President computer pioneers
Below is a listing of computer pioneers that have been tagged as a President. Clicking on any of the below links will open the biography for that person.
 | Abhay Bhushan Author of FTP. Category: Chairman, Engineer, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Al Gore American politician, advocate, author, philanthropist, and environmental activist. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Alfred Aho Canadian computer scientist and author known for the Aho-Corasick string matching algorithm. Category: Manager, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Andrew Kay Computer pioneer and founder of Kay Computers. Category: CEO, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Andy Rubin Co-founder and former CEO of Danger Inc. and Android Inc. Category: CEO, Engineer, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Anthony Wood Pioneer and innovator in TV and digital media and founder and CEO of Roku. Category: CEO, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Armas Markkula Angel investor and second CEO of Apple Computer. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Investor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Bailey Diffie American cryptographer and pioneer of public-key cryptography. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Barbara Simons American computer scientist and former president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Category: Director, Female, Founder, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Benjamin Franklin Author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, and much more. Category: Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Bill Gates Founder of Microsoft. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Bob Kahn Internet pioneer, engineer, and computer scientist who helped develop TCP/IP. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Carol Bartz Former president and CEO of Yahoo! Category: CEO, Chairman, Female, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Christopher Weaver Software developer and game programmer and contributor to the real-time sports simulation technology. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Cindy Bates Vice president of SMB (Small-to-Midsized Business) at Microsoft Company. Category: Female, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Clay Shirky American writer, consultant, lecturer, and teacher. Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Craig Federighi Senior vice president of Software Engineering at Apple Inc. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Dale Dougherty Founder, President, and CEO of Maker Media and founder of MAKE Magazine. Category: CEO, Coined, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Dan Bricklin Creator of VisiCalc. Category: Entrepreneur, Father, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | David Lee Chinese-American business executive and inventor of the daisywheel printer. Category: CEO, Chairman, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | David Packard Co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard (HP) company. Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | David Patterson American computer pioneer who coined and contributed to RISC. Category: Coined, Manager, President, Professor, and Writer |
 | Dov Frohman Israeli electrical engineer and former vice president of Intel Corporation. Category: Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Ed Colligan Former President and CEO of Handspring. Category: CEO, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Edwin Catmull Computer scientist and President of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios. Category: Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Edwin Turney Co-founder of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Federico Faggin Italian physicist and engineer who helped design the first commercial microprocessor. Category: CEO, Engineer, Founder, Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer |
 | Frank Pearce Co-founder and executive vice president of product development of Blizzard Entertainment. Category: Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Gene Golub Renowned numerical analyst, professor, and author. Category: Analyst, Editor, Founder, Manager, President, Professor, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Gordon Bell American computer engineer, manager, entrepreneur, and investor who oversaw the development of the VAX. Category: Engineer, Entrepreneur, Investor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Gordon Eubanks Microcomputer pioneer and author of CBASIC. Category: CEO, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Gordon Moore Co-founder and former CEO of Intel. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Grace Hopper Female officer who extended the meaning of debug and is erroneously credited as coining the term bug. Category: Female, Inventor, Manager, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Hector De Jesus Ruiz Chairman and CEO of Advanced Nanotechnology Solutions and former CEO of AMD. Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Herman Lukoff Computer pioneer who helped develop the ENIAC and the EDVAC computers. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Jack Tretton Former President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Jake Winebaum American entrepreneur and founder of FamilyFun magazine, Business.com, and Brighter.com. Category: Chairman, Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | James Ready American businessman and technologist and founder of MontaVista Software. Category: Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Jeff Bezos Founder, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of Amazon. Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Jeffrey Raikes Chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Jeffrey Skoll Canadian engineer and Internet entrepreneur known for being the first employee and president of eBay. Category: Chairman, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jen-hsun Huang Taiwanese-American entrepreneur and co-founder of Nvidia. Category: CEO, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Jenni Flinders American born vice president of the U.S. Partner Group at Microsoft. Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Joe Belfiore Corporate vice president of Operating Systems Group and Windows Phone at Microsoft. Category: Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Bennet Australia professor of computer science and the founding president of the Australian Computer Society. Category: Founder, Manager, President, Professor, and Writer |
 | John Chambers Chairman of the board and CEO of Cisco. Category: CEO, Chairman, Director, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | John Dvorak American columnist and broadcasters in the areas of technology and computing. Category: Editor, Manager, Personality, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Hollar President and CEO of the Computer History Museum. Category: CEO, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | John Kemeny Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist and co-developer of the BASIC computer programming language. Category: Manager, Mathematician, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Neumann Helped developed von Neumann architecture. Category: Manager, Mathematician, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Opel Computer businessman who served as the president of IBM. Category: CEO, Chairman, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | John Ousterhout Professor of computer science at University of California where he created Tcl scripting language and Tk platform. Category: Chairman, Founder, Manager, President, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | John Sall Co-founder and executive vice president of SAS Institute. Category: Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | John Scully Former CEO of Apple between 1977 and 1983. Category: CEO, Coined, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | John Thomson Former vice president at IBM and former CEO of Symantec. Category: African American, CEO, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | John Warnock Co-founder of Adobe. Category: CEO, Chairman, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jonathan Ive English designer and the former senior vice president of industrial design at Apple Inc. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Joseph Canion American computer scientist and co-founder of Compaq Computer Corporation. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Joshua Lederberg American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the US space program. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Justin Rattner Corporate vice president, chief technology officer (CTO) and director of Intel Labs. Category: Director, Manager, President, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Kim Stevenson Vice president and chief information officer of Intel. Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Louis Ridenour American physicist instrumental in U.S. development of radar. Category: Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer |
 | Lynn Conway American computer scientist, electrical engineer, and inventor who invented the generalized dynamic instruction handling. Category: Engineer, Female, Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Marc Benioff Chairman and CEO of Salesforce. Category: CEO, Chairman, Coined, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Marissa Mayer Former Google vice president and Yahoo CEO. Category: CEO, Engineer, Female, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Mark Hurd Co-president, director, and board member of Oracle Corporation. Category: CEO, Chairman, Director, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Marques Brownlee American video producer, tech-reviewer, and YouTube star. Category: African American, Manager, Personality, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Meg Whitman American business executive and president of Hewlett-Packard. Category: CEO, Chairman, Female, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Megan Smith Vice president, Google[x] at Google and former vice president of business development. Category: CEO, Manager, Personality, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Mike Culbert Apple engineer and vice president of architecture at Apple Computers who played key role in the Apple Newton. Category: Engineer, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Mike Morhaime Co-founder, CEO, and president of video game developer Blizzard Entertainment. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Mina Rees American mathematician, and the first female President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Category: Female, Manager, Mathematician, President, and Writer |
 | Mochio Umeda Japanese IT enterprise management consultant, author, and one of the most well-known commentators on IT. Category: Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Morton Meyerson Former president and vice chairman of Electronic Data Systems, Inc. Category: Chairman, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Nate Silver American statistician, sabermetrician, psephologist, and writer of FiveThirtyEight blog. Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Noam Chomsky Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and historian. Category: Father, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Patrick Gelsinger Chief executive officer at VMware and former president and chief operating officer at EMC Corporation. Category: Manager, President, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Paul Otellini American businessman and current president of Intel. Category: Director, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Philip Estridge Led the development of the original IBM Personal Computer (PC). Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Philip Zimmerman Creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Randy Eisenman Founder of Satori Capital and Handango in 1999 where he served as president and chief executive officer. Category: Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Randy Pausch American professor of computer science and human computer interaction at CMU. Category: Founder, Manager, President, Professor, and Writer |
 | Regina Dugan 19th (and the first woman) Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Category: CEO, Director, Engineer, Female, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Reynold Johnson Inventor of the disk drive and videocassette tape. Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Richard Branson English business magnate and investor and founder of Virgin Group. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Richard Hamming American mathematician and author who invented Hamming codes - computer error-detecting and correcting codes. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Ronald Schafer American electrical engineer known for his work with signal processing. Category: Editor, Engineer, Manager, President, Professor, and Writer |
 | Saadia Muzaffar Marketing, sales, and business executive and organizer of Startup Weekends. Category: Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Safra Catz Israeli-born American business executive at Oracle Corporation. Category: CEO, Female, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Sam Altman Former CEO of OpenAI and president of Y Combinator. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Samuel Hopkins First person granted U.S. patent. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Samuel Palmisano President and chief executive officer of IBM from 2000-2012. Category: Chairman, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Satya Nadella Indian-American business executive and current CEO (chief executive officer) of Microsoft. Category: CEO, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Scott Forstall Senior vice president of iOS Software at Apple Inc. Category: Director, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Scott Guthrie Known for his work on ASP.NET. Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Scott Mueller Author of books about personal computers and one of the most trusted authoritative hardware voices in the industry. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Sheryl Sandberg American businesswoman and chief operating officer of Facebook. Category: Female, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Simon Phipps And open source advocate and founder of IBM's Java Technology Center. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Stanley Gill British computer scientist known for inventing the first computer subroutine. Category: Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Stephanie Shirley British businesswoman and philanthropist who is best known for founding the software company F.I. Group. Category: Female, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Stephen Hawking British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author. Category: Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer |
 | Steve Wolff One of the fathers of the Internet and developer of NSFNET. Category: Director, Father, Manager, President, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Steven Bourne British computer scientist known for authoring the Bourne shell. Category: Manager, Mathematician, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Steven Sinofsky President of the Windows Division at Microsoft from July 2009 through his departure on November 12, 2012. Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Stuart Feldman Creator of the computer software program Make for UNIX systems and author of the first Fortran 77 compiler. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Susan Decker American business executive and former president of Yahoo! Inc. Category: Analyst, Director, Investor, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Thomas Cover Information theorist and professor at Stanford University. Category: Manager, President, Professor, and Writer |
 | Thomas Watson Early chairman and CEO of IBM. Category: CEO, Chairman, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Thomas Watson Jr Jr. an American businessman, political figure, and philanthropist and 2nd president of IBM. Category: Father, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Tom Anderson Co-founder of Myspace. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Tony Fadell Known as the father of the Apple iPod. Category: Entrepreneur, Father, Founder, Inventor, Investor, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Victor Alhadeff Business executive known as the founder and CEO of Egghead Software. Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Vida Ilderem Vice president of Intel Labs and director of the Integrated Platform Research Lab. Category: Director, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Vint Cerf Father of the Internet. Category: Father, Founder, Manager, Personality, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | William Coolidge American physicist known for his work with incandescent electric lighting. Category: Director, Manager, Physicist, President, and Writer |
 | William Davidow American engineer, author, marketing executive, and venture capitalist. Category: Engineer, Investor, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | William Hewlett Co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard (HP) company. Category: CEO, Chairman, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | William Lowe American businessman who managed the team that developed the first IBM personal computer. Category: Father, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | William Stevens Author of computer science books, in particular books on UNIX and TCP/IP. Category: Manager, President, Programmer, and Writer |