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List Of San Francisco State University People
The following is a list of notable people associated with San Francisco State University, located in the American city of San Francisco, California. Many alumni may still need to be added to the San Francisco State University alumni category. Notable alumni Art * Alvin Ailey (1931-1989) – dance choreographer and activist * Opal Palmer Adisa – artist, writer * Lutz Bacher (1943-2019) – artist * Debra Bloomfield – artist, photographer * Lenore Chinn – painter * Roy De Forest (1930-2007) – painter and sculptor * Phoebe Gloeckner – visual artist and cartoonist * Suzanne Jackson – visual artist, poet, and dancer * Elliott Linwood – conceptual artist * Fred Rinne – visual and performance artist * Hannah Stouffer – artist Business * Solomon Darwin – Professor of Business at Haas School of Business and known for his development of "smart village" frameworks for Indian villages * Barnaby Dorfman – founder and CEO of Foodista.com * Greg Fischbach – f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers 118 different bachelor's degrees, 94 master's degrees, and 5 doctoral degrees along with 26 teaching credentials among six academic colleges.SF State Facts 2009–2010 San Francisco State University It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". The university was founded in 1899 as a state-run |
Barnaby Dorfman
Barnaby Dorfman is an American businessman and currently the Chief Technology Officer of Go1.com. He was 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.com, Amazon's A9.com. Early years Born in New York, New York, he is the grandson of American biochemist Ralph Dorfman. Barnaby Dorfman attended the Putney School in Vermont, where he later became a Board of Trustees member. After graduating from the Putney School in 1986, Dorfman attended the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Madrid, Spain, where in 1987 he obtained a Diploma de Estudios Hispanicos. In 1988, he attended San Francisco State University, where in 1991 he graduated ''magna cum laude'' with a Bachelor of Science in International Business. Through a portion of his college years, Dorfman spent time in Mexic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Wolf
Stephen M. Wolf (born 1941, California) assumed his current position as chairman of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company in March 2004. He has been the managing partner of Alpilles, LLC, since April 1, 2003. In April 2009 he became chairman of Trilantic Capital Partners, which was previously Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking. Before becoming managing partner of Alpilles, Wolf was chairman of US Airways. Wolf was chairman and chief executive officer of US Airways from January 16, 1996, until November 18, 1998, when he turned over his chief executive officer title to another executive. Wolf was responsible for the company's rebranding to US Airways from its previous identity, USAir. During Wolf's tenure, US Airways also placed an order for up to 400 Airbus A320-series narrow-body aircraft, with 120 firm orders at the time of the order signing; at the time, the order was regarded as the largest bulk aircraft request in history. Prior to joining US Airways, Wolf had served since 1994 as se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arista Networks
Arista Networks (formerly Arastra) is an American computer networking company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company designs and sells multilayer network switches to deliver software-defined networking (SDN) for large datacenter, cloud computing, high-performance computing, and high-frequency trading environments. These products include 10/25/ 40/50/ 100 Gigabit Ethernet low- latency cut-through switches, including the 7124SX, which remained the fastest switch using SFP+ optics through September 2012 with its sub-500 nanosecond (ns) latency, and the 7500 series, Arista's modular 10G/40G/ 100Gbit/s switch. Arista's Linux-based network operating system, Extensible Operating System (EOS), runs on all Arista products. Corporate history In 1982, Andy Bechtolsheim cofounded Sun Microsystems, and was its chief hardware designer. In 1995, David Cheriton cofounded Granite Systems with Bechtolsheim, a company that developed Gigabit Ethernet products, which was acquire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jayshree Ullal
Jayshree V. Ullal (born March 27, 1961) is an Indian-American billionaire businesswoman, president and CEO of Arista Networks, a Cloud computing, cloud networking company responsible for the deployment of 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 10/25 Gigabit Ethernet, 25/40 Gigabit Ethernet, 40/50 Gigabit Ethernet, 50/100 Gigabit Ethernet networking in the data center. Early life Ullal was born in London, and raised in New Delhi, India, through her school years. She eventually attended San Francisco State University where she graduated with a B.S. in engineering (electrical). She went on to Santa Clara University where she received a master's degree in engineering management. Career Ullal began her career with engineering and strategy positions at Advanced Micro Devices, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Fairchild Semiconductor. She was director of internetworking products at Ungermann-Bass for four years before joining Crescendo Communications. At Crescendo, Ullal became vice president of marke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bebe Stores
Bebe Stores, Inc. (stylized in all lowercase) is a women's retail brand that was established in 1976. The brand develops and produces a line of women's apparel, accessories, and perfume fragrances, which it markets under the "bebe" or "Bebe Sport" or "Bebe Outlet" names. On April 21, 2017, bebe announced it would close its remaining 168 brick-and-mortar locations to sell products online as web sales. History The company was founded by Manny Mashouf in 1976, who emigrated from Iran to the United States in the early 1970s, where he opened the first bebe store in San Francisco during a time when three categories dominated the women's wear market: junior, bridge and misses. The name "bebe" is derived from the soliloquy from Shakespeare's play ''Hamlet'' in which the eponymous Prince ponders: "To be or not to be..." Founder Manny Mashouf came up with the name after a conversation at a party he attended in San Francisco during the 1970s, shortly before he established the brand. Howe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manny Mashouf
Manny Mashouf (born 6 July 1938) is an Iranian-American businessman and philanthropist known for founding Bebe Stores. Early life and education Born in 1938 in Pahlavi Iran, he came to the United States in his teens and settled first in Washington D.C., then in San Francisco. He attended San Francisco State University (SFSU) and graduated in 1966 with a political science degree. Career He first managed a steakhouse in the early 1970's, before founding his own fashion line in 1976. He was the manager and chairman of Bebe stores and in 1998, he took the company public. In 2006 Mashouf was worth $1.5 billion USD - resulting in Forbes listing him as the 242nd richest American. By 2007 that has dropped to $1.3 billion USD. Manny Mashouf partnered with Giovanni Agnelli and Scott Bloom, they founded the production company Argonaut Pictures in 2007. It was announced in 2015 that he was to sell his 59% stake in Bebe Stores. All of Bebe's stores were scheduled to close and liquidat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus & Millichap
Marcus & Millichap, Inc. is an American company that provides real estate brokerage, mortgage brokerage, research, and advisory services in the U.S. and Canada in the field of commercial property. It popularized the practice of listing properties exclusively with one brokerage firm. The company has nearly 2,000 employees in more than 80 offices across the U.S. and Canada. History The company was founded in Palo Alto in 1971 by George M. Marcus. William Millichap was one of the first salespeople Marcus hired, and was made a partner in 1976. The company was incorporated in California on August 26, 1976 as G. M. Marcus & Company, and was renamed as Marcus & Millichap, Inc. in August 1978. In 2013, it became a public company via an initial public offering An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George M
''George M!'' is a Broadway musical based on the life of George M. Cohan, the biggest Broadway star of his day who was known as "The Man Who Owned Broadway." The book for the musical was written by Michael Stewart, John Pascal, and Francine Pascal. Music and lyrics were by George M. Cohan himself, with revisions for the musical by Cohan's daughter, Mary Cohan. The story covers the period from the late 1880s until 1937 and focuses on Cohan's life and show business career from his early days in vaudeville with his parents and sister to his later success as a Broadway singer, dancer, composer, lyricist, theatre director and producer. The show includes such Cohan hit songs as "Give My Regards To Broadway", "You're a Grand Old Flag", and "Yankee Doodle Dandy." Productions The musical opened on Broadway at the Palace Theatre on April 10, 1968 and closed on April 26, 1969 after 433 performances and 8 previews. The show was produced by David Black and directed and choreographed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ripple Labs
Ripple Labs, Inc. is an American technology company which develops the Ripple payment protocol and exchange network. Originally named Opencoin and renamed in 2015, the company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. History Ryan Fugger conceived Ripple in 2004 after working on a local exchange trading system in Vancouver. The intent was to create a monetary system that was decentralized and could effectively empower individuals and communities to create their own money. Fugger later built the first iteration of this system, RipplePay.com. Concurrently, in May 2011, Jed McCaleb began developing a digital currency system in which transactions were verified by consensus among members of the network, rather than by the mining process used by Bitcoin. In August 2012, Jed McCaleb hired Chris Larsen and they approached Ryan Fugger with their digital currency idea. After discussions with McCaleb and long-standing members of the Ripple community, Fugger handed ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
E-Loan
E-Loan, Inc. is a financial services company that offers its users access to partners that may be able to assist them in obtaining loans. E-Loan was a pioneer in the online lending industry in the late 1990s and early 2000s. As of 1999, it was the number one site for online lending, with Quicken Loan's later online offering playing catch-up in second after E-Loan declined a buyout offer. As of 2017, E-Loan is focused on its personal loan referral business, and as of May 15, 2017 all of its deposit customers were transferred to Popular Direct. E-Loan is a division of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico. History E-Loan was founded by Janina Pawlowski and Christopher Larsen in 1997. Former co-workers at a California-based mortgage lender, Pawlowski and Larsen had disagreed with their supervisor's on-the-job demands and decided to build their own mortgage business together. They took a chance on creating an online-based lending service, just as the Internet became ubiquitous. At the tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Larsen
Chris Larsen (born 1960) is a business executive and angel investor best known for co-founding several Silicon Valley technology startups, including one based on peer to peer lending. In 1996, he co-founded the online mortgage lender E-Loan, and during his tenure as CEO E-Loan became the first company to freely provide consumers' FICO credit scores. By 2000, E-Loan's market value was estimated at $1 billion In 2005, Larsen left the company when it was sold to Banco Popular. In 2006, he co-founded Prosper Marketplace and he served as CEO until 2012. Later in 2012, he co-founded the company Ripple Labs, Inc., which developed Ripple, software that enables the instant and direct transfer of money between two parties. Self-described as "radically pro-consumer," Larsen has been a vocal advocate of financial privacy in California, and in 2001 he co-founded the coalition Californians for Privacy Now. He has appeared as a speaker at industry events such as Sibos, SWIFT's flagship c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
