Thomas M. Siebel

Mr. Siebel is the founder of our company and has served as the Chairman of our board of directors since January 2009, and as our Chief Executive Officer since July 2011. Prior to founding our company, Mr. Siebel founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer of Siebel Systems, a global CRM software company, from 1993 until it merged with Oracle Corporation in January 2006. Mr. Siebel served in various leadership positions with Oracle Corporation from January 1984 to September 1990. Mr. Siebel currently serves as a member of the College of Engineering boards at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of California, Berkeley. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2013. Mr. Siebel holds a B.A. in History, an M.B.A., and an M.S. in Computer Science, each from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of four books, including most recently the best-selling Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction (RosettaBooks, 2019).

Honors and Awards

• Entrepreneur of the Year – EY, 2018
• Glassdoor Top CEO – 2018
• Honorary Ph.D. – Politecnico di Torino, 2018
• Entrepreneur of the Year – EY, 2017
• Best Places to Work, 100% CEO approval rating – Glassdoor, 2017
• Most Admired CEO Lifetime Achievement Award – San Francisco Business Times, 2016
• Academy of Arts and Sciences, Elected Member – April 2013
• #3 of the World’s Top 25 Philanthropists – Barron’s, November 2010
• Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship
• Engineering at Illinois Hall of Fame – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010
• #5 of the World’s Top 25 Philanthropists – Barron’s, 2009
• Top 50 Philanthropists – BusinessWeek 2007, 2008
• Honorary Ph.D. Engineering – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006
• Thomas M. Siebel, Master Entrepreneur of the Year – Ernst & Young, 2003
• Entrepreneurial Company of the Year – Harvard Business School, 2003
• Hall of Fame – CRM Magazine, 2003
• CEO of the Year – Industry Week, 2002
• Top 25 Managers in Global Business – BusinessWeek, 1999 to 2002
• Top 10 CEOs of 2000 – Investor’s Business Daily, 2000
• The World’s Most Influential Software Company – BusinessWeek, 2000
• The Most Influential Company in IT – Intelligent Enterprise, 2000
• Fastest Growing Technology Company – Deloitte & Touche, 1999
• Fastest Growing Company in America – Fortune, 1999

Publications

• Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction, RosettaBooks, July 2019
• “Digital Transformation: The Post-Industrial Utility,” Aspenia Magazine, June 2018
• “Why Digital Transformation Is Now on the CEO’s Shoulders,” McKinsey Quarterly 2018 Number 1
• “Thought Leaders Speak Out: Key Trends Driving Change in the Electric Power Industry,” The Edison
• Foundation Institute for Electric Innovation (IEI), 2015
• Advanced Smart Grid, introduction, Artech House, 2015
• “The Internet of Energy,” Electric Perspectives magazine, 2015
• Written Testimony to the United States House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee,
• Subcommittee on Energy and Power, 2015
• “Big Data and the Smart Grid: Is Hadoop the Answer?”, Stanford Energy Journal, 2014
• Taking Care of eBusiness, Doubleday, 2001
• Cyber Rules, Doubleday, 1999
• Virtual Selling, Free Press, 1996

Jim Hagemann Snabe

Jim Hagemann Snabe is the former co-CEO of SAP AG. He is now Chairman A. P. Moller Maersk (DK), and Nominated Chairman Siemens AG (D) Vice Chairman Allianz SE (D). He is member of the Board of Trustees at World Economic Forum (CH).

With 25 years of experience in the IT industry, Jim Hagemann Snabe is focused on leadership around innovation, digitization and societal progress. As co-CEO of SAP Jim, together with Bill McDermott, was instrumental in driving the strategic development of SAP to double the value of the company and play a more responsible role in society. In 2013 he and co-CEO Bill McDermott were ranked #2 on Glassdoor.com’s listing of the top fifty highest rated CEOs, based on their 99 percent approval rating from employees.

In his capacity as a global business leader, Jim is involved in a number of activities focused on societal progress and the role of business in society. Snabe’s views on leadership is shaped by his commitment to solving societal issues and his trust in human potential.

Snabe received a master’s degree in operational research from the Aarhus School of Business in Denmark. In 2016 Jim was appointed Adjunct Professor at Copenhagen Business School based on his work around digital transformation and its impact on business and society. He lives with his family in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Jim Hagemann Snabe has a master’s degree in Operational Research, University of Aarhus; Adjunct Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

David Sanger

When readers of the *New York Times* look to under-stand the swirling dynamics of wars, diplomacy, cyber conflict and geopolitics, they look for the byline of one of the paper’s most senior correspondents: David E. Sanger, the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and White House and National Security Correspondent. Over a 40-year career at the *Times*, Sanger has become known for the depth of his sources in the world of national security, his pains-taking reporting and research, and his in-depth investiga-tions into the complex events of our time.

And his reach goes far beyond the Times. He is a CNN contribu-tor on national security and politics. He is the author of three books — The Inheritance, Confront and Conceal and, most recently, The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age. The last become an Emmy-nominated HBO docu-mentary, also called The Perfect Weapon. His latest documentary, Year One, will be released by HBO in October 2022 and chron-icles President Biden’s first year struggling to rebuild American democracy at home and alliances abroad. Sanger also teaches national security at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where the class he conducts with Graham Allison, “Central Chal-lenges in American National Security, Strategy and the Press,’’ is among the most popular at the school.

In 2016, Mr. Sanger was a key member of the Times team that examined Russia’s interference in the presidential election — part of his broader coverage of nation-states’ use of cyber power. That investigation was part of a series of stories that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. Several years previously, it was Sanger’s investigation that broke the details of the “Olym-pic Games,’’ the federal government’s codename for the secret cyber-attack on Iran’s nuclear program mounted by the United States and Israel: one of the defining moments of the early cyber age. The story of how two Presidents guided that attack was part of Sanger’s book Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power (2012), (The book sent shockwaves around the globe and was called an “astonishingly revealing insider’s account” by Foreign Affairs.) The docu-thriller, “Zero Days”, an Alex Gibney film about the secret effort to sabo-tage Iran’s program, tells the story of how Sanger reported on one of the country’s most clandestine operations.

His book, The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age (2018) is an incisive look into how a new era of cyber conflict has changed the national security landscape, providing new ways to influence national elections, conduct sabatoge, and execute short-of-war operations. The HBO documentary of The Perfect Weapon (2020), directed by John Maggio, takes viewers deep into the cyber battles of the current age, interviewing cur-rent and former military and intelligence officials, while conduct-ing new, on-the-ground reporting from the front lines of the cyber wars.

At the Times, Mr. Sanger’s previous investigative work led to Pulitzers for the investigation into the causes of the space shuttle Challenger and into Chinese technology investment in the United States. Sanger’s coverage of the Iraq and Korea crises won the Weintal Prize, one of the highest honors for diplomatic reporting. He also won the White House Correspondents’ Association Aldo Beckman prize for his coverage of the American presidency.

General John Hyten, Ret.

General John Hyten (Ret.) served as the 11th Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, retiring in November 2021 after a distinguished 40-year career in the United States Air Force. In this role, Gen. Hyten served as the nation’s second highest ranking military officer, responsible for supporting and overseeing joint military requirements for nearly 1.5 million service members and their families across the U.S. Armed Forces.

Gen Hyten (Ret.) previously led Air Force Space Command from 2014 to 2016 and U.S. Strategic Command from 2016 to 2019. Among many other assignments, he was deployed to Southwest Asia as the Director of Space Forces for operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. He has received numerous awards and recognition including, the Defense Distinguished Service Medal with oak leaf cluster; the Distinguished Service Medal with oak leaf cluster; the Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster; the Defense Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters; the Meritorious Service Medal with four oak leaf clusters; and Commendation Medals from both Air Force and the Army.

He attended Harvard University on an Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps scholarship, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in engineering and applied sciences. He also holds his MBA from Auburn University at Montgomery and is a distinguished graduate from Squadron Officer School as well as Air Command and Staff College. He was also a National Defense Fellow at the University of Illinois.

Jacques Attali

Professor, writer, Honorary Member of the Council of State, Special Adviser to the President of the Republic from 1981 to 1991, founder and first President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London from 1991 to 1993, Jacques Attali (www.attali.com) is currently CEO of A&A, an international consulting firm (www.aeta.net) specialised in new technologies, based in Paris, and President of PlaNet Finance (www.planetfinance.org), an international non-profit organisation assisting microfinance institutions all over the world. PlaNet Finance is the most important world institution of support to the microfinance. PlaNet Finance advises and finances the development of the microfinance in 80 countries.

He founded Action Contre la Faim in 1980 and the European programme Eurêka (a major European programme on new technologies that invented, among other things, the MP3). In 1989, he also launched an international programme of action against the disastrous floods in Bangladesh. Jacques Attali then advised the Secretary General of the United Nations on the risks of nuclear proliferation. He is at the origin of the higher education reform, known as LMD, to bring all European degrees into line.

Jacques Attali has a doctorate in Economics and is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique (first in the class of 1963), the Ecole des Mines, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques and the Ecole Nationale de l’Administration. He taught Economic Theory at the Ecole Polytechnique, the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées and the University of Paris-Dauphine. He has received honorary doctorates from several foreign universities and is a member of the Universal Academy of Cultures.

Jacques Attali is a columnist for the magazine L’Express. He has written 65 books, translated into more than 30 languages, with over eight million copies sold all over the world, including essays (dealing with a wide variety of subjects ranging from mathematical economics to music), biographies, novels, children’s tales and plays. Dr. Attali has been designated as one of the three most influential intellectuals in France and one of the 100 most influential worldwide.

On April 2011, he was honored with the Corporate Citizenship award from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Lord Aamer Sarfraz

Aamer Sarfraz, The Lord Sarfraz, is a Member of the House of Lords, the upper house of United Kingdom Parliament.

He was nominated by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the 2019 Dissolution Honours, and took his seat as Baron Sarfraz, of Kensington in the Royal London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in September 2020. He was previously a Treasurer of the Conservative Party, including during the 2019 general election, where the party won a historic 80 seat majority. He also served as an advisor to the party leadership on outreach.

Lord Sarfraz is a graduate of the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme (Royal Navy). He is a Member of the Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS), currently attending the 2022-23 course.

Lord Sarfraz sat on the Lords Science and Technology Committee, and co-chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group on Sovereign Wealth Funds.

On his appointment to the Lords, at the age of 38, he was the 3rd youngest Peer in the United Kingdom Parliament.