It was an honor to help build the O.C.E. and lead it through its first Congress".
Mr. Steenkamp rose quickly, becoming the firm's chief accounting officer and helping lead it through its initial public offering of stock in 2007.
In 1996 after Orchard's editorial and marketing staff left to start another company, Mrs. Wilson re-established the Orchard Books imprint, diversified it and led it through its acquisition by Scholastic Inc.
If WorldCom does choose Michael D. Capellas as its chief executive, the company will be getting an experienced technology executive, one who was in charge of Compaq Computer's internal information systems before rising to run Compaq and lead it through its merger with Hewlett-Packard.
Immediately prior to joining Bigcommerce, Bellm was president and chief operating officer of Airbnb competitor HomeAway, and helped lead it through its 2011 IPO.
The $5 million that forms this venture round was led by Sir Terry Leahy, the former CEO of retail giant Tesco who led it through its biggest growth phase (from a third-rate player in the UK to the third-biggest in the world) and its biggest tech developments (such as its Clubcard loyalty business and its online shopping service).
She moved the unit to University College London in 1996 and as its director led it through a remarkable flowering, expanding its size from a dozen to 70 people, training some 40 PhD students and publishing a stream of high-quality papers.
Mason has been the founder and CEO of Groupon since its inception in 2008, led it through a $750 million IPO, and struggled to maintain momentum as the daily deals business began to flounder.
But Meadow's CEO is also a shrewd businessman who won it TechCrunch's 2015 Crunchies award for best bootstrapped startup, led it through Y Combinator and raised its $2.1 million seed round last year.
Over the next ten years, he led it through a mental revolution, modernising it, shaking off its Soviet legacy and putting it back on the map.
