James manyika
Partner, San Francisco Office
McKinsey & Company
James Manyika, based in Silicon Valley, focuses on serving large global technology companies on a variety of issues
including strategy, organizations, and operations. He is one the leaders of McKinsey’s High Tech Practice and Strategy
Practice, and for the past five years led the firm’s Software Practice. Mr. Manyika also leads McKinsey’s research at
the intersection of technology and the global economy, and has addressed such topics as technology and economic
productivity, interactions and the knowledge economy, and the evolution of the global tech sector. He has published
a book on decentralized decision theory, and numerous academic and business articles. Before joining McKinsey, he
was a research fellow and on the engineering faculty at Oxford University, a visiting scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, and a faculty exchange fellow at MIT. Mr. Manyika is a trustee of the Aspen Institute and the World Affairs
Council of Northern California, and an advisor to the Global Philanthropy Forum.
Paul maritz
Chief Executive Officer
VMware, Inc.
Paul Maritz until recently was president, Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division, at EMC Corp. He joined EMC
in 2008 when the company acquired Pi Corp., where he was the founder and CEO. At EMC, Mr. Maritz oversaw
development and operations for Pi, along with other key elements of EMC’s cloud strategy. Mr. Maritz, an IT veteran
and visionary, served 14 years at Microsoft and was a member of the five-person executive committee. He oversaw
the development and marketing of system software products (including Windows 95, Windows NT, and Windows
2000), development tools (Visual Studio), and database products (SQL Server), as well as the complete Office and
Exchange product lines. Before joining Microsoft, he served Intel Corp. for five years. He is currently a director of
several privately held software companies and chairman of the Grameen Foundation, which supports microfinance
worldwide. He is interested in the use of technology in developing countries and in wildlife issues.
marc mathieu
Senior Vice President, Positive Living
Corporate Vice President
The Coca-Cola Co.
Marc Mathieu, who joined the Coca-Cola Co. in 1996, is responsible for the company’s portfolio of brands, its
communication and innovation agenda, and marketing capabilities globally. Under his stewardship, Coca-Cola’s most
noted marketing breakthroughs included a strategy that led to “The Coke Side of Life” and the launch of Coca-Cola
Zero, Coke Blak, and the classic Coca-Cola bottle in an aluminum version. Mr. Mathieu previously held general
management roles in the Philippines, Asia, and Europe. Before joining Coca-Cola, he served 13 years with the Danone
Group. In 2008, Mr. Mathieu embarked on a plan to bring together the brands, the business, and the corporation’s
socio-environmental agenda across all key corporate functions. The “Live Positively” platform will engage some
one million people working across the Coca-Cola system and the more than 1.5 billion beverages the company offers
every day in more than 200 countries through its 400 brands.
marissa mayer
Vice President, Search Products and User Experience
Google, Inc.
Marissa Mayer leads Google’s product management efforts on such search tools as web search, images, news, books,
products, maps, Google Earth, the Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Health, Google Labs, and more. She
joined Google in 1999 as the company’s first female engineer and led the user interface and web server teams at that
time. Her efforts have included designing and developing Google’s search interface; internationalizing the site to more
than 100 languages; defining Google News, Gmail, and Orkut; and launching more than 100 features and products on
Google.com. She also organizes Google Movies—outings a few times a year to see the latest blockbusters—for
6,000-plus people (employees plus family and friends). Ms. Mayer has also taught introductory computer
programming classes at Stanford to more than 3,000 students. Before joining Google, she was with the UBS research
lab (Ubilab) in Zurich and SRI International in Menlo Park.
