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List Of Golden Gate University People
This is a list of Golden Gate University people, including notable students, alumni, faculty, and administrators associated. Alumni There are more than 60,000 living alumni. Alumni with a degree of Juris Doctor (JD) graduated from the Golden Gate University School of Law. Academia * Solomon Darwin (MBA), professor of business at the University of California, Berkeley Arts and entertainment * Denise Mobolaji Ajayi-Williams (MBA), novelist and children's comic writer * Kyra Davis (BS), novelist; author of ''Just One Night'' series and ''Sophie Katz'' series * Gary W. Goldstein (JD 1978), author, speaker, filmmaker, and producer of ''Pretty Woman'' * Diane Murphy (MBA), former child actress, known for sharing the role of "Tabitha" in ''Bewitched'' * Tess Uriza Holthe (BS 1996), novelist; author of ''When the Elephants Dance'' * Emily Wu (MBA), writer; author of ''Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos'' Business * Ralph Atkin (MBA), founder of SkyWest Airlines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pretty Woman
''Pretty Woman'' is a 1990 American romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall, from a screenplay by J. F. Lawton. The film stars Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, and features Héctor Elizondo, Ralph Bellamy (in his final performance), Laura San Giacomo, and Jason Alexander in supporting roles. The film's story centers on Hollywood prostitute Vivian Ward and wealthy businessman Edward Lewis. Vivian is hired to be Edward's escort for several business and social functions, and their relationship develops during the course of her week-long stay with him. The film's title ''Pretty Woman'' is based on the 1964 song "Oh, Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison. The original screenplay was titled “3,000,” and was written by then-struggling screenwriter J.F Lawton. It is the first film on-screen collaboration between Gere and Roberts; their second film, '' Runaway Bride'', was released in 1999. Originally intended to be a dark cautionary tale about class and prostitution in Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Blades
Joan Ellen Blades (born March 18, 1956 in Berkeley, California) is an American computer software entrepreneur, political activist, and author. In 1987, she and her husband Wes Boyd co-founded Berkeley Systems, a San Francisco Bay area software company that marketed the popular '' After Dark'' screensaver and the '' You Don't Know Jack'' trivia game. After selling Berkeley Systems in 1997 for $13.8 million, Blades and Boyd founded the liberal political group MoveOn.org. Blades received her B.A. in History from UC Berkeley in 1977 and her J.D. from the Golden Gate University School of Law. She wrote the book ''Mediate Your Divorce'' (published by Prentice Hall), and co-wrote ''The Divorce Book''. She was a member of the board and vice president of marketing at Berkeley Systems. Blades created many of the box designs for the early Berkeley Systems products such as ''Stepping Out'' and ''After Dark'', based on her original collage art. In 2006, Blades and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washington, United States. Its best-known software products are the Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal computers. Microsoft ranked No. 21 in the 2020 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue; it was the world's largest software maker by revenue as of 2019. It is one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Meta. Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quantum Corp
Quantum Corporation is a data storage, management, and protection company that provides technology to store, manage, archive, and protect video and unstructured data throughout the data lifecycle. Their products are used by enterprises, media and entertainment companies, government agencies, big data companies, and life science organizations. Quantum is headquartered in San Jose, California and has offices around the world, supporting customers globally in addition to working with a network of distributors, VARs, DMRs, OEMs and other suppliers. History Quantum was founded in 1980 as Quantum Software Systems Inc. By 1984, it led the market for mid-capacity 5.25-inch drives. That year, a subsidiary was launched called Plus Development to focus on the development of hardcards. Plus Development became a successful designer of 3.5-inch drives with Matsushita Kotobuki Electronics (now Panasonic) as the contract manufacturer. By 1989, Quantum led the compact drive market. The company ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Belluzzo
Richard "Rick" Belluzzo (born November 26, 1953) is an American businessman who worked as an executive at Hewlett-Packard (HP), Silicon Graphics (SGI), Microsoft (MS), Quantum Corp. (QTM), and Viavi Solutions (VIAV). He has served on the board of directors of several technology companies. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Golden Gate University. Belluzzo worked for HP for 23 years, with his last role being executive vice president of their computer division. He moved to SGI in January 1998, becoming chairman of the board and CEO, succeeding Edward R. McCracken. During his time in the systems business, Belluzzo led both HP and SGI through the transition from proprietary systems to industry standard solutions. These actions were controversial at the time. In August 1999, Belluzzo left SGI to head Microsoft's MSN division, and then the whole Consumer business, leading several emerging efforts, including the launch of the first Xbox. In February 2001, he beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DotConnectAfrica
DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA) is an independent non-profit, non-partisan organization founded in 2006. The organization was incorporated in Mauritius with its main charitable objectives to: (a) for the advancement of education in information technology to the African society and access to internet resources; and (b) in connection with (a) to provide the African society with a continental Internet domain name by sponsoring, establishing, and operating a new Top Level Domain (TLD) ".africa" for purposes of branding Africa on the Internet. As of 2023, the DCA Trust runs the Miss.africa digital rebranded as Fempower and DCA Corporate tech boot camp programs under the DCA Digital Academy umbrella. These programs under DCA Digital Academy have won various accolades, including the 2022 CEO Today Awards. Governance Structure According to the organization website, the governance model is to be adapted from Africa's development policy model augmented with other geo-TLD models. Public Polic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophia Bekele
Sophia Bekele Eshete (Amharic: ሶፍያ በቀለ; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is an entrepreneur, corporate executive, governance and risk management specialist, policy advisor on ICT, commentator and philanthropist. As an entrepreneur, Bekele has founded and run various companies and initiatives. She is presently the founder and Executive Director of DotConnectAfrica (DCA) Group based in Mauritius and Kenya. She is the founder of a 6 year "Yes2dotAfrica" global awareness campaign, for re-branding Africa using the .africa top-level internet domain name and founder and CEO of tech start-ups, CBSegroup in California and SbCommunications Network (SbCnet) plc, based in Addis Ababa. Aside from her entrepreneurship ventures, Bekele worked for multinational Fortune 500 Companies in the US. She has frequently been quoted in the media for her views, as well as spoken regularly on international forums and made public affairs commentary through published articles Early life and family Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SkyWest Airlines
SkyWest Airlines is an American regional airline headquartered in St. George, Utah, United States. SkyWest is paid to staff, operate and maintain aircraft used on flights that are scheduled, marketed and sold by a partner mainline airline. The airline is contracted by Alaska Airlines (as Alaska SkyWest), American Airlines (as American Eagle), Delta Air Lines (as Delta Connection), and United Airlines (as United Express). In all, it is the largest regional airline in North America when measured by fleet size, number of passengers carried, and number of destinations served. SkyWest operates an average of more than 2,400 flights per day to 250 cities in the United States, Canada and Mexico with an extensive network of routes largely set up to connect passengers between smaller airports and the large hubs of its partner airlines. In total, SkyWest carried 35.9 million passengers in 2017. The company operates an average of 1,050 flights per day as Delta Connection on behalf of Delt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Atkin
Ralph Atkin (born Jeffery Ralph Atkin in 1943) is the founder of SkyWest Airlines in the United States. He founded SkyWest Airlines in 1972 and served first as CEO, then as Chairman of the Board for 20 years A lifelong resident of St. George, Utah, Atkin served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England in his late teens and early 20s. He has undergraduate degrees from Dixie State College and Brigham Young University, an MBA from Golden Gate University and a doctorate of jurisprudence from the University of Utah. In 1970 he was elected Washington County Attorney, a position he served in one term. From 1991 to 1993 he was director of economic development for the state of Utah. Atkin has also been associated with the attempted takeover of Trans World Airlines (TWA) in 2001 and with the startup of Ghana International Airlines in Ghana in 2004. Atkin is a member of the Utah State Bar Utah State Bar is the regulatory agency established by the Utah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Wu
Emily Wu (巫一毛 Wu Yimao), born 3 June 1958 in Beijing, is a Chinese-American writer whose short stories have appeared in magazines and newspapers, and in an anthology of poetry and prose. She went to the United States of America in 1981 and has a Bachelor of Arts in English from Notre Dame de Namur University (formerly called College of Notre Dame) in Belmont, California, and an MBA from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California. In 2006 she published a memoir, ''Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos'' (Pantheon, Random House) telling her story of growing up in China in a "black" (rightist) family during the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goa .... The book has been translated into German, French, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tess Uriza Holthe
Tess Uriza Holthe is a Filipino-American writer, who was born and raised in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco and is best known for her nationally bestselling novel ''When the Elephants Dance''. Biography Holthe graduated from Golden Gate University in 1996 with a degree in accounting. While working full-time as an accountant, she began writing her first novel ''When the Elephants Dance'' during lunch breaks, evenings, and weekends. ''When the Elephants Dance'' is inspired in part by her father's experiences growing up in the Philippines during World War II. Bibliography *''The Five-Forty-Five To Cannes'' was published in 2007 and cited as an American Library Association Notable Book, as well as named a 2007 notable book by the ''San Francisco Chronicle''. *''When the Elephants Dance'' was published in 2002 and won the National Best-seller award, crowned the #1 Bestseller by the ''San Francisco Chronicle The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' is a newspaper serving pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
