2009 Winners & Finalists

2009 Winner, Hall of Fame – Lifetime Achievement Award

  • Peter A. Darbee, PG&E Corporation, Pacific Gas and Electric Company

2009 Winners

  • Public Company with revenues above $500MM
    Daniel J. Heinrich, The Clorox Company
  • Public Company with revenues up to $500MM
    Martin A. Kropelnicki, California Water Service Group
  • Non-Public Company
    Nathan Brostrom, UC Berkeley
  • Venture-Backed Company
    Jack Jenkins-Stark, BrightSource Energy, Inc.
  • Community Service
    Paul Sussman, Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corp.
  • Transformation Agent
    Byron H. Pollitt, Visa, Inc.

2009 Finalists

  • Public Company with revenues above $500MM
    Paul Coghlan, Linear Technology Corporation
    Mark Garrett, Adobe Systems Incorporated
  • Public Company with revenues up to $500MM
    Thomas P. Cawley, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Inc.
    Randy S. Gottfried, Riverbed Technology, Inc.
  • Non-Public Company
    Thomas Berquist, Ingres Corporation
  • Venture-Backed Company
    Donald McCauley, Qualys, Inc.
    Greg Walker, InnoPath Software, Inc.
  • Community Service
    Steve Bach, Nimblefish Technologies, Inc.
    Michael Braude, San Francisco Food Bank
  • Transformation Agent
    James Beer, Symantec Corporation
    Lewis Chew, National Semiconductor Corporation