The same year the professional networking site LinkedIn hired Daniel Roth, the head of Fortune.com, to run its editorial operations.
This year's 8th Annual Clinton Global Initiative gathering brought together more than 1,000 current and former heads of state, Fortune 500 CEOs, leaders from the non-profit sector, and celebrities.
A pollster to President Bill Clinton and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Bernard has been involved in the past nine U.S. presidential campaigns and has served as a strategic advisor to numerous heads of state, Fortune 500 CEOs, and some of the world's leading issue advocacy organizations and nonprofit institutions.
(Except one previously owned by a disgraced former head of a Fortune 500 company).
But if he lived in latter-day Manhattan instead of long-ago Cyprus, this Iago would be the head of a Fortune 500 company or perhaps be one of Broadway's few bankable directors.
At 73, he had little left to prove: the former head of a Fortune 500 corporation, a wealthy Brahmin with a social conscience, a moderate congressman of grace with a spiritual bent.
"We have a role to play in life, whether that is being the head of a Fortune 500 company, or being a junior professional in an NGO, and we must step up to those roles.
Think of the middle-aged guy you know that always talks about his days as a high school football player; the mom with three kids that talks incessantly about her days as a college gymnast; the retired executive that relives over and over again her days as the head of a Fortune 500 company.
A book which, by the way, USA Today called "a fascinating new gem of a book" that "[gets] inside the heads of idea people," Fortune said, "Go buy it.
The avaricious could conceivably be put to work ceaselessly twisting the heads of diviners and fortune-tellers, or keeping flatterers covered with filth, or cladding hypocrites in leaden mantles, but not even We can unwrite the terms of Our own first law of thermodynamics.
