakers4Schools and a board member of UK technology firm Smartmatic.
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Vince Camuto John Vincent "Vince" Camuto (June 4, 1936 – January 21, 2015) was an American women’s footwear designer and shoe industry executive, best known for co-founding the women's fashion brand Nine West. Following the 1999 sale of Nine West to Jones Apparel Group for $900 million, Camuto became CEO and Chief Creative Officer of a new fashion company, Camuto Group, maker of the Jessica Simpson brand.
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Keith Nellesen Keith Nellesen (born 1967) is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder of Vivint, Inc., a home automation, security and solar energy company. Vivint, Inc. was acquired in late 2012 for $2.2 Billion by the Blackstone Group. Following the sale of Vivint to the Blackstone Group, Nellesen became the founder of NUVI where he is currently the CEO. Nellesen has been a part of NUVI since its founding and previously served as the CEO of the company from May 2014 to October 2015, before recently resuming the CEO position in late 2016. He also previously served as Chairman and CEO at MoneyReef.
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Blue Origin Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin is employing an incremental approach from suborbital to orbital flight, with each developmental step building on its prior work. The company motto is ""Gradatim Ferociter"", Latin for "Step by Step, Ferociously". Blue Origin is developing a variety of technologies, with a focus on rocket-powered Vertical Takeoff and Vertical Landing (VTVL) vehicles for access to suborbital and orbital space. The company's name refers to the blue planet, Earth, as the point of origin.
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Brad Hunstable Brad Hunstable (born 1978) is co-founder and CEO of the popular San Francisco, California-based live video microbroadcasting website Ustream.tv, one of the largest consumer live video sites on the Internet. In 2014, he was honored as one of the SF Business Times "40 Under 40" for the most influential young leaders across the spectrum of Bay Area businesses. . In 2016, Ustream was acquired to IBM for a reported $150 million. He also is the Chairman of the Board and founder of the electric motor company Linear Labs.
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James Kamsickas James K. Kamsickas (born 1966/67) is an American businessman, the CEO and president of Dana Incorporated since August 2015.
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Donna Dubinsky Donna Dubinsky is an American businesswoman who played an integral role in the development of personal digital assistants (PDAs) serving as CEO of Palm, Inc. and co-founding Handspring with Jeff Hawkins in 1995. Dubinsky co-founded Numenta in 2005 with Hawkins and Dileep George, based in Redwood City, CA. Numenta was founded to develop machine intelligence based on the principles of the neocortex. Dubinsky currently serves as CEO and board chair of Numenta.
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Mark Alessi Mark Alessi is an American businessman who has been the CEO of a number of companies, most notably as founder of comic publisher CrossGen where he created a number of the titles.
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Bernard Ebbers Bernard John "Bernie" Ebbers (born August 27, 1941) is a Canadian businessman. He co-founded the telecommunications company WorldCom and is a former chief executive officer of that company.
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Dominick Stanzione Dominick Stanzione, is the current interim President and CEO and restructuring officer
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Jeffery Hildebrand Jeffery Hildebrand (born 1959) is an American businessman, who is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Hilcorp Energy Company.
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Bill Hambrecht William R. "Bill" Hambrecht (born 1935) is an American investment banker and chairman of WR Hambrecht + Co which he founded in 1998. He helped persuade Google to use an Internet-based auction for their initial public offering (IPO) in 2004, instead of a more traditional method using banks and other financial companies to find buyers. He is credited with popularizing this "OpenIPO" model, using Dutch auctions to allow anyone, not just investing insiders, to buy stock in an IPO, potentially raising more money for startups. Some of the companies he has helped have an IPO like this include Overstock.com, Ravenswood Winery, Andover.net and Salon.com.
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Andrew Mason Andrew D. Mason (born 1980) is an American businessman and entrepreneur. He is the founder and former CEO of Groupon, a Chicago-based website offering users discounts on local businesses and scolarships.
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Steven H. Collis Steven H. Collis (born 1961) is an American businessman, the chairman, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of AmerisourceBergen.
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Andrew Frame Andrew Frame is an entrepreneur and the founder of Ooma, a consumer telecommunications company. In 2007, he was named by the editors of "Businessweek" as one of the "top entrepreneurs under the age of 30 most likely to shape the world's digital future."
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Dick Millman Dick Millman is the former CEO of Bell Helicopter. He has resided in this position since 2007. Before Bell, Millman was president of Textron Systems following a 20-year career with Avco.
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Yael Cohen Yael Cohen Braun (born November 5, 1986) is the founder and CEO of "Fuck Cancer", a health organization working for early detection and prevention of cancer. Cohen launched Fuck Cancer in 2009 after her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. Fuck Cancer aims to engage millennials through social media to have a conversation about early detection and acute awareness of cancer.
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Melvin Gordon (businessman) Melvin J. Gordon (November 26, 1919 – January 20, 2015) was an American business executive and businessman. He served as the chairman and CEO of Tootsie Roll Industries for fifty-three years, from 1962 until January 2015. Gordon, who was 95 years old, was the oldest CEO of a company trading on a major American stock exchange at the time of his death in 2015. He oversaw the day-to-day production of the company's trademark brands, including Tootsie Rolls, Tootsie Pops, Junior Mints, and Charleston Chews. As of 2015, the company manufactures approximately sixty-four million Tootsie Rolls per day.
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Sohaib Abbasi Sohaib Abbasi (born August 14, 1956) is a Pakistani-American business executive, computer scientist and philanthropist. He is the former chairman and chief executive of Informatica having served in the roles from 2004 until 2015. During his tenure as CEO, Abbasi helped to grow the company's revenue from $219 million to over $1 billion, and to increase the value of stock by over 800 percent.