Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley Meetings: Historical Membership List

Source(s): December 17, 2007, Gawker, 'Digg hires Allen & Co. for $300 million sale': "Digg has hired Allen & Co., the boutique investment bank which specializes in media deals, according to VentureBeat. Which makes sense, since Digg CEO Jay Adelson got an invite to this year's exclusive Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley."; July 19, 2008, Huffington Post, This year's Sun Valley retreat, put on as usual by investment bank Allen & Co, will be Digg CEO Jay Adelson's second. But it marks Adelson's third or fourth trip around the block trying to sell Digg — with Allen & Co's help, naturally. Most of Digg's prior suitors — IAC, News Corp. and Al Gore’s Current TV among them — are regulars at the Idaho resort."

Graduated from Boston University in 1992, where he studied Film and Broadcasting along with Computer Science. Founder of news aggregate website Digg in November 2004, together with Kevin Rose and two others. Also together with Kevin Rose and others, a founder of Revision3, a producer of distributed Web television shows on niche topics, in 2005. Revision3 was bought by Discovery, Inc. in 2012 and shut down in 2017. Director of NewAer, Defense.net / ef5.com (securing aps) and Opsmatic and advisor to a good number of other companies.

It appears Digg was taken over by the usual "liberal CIA" elements no later than 2013, after Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose had left. Adelson was CEO of Digg 2004-2010. Rose was CEO of Digg April-September 2010. But then, in the 2013-2016, the peculiar Andrew McLaughlin was CEO of Digg.

Andrew McLaughlin bio: Since 2011, after serving as President Obama's CTO, McLaughlin has been director of the Ford Foundation-financed Access Now NGO. Since 2012 he has served on the board of the Soros, Ford, Rockefeller-financed Sunlight Foundation, together with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Ties of McLaughlin to these foundations go back to at least 1998 when McLaughlin became a senior fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center. In February 2017 McLaughlin founded Higher Grounds Labs, described on his LinkedIn as "Investing in and building companies that help Democrats win elections, and progressives win policy fights."

crunchbase.com/person/andrew-mclaughlin#section-overview (accessed: March 25, 2018): "B.A. in history from Yale University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. ...
He was a member of the legal team that challenged the U.S. government's first Internet censorship law, resulting in the Supreme Court's landmark 1997 Internet free speech ruling in Reno vs. [elte foundation-financed] ACLU. From 1997-98, Andrew served as legal counsel in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 2000, Time Magazine named Andrew one of its Digital Dozen. In 2001, he was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum [DAVOS]. He is a fellow of the Young Leaders Forum of the National Committee on US-China Relations. ...
From 1998-2005, Andrew was a Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society [which is financed by the Soros, MacArthur, Knight, Mellon and Omidyar foundations] . ... From 1999-2003, Andrew helped launch and manage ICANN, the Internet's technical coordinating organization, serving as Vice President, Chief Policy Officer, and Chief Financial Officer. ... In 2002-2003, Andrew taught a course on digital democracy at Harvard Law School while working on Internet and telecom law reform projects in a number of developing countries, including Ghana, Mongolia, Kenya, Afghanistan, and South Africa. ...
From 2004-2009, Andrew was Director of Global Public Policy at Google... Andrew built and managed a 50-person worldwide team... Andrew was a co-lead on Google's Africa strategy and operations. ...
In 2008-2009, he served on the Obama/Biden presidential transition team, as a member of the Technology, Innovation and Government Reform cluster. ... From 2009-2011, Andrew McLaughlin was a member of President Obama's senior White House staff, serving as Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States. ...
In 2011-2013, Andrew was a member of the Commission on Innovation of the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors. From [Dec.] 2011-[July] 2012, Andrew was EVP of Tumblr, responsible for the international, community, outreach, editorial, marketing, and support teams.In 2011, Andrew served as the start-up executive director of Civic Commons, a Code for America initiative that helps governments build, share, and implement open-source technologies. ...
Andrew McLaughlin is SVP at betaworks, and chairman of Digg. ...
Access Now [financed by the Ford Foundation and such]: Member of the Board of Directors Dec 2011 ... Sunlight Foundation [which is financed by the Soros, MacArthur, Rockefeller, Knight and Omidyar foundations]: Member of the Board of Directors [since] Feb 2012..."

Digg.com frontpage reveals it tows the liberal elite line (accessed: March 25, 2018): "
- 'BAN GUNS: She Thought She'd Shot A Burglar. Then She Realized It Was Her Roommate'.
- 'Why Evangelicals — Still! — Support Trump'.
- 'Scenes From The Massive March For Our Lives Anti-Gun Protests'.
- 'New Pop Culture Trend Alert: The Black Lady Therapist'.
- 'Andrew McCabe: 'Not In My Worst Nightmares Did I Dream My FBI Career Would End This Way': ""Young people, don't let the way I was treated dissuade you from public service.""
- 'Trump Orders Sweeping Trans Military Ban'.
- 'They Asked Ad Men To Create Anti-Gun Posters. These Were The Results'"

Source(s): Conference founder and organizer; July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp': "At 7:30 a.m., Herb Allen speaks for the first time, introducing his friend of three decades, Bill Bradley."

Son of Herbert Allen, Sr. (1908-1997). Herbert Allen, "Herb", is the person who set up the Sun Valley meetings in 1982-1983. Partner and later president and CEO of the New York investment bank Allen & Company, Inc., which specializes in Hollywood and big media deals. Once chairman of the board of Columbia Pictures, which he sold in 1982 to later Sun Valley participant Roberto C. Goizueta. Used to be on the board of Coca-Cola with his close ally Warren Buffett. Personal fortune is estimated at around $1.6 billion dollars in the early 2000s.

June 28, 2004, Fortune, 'Inside the Private World of Allen & Co.': "[Allen & Co.] sailed through good years in the market and endured bad years that sent it into the doldrums. It pulled off one notable deal in 1973, when it bought control of Columbia Pictures for the bargain price of less than $4 a share. ...
Allen & Co.'s true watershed year was 1982. That's when it launched the Sun Valley conference, and when Herbert Allen hooked up with Coke. ... Coke bought Columbia in July 1982 for about $750 million in cash and stock... Beyond that, the relationship has had a deep impact on both Coke and Allen & Co. Herbert says there's almost no way of overstating what this new, "accidental" Coke connection did for his firm's reputation: "It was like you were a parish priest, and the Pope comes along and says you're okay." There was an immediate reaction, he recalls: Business poured into Allen simply because it had gained Coke's blessing. ... The firm has handled around 15 different deals and underwritings for Coke and its affiliated bottlers, and earned millions in advisory fees as well. ...
While Coke was sending business from Atlanta to New York, Herbert Allen was becoming an increasingly influential Coke director... Allen established close ties to the company's CEO, Roberto Goizueta (who died in 1997), and president, Donald Keough [neighbor and lifelong best friend of Warren Buffet], 77. Ultimately Keough, upon his 1993 retirement from Coke, became chairman at Allen & Co. ... Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway is the largest owner of Coke [since 1988]...
1982, the starting of the Sun Valley conference. It was an idea whose time had not really come: Herbert Allen initially had to beg clients to attend. But today the problem is keeping the crowd down to the 300 or so adults who will fit into Sun Valley's main conference room."

July 2, 1993, Los Angeles Times, 'When Herb Allen Talks, Star Makers Listen': ""It's hard for some people in our business to come in contact with people in other businesses, so this is a great opportunity," said one regular participant from Hollywood. "It also happens to be fun."
Lording over all the business and fun is Allen himself, the enormously wealthy and well-connected investment banker who has an intelligence agent's appreciation for secrecy. The 53-year-old Allen has longstanding ties to Hollywood. He has counted among his clients News Corp., owner of 20th Century Fox; Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., owner of Universal Pictures; Coca-Cola, former owner of Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures, and Seagram Co., which recently bought a big stake in Time Warner Inc. He was also involved in launching Savoy Pictures, one of the most ambitious entertainment company start-ups in recent times, with the help of investors such as the Pritzker family.
"What's special about this seminar is that Herbert Allen and his people are extremely knowledgeable about the movie business on a much more detailed level than the others who claim to be," said one executive who asked to remain anonymous. "They are the real thing." ... "It's a wonderful conference," [Gordon Crawford] said. "All sorts of movers and shakers from Hollywood attend. Herb has a lot of strong relationships with those people."
Sources say it is Allen's own insistence on privacy that sets the tone for the event, which draws about 150 executives. In the end, however, little or no information from the conference will surface publicly, which seems to be the whole idea."

June 23, 1995, Los Angeles Times, 'Company Town: The Stormy Gathering at Sun Valley': "Getting attendees to talk about the conference, even in the most general terms, is like trying to pry top-secret information out of a CIA agent. "I can't help you on this one," is a typical response from one of the many Allen devotees who must have to sign a blood oath with the influential host to not speak to the press."

July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp': "In years past, Allen & Co. banned the press. Lately, it has allowed reporters on the grounds of the campus but keeps them away from all meetings, breaks, recreation, and evening activities. For many years, I’d asked Allen to allow me to cover the camp, and this year he relented, asking only that I display discretion..."

April 27, 1987, Fortune, 'In Demand: Wall Street's Liberals; Where does a Democratic candidate turn when he needs some lucre-laden, sympathetic businessmen? He can hardly improve on the southern tip of Manhattan.': "Other loyal Democrats on the Street include such eminences as John H. Gutfreund, C.E.O. of Salomon Brothers; Herbert A. Allen, president of Allen & Co. Inc."

June 23, 1995, Los Angeles Times, 'Company Town: The Stormy Gathering at Sun Valley': "Allen is the key Wall Street middleman in many of Hollywood's most important merger and acquisition mega-deals, including Matsushita's MCA buy and Sony's purchase of Columbia/TriStar five years ago. Through his privately held Wall St. firm, Allen & Co., he helped spearhead Seagram's $5.7-billion purchase of MCA. (He also assisted Bronfman in Seagram's investment in Time Warner.) ... In the months before his conference last year, much to the chagrin of Redstone, Allen had advised then-QVC Chief Executive Barry Diller in his failed rival bid for Paramount Pictures."

May 22, 1995, The New Yorker, 'The Consigliere': "Edgar Bronfman, Jr., says that candor is the quality in Allen that most impresses him. "He tells you what he believes, whether you hear it or not," Bronfman says. One witness recalls that when Bronfman was acquiring his stake in Time Warner, and Time Warner's C.E.O., Gerald Levin, refused to invite him to join the board and refused to solicit his advice, Allen was a hawk. Get tough with Levin, he advised."

July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List': "Everyone is here: From Yousef Al Otaiba to Mark Zuckerberg, the guest list is 624 machers strong, and we have it."

Source(s): Conference organizer; July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp': "The camp farewell takes place at dinner at the River Run Lodge, which is tucked into the side of a ski mountain. It’s a sit-down dinner, and Herbert Allen chooses to sit with his old friends: Ray Stark, Candice Bergen, Sydney Pollack, and Allen’s son Herbert, among others."

Son of Herb A. Allen, Jr.. Fresh from Yale in 1989, he worked for mutual fund house T. Rowe Price and London investment firm Botts & Co., before joining the family firm. If he acquits himself well, there's little doubt he can succeed his father. His father owns slightly less than 45% of Allen & Co., and his family owns 35% more. The 14 managing directors and a few other employees own the rest.

February 20, 2008, Venturebeat.com, 'Trends: Secretive New York bank Allen & Co. gets into Silicon Valley media tech': "Allen & Co. is secretive. It doesn't offer a public web site — or contact information for members of the press to get in touch with it (the company politely declined to speak with me). The firm only very rarely makes public statements on its activities. Perhaps, among other reasons, to keep its powerful connections out of the limelight. It hired former CIA director George Tenet last October, for example, but news only leaked out because the information was accidentally published in another company's press release. It also has connections with former senator Bill Bradley and other public figures." coca-colacompany.com/our-company/leadership (March 23, 2018; all Sun Valley participants; the Buffetts, Keough, Robinson all withdrew in the 2006-2017 period): "Board of Directors:
- Herbert A. Allen: President, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Allen & Company Incorporated.
- Ronald W. Allen: Former Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, Aaron's Inc. and Delta Air Lines, Inc. ...
- Barry Diller: Chairman of the Board and Senior Executive, IAC/InterActiveCorp and Expedia, Inc. ...
- Muhtar Kent: Chairman of the Board, The Coca-Cola Company.
- Bobby Kotick: President, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Activision Blizzard, Inc. ...
- Sam Nunn..."

Source(s): July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp'; July 22, 2004, Seattle Times, 'DreamWorks pictures IPO; Allen's stake may be big reason': "Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, left, talks with DreamWorks SKG co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg during the annual Allen & Co. investment conference this month in Sun Valley, Idaho. Allen was a major early investor in DreamWorks."; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

A recent article about Paul Allen begins, "Microsoft spawned two billionaires. Paul Allen is the other one." Paul Allen is best known as the second founder of Microsoft Corporation, along with his more renowned partner William (Bill) Gates. Allen is also notable for being the second-richest (occasionally third-richest) human on the planet with his estimated fortune of $21 billion, after his partner Bill Gates. Co-founder Vulcan Ventures. Financier of SETI and SpaceShipOne.

Source(s): July 8, 2016, Deadline.com, 'Moguls At Sun Valley Bone Up On Artificial Intelligence, Terrorism, And Biotech': "Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen led the AI session with LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman and Y Combinator’s Sam Altman. The main themes: AI will affect lots of businesses, and it’s coming quickly."; July 12, 2017, Business Insider, 'Here are the millionaires, billionaires, and moguls arriving in Sun Valley, Idaho this week for Allen & Co.’s annual conference': "CEO of Y Combinator Sam Altman arrives on the scene."; July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Co-founded in 2005 and CEO of Loopt, a location-based social networking mobile application. Loopt was shut down in 2012 after failing to get traction. Part-time partner of start-up financier Y-Combinator of Paul Graham in 2011. President Y Combinator 2014-. President president of YC Group, which includes Y Combinator and other units, 2016-. Y Combinator invested in about 1,450 companies, including Dropbox, Airbnb, Coinbase, Reddit, Twitch and Weebly. Its companies are worth over $80 billion anno 2018.

Personal investor in companies as Airbnb, Reddit and Pinterest. CEO of Reddit for eight days in 2014 after CEO Yishan Wong resigned. Co-chairman of OpenAI with Elon Musk, until Musk left OpenAI's board in 2018 to avoid a conflict of interest with Tesla.

Anti-Trump

June 30, 2016, samaltman.com, 'Trump' (blog.samaltman.com/trump): "Trump's casual racism, misogyny, and conspiracy theories are without precedent among major presidential nominees. He has said that a judge of Mexican descent isn't treating him fairly because of his heritage and that we should ban Muslims from entering the country. ... To anyone familiar with the history of Germany in the 1930s, it's chilling to watch Trump in action. ... Demagogic hate-mongers lead down terrible paths. It would be particularly embarrassing for us to fall for this—we are a nation of immigrants, and we know that immigrants built this country... Hitler taught us about the Big Lie—the lie so big, and so often repeated, that people end up believing it. Trump's Big Lie is hiding in plain sight."

Y Combinator founder Paul Graham (not a known visitor of the Sun Valley Meetings, but also very low profile prior to 2012 or so):

Has been anti-Trump too, tweeting endlessly against the president (these are just a few examples):

• September 28, 2016 tweet of Paul Graham (@paulg): "If Trump wins, no one will be more surprised than him."
• October 11, 2016 tweet of Paul Graham (@paulg): "If Trump wins, I'm joining the Resistance. ... What I mean by resistance is actively working to contain Trump if he wins."
• November 25, 2016 tweet of Paul Graham (@paulg): "Would Trump have won without Russia's help? Is there a consensus yet?"
• May 9, 2017 tweet of Paul Graham (@paulg): "Trump's firing of the FBI director is the strongest publicly available evidence yet that Trump was backed by Russia."
• November 28, 2018 tweet of Paul Graham (@paulg): "Prediction: Trump's behavior will become more outrageous, not more conciliatory, as he grows weaker. Scary to think where his lower limit is."

October 12, 2012, Forbes, 'Paul Graham's Poll: Silicon Valley Favors Obama Over Romney 2 To 1': "He emailed who he considers 32 "leaders" in Silicon Valley technology to ask them anonymously who they prefer: Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. Graham wouldn't say who he asked. However, Y Combinator is connected to the top venture capital firms and technology giants who work with or acquire his companies such as Facebook and Google. ...
Graham says 24 people responded, with 15 supporting Obama, 6 for Romney, 2 undecided leaning Obama and one who refused to answer."

Supporter of the pro-Third World immigration group FWD.us of Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and many other Sun Valley visitors. fwd.us/supporters (accessed: March 20, 2018): "Our Founders: ... John Doerr ... Bill Gates ... Reid Hoffman ... Drew Houston, Founder and CEO of Dropbox ... Mark Zuckerberg ... Major Contributors: Tim Armstrong, CEO and Chairman AOL, Inc. ... Steve Chen, Co-Founder YouTube. Brian Chesky, CEO and Co-founder Airbnb ... Barry Diller ... Standley F. Druckenmiller [former of Soros' Quantum Fund] ... Paul Graham, Previously: President Y Combinator ... Reed Hastings, Founder and CEO Netflix..."

September 13, 2005, Wired, 'Stars Rise at Startup Summer Camp': "Infogami's Aaron Swartz (left), wearing a Foo camp T-shirt, Steve Huffman (center) of Reddit and Zak Stone (right) of Memamp share ideas on Y Combinator's office couch. ...
Having just finished his sophomore year at Stanford University, Sam Altman spent this summer holed up in a Cambridge, Massachusetts, apartment paid for with a little bit of startup funding, writing code for hours on end...
The sophomores were just one of eight groups selected for three months of summer seed funding from Y Combinator, a startup incubator founded by Paul Graham, a writer and programmer known for creating the first web application. ...
Graham, a startup evangelist who sold his company to Yahoo in 1998, came up with the idea of paying students to program instead of working a summer job after giving a talk about startups to Harvard University computer science undergraduates. He advised them to get their funding from angel investors who got rich in technology themselves. ...
The eight groups that made the cut all moved to Cambridge for the summer, using the $6,000-per-person stipend to rent an apartment and buy startup necessities, such as whiteboards and bandwidth. Y Combinator took care of the paperwork, including employee agreements and incorporation, and in return for the money and advice received a 5 percent to 7 percent stake in each venture. ...
Once a week the coders and Y Combinator founders would share an indoor picnic and listen to advice from lawyers and war stories from successful entrepreneurs. Those meetings were invaluable to Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman, recent University of Virginia graduates who holed up all summer in a subleased apartment's living room to create Reddit... "I can't tell you the number of things we were able to bounce off other people," Ohanian said. ...
Reddit is already live and has more than 600 registered users, even though "we haven't even put out the cool stuff," according to Ohanian. The duo also benefited from an angel investor get-together organized by Y Combinator, where they landed an investor who is funding them for another year. ...
Aaron Swartz, a rising sophomore at Stanford who is perhaps best known for co-writing the RSS 1.0 standard four years ago when he was 14, also landed funding from Y Combinator ... He's at work on web-based blogging software called Infogami [which later was merged with Reddit and as a result bought up]."

2014 edition, Andrew Medal, 'Hacking the Valley: An Overview of the Tech Sector', p. 54: "Ohanian explains, "The night of the interview, Paul called me and said, "I'm sorry we're not accepting you." That sucked. Really sucked. So we got drunk. Really drunk. The next morning, hungover, I get a call from Paul. He says, "I'm sorry, we made a mistake. We don't like your idea [of a mobile food ordering business], but we like you guys. You guys need to build the front page of the Internet." That was all Paul, and that became Reddit.
Reddit was built in three weeks. ... The team [soon] agreed to add a comment section. Sixteen months after its development [in late 2006], COnde Nast acquired Reddit for a reported $10 to $20 million."

The above 2005 article is quite interesting. Sam Altman would become a CEO of Y Combinator and visit the Sun Valley Meetings. Along with another one of Y Combinator's recruits, Airbnb's Brian Chesky, Y Combinator supported the pro-Third World immigration group FWD.org, along with scores of Sun Valley Meeting participants.

September 30, 2014, Forbes, 'Reddit Raises $50 Million, Promises To Share Stock With Community': "The round was led by Sam Altman, the president of startup incubator Y Combinator, who graduated from the same YC class as Reddit founders Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman and was one of Reddit's first users. Andreesen Horowitz and Seqouia also invested, and other individual investors include Peter Thiel, Ron Conway [Silicon Valley "angel investor"; hates Trump; director FWD.us], Jared Leto [vegan, gay rights activist actor and singer], Paul Buchheit (a YC partner), Jessica Livingston (also a YC partner), Kevin and Julia Hartz, Mariam Naficy, Josh Kushner [brother of Trump's son-in-law Jared], Calvin Broadus Jr. -- better known as Snoop Dogg -- and Reddit CEO Yishan Wong."

reddithelp.com/en/categories/rules-reporting/account-and-community-restrictions/promoting-hate-based-identity-or (accessed: June 30, 2020; 'Promoting Hate Based on Identity or Vulnerability'): "While the rule on hate protects such groups, it does not protect all groups or all forms of identity. For example, the rule does not protect groups of people who are in the majority [i.e. white people]..."

Reddit of Steve Huffman (with help from Aaron Swartz) would explode and become the no. 1 go-to forum for basically everything - and today is swarmed with security state moderators in countless conspiracy-related sub-reddits. Aaron Swartz, who co-created Reddit, in 2009 co-founded the Soros-supported Progressive Change Campaign Committee and also build, with James Dolan, the anti-NSA SecureDrop platform that allowed journalists to anonymously send documents back and forth. It was used by Wikileaks and various major media outlets, with Dolan teaching everyone to use it. Dolan became the first full-time employee at the Soros-Ford-Rockefeller-backed Freedom of the Press Foundation, which housed Wikileaks leaders, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and allied whistleblowers. In 2015 Dolan went to work for Classy.org, which earlier in the year received massive financing from the CIA-tied Bilderberg steering committee member Peter Thiel. Swartz committed suicide in January 2013; Dolan in January 2018.

2010, opensecrets.org, 'Progressive Change Campaign Cmte': "23 contribution records found: ... $47,318: Watchdog Net, Inc. [received $72,000 from the Sunlight Foundation, in turn financed by the Ford Foundation, Soros' Open Society Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Family Fund and Hewlett Foundation; Sunlight Fdn. board includes Stacy Donohue of the Omidyar Network and Craig Newmark of CraigsList (both major "liberal CIA" funders; the advisory board included Mitch Kapor and Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia] ... 03/10/2010...
$4,000: George Soros, Soros Fund Management, New York NY, 07/09/2010 [and] $4,000: George Soros ... 06/30/2010..."

January 9, 2018, Freedom of the Press Foundation, 'A tribute to James Dolan, co-creator of SecureDrop, who has tragically passed away at age 36': "It was with an extremely heavy heart that we recently learned our friend and former colleague James Dolan—one of the co-creators of SecureDrop and Freedom of the Press Foundation’s first full time employee—took his own life over the holidays. He was 36. In 2012, James worked with Aaron Swartz and journalist Kevin Poulsen to build the original prototype of SecureDrop, the open source whistleblower submission system, which was then called DeadDrop. Poulsen described James’s role in the project’s creation in the New Yorker in 2013:
"In New York, a computer-security expert named James Dolan persuaded a trio of his industry colleagues to meet with Aaron [Schwartz] to review the architecture and, later, the code. We wanted to be reasonably confident that the system wouldn't be compromised, and that sources would be able to submit documents anonymously—so that even the media outlets receiving the materials wouldn't be able to tell the government where they came from. James wrote an obsessively detailed step-by-step security guide for organizations implementing the code. ..."
Beyond a couple references on our website, that New Yorker story is virtually all that is in the public domain about James's involvement in the project—and that's how he preferred it. James was an intensely private and modest person, and despite the fact the SecureDrop soon got a lot of attention when Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) took the project over, he constantly insisted that Aaron deserved all the credit. ...
In January 2013, Aaron Swartz himself committed suicide as the US government was attempting to prosecute him for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act related to allegedly copying academic articles from JSTOR. SecureDrop was an unrelated side project he was working on at the time. A few months after Aaron’s tragic death, Kevin Poulsen donated the SecureDrop project to FPF... I asked him if he’d be willing to come work for us so we could try to get SecureDrop into more newsrooms. We had hardly any money at the time, yet he immediately agreed...
James left FPF in August of 2015 after he felt the project was in a place where it could survive without him. Ever since, he had been working on the security team at Classy, a crowdfunding site for non-profit organizations located in San Diego [4,000+ organizations have been using Classy, including Oxfam American, National Geographic, the elite Robin Hood Foundation, and Shriners Hospital for Children].
We don’t know why James took his own life; we do know, however, he long suffered from PTSD from his time serving in the Marines during the Iraq War. ... He often cited the Iraq War as his inspiration for wanting to help journalists and whistleblowers..."

James Dolan's choice of joining Classy in August 2015 is interesting, considering this group was financed by Peter Thiel at this point.

Source(s): July 9, 2007, Reuters, 'Murdoch to be talk of Sun Valley media festival': "Marc Andreessen, a pioneer of the Web browser at Netscape, is scheduled to attend..."; July 8, 2010, forbes.com/pictures: "Mark Pincus, CEO of social gaming startup Zynga, left, sits with Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen, at the annual Allen & Co. Media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho, Thursday, July 8, 2010."; July 8, 2016, Deadline.com, 'Moguls At Sun Valley Bone Up On Artificial Intelligence, Terrorism, And Biotech': "Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen led the AI session with LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman and Y Combinator's Sam Altman. The main themes: AI will affect lots of businesses, and it's coming quickly."

Co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used Web browser. Co-founder of internet browser Netscape in 1994. Co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

January 12, 2017, Observer, 'These Two Venture Capital Firms Are Responsible for the Success of Bitcoin': "CB Insights published a report analyzing the investment history of Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures, two of the top Silicon Valley venture capital firms. Both firms have been investing in cryptocurrency-related companies since 2013. ... Both firms were early investors in Coinbase, a Bitcoin trading platform founded in 2012 that has become the largest cryptocurrency broker today. ... It was one of the first investors in Ripple..."

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

Co-CEO of Grupo Televisa, S.A., one of the main cable TV operators in Mexico, the leading satellite pay television system in the country, and the leading media company in the Spanish-speaking world. Director of various companies including Univision, Grupo Financiero Banorte, and Fomento Economico Mexicano (FEMSA). Trustee of the Paley Center for Media.

Source(s): July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp'.

Miami University of Ohio 1961. At IBM 1962-1991. Director Citigroup 1989-2000s. Chairman Hughes Corporation 1992-1997. Chairman and CEO AT&T 1997-2002. Director Comcast November 2002-2005, non-executive chairman 2002-2004. Director HCA Inc., Hospital Corporation of America, IHS Inc. Parsons Corporation. Member U.S. Advisory Board of Schroder Ventures. Member Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the Alfalfa Club. Trustee of The Johns Hopkins University. Chairman of Johns Hopkins Medicine since 2005.

Source(s): July 6, 2010, San Francisco Gate, 'Want To Spy On Millionaires and Billionaires In Sun Valley, Idaho?'; July 26, 2012, TechCrunch, 'My boss and guest Tim Armstrong technically isn’t allowed to talk to me about anything that isn’t smalltalk (Hi Tim!). Really.': "My boss and guest Tim Armstrong technically isn’t allowed to talk to me about anything that isn’t smalltalk (Hi Tim!). Really. ...
Instagram actually joined Evernote, Uber and Nextdoor on the consumer Internet track in March. According to the same source they weren’t invited to the summer conference, most likely because their acquisition put the kibosh on any further dealings with Allen & Co., who has a pretty effective system going on here you have to admit. Get 'em while they're young."

CEO of AOL.

Supporter of the pro-Third World immigration group FWD.us of Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and many other Sun Valley visitors. fwd.us/supporters (accessed: March 20, 2018): "Our Founders: ... John Doerr ... Bill Gates ... Reid Hoffman ... Drew Houston, Founder and CEO of Dropbox ... Mark Zuckerberg ... Major Contributors: Tim Armstrong, CEO and Chairman AOL, Inc. ... Steve Chen, Co-Founder YouTube. Brian Chesky, CEO and Co-founder Airbnb ... Barry Diller ... Standley F. Druckenmiller [former of Soros' Quantum Fund] ... Paul Graham, Previously: President Y Combinator ... Reed Hastings, Founder and CEO Netflix..."

Source(s): know to have visited around the turn of the century; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'.

Educated at Culver Military Academy, graduated 1948. Married four times, most recently to Paula Cusi; children include: Emilio Azcarraga Jean. Worked in various positions in television; owner of Univision, a twelve-station Spanish language network in the U.S., 1960s and 1970s; controlling shareholder, chairman and CEO of Mexican Broadcaster Grupo Televisa, S.A.; owner of The National sports daily, 1990-91; owner of major Mexican television stations; chairman of Galavision; also involved in publishing, video, and real estate ventures. Died 1999.

Steve Ballmer is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microsoft Corporation, the world’s leading software company and one of the largest and most visible corporations in the world. A former dormitory-mate of Bill Gates at Harvard, Ballmer joined a young Microsoft Corporation in 1980. He was promoted to president in 1998 and replaced Gates as the company’s CEO in 2000. Frequently described using adjectives such as blunt, aggressive, and bombastic (as witness his performance in the famous “Monkeyboy” video), Ballmer has served as Microsoft’s “head coach” since long before assuming the top executive post. During increasingly difficult times, Ballmer seeks to sustain Microsoft’s double-digit growth in a maturing and increasingly competitive software market.

Source(s): June 29, 1998, New York Magazine, 'Sun Valley Daze'.

A graduate of Queens College in New York, she joined Mattel in 1981, became marketing director for the Barbie doll brand in 1982, was named executive vice president in 1986, president of Mattel USA in 1990, a director in 1991, and president and chief operating officer of Mattel Inc. in 1992. She made her mark largely by re-establishing Barbie dolls as America's most enduring toy franchise. A survey in the January Working Woman magazine Barad was the named nation's third-highest compensated woman executive in America. The survey said her total compensation in 1994 was $4.67 million. She was also a director Pixar.

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

Editor Financial Times.

Source(s): 2016 list; July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

CEO of General Motors since January 1, 2014.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

Ph.D. in Materials Science from Stanford. Became a director of Intel in 1992, COO in 1993, president in 1997 served as CEO 1998-2005. Member of the Hong Kong Chief Executive's Council of International Advisers 1998–2005. Chair of the board of directors for the National Forest Foundation, the nonprofit partner to the U.S. Forest Service. Married to Barbara McConnell Barrett, who was the United States Ambassador to Finland 2008–09.

Source(s): July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp'.

In 1982, Barton moved to Denver to join Tele-Communications Inc., the cable TV giant owned by media mogul John Malone. Barton initially negotiated cable franchises for the company that would eventually become the largest U.S. cable operator. In 1986, he became president of TCI's Cable Value Network, which later evolved into the QVC cable TV shopping network. Five years later, Barton became head of Liberty Media, TCI's holding company for cable TV programming assets. Liberty Media was subsequently spun off as a public company, then re-acquired by TCI and spun off again in the AT&T Corp. acquisition of TCI. Barton left Liberty Media in 1997 to head a private investment company. Later, he developed the Privacy Foundation at the University of Denver. The independent watchdog group researches the impact of technology on privacy issues. He died in 2002 of cancer and is to be inducted into the cable industry's Hall of Fame in November. John Malone was a good friend.

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

Senior vice president and general manager at CISCO in the early 2000s. CEO of Skype 2010-2011, 2011-2013, under Microsoft. and remained in this position for a few years. Served on the board of SiriusXM and currently serves on the boards of Ebay of Pierre Omidyar, VMware and GoPro (president 2014-2016).

Source(s): June 29, 1998, New York Magazine, 'Sun Valley Daze'.

Chairman International Creative Management, director Oracle Corporation since 1997, director of Leapfrog Enterprises, Inc., co-chair California's Council on Information Technology, president Executive Board of the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley, trustee Anderson School of Management at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Source(s): July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp': "There are people [Herbert Allen] always invites because they're old friends: ... Diane Sawyer ... the actress Candice Bergen; the director Sydney Pollack."

Actress since the 1960s. Frequent host on NBC's Saturday Night Live. During her "activist" days she participated in a Yippie prank when she, Abbie Hoffman (social activist, anarchist, and revolutionary who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies")), and others threw dollar bills onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in 1967, leading to its temporary shutdown. In 1972, she served as a fundraiser and organizer for George McGovern's presidential campaign.

Bergen and former boyfriend Terry Melcher lived at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles, which was later occupied by Sharon Tate and her husband, Roman Polanski. Tate and four others were murdered in the home in August 9, 1969, by followers of Charles Manson. There was some initial speculation that Melcher may have been the intended victim, although Melcher, his former roommate Mark Lindsay, and Vincent Bugliosi have all indicated Manson was aware that Melcher was no longer living at that address at the time of the murders.

February 12, 2016, Daily Mail, ''It was a very short evening': Candice Bergen says she DID go on a date with Donald Trump in college but only remembers his matching burgundy suit and limo': "The actress, 70, and Trump, 69, both attended the University of Pennsylvania in the early 1960s. Bergen says that though they didn't form a love connection, she harbors no ill-will towards Trump, who has always been nice to her. However, Bergen says she's supporting Hillary Clinton On Trump's run, Bergen said: 'I thought it was funnier a few months ago. Now it's worrying'"

April 20, 2017, Washington Post, 'A brief history of celebrity White House staffers': "A 1972 poll of Playboy bunnies selected Kissinger as the man with whom Hef's ladies would most like to go out on a date. He also had a string of celebrity girlfriends in his younger days, including Diane Sawyer, Candice Bergen, Jill St. John, Shirley Maclaine, and Liv Ullman..."

Source(s): July 7, 2010, Los Angeles Times, 'Allen & Co. summer camp mogulfest gets underway': "The usual suspects are attending including, Time Warner chief Jeff Bewkes..."; 2005; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; 2016 too

BA in Philosophy from Yale in 1974. According to a friend, in the early 1970s he fell in with "lunatic fringe types and free thinkers". Stanford MBA. Rose through the ranks of HBO, eventually becoming CEO in 1995. Jeff Bewkes: "When I was very young, I told my parents that I wanted to be in the entertainment industry. That’s when they sat me down and broke it to me that we were not Jewish." Chairman of Time Warner's entertainment and networks group 2002-December 2007, serving under CEO Dick Parsons (former Nelson and Happy Rockefeller lawyer, appointed to Time Warner's board at the recommendation of Laurance Rockefeller). Appointed president of Time Warner in 2005, CEO in 2008 and chairman in 2009. Time Warner owns HBO, The CW, Warner Bros., CNN, DC Comics, Bleacher Report and Cartoon Network. Ted Turner's Turner Broadcasting System has been part of Time Warner since 1996.

Source(s): July 10, 1999, Associated Press, 'Media titans gather in Sun Valley'; July 13, 2007, Washington Post, 'It's Not All Play at Media Conference'; July 17, 2017, Time, 'Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner Just Went to 'Summer Camp for Billionaires''.

Princeton University computer sciences & electrical engineering. Vice-president Bankers Trust. Founder Amazon.com. Thinks Warren Buffett is a genius we should all listen to.

October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen': "The annual Forstmann Little conference in Aspen is always extra secret. Host Teddy Forstmann of Forstmann Little (the big NYC leverage buyout firm) likes it that way, but Aspen Daily News reporter Troy Hooper always find a way to get the roster. ...
The confab came down last weekend. This year the gang included NBS commish David Stern, Aspen regular Queen Noor Al-Hussein of Jordan, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, NFL Network’s Steve Bornstein, Steve Forbes, Pete Coors, Mayo Clinic boss Dr. Denis Cortese, Dell chair Michael Dell, Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, CBS boss Leslie Moonvez, JetBlue’s David Neeleman, Gen. Colin Powell, TiVo’s Tom Rogers, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, Google chairman Dr. Eric Schmidt, tennis champ Monica Seles, Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder, EBay’s Meg Whitman, NBC anchor Brian Williams, prexy hopeful Fred Thompson, Benazir Bhutto."

July 29, 2002, Aspen Times, 'High-tech meeting slated': "The Fortune magazine conference and Aspen Institute Board of Trustees meeting this week are not the only high-level gatherings scheduled for this summer in Aspen. Another conference, one with a high-tech angle, will be held in Aspen from Aug. 18-20. It’s the sixth Aspen summit put together by the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a market-oriented think tank in Washington, D.C. Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, will be keynoting the conference, which attracts influential people from the high-tech sector and government."

May 5, 2018, Daily Caller, 'Prominent Christian Legal Group Barred From Amazon Program While Openly Anti-Semitic Groups Remain': "An Amazon spokesperson told The Daily Caller News Foundation: "As a part of that participation agreement, we also state that Amazon relies on the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control and the Southern Poverty Law Center to determine which charities are eligible." The participation agreement forbids member groups from, among other things, promoting "hate" or "intolerance.""

April 26, 2019, money.com, 'Amazon Has an Automated System That Fires Workers Who Aren't Productive Enough'.

July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp'

Princeton University bachelor of arts. Harvard MBA. Managing director WaterView Advisors LLC (investment advisors). President and CEO Viacom 1987-1996. Chairman and CEO Universal Studios 1996-1998. CEO Paramount Pictures. CEO Home Box Office. Director Harrahs Entertainment, Hasbro, Amgen, Motion Picture Association of America, Cablevision Systems Corporation, and the Bank of New York. He comes to the Sun Valley every year. At his home in Martha's Vineyard he has hosted a bunch of fundraisings for the Clintons. In 2005 Sir Evelyn de Rothschild and Lynn Forester de Rothschild were among his guests.

Source(s): February 6, 2011, New York magazine, 'Just Smile': ""Cathie attended the Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley every year as a Coca-Cola board member," a corporate executive says. "In that room is several trillion dollars in net worth. If you look at who has funded these charter schools, it's these same guys. One of her roles is to keep that going.""; July 6, 2010, San Francisco Gate, 'Want To Spy On Millionaires and Billionaires In Sun Valley, Idaho?': "Cathie Black, President of Hearst Magazines, gestures during lunch at the annual Allen & Co.'s media summit in Sun Valley , Idaho on Wednesday, July 8, 2009."

Became the first woman publisher of a weekly consumer magazine, New York, in 1979. President and publisher of USA Today 1983-1991. President and CEO of the Newspaper Association of America 1991-1996, and continued as a director. President and CEO of Hearst Magazines 1996-2010, chairman 2010. Director Hearst Corporation. Hearst Magazines publishes 20 titles in the U.S., including Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, ELLE and O, The Oprah Magazine, and more than 300 editions around the world. Director of The Coca-Cola Company (1993-2010, with Warren Buffett and Herb Allen), IBM (1995-2010), Advertising Council, United Way of America and Gannett Co. Inc. Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education from November 2010 to April 2011. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

Source(s): July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp'; July 7, 2010, Los Angeles Times, 'Allen & Co. summer camp mogulfest gets underway': "Mayors Mike Bloomberg of New York, Richard Daley of Chicago and Cory Booker of Newark will take part in a panel that Charlie Rose is moderating."; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; July 14, 2014, deadline.com, 'UPDATE: Herb Allen's Sun Valley Retreat – Recap'; 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'; 2016 list

Johns Hopkins University, Harvard MBA, became partner Salomon Brothers of New York in 1972. Michael Bloomberg is the founder and controlling owner of Bloomberg, L.P., a diversified media enterprise and one of the most successful information industry startups of its kind. The company’s operations are centered on the provision of financial and business information – including a massive stream of raw data plus various analytical tools – to mostly large institutional clients such as banks, brokerage houses, government agencies, and traditional media companies. As a result of Bloomberg L.P.’s success, Michael Bloomberg is one of the richest people in the world, with a fortune valued at close to $5 billion. In January 2002, Bloomberg assumed office as the 108th Mayor of the City of New York. Also chairman of the Board Trustees of Johns Hopkins University. In 1997, Michael Bloomberg published his autobiography, Bloomberg by Bloomberg. All of the royalties from sales of the book are donated to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Bloomberg has an estimated fortune of $5 billion dollars. Trustee of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies.

November 21, 2011, Daily Beast, 'Teddy Forstmann’s Visionary Life of Making Big Deals and Helping Others': "Another longtime [Ted] Forstmann friend, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg..."

Source(s): July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp': "Herb Allen speaks for the first time, introducing his friend of three decades, Bill Bradley."; July 13, 2007, Washington Post, 'It's Not All Play at Media Conference': "...former CIA chief George Tenet, who is attending the conference again, and ... former Senator and Allen & Co. executive Bill Bradley, who was also present."

Three-time All-American at Princeton, Bradley delayed his professional basketball career to spend two years at Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship. Upon his return he joined the New York Knicks and played on their 1970 and 1973 championship teams. Democrat senator from New Jersey 1979-1997. Visitor of Bilderberg in 1985. Member international advisory council of David Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank. Lost the presidential nomination to Al Gore in 2000. Bill is a friend of Herb and a managing director of Allen & Co. since 2002. In 2005 he introduced Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan to the members of the Sun Valley.

Source(s): July 13, 2007, Washington Post, 'It's Not All Play at Media Conference'; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List' (with Page and Schmidt)

Born in Russia, Brin studied computer science and mathematics before co-founding Google with Larry Page. Brin is the President of Technology at Google and has a net worth estimated at seven billion U.S. dollars.

Source(s): June 29, 1998, New York Magazine, 'Sun Valley Daze'; July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp': "There are people [Herbert Allen] always invites because they're old friends: ... Meredith and Tom Brokaw..."; July 13, 2007, Washington Post, 'It's Not All Play at Media Conference'; July 7, 2010, Los Angeles Times, 'Allen & Co. summer camp mogulfest gets underway': "Tom Brokaw is also moderating a panel on women in technology..."; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

Born in Webster, South Dakota, U.S., 6 February 1940. Educated at University of South Dakota, B.A. in political science 1962. Began career as newscaster, weatherman, and staff announcer at KTIV in Sioux City, Iowa, 1960-62; morning news editor for KMTV in Omaha, Nebraska, 1962-65; editor for 11:00 news for WSB-TV in Atlanta, Georgia, 1965-66; joined NBC news as anchorman, KNBC-TV, Los Angeles, California, 1966; with NBC since 1966.

Managing editor of NBC Nightly News for 22 years (1982-2004). He is the only person to have hosted all three major NBC News programs: The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and, briefly, Meet the Press. He now serves as a Special Correspondent for NBC News and works on documentaries for other outlets.

Member of the CFR. Invited in 2005 as a member of the panel on terrorism. Former CIA chief George Tenet and New York Times / Foreign Affairs columnist Thomas Friedman (CFR) were the other members of the panel. The panel was established, because at the start of the conference there were terrorrist attacks in London.

Source(s): June 23, 1995, Los Angeles Times, 'Company Town : The Stormy Gathering at Sun Valley'; October 1997, Red Herring Magazine, 'Players Club - CEOs talk media at Herb Allen's Sun Valley'.

Billionaire Edgar Bronfman Jr. inherited the helm of the Seagram Company Ltd. in 1994. His grandfather Sam Bronfman built the beverage powerhouse, but the grandson has expanded it into telecommunications by buying a piece of Time Warner and pursuing a personal movie bug: The former teenage amateur filmmaker grew up to buy 80 percent of MCA/Universal Studios in 1995. Edgar Bronfman, Jr. is the third-generation heir of one of North America’s great business dynasties. In less than a decade, he transformed the Seagram wine and liquor business into one of the world’s largest media and entertainment conglomerates. Unable to keep pace with the late 1990s consolidation of media giants such as Disney and Time Warner, Bronfman in 2000 sold the family business to Vivendi S.A. in what turned out to be one of the most disastrous media deals in recent memory. Bronfman re-entered the media/music business in December 2003 with the acquisition of Time Warner’s Music Group. President of the World Jewish Congress. His uncle, Charles R. Bronfman, became a member of the Canadian Privy Council in 1992.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr., and especially two of his daughters (half sisters of Edgar Bronfman, Jr.), were deeply involved in the bizarre NXIVM cult. Edgar, Sr. publicly rebelled against it in 2003. Additional strange is that NXIVM member Stephen Cooper, an interim Enron CEO, went to work under Edgar Bronfman, Jr. at the Warner Music Group in 2011.

Gordon Brown was appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer on 2 May 1997 (the UK cabinet minister responsible for all financial matters. Works closely with the Bank of England). He has been MP for Dunfermline East since 1983 and was Opposition spokesperson on Treasury and Economic Affairs (Shadow Chancellor) from 1992. From 1976 to 1980, Mr Brown lectured at Edinburgh University and then Caledonian University before taking up a post at Scottish TV (1980 - 1983). After becoming an MP, Mr Brown was the Chair of the Labour Party Scottish Council (1983 - 1984). Before becoming Shadow Chancellor he held two other senior posts on the Opposition front bench - Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1987 - 1989) and Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary (1989 -1992). Brown is the number 2 in the Labour party, behind Blair, and has been to Bilderberg in 1991. Also a member of the Queen's Privy Council, member of DAVOS, and chairman of the IMF's International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMF's key decision-making committee). He went at least once to the Sun Valley in 1998. Member of the extremely aristocratic Other Club, over the years together with the Duke of Devonshire (Cavendish), the 7th Marquess of Salisbury (Le Cercle), Lord Carrington (Pilgrims Society president), Lord Richardson of Duntisbourne (major Pilgrims Society member), Lord Jacob Rothschild, Lord Rees-Mogg (media disinformation agent with Richard Mellon Scaife through Strategic Investments and Newsmax), Prince Charles, Lord Julian Amery (former head Le Cercle), Lord Kelvedon (Le Cercle), Tony Blair, Sir Edward Heath, Sir Denis Thatcher (husband of), and Winston S. Churchill (grandson of). Lord Rothschild organised a fund-raising in June of 2001 at 11 Downing Street, official home of the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, to which 130 guests attended. On taking office as Chancellor, Brown sprung a surprise by giving the Bank of England operational independence (from the British government) in the conduct of monetary policy, and thus responsibiltiy for setting interest rates. Martin Ivens, deputy editor of the Sunday Times: "Mr Brown dominates this government like no other post-war chancellor. The chancellor tells other ministers how to spend their budgets and even dictates, or 'challenges' as the Treasury mandarins delicately put it, their policies. The puritanical pundits cheer Mr Brown as a serious man doing a serious job, while next door at No 10 the incumbent holds parties for pop stars and millionaires."

Source(s): October 1997, Red Herring Magazine, 'Players Club - CEOs talk media at Herb Allen's Sun Valley'; July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp': "No summer camp, however, concludes without a talent show, and after dinner Susie Buffett, with her husband, Warren, bouncing along to the rhythms of the Big Band sound, belts out four songs."; March 10, 2003, Time Magazine, 'Comeback Crusader'; July 7, 2010, Los Angeles Times, 'Allen & Co. summer camp mogulfest gets underway': "The conference will end on Saturday with presentations from Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffet."; July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'.

Studied at Wharton School of Finance 1947-1949, University of Nebraska 1950, Columbia University M.S., 1951. After working as an investment salesman and securities analyst, he was partner (1956-1969) in the investment firm Buffett Partnership, Ltd. In 1965, he acquired the textile manufacturer Berkshire Hathaway and became (1970) chairman and CEO. Through judicious investments and acquisitions of insurance companies and manufacturing and service firms, Buffett has transformed Berkshire Hathaway into a large conglomerate; in 1999, its assets were $124 billion. His investments have also made him one of the wealthiest people in the world.

2007, Kateri M. Drexler, 'Icons of Business: Jeff Bezos', p. 59: "In 1973, Berkshire bought Washington Post stock, and Buffet became an influential advisor to publisher Katherine Graham."

January 20, 2011, Reuters, 'Buffett leaves Washington Post board': "Buffett will serve until his term expires in May, the company said. He has been on the Post Co.'s board since 1974, minus an eight-year break when he served on the board of media company Capital Cities.
The billionaire investor's relationship to the company extended well beyond his board seat, though. He was one of the closest confidants of former Post publisher Katherine Graham; stories have described him as her business tutor and her as his entrance into high society.
Her son, Post Chief Executive Donald Graham, said the company would still consult Buffett on corporate matters."

He has co-authored Warren Buffett Speaks (with J. C. Lowe, 1997) and Thoughts of Chairman Buffett (with S. Reynolds, 1998). His father, Howard Homan Buffett,. 1903-1964, an investment banker, was a U.S. congressman from Nebraska (1943-1949, 1951-1953). Warren Buffett is, just as Rupert Murdoch, acquainted with the Rothschild family and has been invited to Waddesdon Manor mansion in England. Member of the Alfalfa Club.

January 10, 2000, Fortune, 'What Really Happened At Coke': "... another, very private meeting--this one called by Coke's [Coca-Cola's] two most powerful directors, Warren Buffett and Herbert Allen. ... [Donald] Keough, who, as the chairman of Allen & Co., was the right-hand man to one of his most powerful board members, Herbert Allen, and who, as a native of Nebraska, was an old friend [and neighbor] of his other most powerful board member, Warren Buffett, and who, just for good measure, was on the board of McDonald's, Coke's largest customer? ... On [Coca-Cola's] board is Howard Buffett, son of Warren Buffett."

July 17, 2017, CNBC, 'Warren Buffett's 10 commandments for running a successful business': "Buffett's board service has almost always involved companies where Berkshire owns a significant stake. Prominent examples: Cap Cities/ABC (1986–1996); The Coca-Cola Co. (1989–2006); Gillette (1989–2003); Kraft Heinz (2013–present); Salomon Brothers (1987–1997); US Airways (1993–1995); and The Washington Post (1974–1986 and 1996–2011)." In 2013 he claimed to never sell a Coke share.

December 8, 2016, Bloomberg, 'Buffett’s Son Steps Down From Coke Board to Focus on Charity': "Howard Buffett won’t stand for re-election at April meeting."

2002 WADDESDON MANOR CONFERENCE:

September 15, 2002, The Telegraph, 'Buffett to be leading light at elite forum': "A unique group of the world's most powerful business leaders and financiers has been invited to attend a two-day conference to be hosted by Lord (Jacob) Rothschild in eight days' time. Warren Buffett ... will be guest of honour. ... Jim Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, will be attending. Also on the guest list of 70 are Jorma Ollila, the chief executive of Nokia, ... and Paul Volcker. ....
Buffett's NetJets business, which sells fractional ownership of private jets, similar to time shares, is organising the invitation-only event, which it hopes to turn into Europe's most prestigious annual business and investment colloquium. Its model is the annual gatherings organised by Allen & Co and Forstmann Little in the US."

September 24, 2002, The Independent, 'Buffett dreams up his 'global vision'': "Warren Buffet ... was last night putting the finishing touches to his vision for a better world, created in the last two days at a secret conference held at the ancestral home of the Rothschild dynasty. Mr Buffett was joined by an exclusive guest list of 70 at Waddesdon Manor, in Buckinghamshire, including ... Jim Wolfensohn ... Jorma Ollila, chief executive of Nokia ... Paul Volker ... and Roland Berger... Mr Buffett ... also invited a few other famous names along, including Bono [and] Arnold Schwarzenegger."

April 12, 2010, Charles McLean for his borderlesscommunications.blogspot.nl (director of communications for Warren Buffett's NetJets and then for DAVOS), 'The People's Capitalist': "When I met Mikhail Khodorkovsky in 2002, he was the president of YUKOS and one of the richest men in the world. The circumstances of our meeting were interesting. Jacob Rothschild, of the famous European banking family, had invited Khodorkovsky to Waddesdon Manor, the palatial Rothschild estate in Buckinghamshire, England for a high-level, three-day conference designed to drum up business for a private jet company called NetJets.
The Waddesdon Conference was presented as an elite international business gathering where global leaders would discuss world affairs – a sort of a mini-Davos – but its real purpose was to interest wealthy European business leaders in buying shares of NetJets planes. The idea was to put happy NetJets owners (Lord Rothschild owned a share of a NetJets plane) together with prime NetJets prospects and hope that the former would persuade the latter to become NetJets customers. The guest list included Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway company owns NetJets, as well as Paul Volcker, Barbara Walters, Jim Wolfensohn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bono, David Frum, and some wealthy European business leaders whose names are less familiar (except to other wealthy European business leaders). I served as the Director of Communications for NetJets Europe in those days, and I was privileged to serve as the Master of Ceremonies for the conference.
Khodorkovsky arrived on the first day, and he was friendly but very shy. He spoke little English and his translator was constantly by his side. He was invited to address the conference and I remember that he talked briefly about the history of YUKOS Oil and the current business environment in Russia.
...
The next time I met Khodorkovsky was in October of the following year. I was attending a World Economic Forum meeting in Moscow and was asked to chair a session on the outlook for global business in the "new Russia." Khodorkovsky and two other prominent Russian businessmen were on the panel."

September 12, 2003, vol. 30, no. 35, Executive Intelligence Review, p.56: "On Sept. 23, 2002 ... Arnie, again in the company of Warren Buffett, along with Lord Jacob Rothschild. The three were hosting a gathering at Lord Jacob's Waddesdon Manor... Among the participants in the event: London Times financial correspondent Anatole Kaletsky ... Nick Oppenheimer ... Paul Volcker ... James Wolfensohn ... David Frum [Canadian; Jewish; Harvard; editor Wall Street Journal 1989-1992; columnist Forbes 1992-1994; senior fellow Manhattan Institute 1994-2000; special assistant to the president for economic speechwriting 2001-2002; fellow AEI since 2002; coauthored An End to Evil with Richard Perle in 2004; senior foreign policy adviser to Giuliani's presidential campaign in 2007] and Harold Rhode [Professor on the Islam; Islamic world advisor to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon - a position held by Fred Ikle, Paul Wolfowitz, Frank Wisner II, Walter Slocombe, Douglas Feith and Eric Edelman - 1982-2010; in 1991 he was Turkish Desk officer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), writing papers on Turkey, Iran, Iraq and other countries; member DOD'ss Policy Planning Staf 1991-1994; adviser on Islamic Affairs to the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment 1994-2010]."

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

Son of Warren Buffett. Represented his father on the Coca-Cola board after his father retired.

Serves or has served on the National Geographic Council of Advisors, World Wildlife Fund National Council, Cougar Fund, Illinois and Nebraska Chapters of the Nature Conservancy, Ecotrust, and the Africa Foundation. Buffett founded the Nature Conservation Trust, a non-profit Trust in South Africa to support cheetah conservation, the International Cheetah Conservation Foundation, and was a Founding Director of The Cougar Fund. In October 2007, Buffett was named a Goodwill Ambassador Against Hunger by the United Nations World Food Programme. He later joined the boards of the Barefoot Foundation and the ONE Campaign. In March 2010, Buffett became a member of the Eastern Congo Initiative founded by Ben Affleck. In 2003, he co-wrote Spots Before Your Eyes with Ann van Dyk. The foreword was authored by Dr. Jane Goodall.

Source(s): July 7, 2010, Los Angeles Times, 'Allen & Co. summer camp mogulfest gets underway': "Tom Brokaw is also moderating a panel on women in technology featuring ... Xerox executives Ursula Burns and Anne Mulcahy."; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

Black. In 2009, Burns became CEO of Xerox, making her the first black woman CEO to head a Fortune 500 company. Xerox CEO from 2009 to 2016 and Xerox chairwoman from 2010 to 2017. Leader of the STEM program of the White House from 2009 to 2016, and head of the President's Export Council from 2015 until 2016.

Source(s): July 16, 2014, TheWrap.com, 'Moguls Converge on Sun Valley for Allen & Co. Retreat (Photos)'.

Bother of President George W. Bush. Former governor of Florida.

Source(s): July 10, 1999, Associated Press, 'Media titans gather in Sun Valley'; July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Steve Case was the founder, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and chairman of America Online Corporation (AOL), and then chairman of the world’s largest media company, AOL Time Warner. Case was forced out of a faltering AOL Time Warner in January 2003. As a result of the meteoric success of AOL followed by the rapid decline of AOL Time Warner, Case’s reputation and personal market value have vacillated more drastically than the NASDAQ. Member of the Alfalfa Club.

Source(s): July 9, 2009, CNBC, 'Buy This Data-Storage Stock'; July 8, 2010, Business Insider, 'The Billionaires, Millionaires, And Their Hangers-On Are Back In Sun Valley': "Ken Chenault, Chairman and CEO of American Express, and his wife Kathryn, walk to a morning session at the annual Allen & Co. media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho, Thursday, July 8, 2010."

BA in history from Bowdoin College in 1973. JD from Harvard Law School in 1976. Associate at New York City law firm Rogers & Wells 1977–1979. Consultant for Bain & Company 1979–1981. Chairman and CEO of American Express 2001-2018 (directors have included Henry Kissinger, Vernon Jordan and Anne L. Armstrong; former chair and CEO, James Robinson III, is a visitor to the Sun Valley as well and a Pilgrims). Third black CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Co-chair of the Business Roundtable. Director of IBM. Member CFR. Member of the executive committee of The Business Council 2011-2012. Trustee Harvard Corporation. Chairman and managing director of General Catalyst Partners.

Source(s): July 7, 2010, Los Angeles Times, 'Allen & Co. summer camp mogulfest gets underway': "Attendees arrived Tuesday [and included] former News Corp. President Peter Chernin..."

Peter Chernin is a former book editor who worked his way up Hollywood's power chain as a TV producer for Showtime and eventually head of the Fox (FOX ) Broadcasting Co. And he can finesse things at News Corp. for his high-powered boss, Rupert Murdoch, like nobody's business. Chernin, 52, oversees film and TV production of such blockbuster hits as X-2: X-Men United and runs Fox's fast-growing FX and other entertainment channels. Those properties helped propel the company to double-digit increases in revenues and earnings in '03. He has a far more pleasant character than Rupert Murdoch according to many.

Chairman and CEO of The Chernin Group (TCG), which he founded in 2010. Board member American Express, Twitter, Pandora and Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He is also chairman of Malaria No More and a trustee of Malaria No More UK. Donated over $100,000 to the Democrats. Hosted Barack Obama at his home for a fundraiser in 2013.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; July 7, 2015, New York Post, 'Zuckerberg in, Peter Thiel out at annual Sun Valley Conference'.

BA in Industrial Design of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2004. During his time at RISD, Chesky met Joe Gebbia. In 2008, Chesky and Gebbia teamed up with Nathan Blecharczyk, a Harvard graduate in Computer Sciences, to found Airbnb. Blecharczyk, the company first CTO, coded Airbnb in Ruby on Rails. The idea of an online room renting market place came from Chesky and Gebbia.

After failing to raise funding and going $40,000 in debt, the founders bought mass quantities of cereal, designed packaging branded as '"Obama O's" and "Cap'n McCain's" cereal to sell at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. Originally intended as a marketing ploy, Chesky and Gebbia (Blecharczyk refused to participate) were able to draw local press attention to the boxes and pay off their $40,000. At that point they were back to square one, however, with absolutely no money.

One night in November 2008, Chesky and Gebbia were having dinner with Michael Seibel, then the CEO of Justin.tv (became Twitch), and their only business advisor. He said their only chance was convincing Y Combinator founder Paul Graham (BA Cornell, MS and Ph.D. from Harvard in Computer Science. Studied painting at RISD, the same school attended by Chesky and Gebbia; co-founder Trevor Blackwell received an MA and Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from Harvard and used to work for Yahoo) to back them - as Graham had done with Justin.tv. With a lot of effort, this succeeded.

Build up a several billion dollar fortune. On June 1, 2016, Chesky, Gebbia and Blecharczyk joined The Giving Pledge of David Rockefeller, Ted Turner, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. June 1, 2016, Fortune, 'Airbnb Cofounders Join Buffett and Gates' 'Giving Pledge'': "the four will give away more than 50% of their wealth either in their lifetime or in their will. The Giving Pledge includes ... Paul Allen, Michael Bloomberg, Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg, Ted Turner, Arthur Blank, Leon Cooperman, Charles Feeney, T. Boone Pickens ... Sheryl Sandberg, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Elon Musk, Spanx founder Sara Blakely, and Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya." Countless of these people go to the Sun Valley Meetings.

Supporter of the pro-Third World immigration group FWD.us of Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and many other Sun Valley visitors. fwd.us/supporters (accessed: March 20, 2018): "Our Founders: ... John Doerr ... Bill Gates ... Reid Hoffman ... Drew Houston, Founder and CEO of Dropbox ... Mark Zuckerberg ... Major Contributors: Tim Armstrong, CEO and Chairman AOL, Inc. ... Steve Chen, Co-Founder YouTube. Brian Chesky, CEO and Co-founder Airbnb ... Barry Diller ... Standley F. Druckenmiller [former of Soros' Quantum Fund] ... Paul Graham, Previously: President Y Combinator ... Reed Hastings, Founder and CEO Netflix..."

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; July 7, 2015, New York Post, 'Zuckerberg in, Peter Thiel out at annual Sun Valley Conference': "New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie managed to land a coveted invite..."

Born in 1962. At age 15 he volunteered for Thomas Kean's gubernatorial campaign (Kean later became 9/11 Commission chair and a consirable superclass member). Practiced law 1987-2002. Campaigned for presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. Governor of New Jersey 2010-2018. Head of incumbant president Donald Trump's transition planning team until November 11, when he was demoted. Chair of the Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission under Donald Trump March-November 2017.

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

Venezuelan / Latin American billionaire media baron close to the Rockefellers and a long-time member of the elite 1001 Club. Bilderberg 2010.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

Grandfather was Charles Payson Coleman, a managing partner of the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell until his death in 1982. Charles Coleman was married to Louise Stuyvesant Wainwright, a.k.a. Mimi C. Thompson, a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch Governor who surrendered New Amsterdam to the English. His father, C. Payson Coleman, Jr., born in 1950, is a partner at the New York law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.

Graduated from Williams College in 1997. Started his career in 1997, working for Julian Robertson (joined The Giving Pledge of Warren Buffett, David Rockefeller, Bill Gates and Ted Turner) and his hedge fund, Tiger Management. Coleman had grown up with Robertson's son, Spencer. Robertson's Tiger Fund used to count Lady Margaret Thatcher among its advisors in the late 1990s.

In 2000, Robertson closed his fund, and entrusted Coleman with over $25 million to manage, making him one of the 30 or more so-called "Tiger Cubs", fund managers who started their fund management careers with Tiger Management. Fellow Williams graduate Ole Andreas Halvorsen, one of the world's wealthiest hedge fund managers, is another former "Tiger Cub," amongst other very successful hedge fund managers such as Stephen Mandel and Lee Ainslie.

Coleman serves as managing partner of Tiger Global Management. The hedge fund was an early investor in Facebook, and sold its stake in 2013 for an estimated $1 billion. Also invested in LinkedIn and Zynga. On the Forbes 2016 list of the world's billionaires, Coleman was ranked #722 with a net worth of $2.4 billion. According to Business Insider, he was born into "old money" and has made a lot of "new money" as well.

Source(s): Gettyimages.com: "Bill Gates ... chats with Ron Conway, founder fo SV Angel, at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 9, 2015."

BA in political science from San Jose University. Marketing positions at the National Semiconductor Corporation 1973-1979. President and CEO Altos Computer Systems 1988-1990. CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) 1991-1995, eventually acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.

In 1998 he founded Angel Investors I, which generated a 700% return. Then founded Angel Investors II in 1999, which resulted in a 150% return. Early stage investor in Google, Ask Jeeves and PayPal. In 2009 he founded SV Angel.

Co-financer of the in 2013 founded pro-Third World immigration group FWD.us, along with Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and other Silicon Valley leaders. Sat on the advisory board of Sandy Hook Promise.

September 30, 2014, Forbes, 'Reddit Raises $50 Million, Promises To Share Stock With Community': "The round was led by Sam Altman, the president of startup incubator Y Combinator, who graduated from the same YC class as Reddit founders Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman and was one of Reddit's first users. Andreesen Horowitz and Seqouia also invested, and other individual investors include Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Jared Leto [vegan, gay rights activist actor and singer] ... Kevin and Julia Hartz, Mariam Naficy, Josh Kushner [brother of Trump's son-in-law Jared], ... Snoop Dogg -- and Reddit CEO Yishan Wong."

November 14, 2017, recode.net, 'Ron Conway thinks Silicon Valley needs to have its 'eyes wide open' to Trump, immigration and U.S. politics': ""If you go back five years, literally, tech companies were so apathetic about the political environment and just wanted to avoid politics," said Conway. ... "You can't avoid politics ... It so happens we have a president named Trump who's doing a lot of controversial things, and once again, people need to step up and represent themselves," he continued. Atop Conway's political agenda is a government program known as DACA, which protects children brought to the United States illegally from being deported.
Conway ... sported a shirt that read "We Are All Dreamers." ... Conway also said he's "delighted" ... by the likes of Apple CEO Tim Cook, who "is holding up his hands and saying this isn't right." "We have a duty and an obligation to do that," he said of the industry's prominent, public response to Trump, "and I think the rank and file at these companies are very proud of their CEOs right now. It improves morale.""

fwd.us/founders/ (accessed: April 28, 2019): "Founders: ... Jim Breyer [Breyer Capital] ... Ron Conway ... John Doerr ... Bill Gates ... Reid Hoffman ... Chamath Palihapotiya ... Sean Parker ... Mark Zuckerberg...
Major Contributors: ... Brian Chesky: CEO & Co-founder, Airbnb ... Barry Diller [IAC] ... Stanley F. Druckenmiller [former lead investor Soros' Quantum Fund] ... Paul Graham: Previously: President, Y Combinator ... Reed Hastings [Netflix founder] ... Eric Schmidt: Executive Chairman, Google..."

Source(s): July 13, 2007, Washington Post, 'It's Not All Play at Media Conference'; July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Famous CNN host.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; July 7, 2015, Hollywood Reporter, 'Sun Valley: What to Expect From This Year's Mogul Gathering' (in slideshow for 2014 and on guest list for 2015); 2016 list; July 17, 2017, Time, 'Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner Just Went to 'Summer Camp for Billionaires''; 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Joined Steve Jobs' Apple in March 1998 as senior vice president of worldwide operations and then served as Executive Vice President of worldwide sales and operations. COO of Apple. Apple CEO since 2011, just prior to Steve Jobs' death. First publicly gay Fortune 500 CEO. Director of Nike, Inc., the National Football Foundation, and is a trustee of Duke University.

December 3, 2018 CNN, 'Tim Cook: 'Tim Cook: Hate has 'no place' on Apple's platforms' (Anti-Defamation League's first-ever "Courage Against Hate" award speech): "We only have one message for those who seek to push hate, division, and violence: you have no place on our platform. [Loud applause] We have always prohibited music with a message of white supremacy. Why? Because it is the right thing to do? And as we showed this year, we won't give a give a platform to violent conspiracy theorists on the app store."

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; July 7, 2015, Hollywood Reporter, 'Sun Valley: What to Expect From This Year's Mogul Gathering' (in slideshow for 2014); July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

B.S. degree in computer and communication sciences from the University of Michigan in 1985. Did stand up comedy after that. Founded web feed management provider FeedBurner in 2004, which was bought by Google in 2007. After the acquisition, Costolo began working in other areas of Google. COO of Twitter 2009-2010, and CEO 2010-2015. Replaced by Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey at that point. Became a consultant for the popular HBO TV series Silicon Valley in October 2015. In December 2015 he became a director of Patreon, a startup that helps artists raise money for their creative projects. Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson have a huge number of patrons on this platform.

In May 2011 Obama had appointed Costolo to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, along with the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group, Scott Charney, and McAfee President of Security David DeWalt.

One of the Cox sisters. Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded at Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. The company is private, 98% controlled by the octogenarian daughters of Cox, Barbara Cox Anthony and Anne Cox Chambers, two of the richest women in America, worth $10.3 billion each according to Forbes Magazine. The CEO is Anthony's son, James C. Kennedy. The company, now headquarted in Atlanta, Georgia, continues to publish the Daily News as well as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and fifteen other daily newspapers. It also publishes 30 non-daily papers, including The Western Star, Ohio's oldest weekly newspaper. The company owns 15 television stations including WHIO-TV, the Dayton affiliate of CBS, 81 radio stations, and a large cable television enterprise.

One of the Cox sisters. Control the private Cox Enterprises (Cox Communications, Manheim, Cox Newspapers, Cox Television, Cox Radio and AutoTrader.com). See the bio of Anne Cox.

Chief media stock picker for the L.A.-based investment firm Capital Research & Management. Gordon Crawford's actions are closely watched on Wall Street. Considered as one of "the media world's savviest investors," Crawford is known for long-term investments and it is eerie how prophetic his predictions have been to this point. In early 2001, Crawford liquidated Capital's Disney shares completely, prompting other investors to lessen their holdings, destabilizing Disney's already rocky position and spelling Eisner's doom. In late 2002, Crawford met with Time Warner Chairman Stephen Case and gave him a simple and clear recommendation: Resign. Now it appears Crawford has set his sights on Viacom's Sumner Redstone.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List': "Crumpton Group LLC"

MA Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. Joined the CIA in 1981. CIA covert operations officer in different parts of the world who briefed Bush and Cheney on CIA operations in Afghanistan post-9/11. CEO of the strategic international advisory and business development firm, Crumpton Group LLC. Director of National Interest Security Company, LLC. Distinguished Fellow at the EastWest Institute. Chairman and CEO of the Crumpton Group LLC. is a member of the U.S.-China Business Council. Nolan Harte worked for Crumpton Group LLL and went to work for Carlyle after that.

May 14, 2012, CBS News, 'Hank Crumpton: Life as a spy': "Cofer Black was chief of the CIA's Counter-Terrorism Center and for a quarter century he was Crumpton's boss and mentor. He personally chose "Hank" for the most important mission of his life. Cofer Black: Why did I pick Hank Crumpton to lead the CIA team? 'Cause we wanna win. Hank's the kind of man you can bet your life on." The CIA was given the lead role in prosecuting a war for the first time in history and Black promised then-President George W. Bush the agency was up to the task. Cofer Black: And I said, "Mr. President, by the time we're through with these guys, they're gonna have flies walking across their eyeballs." This isn't a joke. This is a statement of fact of what's gonna happen.

2007, George Tenet, 'At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA', p. 212: "When it became clear that we were going to be asked to play a leading role in ousting al-Qa'ida, we added a new branch to our Counterterrorism Center—CTC Special Operations, or CTC/SO. To head up this new branch, we tapped Hank Crumpton, a slowtalking, quick-witted CIA officer who had recently completed a three-year tour of duty in Washington, including two years in CTC and one working with the FBI. Hank was the perfect man for the mission. He had spent ten years in sub-Saharan Africa working around insurgent groups; had extensive interagency experience, including a recent tour of duty with the FBI; and had led the CIA team that went to Yemen to investigate the USS Cole bombing. Hank and his family had just arrived in an attractive overseas capital for what was supposed to be a three-year posting. A day or so later he got a call from headquarters: Stop unpacking. We need you back in Washington. To no one’s surprise, Hank didn’t hesitate for a moment."

September 12, 2005, Washington Post, 'In From the Cold and Able to Take the Heat': "After joining the agency in 1981, Crumpton cut his teeth in Liberia during its disintegration into tribal clashes. ... Most of his work since then is still secret, although Crumpton was deeply involved in probing the 1998 al Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania as well as the 2000 boat bombing of the USS Cole off Yemen, colleagues say. ...
James Pavitt, former deputy director of operations, the CIA's covert wing [praises Crumpton]...
Colleagues recall how Crumpton would crouch down like a squad leader between President Bush and Vice President Cheney with maps to explain what the CIA was doing in Afghanistan. "He wasn't intimidated," McLaughlin said. ...
Crumpton gained almost mythical fame after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks -- always anonymously. He is the mysterious "Henry" in the Sept. 11 commission report, which notes he persistently pressed the CIA to do more in Afghanistan before Osama bin Laden's terrorist [attack on 9/11]. Two key proposals to track al Qaeda were turned down. ... Tapped to head the CIA's Afghan campaign after the attacks, Crumpton is "Hank" in Gary C. Schroen's "First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan" and Bob Woodward's "Bush at War." Both books recount how Crumpton crafted a strategy partnering elite intelligence and military officers in teams that worked with the Afghan opposition to oust the Taliban. ...
Now, after almost a quarter-century as a spy or station chief on at least four continents, Crumpton has emerged from undercover to take the job as State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism -- with the very public rank of ambassador. ..."

May 14, 2012, Business Insider.com, 'This Former CIA Officer Reveals Everything You Want To Know About Being An American Spy': "CBS 60 Minutes recently aired a fascinating session with former CIA spy Hank Crumpton, who had Osama bin Laden in his sights two years before 9/11, but couldn't get permission to kill him. "The frustration was enormous." In 1999, a video link from a U.S. drone — the famed Predator model — confirmed the exact location of bin Laden at a village near Kandahar. Crumpton wanted to kill him right then and there. But President Clinton wanted U.S. eyes on the ground to confirm everything and it became a missed opportunity.
So what does a determined CIA officer tell his team? "Okay. We find him again. We will have to engage ourselves. And we'll have to do it right then, right there" — he and his team started figuring out how to weaponize the Predator with hellfire missiles. Until his initiative, the Predator was an unarmed drone. But they never got to take out bin Laden."

September 14, 2012, Fortune, 'A CIA veteran's lessons for CEOs': "On 9/11, 19 terrorists armed with box cutters somehow compelled the United Sates to spend more than a trillion dollars in military response – that’s sadly ridiculous. An undergraduate student named Zuckerberg built a global network of almost a billion people, Facebook, in just a few years – that’s amazing."

Source(s): June 30, 2014, appleinsider.com, 'Apple's Tim Cook, Eddy Cue invited to Allen & Co.'s 2014 Sun Valley conference'; July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Senior vice president of internet software and services at Apple.

Source(s): July 13, 2000, NY Post, 'Living Large at the Lodge': "Right before the day's panel discussions – including one from Coca-Cola CEO Douglas Daft..."; March 10, 2003, Time, 'Comeback Crusader': "During ... Sun Valley, Idaho, last July ... Coca-Cola CEO Douglas Daft at one point turned for advice to investment legend Warren Buffett, who sits on Coke's board."

As chairman of the board and CEO of Coca-Cola, Daft drives the train that delivers 50% of the world’s non-alcoholic beverages, including the #1 Coke, #3 Diet Coke, Minute Maid, PowerAde, Sprite, Barq’s Dr. Pepper, Danone, Sparkletts, Evian, and even the healthfood favorite Odwalla. Daft, who took his current position in February 2000, last year earned a salary of $1.5 million, plus a $4.5 million bonus. He also owns 3.5 million Coke shares (valued today at $175 million). He also sits on the boards of SunTrust Banks, McGraw-Hill Companies, The Center for Strategic & International Studies (A Stanford University Think Tank), the Trilateral Commission, The Business Council, The Business Roundtable, Catalyst, Grocery Manufacturers of America, and the British-American Chamber of Commerce.

Coca Cola has been accused of contracting paramilitary death squads to torture, kidnap, and murder union leaders in Central and South-America. The Campaign to Stop Killer Coke and Corporate Campaign Inc. has erected to draw attention to these allegations.

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'.

Adam D'Angelo attended super-elite Phillips Exeter Academy for high school. There, he developed the Synapse Media Player (a music suggestion software) along with Mark Zuckerberg and others. In 2001, he was placed eighth at the USA Computing Olympiad as a high school student and he got a silver medal at the 2002 International Olympiad of Informatics. BS in computer science from Caltech. Chief technology officer of Facebook, and also served as its vice president of engineering, 2006-2008. In June 2009, he started Quora with Charlie Cheever, another early Facebook employee. Co-founder and CEO of Quora.com.

Source(s): July 13, 2007, Washington Post, 'It's Not All Play at Media Conference'; July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley': "Philippe Dauman (L), President and CEO of Viacom, attends the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference with Debbie Dauman on July 6, 2011 in Sun Valley, Idaho."; July 7, 2015, Hollywood Reporter, 'Sun Valley: What to Expect From This Year's Mogul Gathering' (in slideshow for 2014 and guest for 2015).

Jewish. Yale and Columbia University-educated. Advisory role in Sumner Redstone's 1987 hostile takeover of Viacom and was given a seat on Viacom's board of directors. Became a close advisor and trusted friend of Sumner Redstone. Senior vice president and general counsel of Viacom 1992-1994. Executive committee member and executive vice president of Viacom in charge of strategic transactions, legal and government affairs, human resources and administration 1994-2000. In this function he supervised Paramount Pictures Entertainment, Showtime Networks and Simon & Schuster publishing. Director at Viacom-owned CBS Corporation until September 2006. President and CEO of Viacom September 2006 - August 2016, when he lost an ownership battle for Viacom with Shari Redstone, the daughter of Sumner Redstone whom Dauman claims is manipulating the ailing Sumner Redstone. Dinner at the Obama White House in early 2014.

Viacom is the decades-long owner of MTV, as well as children's channel Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and Black Entertainment Television. On February 4, 2016, it was announced that Viacom's board elected Dauman as Sumner Redstone's replacement for the position of Chairman of Viacom.

In 2009, Dauman and Viacom launched the Get Schooled education initiative with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, an effort to have American public school students not drop out of school.

Source(s): July 10, 1999, Associated Press, 'Media titans gather in Sun Valley'; July 13, 2007, Washington Post, 'It's Not All Play at Media Conference'

Michael Dell is the founder, chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Austin, Texas-based Dell Computer Corporation. Known for its revolutionary made-to-order, zero-inventory business model, Dell Computer is the world’s leading computer systems company.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; zimbio.com/pictures/, 'Business Leaders Meet in Sun Valley for Conference': "Canadian businessmen Andre Desmarais ... and Daniel Lamarre, president and chief executive officer of the Canadian entertainment company Cirque du Soleil, attend the Allen & Co. annual conference on July 10, 2013..."

Son of Paul Desmarais, Sr., who took control of Power Corporation of Canada in 1968 and since then has been a close personal friend of every Canadian prime minister. Power Corporation used to be ran by close David Rockefeller friends Maurice Strong and James Wolfensohn, before Desmarais took control. Power Corporation's international advisory council, in existence from 1988-2005, included over the years: close David Rockefeller friend Paul Volcker (1988-2005), Charles Bronfman (1988-2005), German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani (Saudi minister of oil 1962-1986), Gustavo Cisneros, Baron Albert Frere and Canadian prime minister from 1984 to 1993 Brian Mulroney. In 1992 Paul Desmarais, Sr. was appointed a member of the Canadian Privy Council, the same year that Maurice F. Strong, Conrad M. Black, and Charles R. Bronfman (brother of Edgar Bronfman, Sr.) were also made members. Chair and CEO Power Corporation 1968-1996. Power Corporation is one part of a large international business empire, that together with the relatively obscure Frère family, virtually co-owns the state of (partly French-language) Belgium (Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, the Suez Group, Societe Generale and Tractebel). The Desmarais family holds many directorships in these Belgian and French companies. Member of the advisory councils of the Carlyle Group, Chase Manhattan Bank and Barrick Gold. Board member Hong Kong Chief Executive's Council of International Advisers. Visited Bilderberg in 1982.

Andre Desmarais is deputy chair, president and co-CEO of Power Corporation. Member of JPMorgan Chase's International Council (of David Rockefeller) 2003-2010. Member of the David Rockefeller-founded Trilateral Commission and the Chairman's Council of the David Rockefeller-founded Americas Society. Also a member of the Canada China Business Council and the Business Council of Canada.

Paul Desmarais, Jr.: Started his career with S.G. Warburg & Co. in London. Chairman and co-CEO of Power Corporation since 1996. Member CFR. Visited Bilderberg in 2006 and 2008. Involved in the Wilson Center. Chair, Board of Governors of the Conference of Montreal.

Source(s): October 1997, Red Herring Magazine, 'Players Club - CEOs talk media at Herb Allen's Sun Valley'; June 28, 2004, Fortune, 'Inside the Private World of Allen & Co.': "Joining [Google at the Sun Valley] will be Allen's three marquee clients, Rupert Murdoch, Barry Diller, and the newest Coca-Cola CEO, Neville Isdell..."; July 13, 2007, Washington Post, 'It's Not All Play at Media Conference': "Barry Diller, a former Hollywood mogul who now runs an online company called IAC/InterActiveCorp, was spotted tooling around on a bicycle..."; July 7, 2010, Los Angeles Times, 'Allen & Co. summer camp mogulfest gets underway': "Attendees arrived Tuesday and [included] IAC/InterActiveCorp. head Barry Diller..."; July 17, 2017, Time, 'Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner Just Went to 'Summer Camp for Billionaires'': "CNBC scored interviews with multiple attendees. In one, Barry Diller called Donald Trump's presidency a "joke.""

Barry Diller is a Jewish-American media executive and entrepreneur; known among other things for his early programming innovations with ABC Television; the creation of a fourth television network at Fox Broadcasting; the onetime chairmanship of Paramount Pictures and the QVC Network; the founding of USA Networks; and the assumption of a lucrative position as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Vivendi Universal Entertainment (VUE). With VUE’s parent, Vivendi Universal, in a financial and legal crisis, Diller became a major player in the game to take over the company’s entertainment assets. Ultimately, Diller lost out to bigger media such as NBC for the Vivendi assets and went back to nurturing and strategizing his acquisitions such as Expedia and LendingTree.com. Called Edgar Bronfman a “third-generation bimbo”. Also said: "Deals just don't get done in Hollywood unless they [Allen & Co.] are involved."

Anno 2017 Barry Diller is chair of InterActiveCorp, which, apart from The Daily Beast, controls just about every online dating app: Tinder, OKCupid, BlackPeopleMeet.com and a dozen others. Other directors of InterActiveCorp are Diane's son, Alexander; Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Bill and Hillary; Edgar Bronfman, Jr., and Michael Eisner. Former directors and officers of IAC have included Donald Keough (Allen & Co.; close Buffet friend; Trilateral Commission), Jean Rene Fourtou, Julius Genachowski, John Malone, Marie Josee Kravis, Thomas McInerney and General Norman Schwarzkopf.

December 13, 2000, New York Post, 'King's E-Book: It's Alive!; New Installment is Free Download': "There is a another entry in the battle for the right to schmooze with moguls that has been capped by Herb Allen at his Sun Valley retreat and Bill Gates at his own personal pow-wow.
Now Donald Marron, the chairman of PaineWebber and UBS America, is teaming up with the queen of buzz, Tina Brown at Talk Media, to toss a bash next March at the posh Bacara Resort in Santa Barbara.
So far, GE Chairman Jack Welch, USA Studios chief Barry Diller, Disney CEO Michael Eisner and Bertelsmann Chairman Thomas Middelhoff have also signed up to for the three-day mogul-schmooze slated for March 12 to 15."

The Diller - Von Furstenberg Family Foundation was founded in 1999 and overseen by billionaire Barry Diller, his wife since 2001, Princess Diane von Furstenberg, Diane's son Alexander von Furstenberg and Alexander's sister, Princess Tatiana von Fürstenberg. Diane von Furstenberg was married to Prince Egon von Furstenberg, whose mother was the eldest sister of Gianni Agnelli, the long-time Bilderberg participant and best friend of Henry Kissinger.

Supporter of the pro-Third World immigration group FWD.us of Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and many other Sun Valley visitors. fwd.us/supporters (accessed: March 20, 2018): "Our Founders: ... John Doerr ... Bill Gates ... Reid Hoffman ... Drew Houston, Founder and CEO of Dropbox ... Mark Zuckerberg ... Major Contributors: Tim Armstrong, CEO and Chairman AOL, Inc. ... Steve Chen, Co-Founder YouTube. Brian Chesky, CEO and Co-founder Airbnb ... Barry Diller ... Standley F. Druckenmiller [former of Soros' Quantum Fund] ... Paul Graham, Previously: President Y Combinator ... Reed Hastings, Founder and CEO Netflix..."

Member of the 2012-founded NY-Lead NGO: Feb. 15, 2012, New York Times, 'Wealthy Donors Join Effort to Improve Campaign Finance System': "A new group called New York Leadership for Accountable Government unveiled an agenda [mainly involving]support for the creation of a system of public financing for state campaigns and lowered contribution limits. ... [Gay 25-year-old founder] Sean Eldridge... hosted a fund-raiser last year with his fiance, Chris Hughes, a founder of Facebook [roommate Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard; spokesperson FB], ... for Mr. [Andrew] Cuomo. ...
Members of the new group are Barry Diller ... Edgar M. Bronfman Sr. ... and Jerome Kohlberg [KKR]... David Rockefeller is also part of the coalition, as is Jonathan Soros, son of the billionaire financier George Soros."

Source(s): July 13, 2000, Newsday, 'Looking for Links / Technology conference draws PC moguls': "Cablevision Systems Corp. chairman Charles Dolan is just one of the many media and computer moguls looking for partnerships at this week's media and technology conference in Sun Valley, Idaho."

In the mid-1960s, Charles Dolan built a cable system called Sterling Manhattan Cable in the borough of Manhattan and launched Home Box Office (HBO). He ended up selling both the cable system and HBO to Time Life Inc. In 1973 he used the money to start a new cable system in suburban Long Island called Cablevision, a company he was chairman and CEO of until 1995, when his brother James took over as CEO. Charles remained chairman.

In 1994, Paramount Communications, the owner of Madison Square Garden, was acquired by Viacom, who in turn sold the MSG properties to Cablevision and ITT Corporation, which had 50% ownership each. ITT would sell its share to Cablevision in 1997. With that, the Dolan brothers control Madison Square Garden arena in New York City, and the professional sports teams that play there: the New York Knicks, New York Rangers, and New York Liberty.

The Dolan family majority owns AMC Networks. Until 2011 it was owned by their Cablevision company. After that the Dolans owned it privately. Charles Dolan has been chairman of AMC Network since 2011.

Cablevision was bought by the French group Altice in 2016.

The Dolan brothers own the newspaper Newsday. The Dolans continue to control the Madison Square Garden Company, complete with the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers.

Source(s): July 9, 2009, Gettyimages.nl: "James 'Jim' Dolan, president and chief executive officer of Cablevision Systems Corp., arrives for a morning session during the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., on Thursday, July 9, 2009."

Vice president of Cablevision Systems Corp. (CSC) 1987-1992. CEO of Rainbow Programming Holdings, Inc. (Rainbow Media Holdings, Inc. - became AMC Networks) 1992-1995. President and CEO of Cablevision, 1995-1998, president 1998-2014, chairman 2003-. Chairman of Madison Square Garden (MSG), L.P. since 1991. Chairman of MSG Holdings, L.P. 1999-2010. Executive chairman of MSG Networks Inc. 2009-. Chairman and CEO Madison Square Garden Company 2015-2018, CEO since 2018. Director of AMC Networks Inc. since March 2011. Director of Cablevision Systems Corp. Director National Cable Television Association (NCTA).

December 8, 2017, BizJournals, 'NBA owners named in new Weinstein lawsuit': "New York Knicks owner Dolan "knew of Weinstein’s pattern and practice of predatory sexual conduct toward women from his personal relationship with Weinstein and his position as a director of [The Weinstein Co.]," the suit claims. Dolan, who was named interim CEO of MSG last month, served on the Weinstein Co.'s board of directors from mid-2015 to June 2016.
This isn't the first sexual misconduct case to name Dolan. The billionaire was named in a 2007 lawsuit filed by Anucha Brown-Sanders, who complained about alleged sexual harassment by former Knicks coach Isiah Thomas. Dolan fired Browne-Sanders and told HBO’s "Real Sports" in 2015 that Browne Sanders was lying. Browne-Sanders was awarded $11 million in damages from Dolan and his MSG."

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; July 6, 2016, Business Insider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and the big names in tech and media swarm to Sun Valley, Idaho, for Allen & Co.'s mogul fest': "John Donahoe, PayPal chairman and former CEO of eBay, rolls in with a smile."

Dartmouth College. MBA from Stanford Business School. President and CEO of Pierre Omidyar's eBay from March 2008 to July 2015. Chairman of PayPal since July 2015. PayPal has been owned by eBay 2002-mid 2015, after which it became an "independent" company with Donahoe as chair. Director of eBay and Intel. Trustee of Dartmouth College 2003-2012. Has contributed to members of the Democrat and Republican parties.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; zimbio.com/pictures/, 'Business Leaders Meet in Sun Valley for Conference': "German businessman Mathias Doepfner ... and wife Ulrike attend the Allen & Co. annual conference on July 10, 2013..."

Chairman and CEO of Axel Springer, Europe's largest digital publishing house and owner of the Bild and Die Welt newspapers. In 2015 Business Insider was bought by German publisher Axel Springer SE. Visited Bilderberg in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. Bilderberg steering committee.

Source(s): July 6, 2016, Business Insider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and the big names in tech and media swarm to Sun Valley, Idaho, for Allen & Co.'s mogul fest': "John Donahoe, PayPal chairman and former CEO of eBay, rolls in with a smile."

Worked for McDonald’s 1993-2011 as a manager. CEO of McDonald's since 2015.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; July 16, 2014, TheWrap.com, 'Moguls Converge on Sun Valley for Allen & Co. Retreat (Photos)'; July 6, 2016, Business Insider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and the big names in tech and media swarm to Sun Valley, Idaho, for Allen & Co.'s mogul fest'.

Droppped out of New York University in 1999 during his final semester. Came up with the idea of Twitter here, eventually founded in 2006, the same year as Facebook. Co-founder and CEO of Twitter, and founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company.

May 27, 2020, Daily Mail, 'Head of Twitter's 'site integrity' in charge of fact-checking Trump has previously tweeted the administration are Nazis, compared Kellyanne Conway to Joseph Goebbels and said fly over states are racist': "Yoel Roth..."

Source(s): May 22, 2000, Wall Street Journal, 'How the Soros Funds Lost Game Of Chicken Against Tech Stocks': "Mr. Druckenmiller warmed to them. Attending Allen & Co.'s annual summit conference of corporate chieftains in Sun Valley, Idaho, last July, he heard a lot of talk about how technology was changing the whole economy. Soon the Soros funds were buying these stocks and selling short some Old Economy stocks. It worked: The Quantum Fund came all the way back to finish 1999 up 35%. ... ... Mr. Druckenmiller turned to a trader and said, "This is insane. I've never owned a stock that goes from $40 to $250 in a few months.""; July 12, 2017, New York Post, 'Sun Valley Chronicles: Investor details how Amazon is killing retail chains': "Stanley Druckenmiller, who managed George Soros’ money for 12 years, told attendees of a morning session that Amazon’s superefficiency has so disrupted the retail industry that chains in the US today are lucky to get $1 back in sales for every $1 they spend."

Lead portfolio manager for George Soros' Quantum Fund 1988-2000. In 2015, Druckenmiller donated $300,000 total to the presidential candidacies of Christie, Jeb Bush, and John Kasich.

August 14, 2013, Forbes, 'How A 'Deviant' Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut': "Karp owns roughly a tenth of the firm--just less than its largest stakeholder, Peter Thiel, the PayPal and Facebook billionaire. (Other billionaire investors include Ken Langone and hedge fund titan Stanley Druckenmiller.)"

Supporter of the pro-Third World immigration group FWD.us of Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and many other Sun Valley visitors. fwd.us/supporters (accessed: March 20, 2018): "Our Founders: ... John Doerr ... Bill Gates ... Reid Hoffman ... Drew Houston, Founder and CEO of Dropbox ... Mark Zuckerberg ... Major Contributors: Tim Armstrong, CEO and Chairman AOL, Inc. ... Steve Chen, Co-Founder YouTube. Brian Chesky, CEO and Co-founder Airbnb ... Barry Diller ... Standley F. Druckenmiller [former of Soros' Quantum Fund] ... Paul Graham, Previously: President Y Combinator ... Reed Hastings, Founder and CEO Netflix..."

Visitor of the elite Forstmann Little Conferences.

February 27, 2019, Markets Insider, 'Here are 13 brilliant quotes from billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller': "[1]"Never, ever invest in the present." ...
[2]"Earnings don't move the overall market; it's the Federal Reserve Board. ... Whatever I do, focus on the central banks and focus on the movement of liquidity, that most people in the market are looking for earnings and conventional measures. It's liquidity that moves markets." ...
[3]"The mistake I'd say 98 percent of money managers and individuals make is they feel like they've got to be playing with a bunch of stuff. ... If you really see it, put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket very carefully. ... I think diversification and all the stuff they're teaching at business school today is probably the most misguided concept everywhere." ...
[4]"The way you create deflation is you create an asset bubble," he said in an interview with CNBC in 2017. Druckenmiller believes the Federal Reserve should raise interest rates and stop easy monetary policies as soon as possible. "If I was 'Darth Vader' of the financial world and decided I'm going to do this nasty thing and create deflation, I would do exactly what the central banks are doing now," he said. ...
[5] "I don't ... like to short great products. That's not my deal." ...
[6] "I don't really like hedging. To me, if something needs to be hedged, you shouldn't have a position in it."
[7] "I believe that good investors are successful not because of their IQ, but because they have an investing discipline. But, what is more disciplined than a machine? A well-researched machine can make many average investors redundant, leaving behind only the really good human investors with exceptional intuition and skill." ...
[8] "George Soros has a philosophy that I have also adopted: The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs. You can be far more aggressive when you're making good profits."
[9] "If you're extremely confident, taking a loss doesn't bother you. Soros is also the best loss taker I've ever seen. He doesn't care whether he wins or loses on a trade. If a trade doesn't work, he's confident enough about his ability to win on other trades that he can easily walk away from the position. There are a lot of shoes on the shelf; wear only the ones that fit."
[10] "Soros has taught me that when you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. As far as Soros is concerned, when you're right on something, you can't own enough.""
[11] "It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong. The few times that Soros has ever criticized me was when I was really right on a market and didn't maximize the opportunity."

Source(s): July 8, 2009, Reuters, 'Sun Valley: Where the money is': "Allen & Co's Sun Valley media and technology conference have included ... actors Clint Eastwood and Demi Moore and Egyptian billionaire Mohamed al-Fayed."

Famous actor with major ties to the Clintons, Rockefellers and superclass members as James Wolfensohn.

Source(s): July 17, 1994, Los Angeles Times, 'Disney's Eisner Recuperating After Heart Bypass Surgery': "Eisner had just arrived home to Bel-Air from an investment conference in Sun Valley, Ida., on Saturday when the problem began... Eisner has taken on more responsibility for managing that empire after the death in April of his close friend and chief lieutenant, Disney President Frank Wells, in a helicopter crash in Nevada."; June 23, 1995, Los Angeles Times, 'Company Town : The Stormy Gathering at Sun Valley'; October 1997, Red Herring Magazine, 'Players Club - CEOs talk media at Herb Allen's Sun Valley'; July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 6, 2016, deadline.com, 'Herb Allen's Sun Valley Retreat: Politicians Talk Morality And Future Of Cities': "Disney’s well represented with CEO Bob Iger, Disney-ABC Television Group’s Ben Sherwood, ESPN’s John Skipper and former COO Tom Staggs. Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner’s also there."; July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho' (with son Eric).

Michael Eisner took over the top post at the Walt Disney Company in 1984. An imposing leader at 6 feet, 4 inches tall, he transformed Disney from a fading minor player worth about $2 billion into a $28 billion a year multimedia conglomerate within a decade. During the 1990s, Eisner established Disney as the third largest corporation of its kind without sacrificing the company’s place as the premier family entertainment studio of the twentieth century. Eisner fought a running battle with disgruntled shareholders during the early 2000 decade as the Disney share price slumped, the firm was beset with continung problems with EuroDisney, and Eisner was openly criticized for both his judgement and management style by prominent shareholders such as Roy Disney. In early September 2004, Eisner surprised the entertainment community by announcing his intention to resign in 2006. Director of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, together with four former U.S. presidents, Maurice R. Greenberg, Henry R. Kravis (Bohemian Grove), David Rockefeller, Jerry I. Speyer (big Rockefeller guy), John C. Whitehead (photographed standing behind Lord Rothschild and Kissinger; likely Pilgrim), Anne M. Tatlock (gone from her WTC on the morning on 9/11), Sir John Bond (HSBC; Multinaltional Chairman's Group), Richard D. Parsons (Sun Valley Meetings), and Peter G. Peterson(chair Blackstone Group; chair NY Fed; chair CFR).

Source(s): July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho' (with wife Sofia).

Swedish. CEO of Spotify. Worth $2.2 billion in 2018.

Started making tons of money in the webdesign business starting in his mid teens. Graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sundbyberg in 2002. Studied engineering at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology before dropping out to focus on his IT career. Senior role at Nordic auction company Tradera which was acquired by Ebay in 2006.

After selling Advertigo to TradeDoubler in 2006, Ek briefly became the CEO of μTorrent, working with μTorrent founder Ludvig Strigeus. This ended when μTorrent was sold to BitTorrent on December 7 of 2006. Strigeus would later join Ek as a Spotify developer.

Key founder spotify in 2006. Ek first had the idea for Spotify in 2002 when peer-to-peer music service Napster shut down and another illegal site Kazaa took over. The only way to solve the problem was to create a service that was better than piracy and at the same time compensates the music industry – that gave us Spotify." In February 2010, Spotify received a small investment from Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, where board member Sean Parker was recruited to assist Spotify in "winning the labels over in the world's largest music market". A $100 million investment was secured in 2011. The things is, both Thiel and Parker have CIA ties. Thiel, through Parker also an early investor at Facebook, joined Bilderberg in 2007 and soon ended up on the steering committee.

At Ek's 2016 wedding Bruno Mars was invited to perform and Chris Rock officiated; he invited numerous guests, including Mark Zuckerberg.

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

First son of Alain Elkann, a journalist and writer of French Jewish and Italian Jewish background. Fiat heir of his grandfather Gianni Agnelli, the Bilderberger and close friend of Henry Kissinger. Chairman of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Chairman and CEO of Exor, an investment company controlled by the Agnelli family, which controls Partner Re, Ferrari (vice chairman) and Juventus F.C. Vice chairman and director of The Economist Group. Trustee of the Rockefellers' Museum of Modern Art (MoMa). Visited Bilderberg in 2005; joined thed steering committee.

In February 2018 he featured as one of the protagonists on the podcast series by Reid Hoffman (PayPal and Linkedin co-founder and fellow-Sun Valley visitor) Masters of Scale.

November 1, 2017, Washington Post, 'About The WorldPost': "The WorldPost, a partnership of the Berggruen Institute and The Washington Post... Publishing op-eds and features from around the globe, we work from a worldwide perspective looking around rather than a national perspective looking out.
Editorial board: Nicolas Berggruen, ... Walter Isaacson, ... Arianna Huffington, John Elkann, Pierre Omidyar, Eric Schmidt..."

Turkish Prime Minister who gave a speech about Islam in 2005. He answered questions about Islam, democracy, and globalization. Rhodes Scholar Bill Bradley introduced him.

Source(s): July 9, 2004, Deseret News, 'Seeds of big media deals often planted at Sun Valley'; July 16, 2006, New York Times, 'The Finance Crowd Has Its Time in the Idaho Sun': "Charles W. Ergen, who also attended the conference."; June 26, 2013, New York Post, 'Sun Valley mogulfest invitations show Allen & Co. is going through a big change': "Also, Yahoo! backer and activist investor Daniel Loeb [CFR member; Democrat supporter since Obama; financer of LGBT issues; business partner of George Soros and an ally on at least some issue; present at Soros' home in 2013] won't be at the Sun Valley, Idaho, gathering that kicks off July 9 after he targeted Japanese giant Sony for a break-up. Sure, activist investors don't make for good guests at mogul camp, said a source familiar with who makes the cut, noting that Dish CEO Charlie Ergen is not invited either."

MBA Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University. Co-founder in 1981 of Colorado-based satellite television provider Dish Network and its parent until 2008, EchoStar Communications Corporation, together with his wife, Cantey, and James DeFranco. Chairman and CEO of Dish Network 1980-2011, president 2008-2011, chairman 2011-2015, chairman and CEO 2015-. Owns 52 percent of Dish and Echostar shares and holds 88 percent of its total voting power. Estimated $17 billion fortune.

Source(s): July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp'.

William Esrey began his career in telecommunications in 1964 with AT&T. Even though his goal at that time was to become president of that company, he left the corporation in 1970 after becoming the youngest officer in its history. He then joined the investment banking firm of Dillon, Read and Company in New York City, where he became the managing director. In 1980, William came to United Telecommunications as the executive vice president of corporate planning. In 1982, he became president of United Telecom Communications Inc., later named US Telecom. In 1985, William Esrey was made president and CEO of United Telecommunications. Additional responsibilities as president and CEO of Sprint were taken on by William in 1988. In 1990, he has become chairman of Sprint and United Telecom (Sprint is the third largest long-distance telecommunications firm). Also a director of The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, Panhandle Eastern Corp., and General Mills.

Bilderberg 1989, 1990, 1992. Member Trilateral Commission in the late 1990s and early 2000s (at least 2004).

Source(s): July 8, 2009, Reuters, 'Sun Valley: Where the money is': "Allen & Co's Sun Valley media and technology conference have included ... actors Clint Eastwood and Demi Moore and Egyptian billionaire Mohamed al-Fayed."

Fayed's business interests include ownership of Hotel Ritz Paris and formerly Harrods Department Store, Knightsbridge. Fayed's eldest son, Dodi, from his first marriage to Samira Khashoggi (sister of CIA_tied Saudi billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi), died in a car crash in Paris with Diana, Princess of Wales, on 31 August 1997. Al-Fayed claimed there was a conspiracy, which for many years made headlines.

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'.

Dartmouth College. MBA Harvard. COO and then, from 2009, CEO of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Founding directors of CNAS include top superclass members William Perry (chair), Madeleine Albright, Richard Armitage, Norman Augustine (Lockheed), William Lynn (Raytheon) and Soros-Clinton agent John Podesta. Also: CEO of Endgame, Inc., a cyber security software company. Elected to Dartmouth College's Board of Trustees in April 2012. He also serves on the Military & Veterans Advisory Council at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Source(s): June 29, 1998, New York Magazine, 'Sun Valley Daze'.

CEO of Motorola Inc.. Chairman of Kodak.

Source(s): gettyimages.com: "Niall Fitzgerald... arrives at the annual Allen and Co. Media and Technology Conference, Tuesday, July 11, 2006..."; gettyimages.com: "Niall Fitzgerald ... walks into the morning sessions at the annual Allen and Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, Saturday, July 14, 2007."; gettyimages.com: "JULY 12: Niall FitzGerald ... walks to a morning session during the 26th annual Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., on Saturday, July 12, 2008."; gettyimages.com, 'Niall Fitzgerald, deputy chairman of Thomson Reuters Corp.': "JULY 08: Niall Fitzgerald ... arrives for a session during the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., on Wednesday, July 8, 2009."; July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here's The Complete List'; Zimbio.com: "Niall Fitzgerald, former Unilever CEO and Reuters chairman, and his wife Ingrid attend the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 11, 2015"; Zimbio.com: "Niall FitzGerald attends the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 7, 2016..."

Elite Irish businessman. Director Unilever 1987-2004, vice chair 1994-1996, chair 1996-2004. Chairman of The Governor and Company of The Bank of Ireland. Director Merck 2000-2003. Director Reuthers 2003-. Chairman of Reuters Group PLC 2004-. Advisory board member Blackstone Group. Member international advisory board CFR. Visitor DAVOS. Member Trilateral Commission around the turn of the century. Member The Business Council. Member Multinational Chairman's Group. Member British-North American Committee (BNAC). EU chair Transatlantic Business Dialogue 2004-2005. Advisory board Britain in Europe. Founding advisory council member of Business for a New Europe. British counselor and 2003-2005 chair of The Conference Board. Member E.U.-China Business Association (EUCBA). Officer CMi. Advisory board Mentoring Foundation, together with Sir Win Bischoff, chairman of Lloyds Banking; Sir Philip Hampton, chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group; and Sir David Walker, chairman of Barclays. Member of various advisory bodies, including President of South Africa's International Investment Advisory Council and the Shanghai Major's International Business Leaders' Council.

mentoringfoundation.co.uk/advisory-council/ (accessed: July 12, 2013): "He is a Senior Advisor to Allen & Co."

University of Limerick: ul.ie/ceremonies/niall-fitzgerald-kbe (accessed: December 27, 2018): "In November 2008, Niall FitzGerald was appointed chair of the strategic intelligence consulting business Hakluyt & Company Limited, where he served until July 2013. He currently chairs the Leverhulme Trust Board, which distributes over £60 million a year in grants..."

Source(s): July 12, 2012, Los Angeles Times, 'Vivendi: Selling Activision a 'possibility'': "Vivendi Chairman Jean Rene-Fourtou acknowledged Thursday that the French company is considering a sale of its stake in game companyActivision Blizzard Inc. Fourtou told a Bloomberg reporter at the Allen & Co."

CEO and chairman of Vivendi 2002-2005, supervisory board chair 2005-2014. Honorary chairman after that.

Source(s): July 27, 2005, otcmarkets.com, 'Hollywood Intermediate, Inc. Completes Digital Intermediate Process on Feature Length Motion Picture Starring Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, LL Cool J. and Dylan McDermott': ""Edison" star Morgan Freeman knows full well the potential for digital content. Last week, at the Allen & Co. sponsored Sun Valley Media Conference he announced he was teaming up with Silicon Valley giant Intel (INTC) on a new venture to distribute movies to consumers over the Internet before the films become available on DVD, called ClickStar. Intel spokesman Bill Calder said Intel had been working for several years with Freeman, setting up "digital home" technology in his studio and doing a long-range wireless demo at the Sundance film festival."

In 1996, actor Morgan Freeman created Revelations Entertainment. In 2005, he announced his new company called Clickstar Inc.

Source(s): July 9, 2004, Deseret News, 'Seeds of big media deals often planted at Sun Valley': "Tom Freston, the head of MTV and co-chief operating officer of Viacom Inc. along with Moonves, went skeet shooting..."; July 13, 2007, Adweek, 'Sun Valley Media Mogul Report': "Two Allen & Co. conference veterans are returning under a shroud of mystery. Former Viacom CEO Tom Freston is scheduled to attend as head of Firefly3 LLC."; July 10, 2008, New York Post, 'Scripps CEO: I Want My Freston': "[Ken] Lowe, who like Freston is one of the many media moguls attending the Allen & Co. media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, was overheard last night asking the former Viacom CEO..."; 'July 6, 2010, Business Insider, 'Want To Spy On Millionaires and Billionaires In Sun Valley, Idaho?': "Tom Freston, of Firefly3 LLC, and Kathy Freston stroll at the annual Allen & Co.'s media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho, Wednesday, July 8, 2009."; July 8, 2010, Hollywood Reporter, 'Latest news from Sun Valley': "Tom Freston ambled about the Sun Valley campus Wednesday..."

MBA New York University. Lived in Kabul, Afghanistan until 1978 when the situation started to decline and the Afghan-Soviet War was about to begin.

February 6, 2009, Fortune, 'The most wanted man on the planet': "At age 26 ... Preston set off with $4,000, wandered around Europe and North Africa by himself for a year, ended up in Afghanistan, and "was mesmerized after just a couple of hours there." This was 1972, and Freston was drawn, like many other foreigners, to Afghanistan's remoteness, its openness ("Sikhs, Jews, and Hindus living beside Muslims, and even women in miniskirts") - and to the opportunities presented by the dawn of the air-freight industry. He started a clothing export business, Hindu Kush, and ran it out of Kabul and Delhi until 1978, when the communist coup in Afghanistan crippled the operation. Back in the U.S., in New York City, Freston was deep in debt..."

Head of marketing for MTV from about the time the channel was launched in 1981. Worked on the "I Want My MTV" ad campaign of 1982-1986 that helped make the new network a cultural phenomenon. In 1985 MTV was bought by Viacom. President and CEO of MTV Networks 1987-2004. Introduced the first shows on MTV in 1987, apart from music videos.

Famous shows of MTV Networks (generally shown on MTV and other Viacom-owned channels as Nickelodean, Comedy Central and VH1) include Beavis and Butthead, SpongeBob SquarePants, Jackass, South Park, Drawn Together, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Star Trek (from Generation to Nine), the Dave Chappelle's Show, The Tom Green Show, The Osbournes, Ashton Kutcher's Punk'd, Jersey Shore and more. MTV also introduced Jon Stewart's The Daily Show (Stewart headed the show from 1999 to 2015, his last guest being Barack Obama; after that the mixed black-white Trevor Noah took over, making the show also acceptable to Viacom's Black Entertainment Television) and The Colbert Report, both extremely tilted towards liberal candidates.

After Mel Karmazin stood down, Freston became co-President and co-COO of Viacom,(along with Leslie Moonves) 2004- January 2006. In this position he came to oversee not just MTV Networks, but also Paramount Pictures, Famous Music Publishing, and Simon & Schuster publishing. In 2006 Freston became head of Viacom while Moonves became head of the CBS Corporation, both still owned by Viacom owner Sumner Redstone. CEO of Viacom January-September 2006, until Redstone fired him because he failed to MySpace, instead letting this social network slip into the hands of Rupert Murdoch. Philippe Dauman became Freston's successor. In 2012 Murdoch sold MySpace for $35 million (having acquired it in 2006 for $580 million) due to the takeover of Facebook.

Freston kept more than enough friends in the business though and attented the Sun Valley Meetings in the years after his firing from Viacom. Trustee American Museum of Natural History, Emerson College in Boston and Asia Society. Principal at Firefly3 LLC. Appointed director of DreamWorks Animation in 2007. Investor and director in Vice Media from 2011, which in November 2013 was joined by James Murdoch.

June 22, 2014, New York Times, 'Vice Has Many Media Giants Salivating, but Its Terms Will Be Rich': "Tom Freston Former Chief Executive, Viacom Mr. Freston, who helped create MTV, invested in Vice in 2011 and joined its board. He serves as a close adviser to the company and Shane Smith...
Vice has the strongest relationship with Fox, which last year bought a 5 percent stake in the company for $70 million. James Murdoch is on Vice’s board [since November 2013]. ... [James] was visiting Brooklyn to meet with Vice's chief executive, Shane Smith. ... And yet here he is, in negotiations involving the likes of James Murdoch, Rupert’s son and Fox’s heir apparent; Robert A. Iger, chief executive of Disney; and Jeffrey L. Bewkes, chief executive of Time Warner."

February 6, 2009, Fortune, 'The most wanted man on the planet': "A friend since the early days of U2 and MTV, Bono chased Freston with more intensity than Winfrey did. "We ganged up on Tom," says Bono, explaining that he tapped Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, and venture capitalist John Doerr in his recruiting effort. "Steve Jobs called me and said, 'Why don't you run RED?'" recalls Freston. "I told him, 'I don't want to run RED.'" But as Oprah learned, the guy's a sucker for a higher calling. Freston read voluminous data, traveled to Washington to talk poverty with Condoleezza Rice, studied Bono's organizations, and recommended merging DATA and ONE. He oversaw restaffings and helped recruit new CEOs for ONE and RED. A year ago, after enough arm-twisting, he agreed to chair ONE and join the RED board. ...
He followed the advice of his billionaire pal David Geffen to get out of the stock market... Last summer, if you had the right map, you could have found Freston running around Kabul with a cameraman, researching one of two film projects there. Says Katzenberg: "In his heart and his gut, Tom is a mad adventurer." ...
[Went] to Rwanda last summer with Mike Huckabee, Bill Frist, Tom Daschle, and Cindy McCain. He led the bipartisan group of politicos through malaria hospitals and AIDS clinics to show off ONE's progress. After Rwanda, Freston and a ONE staffer shot over to the Rwanda-Congo-Uganda border to see the mountain gorillas. Then they traveled to eastern Congo, where some 5.4 million people have been killed in more than a decade of wars. ...
[He] has endured constant war since the day he left. "I found a country tortured, broken, yearning for peace, yearning for connection with the modern world." He spends a lot of his time there meeting with government officials, diplomats, and influential entrepreneurs like Saad Mohseni - "the Rupert Murdoch of Afghanistan," as Freston calls the young media titan. He's the fellow who loaned Freston a cameraman to research his movie, tentatively titled Kabul. ...
Which brings us back to Oprah, who has found her "business soul mate" in Freston. She's still hoping he'll be more than a consultant to OWN. "We're negotiating his role," says Winfrey, prodding him still. "I'll be stepping up," says Freston, who played a key role in recruiting OWN's new CEO, former MTV president Christina Norman."

July 10, 2014, The Wrap, 'Shia LaBeouf, Zooey Deschanel, Danny McBride Join Bill Murray in 'Rock the Kasbah'': "Shia LaBeouf has signed on to join Bill Murray and Bruce Willis in Barry Levinson's comedy "Rock the Kasbah," which has also added ... Kate Hudson... Brian Grazer and Tom Freston will executive produce."

PRESTON PROTEGE CHRISTINA NORMAN:

February 8, 2008, Los Angels Times, 'Norman Out At MTV': "Christina Norman, president of MTV since 2005 and a top protege of former Viacom Inc. Chief Tom Freston, will leave the company at the end of the month. Explains Van Toffler, president of MTV Networks and Logo Group, Norman -- a 17-year veteran of MTV and VH1 -- wants "to explore something new." Norman isn't talking, but under Freston, who left Viacom in 2006, she was elevated from the promotion department in 2002 to become general manager of VH1 and eventually its president."

huffingtonpost.com/author/christina-norman (accessed: March 22, 2018): "Christina Norman is the Executive Editor for HuffPost BlackVoices [and only wrote one article, in 2012, about black activist and feminist Maya Angelou]. ... Norman was chief executive officer of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. ... The network launched in January of 2011 in 80 million homes [Norman was CEO from February 2009 during the preparation phase, but was dismissed in May 2011 after ratings issues]. ... Prior to serving as President of MTV, she was President of the MTV sister network, VH1..."

huffingtonpost.com/section/black-voices (accessed: March 22, 2018): "[Top of page:] BLACK LIVES MATTER ... [for the rest only black news, much of it focused against Trump]..."

MORE MTV (LOWER LEVEL VIACOM) CEOs:

February 19, 2015, Billboard, 'Viacom Announces Major Media Restructure, New Head of Music': "Viacom president and CEO Philippe Dauman sent a memo to his vast network of employees this morning laying out a massive organizational and managerial shift. ... The change will form two new organizations; the Viacom Music and Entertainment Group, which will be the umbrella around MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, Spike and LOGO, as well as their respective web presences. That group will headed by Viacom Entertainment Group president Doug Herzog, previously a president of MTV before leaving Viacom to serve as president of entertainment for Fox and president of USA Network. ...
The second organization will be the Viacom Kids and Family Group... That arm will be run by [the Iran-born] Cyma Zarghami, who has spent 30 years at Nickelodeon. ...
Debi Lee will continue to lead BET Networks and will report directly to Dauman."

Source(s): 2005; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'.

New York Times and Foreign Affairs columnist who was invited in 2005 as a member of the panel on terrorism. Former CIA chief George Tenet and NBC anchor Tom Brokaw (CFR) were the other members of the panel. The panel was established, because at the start of the conference there were terrorrist attacks in London. Friedman is a neoliberal globalist who ridicules people who are against this concept.

Source(s): June 29, 1998, New York Magazine, 'Sun Valley Daze'; July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; 2016 list; July 17, 2017, Time, 'Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner Just Went to 'Summer Camp for Billionaires''.

Great-grandchild of Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton, the Scotch–German wife of Prince Albert I of Monaco, though by Lady Mary's second marriage. The Belgian-born von Furstenberg had made her mark on the New York fashion world in 1972 with her versatile dress, which was appropriate for the office yet sexy enough for a night at Studio 54. During the next few years, she sold five million of them. Then the market became saturated, sales dried up, and she sold most of her licenses to avoid bankruptcy. "I lost control," she says. She retreated to Europe. In 1992, the designer embarked on a comeback. She started Silk Assets, one of the first clothing lines for QVC. "It was tacky, but it gave me confidence," she says. Then she founded Diane von Furstenberg Studio to design moderately priced apparel sold at upscale department stores. The latest wrap dress, for example, retails for $298. The line has been a hit with consumers and critics alike, and the business turned its first profit in 2003. For von Furstenberg, 58, whose fall 2005 collection features a Russian theme, success has been sweeter this time.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'.

Son of Diana and Prince Egon von Furstenberg (in turn the son of the sister of Gianni Agnelli). Trader on the Risk Arbitrage Desk of Allen & Company. Then Chief Investment Officer of family company Ranger Global Advisors, LLC. Director of InterActiveCorp (IAC) of Diane's later husband Barry Diller. IAC owns basically all online dating apps and invludes Chelsea Clinton and Edgar Bronfman, Jr. on its board of director as well. Warren Buffett neighbor and lifelong friend, as well as Allen & Co. chairman and regular Trilateral Commission visitor, Donald Keough, also used to sit on the board of InterActiveCorp. Other directors of IAC over the years have included Jean Rene Fourtou, Julius Genachowski, John Malone, Marie Josee Kravis, Thomas McInerney and General Norman Schwarzkopf.

Mario J. Gabelli is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer-Value Portfolios of Gabelli Asset Management Inc., a widely recognized provider of investment advice and brokerage services to mutual funds, institutional and high net worth investors. Gabelli Asset Management Inc. is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GBL. Mr. Gabelli founded the firm in 1977 as a broker-dealer. It has since grown into the diversified financial services corporation it is today. Mr. Gabelli is a summa cum laude graduate of Fordham University and holds an MBA degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Roger Williams University in Rhode Island. He is a leading proponent of the Graham & Dodd school of security analysis. He is a pioneer in applying Graham & Dodd's principles to the analysis of domestic, cash generating, franchise companies in a wide range of industries. His proprietary Private Market Value methodology is now an analytical standard in the value investing community. Mr. Gabelli is a Chartered Financial Analyst, a member and former officer of the New York Society of Security Analysts, the New York Society of Auto Analysts and the Entertainment Analysts Group of New York. He is a trustee of Fordham Preparatory School, Fairfield University, Roger Williams University, Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States, and a institutes. Gabelli is a major shareholder of Cablevision.

Source(s): June 23, 1995, Los Angeles Times, 'Company Town: The Stormy Gathering at Sun Valley'; October 1997, Red Herring Magazine, 'Players Club - CEOs talk media at Herb Allen's Sun Valley'; July 13, 2007, Washington Post, 'It's Not All Play at Media Conference'; July 7, 2010, Los Angeles Times, 'Allen & Co. summer camp mogulfest gets underway': "The conference will end on Saturday with presentations from Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffet."; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; 2016 list

William (Bill) Henry Gates III is the co-founder, chairman, and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation, the world’s No. 1 software company. Since becoming the world’s richest person, Gates has been at once one of the most admired individuals in the U.S. and one of the most resented, envied, and vilified. A fiercely competitive monopolist and corporate strategist who has successfully thwarted competitors and trust-busters, Gates is also a charismatic leader generally liked and respected by employees and colleagues. During the 2000 decade, Gates has also become the most generous, and perhaps the most effective, philanthropist in history. He is a Knight of the British Empire. In the 2001 meeting he shocked some participants when he said: "I'm going to destroy three companies: Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and Netscape." Many thought it was a bit immature to use the word 'destroy', since competition is something natural. In general, he seems to have some trouble containing his emotions.

Source(s): June 23, 1995, Los Angeles Times, 'Company Town: The Stormy Gathering at Sun Valley': "Diller and Redstone are regulars at the annual Sun Valley gathering (now in its 12th year), as are Murdoch, Malone, Gates, Ted Turner ... Dream Teamers David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg..."; October 1997, Red Herring Magazine, 'Players Club - CEOs talk media at Herb Allen's Sun Valley'; July 7, 2005, Gettyimages.com.au, 'DreamWorks SKG co-founder and partner, David Geffen, walks to the Inn at the annual Allen and Company Media and Technology Conference';

From the mail room of the William Morris Agency, David Geffen clawed, connived, schmoozed, and just plain worked his way to the top of Hollywood’s entertainment industry. After promoting the careers of 1970s musical stars such as Jackson Browne, the Eagles, Joni Mitchell, and Linda Ronstadt; Geffen moved on to found or cofound Asylum Records, Geffen Records, the Geffen Film Company and DreamWorks SKG. On his way to becoming Hollywood’s first self-made billionaire, Geffen funded two hit Broadway plays, produced five movies, announced an engagement to musician-actress Cher (she called it off), came out publicly as a gay man, and supported the presidential candidacy of William Jefferson Clinton.

April 21, 2016, Los Angeles Times, 'David Geffen gives $100 million to MoMA but says he's still committed to L.A.': "Geffen's $100-million gift to MoMA follows a 2005 pledge of $100 million from David Rockefeller toward the museum's endowment. ... Geffen has loaned paintings to MoMA exhibitions over the last 25 years. He said he is friends with museum board President Marie-Josee Kravis and that she approached him about a donation. ...
Last year, Geffen gave $100 million to UCLA to help create an academy that will provide college preparatory education for L.A.-area students in grades six through 12. He has donated more than $400 million to UCLA in total, including a $200-million, unrestricted donation in 2002 to UCLA's medical school, which was renamed after him."

May/June 2013, Mother Jones, 'Meet the New George Soros: The aging, mostly hands-off Soros is still the right’s biggest bogeyman. Conservatives should pay more attention to Jeffrey Katzenberg.': "Soros, a longtime supporter of campaign finance reform, didn't raise a dime for Obama in 2012 and didn't give to the Priorities super-PAC until very late in the campaign. ...
[Katzenberg was the] go-anywhere-do-anything lieutenant to [Barry] Diller and Paramount CEO Michael Eisner. ... Katzenberg has made a president before. On February 10, 2007, Obama announced his first presidential bid. Ten days later, some 600 guests crowded into a ballroom at the Beverly Hills Hilton for the first major fundraiser of Obama’s campaign, including Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy, and the studio chiefs from Universal, Paramount, Disney, and 20th Century Fox. At one point, Obama adviser David Axelrod wound up standing behind Jennifer Aniston. "I probably lost my ability to fix my place in time as a result," he recalls. Later that evening, a handful of donors who’d raised $46,000 each gathered at the home of DreamWorks cofounder David Geffen for an intimate dinner with the Obamas.
Obama was the star of the show, but the night’s other breakout was Katzenberg, who, with Geffen and Spielberg, had had the political savvy to bet on the young senator. Katzenberg and Spahn had hoped to raise a half million dollars that night; as the demand for tickets soared, they doubled their target. The final haul was $1.3 million, an eye-popping sum that infuriated Hillary Clinton and her campaign aides, who had believed that Spielberg, Katzenberg, and Geffen—SKG in showbiz parlance and former Bill Clinton donors all—would choose her. ...
Katzenberg’s personality was central to the event’s success. He knows how to navigate Hollywood’s minefield of egos, eschewing mass emails to potential donors in favor of personal calls—which few can refuse. Those who give receive a handwritten thank-you note. Meanwhile, Spahn, his consigliere, counts among his friends Axelrod and former White House chief of staff William Daley (Spahn calls him "Billy"); Spahn and Rahm Emanuel, another ex-Obama chief of staff, appeared in each other’s weddings. ...
When David Geffen hosted fundraisers for Clinton, he did not fuss over seating arrangements. But Katzenberg does. In the spring of last year, as he was planning a major Obama event at George Clooney’s house..."

August 17, 2016, People.com, 'Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Vacation on Hillary Clinton Donor's Yacht off Croatia: Photos': "Donald Trump's daughter and her husband, Jared Kushner, spent some time on billionaire Democrat David Geffen’s yacht off the coast of Croatia on Friday. The couple were photographed jet skiing and sunbathing on the $200 million boat, named the Rising Sun.
Geffen, a Hollywood executive and close friend of President Barack Obama, donated large sums of money to both Bernie Sanders’ and Hillary Clinton's campaigns during the primaries, according to the Daily Mail. ...
In a 2014 interview with The New York Times' Maureen Dowd, Geffen said he would "absolutely" support Clinton in the 2016 election and called her "an extraordinary, smart, accomplished woman.""

June 26, 2014, Buzzfeed, 'Found: The Elusive Man At The Heart Of The Hollywood Sex Abuse Scandal': "Before it all came crashing down, Marc Collins-Rector had convinced almost everyone that he was a visionary. By 2000, he had raised millions for a precursor to YouTube, called Digital Entertainment Network, or DEN... [Collins-Rector] and his two business partners — his boyfriend at the time, Chad Shackley, and former child star Brock Pierce, who is now a board member of the Bitcoin Foundation — hosted lavish parties attended by Hollywood's gay A-list. Their guests included relative newcomer Bryan Singer, now the director of the X-Men movies, and legendary media mogul David Geffen, both of whom were investors in DEN. It was at those parties that Collins-Rector and others allegedly sexually assaulted half a dozen teenage boys, according to two sets of civil lawsuits, the first filed in 1999–2002 and the second this year. ...
The second set of suits has rocked Hollywood. The new complaints targeted Singer and three other prominent film industry figures, all of whom were investors in DEN. ... Geffen [who is gay] was not accused of any misconduct in the suits nor named as a defendant. His attorney said that Geffen on occasion was a guest at parties given by DEN investors but recalls no one at them who appeared to be under age. ...
Collins-Rector pleaded guilty in a U.S. District Court to transporting minors across state lines for the purpose of sex...
In May 2000, Collins-Rector, together with Shackley and Pierce, contacted James Laurie, a private investigator in Miami who described himself as a former Marine and an expert in "asset protection." Clients said he referred to himself as a "professional kidnapper" and "ex-CIA guy." "If you get drunk tonight and run down a pedestrian on the side of the road, don't call your lawyer," he said in a 2003 deposition in a civil lawsuit. "Call me."
The PI urged immediate action. That same day, Collins-Rector, Shackley, and Pierce loaded a private jet... The reason for their sudden departure, Pierce would later swear in a deposition, was that Collins-Rector believed there was someone who wanted to take his business and possibly even kill him: Geffen... With the benefit of hindsight," Pierce wrote [to Buzzfeed], "the idea that Geffen caused the demise of DEN is pretty ludicrous.""

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'.

Jewish. BA in History from Columbia. JD from Harvard Law School in 1991. Notes editor at the Harvard Law Review when his classmate Barack Obama was its president. Staff member of the Select Committee investigating the Iran-Contra Affair in the late 1980s. Chief of Business Operations and a member of Barry Diller's Office of the Chairperson at IAC/InterActiveCorp Chair around the turn of the century. Chairperson of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Policy Working Group for Obama's 2008 election campaign. Also advised and guided the Obama campaign's innovative use of technology and the Internet for grassroots engagement and participation. Obama's FCC chairman 2009-2014. Senior fellow of the Aspen Institute since May 2013. Managing Director in the U.S. Buyout team of the Global Telecommunications, Media and Technology ("TMT") group of the Carlyle Group since January 2014. Director of MasterCard since June 2014.

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'

Graduated from Boston and Fordham universities. Co-chairman-CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment 2000-2012, and sole chairman 2012-2017. Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures since 2017. Director of the Motion Picture & Television Fund.

Source(s): May 22, 1995, The New Yorker, 'The Consigliere'.

Yale chemical engineering. Cuban refugee. Chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Company from 1980 until his death in 1997. Warren Buffett and Herbert Allen sat on the board of Coca-Cola and in 2000 pushed out Douglas Ivester, Goizueta's successor. Trilateral Commission member, fellow-Sun Valley visitor, and former Buffett neighbor and long-time close Buffett friend Donald Keough served as president and COO under Goizueta until 1993. Bought Columbia Pictures in 1982 and sold it to Sony in 1989. Director Ford Motor Company.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; July 17, 2017, Time, 'Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner Just Went to 'Summer Camp for Billionaires''.

NFL Commissioner since 2006. Described as "the most powerful man in sports."

Source(s): July 1, 1996, Forbes, 'Herbert Allen and his merry dealsters'.

Possibly related to notorious industrialist Jay Gould, a family also linked to the Pilgrims Society. Joined Allen & Co. in 1972. Managing director Allen & Company. Anno 2018 lists himself as executive vice president of Allen & Co. on LinkedIn (lists nothing else). Director of Discovery Communications and a member of the Compensation and Nominating Committees. Served as a director of Discovery Holding Company prior to Discovery Communications becoming a public company.

Trustee of the Wildlife Conservation Society. Chairman Cornell University's Office of Investment Management. Executive trustee and chairman of the Information Technology Advisory Board of the New School. Nancy B. Peretsman and Philip Scaturro of Allen & Company are also involved in the school. Gould is a director of Liberty Media Corporation, Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation, and UnitedGlobalCom.

Source(s): June 29, 1998, New York Magazine, 'Sun Valley Daze'; July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

Chief executive officer and chairman of the board of The Washington Post Company. He is also chairman of The Washington Post newspaper. Graham retired in September 2000. He is the son of previous Post publishers Katharine Graham and Phillip Graham. Member Trilateral Commission, like his mother.

Source(s): June 29, 1998, New York Magazine, 'Sun Valley Daze'; December 20, 2017, deadline.com, 'Tom Hanks Was Steven Spielberg’s Secret Weapon in Making 'The Post'': "Hanks met Graham at the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 17, 2001 — the same day she died."

Owner of the Washington Post.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; July 14, 2014, deadline.com, 'UPDATE: Herb Allen's Sun Valley Retreat – Recap': "Those mentioned (and pictured) below as well as usual suspects: ... Paramount chief Brad Grey..."; July 7, 2015, Hollywood Reporter, 'Sun Valley: What to Expect From This Year's Mogul Gathering' (on guest list)

Jewish. Co-founded the Brillstein-Grey Entertainment agency in the 1980s. In 2001 he founded the very relevant Plan B Entertainment production company with Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures 2005-2017, when he was ousted over cocaine use.

Source(s): Likely visitor: July 14, 2014, deadline.com, 'UPDATE: Herb Allen's Sun Valley Retreat – Recap': "Those mentioned (and pictured) below as well as usual suspects: ... ex-WME exec Jim Wiatt — but no Ari Emmanuel (again)."

Jewish. Head of the WME talent agency (which today owns the UFC). Ari Emanuel is the brother of former White House chief of staff and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel.

May 12, 2013, New York Post, 'Mogul power plays': "Calling all moguls: Can’t make Sun Valley this year? William Morris Entertainment chief Ari Emanuel has a new hot ticket — an alternative venue for pressing the flesh and cooking up deals. The Hollywood talent agency boss and his co-CEO, Patrick Whitesell, are extending their reach beyond Tinseltown and aiming to create sparks with the wider corporate community by putting together a conference of highfliers. WME has been working closely with Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt to put together the conference with the support of New England Patriots boss Robert Kraft and California philanthropist Eli Broad. Other backers of the new event include: Mukesh Ambani, of India’s Reliance Industries, a big movie investor; Kleiner Perkins’ John Doerr ; and Yuri Milner of DST Global, an early Facebook investor. Reps for WME declined comment. Emanuel’s new event replaces a slot left vacant last year by Forstmann Little’s annual conference because of the death of founder Teddy Forstmann. Notably, Emanuel, who counts Silver Lake as a backer of the talent agency, does not attend the Allen & Co. confab in Sun Valley, Idaho."

Source(s): October 1997, Red Herring Magazine, 'Players Club - CEOs talk media at Herb Allen's Sun Valley'; July 20, 1998, Time Magazine, 'Power Camps'.

Andrew S. (Andy) Grove is the Chairman of the Board of Intel Corporation, as well as a former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) who participated in the founding of the company. Under Grove's tenure as Intel's CEO, the company grew from the world's tenth-largest manufacturer of semiconductors to the industry's dominant firm, and one of the most important companies on the planet.

Source(s): December 20, 2017, deadline.com, 'Tom Hanks Was Steven Spielberg’s Secret Weapon in Making 'The Post'': "Hanks met Graham at the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 17, 2001 — the same day she died."

Famous actor with many Democrat political ties.

Source(s): July 21, 2018, techcrunch.com, 'Eventbrite is reportedly going public in the second half of this year': "Eventbrite, the 12-year-old, San Francisco-based event-planning company, has filed confidentially for an IPO and plans to go public later this year... Lead underwriters are Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase & Co., it says. ... Both cofounders appeared earlier this month at the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho..."

Founders in 2006 of Eventbrite.

September 30, 2014, Forbes, 'Reddit Raises $50 Million, Promises To Share Stock With Community': "The round was led by Sam Altman, the president of startup incubator Y Combinator, who graduated from the same YC class as Reddit founders Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman and was one of Reddit's first users. Andreesen Horowitz and Seqouia also invested, and other individual investors include Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Jared Leto [vegan, gay rights activist actor and singer] ... Kevin and Julia Hartz, Mariam Naficy, Josh Kushner [brother of Trump's son-in-law Jared], ... Snoop Dogg -- and Reddit CEO Yishan Wong."

Source(s): 2012, Washington Post, 'Sun Valley draws business, tech moguls for annual Allen & Co. conference': "Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Netflix's Reed Hastings chat with Donald E. Graham of The Washington Post Co. at Allen & Co.'s annual conference in Sun Valley, Idaho."; July 10, 2013, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'Business Leaders Meet in Sun Valley for Conference': "CEO of Netflix Reed Hastings (R) attends the Allen & Co. annual conference at the Sun Valley Resort on July 11, 2013..."; July 7, 2015, Hollywood Reporter, 'Sun Valley: What to Expect From This Year's Mogul Gathering' (in slideshow for 2014 and on guest list for 2015).

Maternal great-grandfather was attorney, financier, scientist, inventor and philanthropist Alfred Lee Loomis, whose first cousin was Henry Stimson,the Skull & Bones member who held cabinet-level positions in the administrations of William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman. Marine Corps officer training in the early 1980s. After graduating from Bowdoin College, Hastings joined the Peace Corps "out of a combination of service and adventure", and went to teach high school math in Swaziland from 1983 to 1985. MA in Computer Sciences from Stanford in 1988. Co-founder of Netflix in 1997. Director of Microsoft 2007-2012. Director of Facebook since June 2011. Former member of the California State Board of Education.

Supporter of the pro-Third World immigration group FWD.us of Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and many other Sun Valley visitors. fwd.us/supporters (accessed: March 20, 2018): "Our Founders: ... John Doerr ... Bill Gates ... Reid Hoffman ... Drew Houston, Founder and CEO of Dropbox ... Mark Zuckerberg ... Major Contributors: Tim Armstrong, CEO and Chairman AOL, Inc. ... Steve Chen, Co-Founder YouTube. Brian Chesky, CEO and Co-founder Airbnb ... Barry Diller ... Standley F. Druckenmiller [former of Soros' Quantum Fund] ... Paul Graham, Previously: President Y Combinator ... Reed Hastings, Founder and CEO Netflix..."

March 28, 2018, ABC News, 'Former Obama official Susan Rice joins Netflix board of directors': "She was a former U.S. diplomat and served as national security adviser under President Barack Obama until 2017. Rice [also a protege of Madeleine Albright] was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations..."

February 16, 2016, Reuters.de, 'Some hedge funds avoid bite from 'FANG' stocks': "Soros Fund Management ... exited its position in Netflix, by selling 317,534 shares during the fourth quarter [2015]." This only constituted 0.1%., but various other hedge funds also own(ed) stock.

May 16, 2018, CNBC, 'George Soros' fund bought $35 million of Tesla bonds while loading up on Amazon, Netflix stock': "After buying a large amount of stock in the streaming giant in the fourth quarter of 2017, Soros Fund Management acquired another 148,500 shares in the first quarter of this year."

May 21, 2018, Variety, 'Barack and Michelle Obama Sign Netflix Production Deal'.

June 23, 2018, The Independent, 'Netflix communications director fired for using N-word in meetings; His descriptive use of the N-word on at least two occasions at work showed unacceptably low racial awareness and sensitivity''.

Source(s): July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp'.

Christie Hefner is the chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Playboy Enterprises and the daughter of the company’s founder, Hugh M. Hefner. Playboy Enterprises is a diversified publishing, entertainment, and media firm anchored by the iconic Playboy magazine, a half-century old periodical featuring articles, interviews, fiction, and nude photographs of well-endowed young women. A self-professed feminist, Christie Hefner has consciously diverged from the libertine excesses associated with her father’s lifestyle. Described as “slim, attractive, lively, serious, efficient, and firm,” she runs Playboy’s corporate show, while her father attends to the editing of Playboy magazine.

Source(s): July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp'; July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

John S. Hendricks is the founder and chairman of Discovery Communications, Inc., the leading global real-world media and entertainment company. Hendricks created the Discovery Channel in 1982 as the first cable network in the United States designed to provide high quality documentary programming enabling people to explore their world and satisfy their natural curiosity. Mr. Hendricks has been the driving force behind DCI’s dramatic growth including the expansion of DCI from its core property, the Discovery Channel, to current global operations in 160 countries with over one billion total subscribers. Under Mr. Hendricks’ leadership, DCI’s stable of networks now encompass over 60 networks of distinctive programming representing 21 entertainment brands including TLC, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, Discovery Health Channel, Discovery Kids, and Discovery Times Channel. DCI’s other properties consist of Discovery.com and 120 Discovery Channel retail stores. Mr. Hendricks serves on the Board of Directors of a number of non-profit organizations including the American Film Institute, The Colorado Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association. Mr. Hendricks also serves on the Advisory Board of Lowell Observatory.

Source(s): July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Sony chairman.

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 7, 2015, Hollywood Reporter, 'Sun Valley: What to Expect From This Year's Mogul Gathering' (on guest list); July 17, 2017, Time, 'Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner Just Went to 'Summer Camp for Billionaires''; July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

B.S. in Symbolic Systems and Cognitive Science from Stanford in 1990. M.St. in Philosophy from Wolfson College, Oxford University in 1993 as a Marshall Scholar. Founding director of PayPal in 1998. In January 2000, he left SocialNet and joined PayPal full-time as the company's COO. At the time of PayPal's acquisition by eBay for $1.5B in 2002, he was executive vice president of PayPal. Co-founder in December 2002 and executive chairman of LinkedIn. Bilderberg steering committee member Peter Thiel and Keith Rabois, colleagues of Hoffman's at PayPal, invested in LinkedIn. First visited Bilderberg in 2011 and has visited every year since (at least until 2017), always alongside Thiel. Director of Microsoft since March 2017. Fortune of $3.3 billion.

Involved in Greylock Partners: greylock.com/team/ (accessed: June 16, 2018): "Investors: ... Reid Hoffman ... EIRS: ... Jeff Weiner, CEO, LinkedIn... DJ Patil, Former Chief Data Scientist, The White House. Casey Winters, Former Growth Product Lead, Pinterest..."

In 2018 he interviewed Gianni Agnelli heir and fellow Sun Valley participant John Elkann on his podcast. Both Agnelli and Elkann are Bilderbergers.

Supporter of the pro-Third World immigration group FWD.us of Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and many other Sun Valley visitors. fwd.us/supporters (accessed: March 20, 2018): "Our Founders: ... John Doerr ... Bill Gates ... Reid Hoffman ... Drew Houston, Founder and CEO of Dropbox ... Mark Zuckerberg ... Major Contributors: Tim Armstrong, CEO and Chairman AOL, Inc. ... Steve Chen, Co-Founder YouTube. Brian Chesky, CEO and Co-founder Airbnb ... Barry Diller ... Standley F. Druckenmiller [former of Soros' Quantum Fund] ... Paul Graham, Previously: President Y Combinator ... Reed Hastings, Founder and CEO Netflix..."

Executive vice president American Home Mortgage Investment Corp., chairman Greenberg Traurig LLP of New York.

Source(s): July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Cofounder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

Son of a Harvard graduate. Graduated himself from MIT, where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. It was there that he met Arash Ferdowsi who would later go on to be co-founder and CTO of Dropbox. Founder in 2007 and CEO of Dropbox. Estimated fortune of $1 billion.

Supporter of the pro-Third World immigration group FWD.us of Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and many other Sun Valley visitors. fwd.us/supporters (accessed: March 20, 2018): "Our Founders: ... John Doerr ... Bill Gates ... Reid Hoffman ... Drew Houston, Founder and CEO of Dropbox ... Mark Zuckerberg ... Major Contributors: Tim Armstrong, CEO and Chairman AOL, Inc. ... Steve Chen, Co-Founder YouTube. Brian Chesky, CEO and Co-founder Airbnb ... Barry Diller ... Standley F. Druckenmiller [former of Soros' Quantum Fund] ... Paul Graham, Previously: President Y Combinator ... Reed Hastings, Founder and CEO Netflix..."

In 2016, he endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.

July 24, 1995, New York Daily News, 'Hey Ivana, Just Wait Until Donald's Ship Comes In': "The hush-hush investors' conference hosted by Wall Street's Allen & Co. ... found millionaires and billionaires like Michael Eisner, Edgar Bronfman Jr., Henry Kravis and Bill Gates ice skating and taking hay rides. ... Diller was also named to the "All-Bald All-Star Team" along with Ron Perelman, Larry Tisch, Wayne Huizenga and David Geffen."; July 1, 1996, Forbes, 'Herbert Allen and his merry dealsters'.

Successful Florida Entrepreneur with Waste Management Inc. In 1983, Huizenga retired from WMI with stock and options valued at $23 million. Shortly thereafter, he began purchasing a series of service companies in South Florida, including laundry, bottled water, lawn care, pest control and portable toilet businesses, under the umbrella of Huizenga Holdings. He continued to grow these businesses, but always looked for the next big thing. A friend brought Huizenga to a local Blockbuster video franchise, with the hopes that he would get involved. Once Huizenga saw the business plan, he knew it was a good prospect. He bought control of the entire company, subsequently becoming chairman and CEO, and began to reacquire franchises in key markets in an effort to take the company nationwide as quickly as possible. Blockbuster went public in 1989 and, over a six-year span, opened a new store every 17 hours. By 1994, Huizenga had acquired 100 video and music chains, as well as production and distribution companies. Entertainment Weekly named Huizenga one of the 10 most powerful people in the entertainment industry. When Viacom acquired Blockbuster in 1994, Huizenga had successfully and systematically grown the company from a $7 million business with 19 stores to a $4 billion enterprise with more than 3,700 stores in 11 countries. After the sale of Blockbuster, Huizenga refocused his activities on Huizenga Holdings, acquiring Republic Waste Industries, which he grew to be the third-largest company of its kind in the U.S. At the same time, Huizenga planned and launched AutoNation, the first nationwide auto dealer in the U.S. Huizenga developed a one-price strategy, hired exceptional management, and grew AutoNation to be the largest auto dealership in the country – now with 370 dealerships – and the first to go public. Next, Huizenga formed the company Extended Stay America with an associate. In its first year, the company surpassed its goal of 50 locations by 12. By the time Extended Stay America was sold in 2004, it had nearly 500 hotels in 42 states. Huizenga has also led several sports franchises in Florida. He led the charge in Southern Florida to obtain a Major League Baseball team, and in its fifth year, the Florida Marlins won the World Series. Huizenga was also entrusted with the Florida Panthers, a National Hockey League expansion team, which reached the Stanley Cup Finals in its third season. Currently, Huizenga’s only sports holding is the Miami Dolphins, but at one time he was the first person to own three major-league sports franchises at once. Today he is a Billionaire. Met Viacom's Redstone at Sun Valley in the early 1990s, a relationship that culminated in Viacom buying Blockbuster in 1994 for US$7.7 billion.

Source(s): July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp'

Joined Sony in 1960. President and CEO Sony 1999-2000, chair and CEO 2000- since June 1999. Director General Motors 1999-, Nestle S.A. 2001-. He served as Chairman of the IT Strategy Council, an advisory committee to Japan's Prime Minister from July to November 2000.

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 6, 2016, deadline.com, 'Herb Allen's Sun Valley Retreat: Politicians Talk Morality And Future Of Cities': "Disney’s well represented with CEO Bob Iger, Disney-ABC Television Group’s Ben Sherwood, ESPN’s John Skipper and former COO Tom Staggs. Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner’s also there."; 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Jewish. Joined ABC in 1974. Named head of ABC Entertainment in 1989. n 1996, The Walt Disney Company purchased Capital Cities/ABC and renamed it ABC, Inc., where Iger remained President until 1999. President and COO of The Walt Disney Company 2000-2005 under Michael Eisner, chairman and CEO since 2005.

His Disney company bought Marvel Entertainment in 2009 for $4 billion.

June 2, 2017, The Star, 'Elon Musk, Bob Iger jump Trump’s advisory council amid climate discord'.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

Harvard and Cambridge University-educated. Editor at the Washington Monthly. Reporter for the Wall Street Journal late 1970s-1986. In the late 1970s he covered the Justice Department, the CIA, and the Senate. The Journal's Middle East correspondent 1980-1983, chief diplomatic correspondent 1984-1986. Participated in the April 1980 Colloquium on Counterintelligence Conference, loaded with questionable CIA operatives as Ted Shackley, Richard Bissell, Ray Cline, Daniel Arnold, Sam Halpern , George Kalaris, Etc. Only a handful of journalists were present.

Editor OutLook Section of the Washington Post 1986-1990, foreign editor 1990-1992, assistant managing editor in charge of business news 1993-1999, columnist on global politics, economics and international affairs 1999-2000, and again since 2002. Executive editor of the International Herald Tribune in Paris 2000-2002, and columnist after that. Supported the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, but critical of the Bush administration's torture policies. Has been labeled "the mainstream media’s apologist for the Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]" by Melvin A. Goodman, a 42-year CIA veteran, Johns Hopkins professor, and senior fellow at the Center for International Policy. In 2008, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Kissinger protege Brent Scowcroft, and Ignatius published the book America and the World. Member of the CFR since 1984. Trustee of the German Marshall Fund since 2000. Occasional visitor Munich Security Conference since 2002. Council member CSIS. DAVOS discussion moderator.

His 2007 novel Body of Lies was adapted into a film by director Ridley Scott. It starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has acquired the rights to Ignatius’s seventh novel, The Increment. Adjunct Lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and later a Senior Fellow to its Future of Diplomacy Program.

Source(s): July 7, 2010, Los Angeles Times, 'Allen & Co. summer camp mogulfest gets underway': "Comcast chief Brian Roberts passed a love note to General Electric chief Jeff Immelt [at 2009 event]..."; July 7, 2016, Business Insider, 'The summer camp for billionaires, which just kicked off in Sun Valley, has yielded some blockbuster deals': "Jeff Immelt, the CEO of GE (which owned NBC at the time), met with Comcast COO Steve Burke and Comcast's 89-year-old founder Ralph Roberts."

Earned an A.B. in Applied Mathematics and Economics cum laude from Dartmouth College graduating with the class of 1978. He was president of his fraternity, Phi Delta Alpha, and currently serves on the Dartmouth board of trustees. MBA Harvard 1982. Chairman and CEO of General Electric 2000-2017. GE has owned NBC since 1986.

On February 7, 2018, Immelt became the chairperson at Athenahealth, replacing Athenahealth's co-founder, Jonathan Bush, who remains on as CEO.

Source(s): July 8, 2009, Reuters blog, 'Sun Valley: What are these guys doing here?'; July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

Anti-neocon Jew. Supports Israel, but loathes Israel's West Bank settlement activity. Used to be research director at the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Founding executive director Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) in 1985. Served on the board of the Ford Foundation-financed New Israel Fund, which Israeli neocons consider anti-Israel. CFR and Israel CFR member. Visitor Munich Security Conference (MSC). Founding director Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in 2006.

Special assistant to President Bill Clinton and as senior director of Near East and South Asian Affairs at the United States National Security Council. While at the NSC, he served as principal adviser to the President and the National Security Advisor on Arab–Israeli issues, Iraq, Iran, and South Asia. He was a senior member of Secretary of State Warren Christopher's Middle East peace team and served as the White House representative on the U.S. Israel Science and Technology Commission. Twice as United States ambassador to Israel and also as Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs during the Clinton Administration. Executive vice president of the Brookings Institution.

Source(s): July 7, 2010, Los Angeles Times, 'Allen & Co. summer camp mogulfest gets underway': "Likely skipping is Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James, who was a big hit at last year's meeting. ... His name was on an early list of attendees but on the final list it wasn't there, according to one attendee. "

Famous NBA basketball player.

Source(s): July 10, 1999, Associated Press, 'Media titans gather in Sun Valley'; July 7, 2010, Los Angeles Times, 'Allen & Co. summer camp mogulfest gets underway': "While others make getting invited to Sun Valley their main goal in life, Jobs has only shown up a couple of times."

Steven Paul Jobs is the charismatic and temperamental co-founder of Apple Computer (Laurance Rockefeller was an early investor). Perhaps the pre-eminent pioneer of personal computing, Jobs was compelled to leave Apple in 1985. Jobs founded NeXT Computer in 1985, purchased a majority share of the 3-D animation company Pixar Corporation in 1986, and returned to the helm of Apple in 1997. Has has also been a director, chairman and CEO of Pixar Animation Studios. Always a controversial figure, Jobs has been among the most publicized, loved, and hated of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. He has been credited and blamed for a generation of successes and failures in the computer industry.

Source(s): June 29, 1998, New York Magazine, 'Sun Valley Daze'; July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp'; July 7, 2010, Los Angeles Times, 'Allen & Co. summer camp mogulfest gets underway': "A highlight of last year was Universal Pictures chief Ron Meyer accidentally driving off in BET founder Bob Johnson's rental car."

Robert Johnson is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the cable television network Black Entertainment Television (BET) and, as a result of that successful venture, the richest African American in the United States. In 2000 BET became a property of Viacom Incorporated. In December 2002 Johnson became the first African American to own a major league sports franchise in the United States when he was awarded a National Basketball Association franchise in Charlotte, North Carolina.

His daughter, jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer, was previously married to actor Tobey Maguire, a childhood friend of Leonardo DiCaprio who played basketball with President Obama, alongside George Clooney, John Prendergast, Matt Damon and Don Cheadle (all George Soros assets).

Robert Johnson's wife, Sheila, was involved in the bizarre cult NXIVM of Keith Raniere, along with the Bronfmans and other elites. October 13, 2003, Forbes, 'Cult of Personality': "Keith Raniere's devoted followers say he is one of the smartest and most ethical people alive. ... Prompted by a potent word-of-mouth network, they include Sheila Johnson, cofounder of Black Entertainment Television..."

Source(s): July 6, 2016, New York Post, 'Justin Trudeau is one hot ticket at Sun Valley mogulfest': "Other world leaders planning to attend include Argentina’s president, Mauricio Macri, and Jordan’s King Abudullah II, according to sources who have seen the invitation schedule."

Major global superclass family.

Source(s): July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp': "There are people [Herbert Allen] always invites because they're old friends: Bob Strauss and his law partner, Vernon Jordan ... Walter Mondale; former Senator Bill Bradley ... Tom Brokaw..."

Black. Born on August 15, 1935. Graduate of DePauw University and the Howard University Law School. Lawyer involved in the civil rights movement.

Early career: Executive assistant to Leslie Dunbar (see Norman Foundation in ISGP's "liberal CIA" article") at the Southern Research Council from 1963 to 1965 and in that position responsible for registering 2 million black people to vote and for supporting Martin Luther King's black activist movement. President and CEO of the National Urban League, Inc. Executive Director of the United Negro College Fund, Inc. Director of the Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council. Attorney-Consultant, U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity. Assistant to the Executive Director of the Southern Regional Council; Georgia Field Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and an attorney in private practice in Arkansas and Georgia.

Mr. Jordan's presidential appointments include: the President's Advisory Committee for the Points of Light Initiative Foundation; the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on South Africa; the Advisory Council on Social Security; the Presidential Clemency Board; the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission; the National Advisory Committee on Selective Service; and the Council of the White House Conference "To Fulfill These Rights." In 1992, Mr. Jordan served as the Chairman of the Clinton Presidential Transition Team.

Mr. Jordan's corporate and other directorships include: America Online Latin America, Inc.; American Express Company; Asbury Automotive Group, Inc.; Callaway Golf Company; Clear Channel Communications, Inc.; Dow Jones & Company, Inc.; Howard University (Trustee); J.C. Penney Company, Inc.; Revlon, Inc.; Sara Lee Corporation; Shinsei Bank, Ltd. (Senior Advisor); Xerox Corporation; International Advisory Board of DaimlerChrysler; Fuji Bank and Barrick Gold. Senior Managing Director of Lazard Frères & Co. LLC in New York.

Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1971 to 1984, together with Maurice Strong, Bill Moyers, Robert Roosa, Thomas Watson, Cyrus Vance, John D. Rockefeller III, future Senator Jay Rockefeller and later on, James Wolfensohn. Trustee of the African-America Institute, first financed by the CIA and later by the Ford and Rockefeller foundations, in the 1970s and 1980s. 1977 visitor of the secretive U.S.-Russian Dartmouth Conferences, whose most frequent visitor - annually from 1962 to 1988 - was David Rockefeller. First went to Bilderberg in 1979, joined the steering committee, and anno 2017 is still visiting almost every year, making him one of the most long-term visitors. Trustee of the "new left" / "liberal CIA" New World Foundation with Hillary Clinton in the 1980s. Long-time visitor since the 1980s or early 1990s of the Sun Valley Meetings - the Bilderberg for Silicon Valley and the entertainment industry - and one of the closest friends of organizer Herb Allen. Trustee of the Ford Foundation in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Trustee of George Soros' elite International Crisis Group in the 1990s. Member of the Trilateral Commission in the 1990s, until 2003. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Director of the Ford Foundation. Member super-elite Bretton Woods Committee. Member of the even more elite Alfalfa Club and president in 2003-2004. Member of the U.S. national advisory board of the America-Israel Friendship League with Henry Kissinger, George Shultz and other elites. Trustee of the Urban Institute, along with Warren Buffett, CIA director John Deutch and other top elites as Robert McNamara, Cyrus Vance and the Washington Post's Katharine Graham. Member of the Century Association with the Rockefellers and Henry Kissinger. President of the Washington chapter of The Economic Club, its New York branch chaired by Pilgrim, Blackstone Group chairman and close David Rockefeller friend Peter Peterson. Member of the super-obscure Rockefeller Center Club. Frequently to be found at Martha's Vineyard parties with the Clintons, Lynn Forester de Rothschild and other Democrat elites. Visitor of the Clinton Global Initiative. Member of the CIA External Advisory Board, along with National Democratic Institute for International Affairs head Madeleine Albright, leading Iran Contra and 9/11 Commission member Lee Hamilton and other elites.

In the late 1990s Jordan sat on the initial board of FirstMark Communications, together with Lynn Forester de Rothschild (founder), Evelyn de Rothschild, Henry Kissinger, Michael J. Price (former managing director Lazard), and Nathan Myhrvold (former CEO Microsoft). Close friend and adviser of President Clinton. The Clintons spend Christmas Eve with the Jordans and often visit them at their holiday home in the island resort of Martha's Vineyard. In August 2004 the Clintons were present at a Martha's Vineyard party where Vernon Jordan and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild celebrated their birthdays together. Jordan was accused of aiding in a cover-up of the President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky. Ultimately, the allegations that Jordan asked Lewinsky to lie to investigators and arranged a job for her in New York in exchange for her silence were not addressed in the report that Ken Starr delivered to Congress. According to the BBC: Vernon Jordan is the ultimate Washington insider. He has been called a "go-between", a "fixer-without-portfolio", a "freelance hired gun".

July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List': "Stephen Kappes Torch Hill Investment Partners"

BS in pre-medicine from Ohio University and a Master of Science degree in pathology from Ohio State University. Served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1976 to 1981. Joined the CIA in 1981. Has been station chief in Moscow, New Delhi and Frankfurt and has served in Pakistan. Assistant deputy director to former Deputy Director for Operations (DDO) James Pavitt, and later as DDO after Pavitt stepped down in August 2004. At the time of the September 11 attacks, Kappes was the associate deputy director for operations for counterintelligence. Supervised the (torture-linked) extraordinary rendition program in the early 2000s. In 2003 he worked with President George W. Bush in negotiations with Libya that ended that country's weapons-of-mass-destruction (WMD) programs. Out of the CIA 2004-2006. Deputy director of the CIA 2006-2010.

Torch Hill Investment Partners leadership:

• torchhill.com/team/investment-team/ (accessed: March 22, 2018): "
  - George Lund, Chairman. ...
  - General Gregory Newbold, USMC, Ret.: ... Director of Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff (J-3) ...
  - David C. Miller, Jr.: ... Special Assistant to President George H.W. Bush on the National Security Council staff responsible for counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics initiatives as well as Africa. ... Chairman of the Special Operations Fund and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Council of American Ambassadors...
  - General John Abizaid, USA, Ret. ... retired from the U.S. Army as Commander of U.S. Central Command... Senior Fellowship at the Hoover Institution...
  - Stephen R. Kappes, Partner & Chief Operating Officer: ... retired from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as the Deputy Director in May 2010 after 30 years of service. From 2006 to 2010 he was directly involved in the leadership and management of all elements of the Agency under two different Directors and two Presidential administrations. From 2005 to 2006 he was the Chief Operating Officer of ArmorGroup International and a member of the Board of Directors of ArmorGroup International plc. From 2002 to 2004 Mr. Kappes served as the Associate Deputy Director of Operations and then the Deputy Director of Operations for the CIA. Mr. Kappes also served during his career as the Associate Deputy Director for Counter Intelligence.
  - Stephen Minor, Vice President.
  - Jesse Walcott ...
  - William R. Sullivan, Founder and Special Partner: ... began his career as an Army Intelligence officer. Following graduate school he joined Booz Allen Hamilton followed by management positions with Shearson Lehman Brothers and the American Express Company, where he was a member of the Senior Management Group."
• torchhill.com/team/executive-partners/ (accessed: March 22, 2018): "Lieutenant General Thomas Turner, USA, Ret. Lieutenant General R. Steven Whitcomb, USA, Ret."
• torchhill.com/team/strategic-partners/ (accessed: March 22, 2018): "[Henry Kissinger protege] Brent Scowcroft, CEO and Founder of The Scowcroft Group; Former National Security Advisor to two U.S. Presidents.
  General Sir Jeremy Mackenzie, GCB OBE DL.,Former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Chief Military Advisor to the Beretta Holding Group."
• torchhill.com/team/product-technical-partners/ (accessed: March 22, 2018): "
  - William Parrish: Served as an Assistant Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security. ... Commanded the Marine Corps Security Force.
  - Brigadier General Jim Feigley, USMC, Ret.: ... Served as Director of the Marine Corps acquisition command. ...
  - Art Brown: Twenty-five year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency...
  - Dr. James Richardson PhD, Mechanical Engineering: ... Former Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research [Projects] Agency [DARPA] . Former Chief Scientist at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies...
  - Lieutenant Colonel Gabriel Patricio, USMC, Ret.: Defense acquisition expert. ...
  - Chuck Jones [IT expert]
  - Roy Carter [IT expert]
  - Brigadier General Matt Broderick, USMC, Ret.: Security expertise, to include command and control, use of drones, and cyber security. Served as an Assistant Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security. ...
  - Colonel Jerry Durrant, USMC, Ret.: ... Served as director of security operations in Iraq for a large contractor to the U.S. military and Department of State. Consultant to industry, the Army, and the Marine Corps on both operations and individual equipment.

July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp'

Mel Karmazin was president and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Viacom beginning with the merger of Viacom and the CBS Corporation in May 2000 and lasting until June 1, 2004, when he resigned. At the time of his resignation, Karmazin did not mention other career plans. During his earlier career, Karmazin ran Infinity Broadcasting – a major radio station group – and served as president and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CBS. As president and COO of Viacom, Karmazin presides over one of the world’s largest media empires, which includes among other assets CBS, MTV, UPN, Paramount Entertainment, and Simon & Schuster. Before his abrupt resignation, Karmazin was widely considered to be the heir apparent to Viacom’s chairmanship, currently occupied by the company’s founder Sumner Redstone, with whom Karmazin historically enjoyed a difficult relationship. Karmazin was replaced immediately by Redstone with two Viacom executives, Tom Freston, chief executive of Viacom's MTV Networks subsidiary, and Leslie Moonves, chief executive of CBS, also a subsidiary. On November 19, 2004, Sirius Satellite Radio announced that Mel Karmazin would become its chief executive officer. The announcement came as somewhat of a surprise since Karmazin had been quoted a few months earlier as being doubtful about satellite radio's prospects.

Source(s): December 5, 2013, Forbes: "Palantir CEO Alex Karp (left) with billionaire cofounder Peter Thiel at the Sun Valley conference in 2009. (Credit: Allen & Co.)"; July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List': "Peter Thiel and Palantir’s Alex Karp grabbing a coffee between panels at the lodge..."; zimbio.com/pictures/, 'Business Leaders Meet in Sun Valley for Conference': "Alex Karp ... attends the Allen & Co. annual conference on July 10, 2013..."; July 6, 2016, Business Insider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and the big names in tech and media swarm to Sun Valley, Idaho, for Allen & Co.'s mogul fest'.

JD from Stanford. Karp's advisor at Frankfurt University was the well-known German critical theorist, sociologist and philosopher, Jurgen Habermas, a student of Theodor Adorno, a leading thinker of the Frankfurt School. Co-founder of national security data mining software development firm Palantir Technologies, together with Bilderberg steering committee member Peter Thiel (Karp also joined the steering committee). Palantir has received a lot of backing from the CIA's In-Q-Tel under George Tenet, a good friend of Karp. Later on, reportedly, its relationship with the CIA, NSA and FBI soured, but it's software is still being used. Karp has been CEO of Palentir for many years, at least since 2010, and probably since 2004. Major pro-Third World immigration globalist.

palantir.com/about (March 4, 2010; first indication of a (very basic) website in Webarchive; no team members listed): "our CEO, Alex Karp."

August 14, 2013, Forbes, 'How A 'Deviant' Philosopher Built Palantir, A CIA-Funded Data-Mining Juggernaut': "Since rumors began to spread that a startup called Palantir helped to kill Osama bin Laden, Alex Karp hasn't had much time to himself. ... Karp's 24/7 security detail is meant to protect him from extremists who have sent him death threats and conspiracy theorists who have called Palantir to rant about the Illuminati. Schizophrenics have stalked Karp outside his office for days at a stretch. "It's easy to be the focal point of fantasies," he says, "if your company is involved in realities like ours." ...
Palantir lives the realities of its customers: the NSA, the FBI and the CIA--an early investor through its In-Q-Tel venture fund--along with an alphabet soup of other U.S. counterterrorism and military agencies. In the last five years Palantir has become the go-to company for mining massive data sets for intelligence and law enforcement applications...
CIA director George Tenet, who says in an interview that "I wish we had a tool of its power" before 9/11. General David Petraeus, the most recent former CIA chief, ... calls Karp "sheer brilliant." ...
Karp owns roughly a tenth of the firm--just less than its largest stakeholder, Peter Thiel, the PayPal and Facebook billionaire. (Other billionaire investors include Ken Langone and hedge fund titan Stanley Druckenmiller [formerly a long-time George Soros employee].) ...
"They're in a scary business," says Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Lee Tien. ACLU analyst Jay Stanley has written that Palantir's software could enable a "true totalitarian nightmare, monitoring the activities of innocent Americans on a mass scale.""

April 21, 2017, Buzzfeed, 'Video Shows Palantir CEO Ridiculing Trump And Slamming His Immigration Rhetoric' (instead of pointing out Karp's propaganda, in the article Buzzfeed - who obviously agrees with Karp's words - is making the case that Palantir now is helping to implement Trump's anti-immigration policy): "In a Palantir staff meeting in August 2015, the video shows, Karp derided Trump’s "fictitious wealth," called him a bully...
[Alex Karp words:] "I've had the rare opportunity to meet Trump, which I turned down. I mean, this is off the record, but like, I respect nothing about the dude. ... It would be hard to make up someone I find less appealing. ... It's like, the guy inherits $50 million and has a fictitious wealth which he claims is 10 - it's probably like half a billion. So you inherit $50 million in the '70s, and you ... have $20 billion now. ... That's not a good return! ... [He's] a bully... In any case, I don't care if you guys vote for him. ...
Therefore we should throw out all immigrants. Who's gonna do the work? It's like, it makes no sense. But you have to ask yourself, something that makes no sense, like, de facto is bringing up the worst that a society can bring up, which is like, blame the people that work really hard and that we need and that are coming here at the risk of their life instead of the dysfunction that you may have helped create. Why is that person so successful?" ...
[Palentir's] chairman, the billionaire Peter Thiel, emerged last year as Donald Trump's most prominent supporter from the tech world. Alex Karp, the Palantir CEO, joined the chiefs of much larger tech companies in a meeting with Trump shortly after the election. Thiel was there, too, seated prominently at Trump’s left. works for the CIA, the FBI, the Marine Corps, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, deploying engineers to analyze and visualize the customers' data."

February 2012 issue, Washingtonian: "Total Information Awareness (TIA) ... The man who ended up in charge of the effort, retired admiral John Poindexter, had been thinking about the problem [of anti-terrorist datamining] since the early 1980s, when he was on the staff of the White House National Security Council. ...
One day not long after Palantir was launched in 2004, Poindexter received a call from his friend Richard Perle, ex-chair of the Defense Policy Board, asking if he'd come to Perle's house for a meeting with two entrepreneurs he knew from Palo Alto--Alex Karp, Palantir's CEO, and his fellow cofounder Peter Thiel, a billionaire venture capitalist who'd helped start PayPal and was an early investor in Facebook.
Karp, a self-described progressive, knew Thiel, a prominent libertarian, from their days at Stanford Law School. After 9/11, Karp had reconnected with Thiel, who had the idea that Silicon Valley should do something to improve national security and secure civil liberties. They and three other Palantir cofounders wanted to use PayPal's fraud-detection technology as the model for a new counterterrorism software. ...
Karp says Poindexter was one of many experts whom Palantir's founders consulted in their early days. Many of them opened doors that usually remain closed to small companies with no experience in Washington. ... Big companies have dominated defense contracting for more than 60 years [and, according to Palantir] failed the government and ripped off taxpayers. ...
Karp counts former CIA director George Tenet as a friend as well as Tenet's employer, Herb Allen, who runs the enigmatic investment bank Allen & Co., a Palantir investor. Michael Leiter, former National Counter-Terrorism Center director, is a senior counselor to Palantir. Another top adviser, Bryan Cunningham, was a CIA intelligence officer and senior staffer to former national security advisor Condoleezza Rice."

Source(s): July 2, 1993, Los Angeles Times, 'When Herb Allen Talks, Star Makers Listen'; June 23, 1995, Los Angeles Times, 'Company Town: The Stormy Gathering at Sun Valley': "Diller and Redstone are regulars at the annual Sun Valley gathering (now in its 12th year), as are Murdoch, Malone, Gates, Ted Turner ... Dream Teamers David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg..."; June 29, 1998, New York Magazine, 'Sun Valley Daze'; July 7, 2010, Los Angeles Times, 'Allen & Co. summer camp mogulfest gets underway': "Attendees arrived Tuesday and [included] Jeffrey Katzenberg..."; July 17, 2017, Time, 'Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner Just Went to 'Summer Camp for Billionaires''.

Jeffrey Katzenberg rose through the ranks at Paramount Pictures before assuming the chairmanship of Walt Disney Studios 1984-1994. Teamed up with Walt Disney Company chairman Michael Eisner to put Disney – and feature-length animation – back on the map. When Katzenberg’s relationship with Eisner went sour, Katzenberg earned the nickname “the Katz that bit the mouse” by successfully suing Disney in 1994, extracting a massive severance package.
Next, in 1994, he teamed with industry heavyweights Steven Spielberg and David Geffen to form DreamWorks SKG, the first new Hollywood studio to be created since the 1930s. The only non-billionaire among DreamWorks’ founders, Katzenberg is considered to be the studio’s primary creative force.

Stanford University and Yale Law School, partner in the Washington law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand, chairman Federal Communications Commission (FCC), managing director of The Carlyle Group and a director of The New York Times Company.

Source(s): July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp': "...the panel is moderated by the charming Donald Keough, who joined Allen & Co. after serving as president of Coca-Cola."; July 8, 2009, Reuters blog, 'Sun Valley: What are these guys doing here?': "Donald Keough (chairman of Allen & co) is on both Coke and Berkshire Hathaway's board and is a friend of both Warren’s and Herb’s. ... Barry Diller, InteractiveCorp CEO and Sun Valley attendee, is also a Coke director. [Diller's] InteractiveCorp's directors include (surprise) Donald Keough, John Malone, Diane von Furstenburg (also Barry's wife), all in beautiful Sun Valley as we, er, speak.".

Joined Coca-Cola in 1950. Joined the board of Coca-Cola in 1981. President and COO of Coca-Cola 1981 - April 1993 under chairman and CEO Roberto Goizueta (1981-1997). Trilateral Commission founding member and Coca-Cola chair and CEO J. Paul Austin preferred Keough as his successor, but the Coca-Cola founder Robert Woodruff overruled him. Chairman of Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. 1986-1993. Chairman of Columbia Pictures 1985-1989. Columbia Pictures was bought from (soon to be) Coca-Cola board member Herbert Allen in 1982 and sold to Sony in 1989. Along with Herb Allen, Keough neighbor and friend Warren Buffett also sat on the board of Coca-Cola. In 1988 Buffett bought a controlling stake in Coca-Cola. Keough continued as a major unofficial influence in Coca-Cola from 1993 until he was allowed to rejoin the board in 2004 due to the scrapping of an age limit. Stayed on the board until 2013.

May 31, 2004, Fortune, 'The Real Story How did Coca-Cola's management go from first-rate to farcical in six short years? Tommy the barber knows': "Many people see Keough as the company's guardian, savior, and keeper of the flame--the man who has, since Goizueta's death [in 1997], worked behind the scenes to keep Coke on course. Keough served for 12 years as Goizueta's very strong and effective No. 2--a hard-charging, irrepressible president and COO until he retired from the company and the board in 1993. In truth, though, Keough, now 77, never really retired from Coke. He has continued to serve as consultant, advisor, and behind-the-scenes power broker. He officially rejoined as a director after Coke abolished its 74-year-old age limit in February."

2011, Natalie Slawinski of the The University of Western Ontario, 'Strategic Leadership', p. 351: "When the chairman, J. Paul Austin retired in 1981, Goizueta became chairman and CEO. [Bob] Woodruff (despite being retired) used his position as the company's 90-year-old patriarch to overrule Austin's choice for successor, Donald R. Keough. Woodruff's pick, the chemical engineer from Cuba, was regarded as the darkest horse in the succession process. However, Woodruff and others on the board saw Goizueta as the person needed to introduce change and improve performance. Goizueta generously asked Keough to be his chief operating officer (COO) and president..."

Keough was non-executive chairman of Allen & Co. from 1993, after he left Coca-Cola (but remained a major influence), until his death in 2015. Director of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. February 24, 2015, Los Angeles Times, 'Donald Keough dies at 88': "Director of Berkshire Hathaway , the investment company founded by his former Omaha neighbor and lifelong friend, Warren Buffett..." The foreword of his 2011 book The Ten Commandments for Business Failure was written by Warren Buffett.

February 25, 2015, Fortune, 'The real boss behind Coke's secret formula': "Moreover, for 22 years after he retired from Coca-Cola, Keough served as non-executive chairman of Allen & Co. Herbert Allen can't pinpoint what Keough brought to his firm, but it was important, he says. "He brought a spirit and intelligence that's hard to define. He was, above all, a teacher." ... "There were two No. 1's," says Coke director and Allen & Co. CEO Herbert Allen about the Goizueta-Keough team.""

On the 1993 Trilateral Commission membership list. June 1995, Trilateral Commission membership list: "David Rockefeller: Founder and Honorary Chairman... Katharine Graham, Chairman of the Executive Committee, The Washington Post Company ... Vernon C. Jordan... Donald R. Keough, Chairman of the Board, Allen & Company Incorporated ... Henry A. Kissinger ... Gerald Levin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Time Warner ... George P. Shultz ... Paul A. Volcker ... Walter F. Mondale..." Ignoring the non Sun Valley names, March 1998 and April 2003 Trilateral Commission lists include key Sun Valley participants Jordon, Keough and Levin. Not Graham and Mondale. Only Levin is left on a 2004 list; Keough and Jordan are gone. Allen & Co. managing director and former CIA director George Tenet joined the Trilateral Commission no later than 2008.

Director H.J. Heinz Company (of a friend of David Rockefeller and key Bilderberg participant), the Washington Post Company, USA Networks Inc., McDonald's and Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp. Chairman Excalibur Technologies. Visitor Trilateral Commission. Chairman of the Notre Dame University Board of Trustees. The Keough Institute for Irish Studies and the Keough-Notre Dame Centre in Dublin are both named in his honor.

January 10, 2000, Fortune, 'What Really Happened At Coke': "let’s clear up any mystery about why Doug Ivester — at age 52 and after only a little more than two years on the job — suddenly resigned as chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola. He was pushed. Hard. ... by Coke’s two most powerful directors, Warren Buffett and Herbert Allen. ...
another, very private meeting--this one called by Coke's [Coca-Cola's] two most powerful directors, Warren Buffett and Herbert Allen. ... [Donald] Keough, who, as the chairman of Allen & Co., was the right-hand man to one of his most powerful [Coca Cola] board members, Herbert Allen, and who, as a native of Nebraska, was an old friend [and neighbor] of his other most powerful board member, Warren Buffett, and who, just for good measure, was on the board of McDonald's, Coke's largest customer? ... On [Coca-Cola's] board is Howard Buffett, son of Warren Buffett."

Source(s): July 14, 2014, deadline.com, 'UPDATE: Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Retreat – Recap' (on a live feed from Afghanistan)

His wife previously was married into the elite David Rockefeller-allied and Bilberberg Heinz family. Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee 2009-2013. Went to Bilderberg in 2012. Presidential candidate in 2004. Secretary of state under Obama 2013-2017.

Source(s): July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Researcher and eventually head of global internet and US entertainment equity research at JPMorgan Chase 2004-2011. became highly regarded. Credit Suisse's internet banking department 2011-2015. Known for his leading role here on the $25 billion Alibaba IPO, the largest ever share sale. Also worked for Credit Suisse on the IPOs of American companies like Groupon, GoDaddy and Box, as well as Chinese companies including Weibo, Jumei and Toudu. Chief Strategy Office Snapchat / Snap 2015-. Wife is an Amazon executive.

Source(s): Reportedly attended in July 2003, but no reliable source.

Rothschild-Kissinger-Brzezinski-allied Zionist Russian oligarch whose Bank Menatep and Yukos Oil opposed Putin.

Source(s): July 1, 1996, Forbes, 'Herbert Allen and his merry dealsters'; July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'

Founder, chairman and CEO of Nike Inc. Owns two private jets and is a billionaire. The Nike Foundation has been receiving millions annually from Warren Buffett's NoVo Foundation.

In August 2018 Nike launched an ad campaign with Colin Kaepernick, the NFL player who has been sitting down and protesting since 2016 during the playing of the national anthem in protest of "a country that oppresses black people and people of color." morningconsult.com/form/nike-kaepernick-report/ (accessed: September 6, 2018; date of publication): "Before the announcement, Nike had a net +69 favorable impression among consumers, it has now declined 34 points to +35 favorable. ... Among younger generations, Nike users, African Americans, and other key demographics, Nike's favorability declined rather than improved."

Source(s): July 17, 2017, Time, 'Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner Just Went to 'Summer Camp for Billionaires''; July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Born in Tehran. MBA from Stanford in 1991. At Google from May 1999 to April 2009, reaching the position of Senior Vice President for Worldwide Sales and Field Operations. Non-executive Director at Vodafone from March 2013 to October 2014. Came back to Google later on and served as Senior Vice President, Chief Business Officer, and special advisor to CEO Eric Schmidt and founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page during July 2014 to October 2015. On October 14, 2015, Kordestani left Google and became Executive Chairman at Twitter. His net worth is estimated to be $1.9 billion.

Source(s): July 7, 2010, Los Angeles Times, 'Allen & Co. summer camp mogulfest gets underway': "Attendees arrived Tuesday and [included] Activision President Bobby Kotick..."; July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 6, 2016, New York Post, 'Justin Trudeau is one hot ticket at Sun Valley mogulfest' (interview with Warren Buffett); July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Began his career in 1983 while he was still in college at the University of Michigan, when he began creating software for the Apple II with financial backing from the very connected Steve Wynn. Kotick credits Apple founder Steve Jobs for advising him to drop out of college to pursue his entrepreneurial interests in the software business.

Purchased a stake in Activision in 1990, and became CEO in 1991. Kotick engineered the Activision Blizzard merger, and became CEO of the combined company Activision Blizzard in 2008. Director at Yahoo! 2003-2008. Elected outside director of Coca-Cola in 2012. Board member for the Center for Early Education, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Tony Hawk Foundation.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

$4.8 billion fortune. Studied at UCLA and member of the Theta Xi fraternity, but dropped out in 1998 to work on his start-up full time. In 2009, Kalanick joined Garrett Camp, a co-founder of StumbleUpon, in the founding of Uber. CEO of Uber, which Google deeply invested in in 2013. Resigned as CEO of Uber in 2017 after countless reports about his anti-social, erratic behavior, including sexual harassment. He caused a huge decrease of morale within the company. Remained a director and partial investor in the company. Another Sun Valley Meeting participant, Dara Khosrowshahi (of Barry Diller IAC empire), took over as CEO.

In early 2017 Kalanick joined Elon Musk, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, General Motors CEO Mary Barra, Disney CEO Bob Iger, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, and former General Electric CEO Jack Welch, IBM chair and CEO Ginni Rometty, as an economic advisor on Trump's Strategy and Policy Forum, organized by Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman.

January 25, 2017, Business Insider, ''I do not accept him as my leader' — Uber CTO’s explosive anti-Trump email reveals growing internal tensions': "Shortly after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, the chief technology officer of Uber rattled off an explosive email meant for a small group of employees that quickly spread like wildfire within the company, Business Insider has learned.
In the message, CTO Thuan Pham blasted Trump as a "deplorable person" and called his election a huge step backward – even comparing it to the rise of ruthless dictators such as Mao Zedong in China and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia after the Vietnam War.
Still, employees are "pissed" that they are being connected to Trump, whose comments about immigrants and women have upset many people, one insider at the company said.
"Uber takes great pride in their diversity, and being connected to Trump paints a bad image about us," the person said. While Kalanick’s association with Trump is an affront to some employees, for many others the worry is that the company is now viewed as being aligned with Trump – a reputation they believe is unjustified and does not reflect the opinions of employees and executives."

February 2, 2017, TechCrunch.com, 'Uber CEO Travis Kalanick quits Donald Trump’s business advisory council': "The Uber CEO faced considerable criticism for his decision to work directly with Trump, and his association with the administration was at least in part responsible for the recent #DeleteUber campaign on social media, which resulted in Uber rival Lyft surpassing Kalanick’s app in popularity for the first time. ...
In an earlier response to Trump’s executive order on immigration shared via Facebook, Kalanick expressed his intent to bring concerns regarding the nature of the order to Trump’s attention at the meeting happening Friday:
"While every government has their own immigration controls, allowing people from all around the world to come here and make America their home has largely been the U.S.’s policy since its founding. That means this ban will impact many innocent people—an issue that I will raise this coming Friday when I go to Washington for President Trump’s first business advisory group meeting."
Kalanick won’t be able to do that any longer, now that he’s no longer a member of the board, but in his internal email today he noted that he "spoke briefly with the President about the immigration executive order and its issues for our community" while also letting him know that he’d no longer be a part of the council."

Source(s): July 6, 2010, San Francisco Gate, 'Want To Spy On Millionaires and Billionaires In Sun Valley, Idaho?': "Muhtar Kent, president of the Coco-Cola Co. , carries his lunch at the annual Allen & Co.'s media summit in Sun Valley , Idaho, Wednesday, July 8, 2009."

Chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola, historically a company with the close involvement of key Sun Valley participants Warren Buffett, James Robinson III, Trilateral Commission member Donald Keough, and Herb Allen.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Born in 1969 in the Shah's Iran into a wealthy Muslim family. His family fled to the United States right before the Shah of Iran fell in 1979. BA in electrical engineering from Brown University. In 1991, Khosrowshahi joined Allen & Company, an investment bank, as an analyst. In 1998, he left Allen & Company to work for one of his former clients at the bank, Barry Diller, first at Diller's USA Networks, where he held the positions of senior vice president for strategic planning and then president, and later as chief financial officer of Diller's elite corporation InterActiveCorp (IAC).

CEO of online travel booking company Expedia, Inc. 2005-2017. Expedia.com launched in 1996 as a division of Microsoft. In 2001, IAC acquired Expedia in 2001 from Microsoft. CEO of Uber since 2017. Director of Black Entertainment Television (BET.com), Hotels.com, and The New York Times Company.

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley': "Henry Kravis (L) and James D. Robinson III, Co-Founders of the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), attend the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 6, 2011..."; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

Together with his wife a top superclass member: Bilderberg regular since the 1990s (his wife is steering committee), Trilateral Commission, Bohemian Grove, CFR, DAVOS, the Rockefeller's Museum of Modern Art, Hollinger, Bretton Woods Committee, World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, Europaeum, Alfalfa, Aspen Institute, etc.

July 9, 2015, zimbio.com: "Henry Kravis, co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., and wife Marie-Josee Kravis attend the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 9, 2015 in Sun Valley, Idaho."

Bilderberg steering committee and Trilateral Commission member. Vice chair and long-time leading light of the American Enterprise Institute.

Former CBS strategic planner. Now Chairman of Kreisky Media Consultancy (Boston).

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'.

While at UCLA, Kreiz met American-Israeli media mogul Haim Saban whom he joined in 1994 as a business partner. Israeli businessman who served as Chairman and CEO of Fox Kids Europe from 1997-2002, Chairman and CEO of television and digital production company Endemol from 2008 to 2011, and as Chairman, CEO and President of web video network Maker Studios, Inc. from 2012 to 2016.

Source(s): July 17, 2017, Time, 'Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner Just Went to 'Summer Camp for Billionaires''.

Son-in-law of President Donald Trump and a senior advisor to the president.

Source(s): June 29, 1998, New York Magazine, 'Sun Valley Daze'.

Geraldine Laybourne became one of the most influential women in television during her hugely successful tenure with children’s cable TV network Nickelodeon, which she transformed during the 1980s and 1990s from a noncommercial startup into one of the most important and lucrative television brands. Following her appointment as vice-chairman of Viacom’s MTV Networks and a brief tenure as vice-president of Disney/ABC Television, Laybourne launched Oxygen Media in 2000 with an all-star group of partners and a design to transform women’s television as she had done with children’s television. The network struggled during its first years, in part because Oxygen’s founders made a mistake Laybourne had avoided at Nickelodeon, treating their clients like children.

Michael O. Leavitt was sworn in as the 20th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on January 26, 2005. Prior to his current service, Leavitt served as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Governor of Utah. The people of Utah elected Mike Leavitt governor three times. Prior to leaving the statehouse to work in the Bush Administration, he was the nation's longest-serving governor. During his eleven years of service, Utah was recognized six times as one of America's best managed states. He was chosen by his peers as Chairman of the National Governors Association, Western Governors Association and Republican Governors Association because of his ability to solve problems across partisan lines. Utah's governor before President George W. Bush tapped him to head the Environmental Protection Agency, and now as Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Source(s): Attended the 2005 meeting according to the Associated Press.

In 2005, she became a CEO of BET Holdings (Black Entertainment Television), a cable channel unit of Viacom Inc. Went with BET chairman Robert Johnson.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

Attended Harvard for five years, but did not graduate. Grandson of Samsung founder Lee Byung-chul. Son of long-time Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee, who is a son of the Samsung founder and worth roughly $70 billion. Vice chairman of Samsung, serving as de facto head.

August 24, 2017, Reuters, 'Samsung leader Jay Y. Lee given five-year jail sentence for bribery': "Lee, was sentenced to five years in jail for bribery on Friday in a watershed for the country’s decades-long economic order dominated by powerful, family-run conglomerates. ...
After a six-month trial over a scandal that brought down the then president, Park Geun-hye, a court ruled that Lee had paid bribes in anticipation of favours from Park. The court also found Lee guilty of hiding assets abroad, embezzlement and perjury."

February 4, 2018, Reuters.com, 'Samsung scion Lee walks free after jail term suspended, faces leadership challenges'.

Source(s): July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Cofounder and chairman of Groupon and the CEO of biotech company Tempus.

Source(s): July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Co-founder of PayPal and CEO of financial technology company Affirm.

Source(s): June 23, 1995, Los Angeles Times, 'Company Town: The Stormy Gathering at Sun Valley' (described as regular); October 1997, Red Herring Magazine, 'Players Club - CEOs talk media at Herb Allen's Sun Valley'; July 18, 2012, Politico, 'Notes from behind the Tensabarriers of Sun Valley': "Time Warner Chairman Gerald Levin did meet with AOL chief executive Steve Case at Sun Valley in 1998, a year and a half before the merger was announced, though it is unclear how deeply they discussed business."

Jewish. Graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1963. CEO of Time Warner Entertainment from 1993. CEO of Time Warner Inc. since February 2000. Once rated the fourth most powerful person in the media. Levin is best known for pioneering the use of communication satellites to obtain nationwide distribution of programming for Time Inc.’s Home Box Office (HBO), and also as the architect of the 1990 merger between Time Warner and America Online (AOL). Oversaw the Turner Broadcasting Systems (owner CNN) acquisition in 1996. Finally in 2000, he sold the firm to AOL Chairman Steve Case.

Member Trilateral Commission throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Member Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Member of the Chief Executive's Council of International Advisors of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, together with Paul Volcker, Andre Desmarais, Sir John Bond, Peter Sutherland, and Maurice R. Greenberg.

One of his children, Jonathan Levin, a 31-year-old high school English teacher at Taft High School in the Bronx, was tortured and murdered on May 31, 1997 by one of his own (black) students after Jonathan told the class who his father was. A suspected accomplice also was black.

Source(s): July 8, 2010, Business Insider, 'The Billionaires, Millionaires, And Their Hangers-On Are Back In Sun Valley': "Robin Li, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of search engine Baidu arrives to participate in the annual Allen & Co. Media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, Tuesday, July 6, 2010."

Co-Founder, chairman and CEO of Chinese search engine Baidu.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; 2013 list; July 14, 2014, deadline.com, 'UPDATE: Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Retreat – Recap'

Partner, managing director and co-chairman of Creative Artists Agency (CAA) since October 1995. Served on the board of directors of InterActiveCorp, along with persons as Edgar Bronfman, Jr., countless other Sun Valley visitors and Chelsea Clinton, since 2005.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

MBA from from Columbia University. Joined Morgan Stanley in 1998. Head of growth investing at Morgan Stanley Investment Management.

Source(s): July 6, 2010, San Francisco Gate, 'Want To Spy On Millionaires and Billionaires In Sun Valley, Idaho?'; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; 2016 list; July 12, 2017, Business Insider, 'Sun Valley conference attendees: PHOTOS'.

Jewish. Attended the International School of The Hague and transferred to the super-elite Phillips Exeter Academy for his senior year, graduating in 1978. BA in history and literature from Harvard College in 1982. Worked in finance at Credit Suisse First Boston 1982-1985. MBA from Harvard Business School in 1987.

In 1987 he joined The Walt Disney Company, where he started Disney Publishing. President of Disney's Hollywood Pictures 1992-1996. Chairman and CEO of Pearson's Penguin Group 1996-2000. Extended the Penguin brand from just books to music and the Internet. In 2000, he joined Time Warner as CEO of AOL Europe, president of AOL International, and president of Time Warner International. Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment 2004-2017. Chairman of Snap, makers of the Snapchat mobile app, from 2017.

Source(s): June 23, 1995, Los Angeles Times, 'Company Town : The Stormy Gathering at Sun Valley'; July 1, 1996, Forbes, 'Herbert Allen and his merry dealsters'; October 1997, Red Herring Magazine, 'Players Club - CEOs talk media at Herb Allen's Sun Valley'; July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp'; July 11, 2001, NY Post, Moguls Play 'Let's Make a Deal At Sun Valley'; July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'.

Phi Beta Kappa and merit scholar at Yale, where he obtained a BS in Electrical Engineering and Economics in 1963. MS in Industrial Management from Johns Hopkins in 1964. Ph.D. in Operations Research from Johns Hopkins in 1967. President and CEO of Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) 1973-1999, chairman and CEO 1996-1999 (after it was acquired by AT&T). Chairman of Liberty Media Corporation since 1990 to today (2018). Serves or has served on the boards of the Bank of New York, Discovery Communications, Inc., Cablevision Systems Corporation (fifth-largest cable provider that was bought by Altice in 2016), the CATO Institute and the Nature Conservancy.

March 15, 2005, Fox News, 'Liberty Media to Spin Off Discovery Communications': "Malone ... continues to reshape his vast holdings in a bid to prove they should be valued higher."

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

BS in economics from the Wharton School and MBA from Columbia University. Began at Time Warner in 1993 as a manager of SEC financial reporting. Executive vice president and chief financial officer of Time Warner Cable Inc. 2005-2008. Chief financial officer of Time Warner 2008-2014. Chairman and CEO of Time Warner's Turner company, which owns CNN, TNT and Cartoon Network. Trustee of Columbia University's business school. Officer of the Paley Center for Media.

Lowry Mays, the man Fortune magazine has labeled the "Big Daddy of radio," is the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Clear Channel Communications, the largest U.S. chain of radio stations. Clear Channel's aggressive acquisitiveness and bottom line business practices have elicited opposition bordering on hatred from competitors, artists, and local radio advocates. Accordingly, Mays has come to be seen by critics as an evil emperor, bent on converting locally unique cultural offerings into Mall of America sameness. Mays has stated that he has no interest in radio content, but only in selling advertisements.

Source(s): July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Verizon CEO.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; July 14, 2014, deadline.com, 'UPDATE: Herb Allen's Sun Valley Retreat – Recap': "Tom Brokaw will sit down with Gen. Stanley McChrystal."

Well-known and notorious JSOC commander.

Source(s): July 7, 2010, Los Angeles Times, 'Allen & Co. summer camp mogulfest gets underway': "A highlight of last year was Universal Pictures chief Ron Meyer accidentally driving off in BET founder Bob Johnson's rental car."; 2005; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

Jew who escaped Nazi Germany. Hollywood talent agent for the William Morris Agency 1970-1975. Co-founder in 1975 of the Creative Artists Agency, is one of the premiere talent representation agencies, and has represented the likes of Martin Scorsese. President & CEO of Universal Studios (formerly MCA) 1995-2013 (during the Bronfman era). Vice Chairman of NBCUniversal 2013-.

Source(s): July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp': "Thomas Middelhoff, of Bertelsmann, flew to Sun Valley from Germany, a trip that took eighteen hours. He was able to schedule meetings in Sun Valley that spared him from taking many separate trips."

Director of Bertelsmann 1990-2002, CEO 1998-2002. Trustee of Atlantik-Brücke. Since 2003 a member of the board of The New York Times Company, responsible for the compensation committee.

2000 annual report, Equality Now, pp. 21-23, 25 (extremist "anti-racist" feminist group): "Advisory Council: ... Gloria Steinem [once a CIA paid activist] ... Friends of Equality Now [pictures of women from all races on each page]: ... AOL Foundation ... Bertelsmann, Inc. ... Davis, Polk & Wardwell ... Feminist.com ... The Feminist Majority ... Thomas Middelhoff ... National Black Women's Health Coalition ... Gwyneth Paltrow ... Planned Parenthood ... Nina Rosenwald ... Shearman & Sterling ... Meryl Streep ... Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... Time Warner, Inc. ... Joss Whedon [already listed in 1998-1999 report] ... Foundation and Corporate Support: ... Ford Foundation ... Home Box Office ... MacArthur Foundation ... NOVIB. [Soros'] Open Society Institute."

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

BS and MBA from Harvard. Co-founded and served as a partner of Blue Ridge Capital LLC from 1996 to 2000, an investment management firm with specialties in health care, technology, media, telecommunications, and financial services. Founder in 2000 and managing partner of Bridger Management LLC, a multi-billion dollar investment management firm specializing in long-term equity strategies, since 2000.

December 19, 2007, New York Times, '"Hedge Hunters," by Katherine Burton': "To quote Roberto Mignone, head of Bridger Management: "You've got a better chance surviving as a crack dealer in Chicago than lasting four years in the hedge fund business.""

February 3, 2016 Martin Shkreli Interview at The Breakfast Club Power 105.1, 5:30: "HOST CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD: I was a Bridger Capital yesterday, which was a great hedge fund place. I didn't see anybody in there with masks on, a bunch of goons talking crazy like you was talking crazy.
SHKRELI: [Sarcastic and very soft:] Bridger, yeah, I wonder what you did there? Anyway. [Peope laughing] Bridger, really?
HOST CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD: Yes, I was, sir. I know people too.
SHKRELI: Really? Okay. That's some Illuminati shit right there. [Looks very puzzled] Okay. Okay. That totally changed - you totally changed - you blew up my brain right now. I gotta sit. I gotta take a different attitude now."

Only in 2017 did Bridger put up a website: bridgercapital.com. It contains zero information on leadership, history, or business though.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

Director of the IMF's investment office 2000-2016. Head of Cornell University's $6 billion endowment since 2016.

Source(s): July 7, 2010, Los Angeles Times, 'Allen & Co. summer camp mogulfest gets underway': "The usual suspects are attending including ... Leslie Moonves..."; July 7, 2015, Hollywood Reporter, 'Sun Valley: What to Expect From This Year's Mogul Gathering' (in slideshow for 2014 and on guest list for 2015); July 17, 2017, Time, 'Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner Just Went to 'Summer Camp for Billionaires'': "CBS CEO Les Moonves remained cautiously optimistic regarding the Trump agenda. "There's deregulation obviously. There's talk of tax reform. There’s a lot of big business things that are on the table that would help businesses," Moonves told CNBC. "Whether they come to fruition, we don't know.""

Leslie Moonves was named Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer of Viacom in June 2004. In this role, he oversees all of Viacom's domestic and international broadcast television operations, its radio division and its outdoor advertising operations. Included in this vast area of oversight are CBS, UPN, CBS Enterprises, King World, the Viacom Television Stations Group, Paramount Television, Infinity Broadcasting and Viacom Outdoor. In addition, Moonves continues to serve as Chairman of CBS. He was promoted to Chairman and CEO of CBS in 2003, and prior to that, was President and Chief Executive Officer, CBS Television, a position he was elevated to in April 1998. He joined CBS in July 1995 as President, CBS Entertainment.

Source(s): July 8, 2009, Reuters, 'Sun Valley: Where the money is': "Allen & Co's Sun Valley media and technology conference have included ... actors Clint Eastwood and Demi Moore and Egyptian billionaire Mohamed al-Fayed."; July 12, 2011, Gawker, 'Ashton Kutcher's Sad Bro Summit'.

Actor mainly known for miniseries and shows as Punk'd on MTV. Married to Demi Moore 2005-2013. Major investor in technology companies alongside Google's Eric Schmidt and other elites (Airbnb and AI company Forward are two examples). Major pusher of Third World immigration and thus a thoroughly compromised actor.

July 26, 2009, New York Daily News, 'AOL, News Corp, Disney look for new ideas for web ads at TECH conference': "At the Fortune Brainstorm: TECH conference in Pasadena this week, Walt Disney Co Chief Executive Robert Iger opened a discussion about new ways to market to consumers... AOL Chief Executive Tim Armstrong, former sales chief at Google Inc, also sees new marketing opportunities from consumer referrals and tracking. ... Barry Diller, chief executive of Web giant IAC/InterActiveCorp, said Internet advertising must evolve from displays and become integrated into the content of websites. Even actor and media producer Ashton Kutcher chimed in at the conference, saying the billboard-style display ad is already outdated."

Gordon Moore is one of the two founders of Intel Corporation, and a distinguished engineer and scientist who was responsible for a number of major breakthroughs in semiconductor technology. Intel has been a leading producer of microprocessors and other semiconductor devices since the years immediately following the company's founding in 1968, and by the mid-1990s had grown to be one of the most dominant and important companies in the world. Moore served as Intel's President and Chief Executive Officer of from 1975 until 1987, at which time he was named Chairman Emeritus.

Source(s): July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp': "There are people [Herbert Allen] always invites because they're old friends: Bob Strauss and his law partner, Vernon Jordan ... Walter Mondale; former Senator Bill Bradley ... Tom Brokaw..."

Senator from Minnesota and Vice President of the United States; born in Ceylon, Martin County, Minn., January 5, 1928; attended the Heron Lake and Elmore, Minn., public schools; attended Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn.; graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1951; served in the United States Army 1951-1953; graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School 1956; admitted to the Minnesota bar in 1956 and commenced practice in Minneapolis; appointed and elected attorney general of Minnesota in 1960 and reelected in 1962; member of the President’s Consumer Advisory Council 1960-1964; appointed on December 30, 1964, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hubert H. Humphrey for the term ending January 3, 1967; elected in 1966 for the term commencing January 3, 1967; reelected in 1972 and served from December 30, 1964, until his resignation December 30, 1976; chairman, Select Committee on Equal Education Opportunity (Ninety-first and Ninety-second Congresses); elected Vice President of the United States on the Democratic ticket with President Jimmy Carter on November 2, 1976; inaugurated January 20, 1977, and served until January 20, 1981; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for reelection; unsuccessful Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1984; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Japan, 1993-1996; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2002.

Source(s): July 7, 2015, Hollywood Reporter, 'Sun Valley: What to Expect From This Year's Mogul Gathering'; July 6, 2016, deadline.com, 'Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Retreat: Politicians Talk Morality And Future Of Cities': "The guest list includes regulars ... Fox’s Rupert Murdoch with his sons James (who's CEO) and Lachlan (co-Executive Chairman)."

Son of Rupert Murdoch and a News Corp. executive. Married to Kathryn Hufschmid, the sister of 9/11 Truth disinformer Eric Hufschmid.

Source(s): July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp'; July 7, 2015, Hollywood Reporter, 'Sun Valley: What to Expect From This Year's Mogul Gathering'; July 6, 2016, deadline.com, 'Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Retreat: Politicians Talk Morality And Future Of Cities': "The guest list includes regulars ... Fox’s Rupert Murdoch with his sons James (who’s CEO) and Lachlan (co-Executive Chairman)."; July 17, 2017, Time, 'Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner Just Went to 'Summer Camp for Billionaires''.

Lachlan Keith Murdoch (born 1971) is the son of media mogul, Rupert Murdoch and is heir apparent of News Corporation. Lachlan was born in London, but was raised in a wealthy Manhattan neighbourhood, where his father owned the New York Post. He received his education at the exclusive Aspen County Day School in Colorado and earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Princeton University. During summers he would work jobs ranging from cleaning printing presses to sub-editor at The Sun and The Times. His first job came at Queensland Newspapers, which publishes The Courier-Mail in Brisbane. He then became publisher of Australia’s first national paper, The Australian. In 1995 he was appointed Deputy CEO of News Limited, Executive Director of News Corporation since 1996, Deputy Chief Operating Officer since 2000, Senior Executive Vice President from 1999 to 2000, and Chairman of STAR since 1995. He has been criticised as a "rich brat" for his "poor handling" of Murdoch interests in One.Tel, which lost the empire millions of dollars. Lachlan has also been attacked for trying to "Americanise" Australian newspapers. He is also a publisher of the New York Post.

Source(s): June 23, 1995, Los Angeles Times, 'Company Town : The Stormy Gathering at Sun Valley'; October 1997, Red Herring Magazine, 'Players Club - CEOs talk media at Herb Allen's Sun Valley'; June 28, 2004, Fortune, 'Inside the Private World of Allen & Co.': "Joining [Google at the Sun Valley] will be Allen's three marquee clients, Rupert Murdoch, Barry Diller, and the newest Coca-Cola CEO, Neville Isdell... Allen bankers like Stan Shuman, who has worked on Rupert Murdoch's deals since the mid-1970s (the two met through their 4-year-old sons, who were best friends at a Manhattan nursery school)..."; July 13, 2007, Washington Post, 'It's Not All Play at Media Conference'; July 7, 2015, Hollywood Reporter, 'Sun Valley: What to Expect From This Year's Mogul Gathering'; July 6, 2016, deadline.com, 'Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Retreat: Politicians Talk Morality And Future Of Cities': "The guest list includes regulars ... Fox’s Rupert Murdoch with his sons James (who’s CEO) and Lachlan (co-Executive Chairman)."; July 17, 2017, Time, 'Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner Just Went to 'Summer Camp for Billionaires''; July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'. (seems to be going virtually every year since the 1990s).

Australian-American publishing magnate with a personal fortune of about 8 billion dollars. Combining sensationalist journalism (often reflective of his generally hawkish, strongly conservative political views) with aggressive promotion, Murdoch established a worldwide communications empire, the News Corporation, that, among other assets, includes powerful holdings in Australia and New Zealand; the prestigious Times of London and other British papers; and, in the United States, HarperCollins book publishers, the New York Post, and TV Guide. He also acquired 20th Century Fox film studios and home video and built the Fox Television network, as well as television stations in Australia. His other communications ventures include direct-broadcast satellite television and cable networks, and he has purchased broadcast rights to major sports events in Britain, the United States, Australia, and India. He became a U.S. citizen in 1985. One of the News Corporations he owns is the UK's British Sky Broadcasting, of which he is a chairman. Vice-chairman of that company since 2003 is Lord Jacob Rothschild. Rupert has been a friend of Rothschild since he first came to the UK in the 1960s. Murdoch has also been a director of Philip Morris and arms manufacturer United Technologies.

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'

Third wife of Rupert Murdoch until 2013.

Thomas S. Murphy was chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. from the time Capital Cities acquired the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) until his retirement in 1996. During his 30-year tenure with Capital Cities and ABC, Murphy led the transition of a small television holding company and the nation's number three broadcast network to the status of multinational media conglomerate. Cap Cities/ABC was acquired by the Walt Disney Company in 1996.

Source(s): July 10, 2015, CNN, 'Why CEOs and tech titans converge on Sun Valley for 'summer camp''; 2016 list.

Wharton degree in economics. In 1995 he went for a Ph.D. in applied physics and material sciences at Stanford University, but dropped out. Co-founded Zip2, a web software company, which was acquired by Compaq for $340 million in 1999. Musk then founded X.com, an online payment company. It merged with Confinity in 2000 and became PayPal (of Peter Thiel and also Reid Hoffman), which was bought by (Pierre Omidyar's) eBay for $1.5 billion in October 2002.

In May 2002 Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company, of which he is CEO and lead designer. He co-founded Tesla, Inc., an electric vehicle and solar panel manufacturer, in 2003, and operates as its CEO and product architect. In 2006 he inspired the creation of SolarCity, a solar energy services company that is now a subsidiary of Tesla, and operates as its chairman. In 2015 Musk co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research company that aims to promote friendly artificial intelligence. He co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company focused on developing brain–computer interfaces, in July 2016 and is its CEO. He founded The Boring Company, an infrastructure and tunnel-construction company, in December 2016.

Helped push old, outdated coins Bitcoin and Dogecoin to the moon in early 2021. After pushing Bitcoin to the sky over early 2021, all of a sudden he became aware the cryptocurrency uses as much energy as whole countries (which actually is an age old issue and why better alternatives have been around since forvever). Subsequently he *still* refused to let go of Bitcoin

May 14, 2021, Inc.com, 'Elon Musk Just Discovered How Much Energy Is Used by Bitcoin. It's Not Good; Tesla will no longer accept the cryptocurrency as payment for new vehicles.'.

June 30, 2021, CNBC, 'China, Elon Musk raise alarm about bitcoin energy use: Here's how it could be made more 'green'': "Bitcoin [is] now consuming as much electrical energy as a country like the Netherlands. ... The Bitcoin blockchain in China was expected to generate an amount of greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to the yearly output of the Czech Republic or Qatar. ...
Musk said he had spoken with a group of miners who committed to publish data on their renewable energy usage, a development he called "potentially promising.""

Obviously, if you use renewable energy resources for Bitcoin, they can't be used for far more practical things, such as bringing electricity to houses. Bitcoin should have been replaced already in 2016-2017. All these debates are nonsense.

Source(s): July 6, 2010, San Francisco Gate, 'Want To Spy On Millionaires and Billionaires In Sun Valley, Idaho?' (photo from 2009); July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

MA in mathematical economics and Ph.D. in theoretical and mathematical physics from Princeton. Held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge working under Stephen Hawking. Microsoft bought his company in 1986. Worked at Microsoft until 1999, serving as the company's first chief technology officer from 1996 to 1999. Co-founded Intellectual Ventures in 2000. Visitor Edge Foundation's Billionaires Dinner, linked to the TED conferences.

Source(s): July 17, 2017, Time, 'Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner Just Went to 'Summer Camp for Billionaires''.

From India. MBA degree from the University of Chicago. Microsoft CEO.

Source(s): July 7, 2015, Hollywood Reporter, 'Sun Valley: What to Expect From This Year's Mogul Gathering': "... all three Murdochs will be at the Allen conference along with 21st Century Fox CFO John Nallen."

Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of 21st Century Fox, Inc. 2004-2013, and CFO and Senior Executive Vice President since 2013. Served as a Member of the Management Board at Sky Brasil Serviços Ltda. since May 2004. Executive Director of Innova, S. de R.L. de C.V. since 2004. Director of News Corporation since 2013. Non-Executive Director of Sky plc since 2015.

Source(s): July 11, 2001, NY Post, Moguls Play 'Let's Make a Deal At Sun Valley'.

BSc in Business, Western Illinois University, MBA, University of Louisville. 1971, joined GE; leadership positions in Appliances, Lighting and Transportation Systems business units; 1988: joined Case Corporation as Executive Vice-President and led the Worldwide Parts and Components group; later, promoted to lead the Case Construction Equipment global business; 1991: returned to General Electric as President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Appliance Manufacturing Co. (CAMCO); 1992: President and Chief Executive Officer, GE Transportation Systems, Erie, PA; 2000, operational responsibility for Home Depot; 2002: Chairman of Board of Directors. 2002: appointed to the Board of Directors, Coca-Cola. 2003: selected to serve on the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation. Invited to join the Board of Councillors, Carter Center.

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 6, 2016, Business Insider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and the big names in tech and media swarm to Sun Valley, Idaho, for Allen & Co.'s mogul fest'; July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Mystery Israeli who apparently turned $10 million into several billion dollars during the Dot Com hype. Major shareholder in Time Warner. Nevo is said to be averse to publicity: He has consistently refused requests for interviews, and was referred to by friends as "the international man of mystery."

September 13, 2011, BusinessInsider, 'Meet The Secret, Ungoogleable Millionaire Who Owns Large Stakes In Time Warner, News Corp., Twitter, Goldman Sachs, And More': "The 47 year old, who claimed he was "ungoogleable" until 2006, owns large stakes in Time Warner, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, and more. In 2008, The New York Times reported he was the single largest individual shareholder in Time Warner and had previously been Goldman Sachs' largest private investor. (He also has excellent business sense, selling Time Warner before the disastrous AOL merger.)
Now he has a light profile in Vanity Fair, penned by his friend Vicky Ward. ... she also includes notes about his friendships with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, former Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack, Dick Parsons, and the Murdochs; Rupert and Lachlan."

Source(s): July 17, 2017, Time, 'Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner Just Went to 'Summer Camp for Billionaires''.

MBA from Wharton. Managing director at Goldman Sachs, CFO of the National Football League (NFL), COO of Twitter, and head of Twitter Ventures.

Source(s): July 8, 2009, Reuters blog, 'Sun Valley: What are these guys doing here?'; July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

Top superclass member who visited as co-chairman and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative.

Fr. O'Donovan, 70, is President Emeritus of Georgetown University, having served as President of the University from 1989 until 2001. He has served on a number of higher education boards, including that of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, and was a member of the Steering Committee of Presidents for the America Reads initiative. He also is a former member of the National Council on the Arts of the National Endowment for the Arts, past chair of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education and past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. He is a director of the Disney Company.

Source(s): July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp'.

Master of Political Science (University of Helsinki), Master of Science (Econ.) (London School of Economics), Master of Science (Eng.) (Helsinki University of Technology). President and CEO, Chairman of the Group Executive Board of Nokia Corporation 1992-1999, President of Nokia Mobile Phones 1990-1992, Senior Vice President, Finance of Nokia 1986-1989. Holder of various managerial positions at Citibank within corporate banking 1978-1985. Member of the Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of UPM-Kymmene Corporation and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Otava Books and Magazines Group Ltd. Chairman of the Boards of Directors and the Supervisory Boards of Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA and The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy ETLA. Member of The European Round Table of Industrialists.

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'.

From South Africa. Oxford-educated. Son of the elite 1001 Club member Nicky Oppenheimer, the 2nd most wealthy man of Africa, chairman of De Beers diamond mining company and vice chairman of Anglo-American Corporation. Jonathan is chairman of De Beers Canada Inc.

Source(s): July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Founder in 2003 and CEO of Shutterstock. Worth roughly $1 billion in 2018.

Source(s): July 6, 2005, UPI, 'Revelations and Intel form ClickStar': "The formation of the new company was announced Wednesday by Freeman and Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference."

CEO of Intel 2005-2012.

Source(s): July 2, 1993, Los Angeles Times, 'When Herb Allen Talks, Star Makers Listen'; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; July 6, 2016, Business Insider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and the big names in tech and media swarm to Sun Valley, Idaho, for Allen & Co.'s mogul fest'; July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Once known as “the most powerful man in Hollywood,” Michael Ovitz founded and headed Creative Artists Agency (CAA), one of the film industry’s most powerful talent agencies with a client list that would include some 150 directors, 130 actors, and 250 writers by the late 1980s. Ovitz’s extraordinary success was built through a series of strategic moves that effectively broke the unwritten laws of how the entertainment business should be conducted. In late 1995, Ovitz surprised Hollywood insiders by accepting Michael Eisner’s offer to become president of the Walt Disney Company, only to leave the company 15 months later with a severance package worth more than $100 million.

August 7, 2016, New York Post, 'How Mike Ovitz ruled Hollywood like a mob boss': "Ovitz, eager to please, told Glimcher that client Sean Connery would star. One problem: No one told Connery. ...
"Ovitz scared the s–t out of me and intimidated me every single day of my life that we worked together," said [David] O'Connor, who survived to become the current CEO of Madison Square Garden.
This is just one of the horror stories recounted in the new oral history "Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency" (HarperCollins). As author James Andrew Miller reports, by 1995 Ovitz was the most feared and reviled power broker in the film business. Directors, actors, writers, studios — he controlled them all. ...
"Mike Ovitz carried a heavy hammer, and he swung it like he was Beverly Hills Thor," Sylvester Stallone told Miller. "He went around smashing people, sometimes I think just for the fun of it." ...
By the early 1990s, no agency in town had a client roster as eclectic and extensive as CAA's. Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise, Madonna, Brad Pitt, Steven Spielberg, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Prince, Rob Reiner, John Hughes, Whoopi Goldberg, Warren Beatty, Bill Murray and Stallone were just some under the CAA umbrella. ...
Redford avoided Ovitz whenever possible. One agent hid from Madonna whenever she was in the office. Client Steven Seagal became a personal trainer-turned-action star when his devoted student Ovitz decided it should be so.
Ovitz was CAA's bad cop, and co-founder Meyer (whose daughter, Jen, is now married to Tobey Maguire) was its good cop. ...
[Ovitz] ran CAA on fear. Everyone, from executives to assistants, was expected to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week. ...
Upon being summoned to work Ovitz’s desk in 1988, assistant Michael Wimer was pulled aside by CAA executive Ray Kurtzman. "He said, 'You have to know that on Michael’s desk, you are going to see things in how he handles his life and his business and how he treats his wife that you won’t see anywhere else . . . Coming from Ray, it was clear what he was saying — Mike is going to ask you to do stuff and be party to stuff that you are going to find pretty awful." ...
In October 1989, screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, who'd just sold "Basic Instinct" for a record $3 million, accused Ovitz of threatening to destroy his career if he left CAA. Miller reports that Ovitz allegedly said, "My foot soldiers who go up and down Wilshire Boulevard each day will blow your brains out."
"Afterward, I kept hearing from more and more people that he’d used the same words with them," Eszterhas said. "Mark Harmon wrote me this really poignant, heartbreaking letter about the things they had done or tried to do with him because he, too, was going to leave." ...
Ovitz — who was obsessed with Eastern philosophy and considered "The Art of War" his Bible — flew in Shaolin monks for a feng-shui ceremony. ...
"I found Mike’s callousness at that point very hurtful," said literary agent Amy Grossman. "By the early ’90s, you couldn’t reach him anymore and you felt expendable."
"If I saw him walking down the hall," said agent Rick Nicita, "I would duck into an empty office and wait for him to go by."...
[Ovitz protege John] Moloney was "quick to emulate Ovitz's ingratiating and manipulative ways." ... Moloney committed suicide in 1999, at age 35. Finke didn't blame Ovitz, but rather "the industry's aberrant values system, which infects everything and deforms it: Power becomes a weapon." ...
Co-founder Ron Meyer began to feel Ovitz was more like a Mafia don than an agent. "To me, Ron was like a battered wife," said then-Seagram CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr., who'd just purchased MCA and Universal Pictures. "One day I was sitting in Ronnie's office, and his assistant said, 'Ovitz on line 1,' and I saw Ronnie wince like he had just been punched in the stomach," said Rick Nicita. "When I saw . . . that, I knew things had really changed." ...
Ovitz resigned from CAA in 1995 for a brief, disastrous tenure running Disney. He got out of the entertainment business in 2002 and today, at 69, is a private investor and top art collector."

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List' (with Brin and Schmidt); July 2, 2013, Chicago Tribune, 'Sun Valley Conference Guest List Includes Chris Christie, Mark Zuckerberg (EXCLUSIVE)'

Larry E. Page is, as of March 2005, the President of Products of Google Inc. Together with Sergey Brin he founded google. As of 2004, both have an estimated fortune of about 7 billion dollars.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

Managing director at Bain Capital hedge fund since 1992. Bain Capital was founded in 1984 by Bain & Company partners Mitt Romney, T. Coleman Andrews III, and Eric Kriss, after Bill Bain had offered Romney the chance to head a new venture that would invest in companies and apply Bain's consulting techniques to improve operations. Bain partners put in $12 million of their own money and sourced the rest from wealthy individuals. Early investors included Boston real estate mogul [and superclass member] Mortimer Zuckerman and Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots football team.

Source(s): June 29, 1998, New York Magazine, 'Sun Valley Daze'; July 13, 2007, Washington Post, 'It's Not All Play at Media Conference'

Undergraduate studies at the University of Hawaii; legal training, Albany Law School, Union University. Formerly: various positions in state and federal service; Counsel for Nelson Rockefeller; Senior White House Aide under President Ford; Managing Partner, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, New York; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dime Bancorp. Since 1991, Member of the Board of Directors and 1995, became President, Time Warner. Currently, Chief Executive Officer, Time Warner. Member of the Board: Citigroup; Estee Lauder; Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; Lincoln Center; Museum of Modern Art; Howard University. Chairman: Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation; Apollo Theatre Foundation. 2001, appointed Co-Chairman, President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security. Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Time Warner Inc. Director of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, together with four former U.S. presidents, Maurice R. Greenberg, Henry R. Kravis (Bohemian Grove), David Rockefeller, Jerry I. Speyer (big Rockefeller guy), John C. Whitehead (photographed standing behind Lord Rothschild and Kissinger; likely Pilgrim), Anne M. Tatlock (gone from her WTC on the morning on 9/11), Sir John Bond (HSBC; Multinaltional Chairman's Group), Michael Eisner (Sun Valley Meetings), and Peter G. Peterson(chair Blackstone Group; chair NY Fed; chair CFR).

Source(s): July 7, 2015, New York Post, 'Zuckerberg in, Peter Thiel out at annual Sun Valley Conference': "Peter Thiel — who last year was seen powwowing with fellow libertarian Rand Paul at the annual media mogul bash thrown by Allen & Co. in Idaho — isn't coming in 2015..."

Son of Ron Paul, the Libertarian presidential candidate.

Source(s): June 29, 1998, New York Magazine, 'Sun Valley Daze'.

Ronald O. Perelman is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, a diversified holding company with interests in consumer products, entertainment, financial services, biotechnology and gaming. Among the principal interests of MacAndrews & Forbes are: Revlon, Inc., Panavision, Inc., Allied Security, TransTech Pharma, Scientific Games Corporation, Marvel Entertainment (Toy Biz, Fleer trading cards and Marvel comic books), the Coleman Company (outdoor recreation equipment), New World Communications Group (10 television stations), Mafco Worldwide (flavors), Meridian Sports (water sports, including Boston Whaler boats), First Nationwide Bank (multistate banking), National Health Laboratories (clinical diagnostic-testing laboratories) and Consolidated Cigar Corporation (cigars). These days, Perelman's efforts are focused on building a television-broadcasting empire. The New York Department of Dermatology was named in his after a generous gift in 1991. Perelman has a personal fortune of about 5 billion dollars and is a friend of John Bongiovi. Offended Allen by hiring locals and body guards to protect him.

Jerry Perenchio, who runs Univision Communications Inc., has an iron grip on America's 40 million Hispanics. From a single Spanish-language TV station, he has put together a media colossus whose networks outdraw the big U.S. networks among 18-to-49-year-olds in prime time. Univision draws more young viewers in prime time than MTV and more men than ESPN, according to Nielsen. And in Hispanic-rich markets such as Los Angeles, Miami, and Phoenix, it often beats English-language rivals to snare the younger viewers advertisers crave. Perenchio has added music labels and TV stations. Last year, he paid $3.4 billion for Hispanic Broadcasting, making Univision the nation's largest Spanish radio company. The most powerful mogul in Spanish TV distrusts the media, rarely gives interviews, and doesn't even speak Spanish. He's a jet-hopping, 73-year-old former boxing promoter who pals around with George Bush (41 and 43) and lives in the sprawling Bel Air (Calif.) mansion featured in the 1960s sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies. He loves throwing lavish parties -- once he even flew in Henry Mancini and Andy Williams to perform at his son's 1981 wedding. Still, to most people in Hollywood, where as a talent agent he once championed the careers of Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando, Jerry Perenchio is an enigma.

Managing director since 1995. Executive vice president and manager director, Allen & Co. Nancy is a director of Charter Communications, the fourth largest cable company in the United States, Narad Networks, and Priceline, in which she was an original investor. Before she came to Allen & Co. she was employed at Salomon's. When she decided to leave, Warren Buffett (major shareholder of Solomon's) tried to convince her to stay, until he heard she went to Allen & Company.

July 1, 1996, Forbes, 'Herbert Allen and his merry dealsters': "Nancy Peretsman, 41, is one of the rare recent hires. She came over from Salomon last year. Allen had been looking Peretsman over for a long time. As a student at Princeton in the 1970s, she baby-sat for Allen's children and had a summer internship at Allen & Co. working for Paul Gould. She kept in touch and, in 1980, Herbert Allen handed her some business when he was running Columbia Pictures."

April 27, 2003, New York Post, 'Gals Who Make Gotham Grand': "NANCY PERETSMAN Managing Dir., Allen & Co.: From her perch at the ultra-secret investment bank to the media elite, Peretsman has the ear of Oprah Winfrey, Barry Diller, Rupert Murdoch and Warren Buffett. And as Diller once said of Allen & Co., "Deals just don't get done in Hollywood unless they are involved.""

June 28, 2004, Fortune, 'Inside the Private World of Allen & Co. Putting a premium on personal ties, this family firm thrives in the land of the giants.': "Allen & Co. is a consummate niche player. Its specialty: forging long-lasting and lucrative relationships with corporate leaders. Its latest coup: a plum role in the coveted Google IPO. ... One of the firm's bankers, Nancy Peretsman, knew Google's president, Eric Schmidt, at Princeton and has patiently worked, as Allen & Co. habitually does, to build a client relationship. The payoff came when Google announced the names of the 31 underwriters that would handle its IPO. Allen is slated to be in a small group of firms just below the two giants serving as managing underwriters, Morgan Stanley and CSFB. And if the timing of Google's offering doesn't get in the way, one or both of the company's young co-CEOs, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, will be at Sun Valley (as will Schmidt)."

Source(s): July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Billionaire. Chairman and CEO of Kering since 2005, and President of Groupe Artemis since 2003. Under his leadership, Kering divested the retail industry and became a luxury group. Member of The B Team, a pro-environment not-for-profit organization founded by Richard Branson.

Started dating Salma Hayek in 2006, who soon became his wife. Hayek has also attended the Sun Valley.

Source(s): July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp': "There are people [Herbert Allen] always invites because they're old friends: ... the director Sydney Pollack. ... Herbert Allen chooses to sit with his old friends: Ray Stark, Candice Bergen, Sydney Pollack, and Allen’s son Herbert, among others."

Producer of movies like 'The Firm', 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' & 'Cold Mountain'. Winner of year 2000 John Huston Award, presented by Tom Cruise on behalf of Directors Guild of America, as a "defender of artists' rights...a warrior."

Source(s): July 2, 1993, Los Angeles Times, 'When Herb Allen Talks, Star Makers Listen'.

Jewish. Assistant to George Stevens, founding director of The American Film Institute (AFI), 1968-1969. Manager of business affairs for AFI's new film school, the Center for Advanced Film Studies, 1969-1970. Started the entertainment law firm Pollock, Rigrod, and Bloom in 1970. Among his first clients was George Lucas, who would soon create the first of his Star Wars movies. Instrumental in initiating the productions of The Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) and Superman trilogies. By the 1980s Pollock, Bloom and Dekom was one of the premier entertainment firms in Los Angeles.

Executive vice president of Lew Wasserman's MCA and chairman of the MCA-owned Universal Pictures. Oversaw the production of Steven Spielberg's 1993 Jurassic Park and the Back to the Future trilogy. Following the sale of MCA to the Bronfman-owned Seagram Co., Pollock served as vice chairman of MCA/Universal Studios 1995-1996. Taught the Film Studies Program at the University of California Santa Barbara in the late 1990s.

Source(s): July 17, 2017, Time, 'Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner Just Went to 'Summer Camp for Billionaires''.

In 1994 Pompeo received a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where he was on the 81-member Board of Editors of the Harvard Law Review. Congressman from Kansas 2011-2017. Tea Party supporter. Trump's CIA director.

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'.

BA in economics from Columbia University and an MA in economics and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Before joining Disney, he worked for Chase Manhattan Bank and the Marriott Corporation. President and COO of Euro Disney in Paris in the 1990s. Chairman and CEO of Euro Disney 2000-2005. Chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts 2005-2009. Senior executive vice president and CFO of The Walt Disney Company 2009-2015. Director on the Department of Homeland Security's Safe Borders / Open Doors Committee.

Source(s): June 23, 1995, Los Angeles Times, 'Company Town : The Stormy Gathering at Sun Valley'; June 29, 1998, New York Magazine, 'Sun Valley Daze'; July 7, 2010, Los Angeles Times, 'Allen & Co. summer camp mogulfest gets underway': "There are some notable absences from this year's gathering including Viacom and CBS Chairman Sumner Redstone who also skipped last year's conference."

Acquired Viacom in 1987, which owns CBS Television Network, MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, VH1, Black Entertainment Television, Paramount Pictures, Infinity Broadcasting, Viacom Outdoor, UPN, TV Land, Comedy Central, CMT: Country Music Television, King World, Spike TV, Showtime, and Simon & Schuster. He is often described as 'self absorbed' and has had conflicts with other Sun Valley guests like Barry Diller and Frank Biondi. Founding member of the American Cancer Foundation. Privately, he also gives to the United Jewish Appeal. Has a personal fortune of about 8 billion dollars.

May 9, 2016, New York Post, 'Sumner Redstone’s raunchy fantasies revealed in audio recordings': ""So what will probably happen will probably really excite you. I'll f–k her, and she'll s–k Bob off, and he'll f–k her, and she'll s–k me off. Before that, I'll make her j–k off in front of Bob because she’s very hot when she j–ks off," says the man whom Radar identifies as Redstone."

Source(s): July 6, 2016, Business Insider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and the big names in tech and media swarm to Sun Valley, Idaho, for Allen & Co.'s mogul fest'; July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Daughter of Sumner Redstone who battled for control over her father's Viacom.

Source(s): July 8, 2009, Reuters, 'Sun Valley: Where the money is' (on the guest list); July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

Born in 1970 in Canada, but grew up in Geneva, Switzerland. BA from Harvard and moved to California. Partner at Index Ventures, a global venture capital firm founded in Geneva in 1992. Rimer opened the firm's London office in 2002 and its San Francisco office in 2012. He has become a leading voice on venture capital in Silicon Valley and Europe.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'.

Jewish. BA Yale. MBA Harvard. US ambassador to Frence 2009-2013 under Obama. Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs 2014-January 2017 under Obama. Co-chaired a meeting of the U.S.–Israel Joint Economic Development Group (JEDG) in 2014. Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) since late 2017.

Source(s): July 1, 1996, Forbes, 'Herbert Allen and his merry dealsters': "Brian Roberts of Comcast."; July 11, 2001, NY Post, Moguls Play 'Let's Make a Deal At Sun Valley'; July 7, 2010, Los Angeles Times, 'Allen & Co. summer camp mogulfest gets underway': "Comcast chief Brian Roberts passed a love note to General Electric chief Jeff Immelt..."; July 9, 2013, Hollywood Reporter, 'Sun Valley Scene: Rupert Murdoch, Brian Roberts, Brian Grazer Arrive at Allen & Co. Retreat'; 2016 and 2018 too

Jewish. Since 1990, at the age of 30, Brian Roberts, CEO of COmcast, the world's largest cable television company that was founded by his father, Ralph.

Source(s): July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp'; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

MBA from Harvard in 1961. Director of The Coca-Cola Company since 1975. Coca-Cola is deeply tied to Allen & Co. and Sun Valley Meetings history. Coca-Cola's chairman and CEO until 1981 was J. Paul Austin, a chairman of the RAND Corporation and founding member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission. The president from 1981 was Austin's preferred successor, Donald Keough, a neighbor and lifelong friend of Warren Buffett. In 1988 Buffett bought a controlling stake in Coca-Cola. Founder Herbert Allen joined Coca-Cola's board in 1983.

February 19, 2015, Wall Street Journal, 'Two Coca-Cola Directors to Retire Amid Board Renovation': "Mr. Robinson [Sun Valley] has served on Coke's board since 1975 and served as CEO of American Express Co. (AXP) from 1994 to 1997. ... The board's transformation began in early 2013, when veteran Coke directors Donald Keough [Sun Valley and Warren Buffett neighbor and lifelong friend] and James Williams retired. ... Robert Kotick [Sun Valley], the 51-year-old CEO of entertainment company Activision Blizzard Inc. joined in 2012."

May 31, 2004, Fortune, 'The Real Story How did Coca-Cola's management go from first-rate to farcical in six short years? Tommy the barber knows': "Many people see Keough as the company's guardian, savior, and keeper of the flame--the man who has, since Goizueta's death [in 1997], worked behind the scenes to keep Coke on course. Keough served for 12 years as Goizueta's very strong and effective No. 2--a hard-charging, irrepressible president and COO until he retired from the company and the board in 1993. In truth, though, Keough, now 77, never really retired from Coke. He has continued to serve as consultant, advisor, and behind-the-scenes power broker. He officially rejoined as a director after Coke abolished its 74-year-old age limit in February."

Executive vice president American Express Co., New York City, 1970-1975, president, 1975-1977, chairman, CEO, 1977-1993, CEO 1994-1997. President J.D. Robinson Inc., 1993—. Director Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 1976-2005, non-executive chairman 2005-2008.

Co-founder and general partner RRE Ventures, 1994-. Chairman RRE Investors, LLC. Founded RRE with his son, James D. Robinson IV and a classmate of his son from Harvard Business School, Stuart J. Ellman.

Member and former co-chair of the Business Council, alongside David Rockefeller and Stephen Bechtel, Jr. Member Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Member Pilgrims Society. Honorary trustee of the Brookings Institution. Member U.S.-Japan Business Council. Member of the Presidents' Circle of the Asia Society. Board of directors and chair emeritus of the David Rockefeller-founded Partnership of New York City. In 2006 he joined The Centennial Society of the Economic Club, along with David Rockefeller. Together with his son, a member of the Augusta National Golf Club and a visitor of the Sun Valley Meetings.

January 2018, The Economic Club, 'Celebrating 111 Years: 2018 Application Packet', pp. 7-8: "The Economic Club of New York - Founded in 1907 - Centennial Society Members: ... Richard A. Debs ... Maurice R. Greenberg ... David H. Koch ... Henry R. Kravis. Marie-Josee Kravis. ... Peter G. Peterson ... William R. Rhodes ... James D. Robinson III. David Rockefeller ... Theodore Roosevelt IV ... Stephen A. Schwartzman ... Jerry I. Speyer ... John C. Whitehead..."

pfnyc.org:80/bod.asp (accessed: December 12, 2004): "Chairman: Martin Lipton. ... Founding chairman: David Rockefeller. ... Chairmen Emeriti: ... Henry R. Kravis ... James D. Robinson, III ... Richard D. Parsons ... Jerry I. Speyer ... Board of Directors: ... Stephen Berger ... Jeffrey W. Greenberg ... Henry R. Kravis ... Harold McGraw, III ... Lachlan Murdoch ... Jerry I. Speyer ... Mortimer B. Zuckerman ... Kenneth I. Chenault ... Richard D. Parsons ... Stephen A. Schwarzman, President and CEO, The Blackstone Group ..."

pfnyc.org:80/bod.html (accessed: March 10, 2007): "Vice Chairs: ... Kenneth I. Chenault ... Board of Directors: Michael G. Cherkasky ... Henry R. Kravis ... K. Rupert Murdoch ... James D. Robinson, III ... Ex-Officio: Timothy F. Geithner ..."

January 14, 1980 Business Council letter of invitation from executive secretary John W. Burke to CIA director Stansfield Turner: "John W. Burke, Jr., Executive Secretary. ... Active Members: J. Paul Austin ... S. D. Bechtel, Jr. ... A. W. Clausen ... Richard L. Gelb ... Ruben F. Mettler ... David Packard ... James D. Robinson III. David Rockefeller. ... Walter B. Wriston."

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

Son of James D. Robinson, III. Venture capitalist alongside his father.

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'

CEO of MPG Havas Media 1999-2006. CEO of Haves, a multinational advertising and public relations company, 2006-2011, then vice chairman. Spanish member of the Trilateral Commission 2011-2016.

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; 2005; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; July 14, 2014, deadline.com, 'UPDATE: Herb Allen's Sun Valley Retreat – Recap'

Host and executive producer of the talk show Charlie Rose on PBS and Bloomberg LP 1991-2017. Interviewed the elite of the elite for all these years. Also co-anchored CBS This Morning from 2012 to 2017. Rose formerly substituted for the anchor of the CBS Evening News. Ousted in 2017 after accusations of sexual abuse harassment during the #MeToo campaign. Member Pilgrims Society and Trilateral Commission. Bilderberg 2002, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012.

September 28, 2009, Fortune, 'Why business loves Charlie Rose': "[Charlie Rose] spearheads the Forstmann Little conference held each fall in Aspen, at which Rose is the principal interviewer of special guests. Rose also appears at other elite business conferences -- Herbert Allen's Sun Valley, Idaho, shindig, the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the J.P. Morgan Chase Leadership Conference in Deer Valley, Utah, and the Microsoft CEO Summit."

Source(s): July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Vice president of partnerships at Facebook.

Rutherfurd heads the investment banking group of Veronis Suhler Stevenson, a merchant bank specializing in the media industry, and is a senior principal with the company's VS&A Communications Partners III fund. He also manages the VSS Focus Program, which looks for deals that Veronis Suhler Stevenson can take part in; he has closed more than $28 billion in media transactions, according to the bank. Before Veronis Suhler Stevenson hired Rutherfurd in January 1999, he was a managing director in JP Morgan's mergers and acquisitions group and co-head of the company's media group. Rutherfurd has a law degree from the University of Virginia and a bachelor's degree from Princeton University.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; also known to have visited aroiund the turn of the century.

Egyptian-born Israeli Haim Saban emigrated to the U.S. to join the major league of media moguls, primarily on the strength of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, a phenomenally popular television series (and line of licensed products). Saban began his career as Israel’s, and then France’s leading music promoter/manager before founding Saban Entertainment in Los Angeles. In the late 1990s he launched cable network Fox Family Worldwide in partnership with News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch. Although Fox Family flopped in the ratings, the network was sold to Disney for more than $5 billion, making Saban a billionaire and funding his subsequent series of bold moves to acquire media assets in Europe.

Source(s): July 7, 2010, Los Angeles Times, 'Allen & Co. summer camp mogulfest gets underway': "Tom Brokaw is also moderating a panel on women in technology featuring Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg..."; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List' (as usual, with Zuckerberg); July 17, 2017, Time, 'Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner Just Went to 'Summer Camp for Billionaires''; July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Jewish. BA Harvard College in Economics in 1991, graduating summa cum laude and belonging to Phi Beta Kappa. While at Harvard, she co-founded an organization called Women in Economics and Government. She met then-professor [and top superclass member] Larry Summers, who became her mentor and thesis adviser. Summers recruited her to be his research assistant at the World Bank, where she worked for approximately one year on health projects in India dealing with leprosy, AIDS, and blindness. MBA Harvard Business School in 1995. From 1996 to 2001 she again worked for Larry Summers, who was then serving as the United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Bill Clinton. After Bush won the 2000 elections, she moved to Silicon Valley and joined Google Inc. In late 2007, Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, met Sandberg at a Christmas party held by Dan Rosensweig (COO of Yahoo!; president and CEO of ZDNet, Chegg, Guitar Hero; member of the Executives in Residence program at Columbia University and director of Adobe Systems, Inc., & formerly Katalyst Media, Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg's defunct company). First woman to be appointed to Facebook's board in June 2012. COO of Facebook.

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley': "Oprah Winfrey and Ted Sarandos (R), chief content officer at Netflix, chat [and hold hands] at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 7, 2011 in Sun Valley, Idaho."; July 7, 2015, Hollywood Reporter, 'Sun Valley: What to Expect From This Year's Mogul Gathering' (on guest list with Reed Hastings)

After meeting Netflix CEO Reed Hastings in 1999, Sarandos joined Netflix in 2000. Chief content officer of Netflix. Democrat. Sarandos and his wife, Nicole Avant, held a fundraiser for President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign in Southern California in 2009. 2008: Aspen Institute – Henry Crown Fellow.

Source(s): June 29, 1998, New York Magazine, 'Sun Valley Daze'.

President of NBC Entertainment Organization. Before joining NBC, he worked for Ronald Perelman's Andrews Group, where he was CEO of Marvel Entertainment, an Andrews Group subsidiary. Before that he spent nine years at Turner Broadcasting System (CNN), and before that he was vice president of network management for Fox Broadcasting, where he worked for Barry Diller.

Source(s): July 20, 1998, Time Magazine, 'Power Camps'; July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp': "There are people [Herbert Allen] always invites because they're old friends: ... Diane Sawyer [dated Kissinger] ... the actress Candice Bergen [dated Kissinger]; the director Sydney Pollack."

Administrator of the White House press office 1970-1974, researcher for Richard Nixon's memoirs 1974-1978, CBS' U.S. State Department correspondent, correspondent CBS Evening News 1978-1981, co-anchor CBS Morning News 1981-1984, co-anchor CBS' Early Morning News 1982-1984, correspondent and co-editor of 60 Minutes 1984-1989, co-anchor of ABC's Prime Time Live since 1989, co-anchor of ABC's Good Morning America since 1999. Member Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She is a longtime friend of Herb Allen. Sawyer reported live from Ground Zero during the week of Sept. 11. She returned to Afghanistan to reunite the women profiled in her 1996 report from behind the burqua, as one of the first Western journalists to expose the plight of women under Taliban rule. Her interviews include President George W. Bush in his first national interview; Saddam Hussein, the first Western television interview granted by the Iraqi president for nearly a decade; President Fidel Castro; Robert MacNamara's public apology on Vietnam; Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, the convicted Mafia member who turned against the Gambino crime family and his boss, John Gotti; Ellen DeGeneres, who announced her homosexuality; ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega's first interview from prison; Michael Jackson and his then-wife Lisa Marie Presley's only interview; Michael J. Fox's interview about Parkinson's disease and the decision to leave his show; and former first lady Nancy Reagan on President Reagan's battle with Alzheimer's disease and their 50-year marriage. She also had the first interview at home with the Clintons after the 1992 presidential election. Sawyer is also an award-winning investigative journalist, on topics ranging from biological weapons production in Russia to daycare abuse. She brought American viewers a shocking report on the warehousing of Russian children in state-run orphanages; a diary of life inside a maximum security prison for women, where Sawyer spent two days and nights; an investigation into the neglect and abuse at state-run institutions for the mentally retarded; and a landmark investigation into pharmacy prescription errors.

Source(s): July 7, 2010, Los Angeles Times, 'Allen & Co. summer camp mogulfest gets underway': "The usual suspects are attending including ... Google's Eric Schmidt... Schmidt and Zuckerberg drove off together for a meeting..."; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List' (with Brin and Page).

Schmidt was educated at Princeton, one of the key Eastern Establishment universities. While subsequently attending UCLA Berkeley in the 1976-1980 period, Schmidt resided for four years at the Berkeley branch of the Rockefeller-founded and overseen International House. Here he met his wife, Wendy. After his appointment as CEO of Google, Schmidt became a trustee of Princeton University, a trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study, and a director of Apple (2006-2009). In 2008 he became president of the New America Foundation. Close David Rockefeller friends and top superclass members Peter Peterson and John Whitehead were involved in this foundation, as was George Soros' son, Jonathan, and a number of other elitists. Bill Gates has been an important financier of the New America Foundation. With countless of Bilderberg and New America Foundation friends, Schmidt has also been attending Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign Relations meetings. With his wife he set up the Schmidt Family Foundation, one of countless "liberal CIA" foundations involved in the financing of sustainable development and alternative media outlets.

Hired by young Google founder Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 2001 to become CEO of Google. Schmidt was CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, becoming executive chairman after that. He first visited Bilderberg in 2007 and returned in 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. In 2015 he took two Google engineering experts with him to Bilderberg, but for the rest was Google's sole representative. Today, anno 2017, Schmidt is listed as a steering committee member of Bilderberg. He also is a visitor of Sun Valley meetings.

In 2016 Schmidt became founding chairman of the Defense Innovation Advisory Board, a Silicon Valley advisory council to the U.S. military. Board members include Neil deGrasse Tyson, a well-known rent-a-skeptic and science commentator, and Walter Isaacson, a Rhodes Scholar who became president and CEO of the Aspen Institute and is a biographer of Apple's Steve Jobs and Henry Kissinger.

Schmidt has maintained very close ties to Obama and Hillary Clinton. He was a member of Obama's transition advisory board, after which he served as a member of the United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Schmidt has been making his private jets available for years to senator and secretary of state Hillary Clinton and her staff, and helped organize her failed presidential campaign in 2016.

November 1, 2017, Washington Post, 'About The WorldPost': "The WorldPost, a partnership of the Berggruen Institute and The Washington Post... Publishing op-eds and features from around the globe, we work from a worldwide perspective looking around rather than a national perspective looking out.
Editorial board: Nicolas Berggruen, ... Walter Isaacson, ... Arianna Huffington, John Elkann, Pierre Omidyar, Eric Schmidt..."

Source(s): July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp'

Managing director Allen & Co., chairman Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis, director Andre Agassi Foundation. A John A. Schneider has been a president of the CBS Broadcasting group until 1977. Not sure if it's the same person.

Source(s): June 23, 1995, Los Angeles Times, 'Company Town: The Stormy Gathering at Sun Valley': "Diller and Redstone are regulars at the annual Sun Valley gathering (now in its 12th year), as are Murdoch, Malone, Gates, Ted Turner, Sony's Michael P. Schulhof..."

Jewish. MS degree from Harvard Business School. Joined Sony in 1968 and rose to senior management in 1979. President and CEO of Sony Music Corporation 1990-1995. President and CEO of Sony America and Sony Media and Entertainment 1993-1996. Honorary Trustee of the Brookings Institution. Member CFR. Trustee of Brandeis University and Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

Source(s): July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

CEO of Paypal.

H. Lee Scott, Jr. has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. since January 2000. Lee joined Wal-Mart in 1979 in the company's logistics and transportation area, and he worked in that area in a series of progressive positions for the first 16 years of his Wal-Mart career. He served as Director of Transportation, Vice President of Distribution, and Senior Vice President of Logistics during that time. Lee was promoted to Executive Vice President of Logistics in 1993. In 1995, Lee was named Executive Vice President of Merchandise and Sales for the Wal-Mart Stores Division. In 1998, he was named President and Chief Executive Officer of the Wal-Mart Stores Division, and in 1999, he became Chief Operating Officer and Vice Chairman of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. During Lee's tenure in logistics and transportation, Wal-Mart's program drew increasing respect as one of the best of its kind in business. Working with his merchandise team during his time in that area, Scott also was instrumental in driving improvement in inventory levels and merchandise flow in the stores. Prior to joining Wal-Mart, Lee worked with two companies in the freight and transportation area, Yellow Freight System and Queen City Warehouse. Lee is a graduate of Pittsburg State University (Kansas) with a bachelor's degree in business. Lee also has completed executive development programs at Penn State University and Columbia University.

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'.

Vice-president (1970–1977) and president of Pepsi-Cola (1977–1983), until he became chief executive officer of Apple Inc. on April 8, 1983, a position he held until leaving in 1993.

Source(s): July 8, 2009, Reuters blog, 'Sun Valley: What are these guys doing here?'.

Commissioner Major League Baseball (MLB) 1992-2015, emeritus since 2015.

Source(s): June 23, 1995, Los Angeles Times, 'Company Town: The Stormy Gathering at Sun Valley'; June 29, 1998, New York Magazine, 'Sun Valley Daze'; July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'

Since May 2001, Terry Semel has served as the chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Yahoo! Inc., a leading provider of online services. As “Chief Yahoo,” Semel has engineered what Business Week characterized as “one of the most remarkable revivals of a beleaguered dot-com.” During the last 24 years of the 20th century, Semel served (with Robert Daly) as co-chairman and co-Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Warner Brothers, and was credited with transforming the company from an ageing movie studio into a diversified media conglomerate generating more than $10 billion annually from diverse operations in more than 50 countries. In 1999, Terry Semel, then co-CEO of Warner Bros, met Yahoo! Inc co-founder Jerry Yang at the Allen & Co retreat. Two years later, Semel was hired to run Yahoo.

Kevin Sharer was named chief executive officer of Amgen Inc., the world's largest biotechnology company, in 2000 and chairman of the board in 2001. He joined Amgen in 1992 as president, chief operating officer and member of the board of directors. Under Sharer's guidance, the company has grown considerably, completing biotech's largest acquisition, launching new products, building its customer base, and adding thousands of employees. Before joining Amgen, Sharer was executive vice president and president of the Business Markets division at MCI Communications. Prior to working with MCI, he served in a variety of executive roles at General Electric and was a consultant for McKinsey & Company. Sharer serves on the board of directors for 3M, UNOCAL and the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation. Since 2003, he also sits on the board of directors at Northrop Grunman. He is chairman of the board of trustees of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History and a member of The Business Council.

Source(s): July 6, 2016, deadline.com, 'Herb Allen's Sun Valley Retreat: Politicians Talk Morality And Future Of Cities': "Others who made the trip include Discovery CEO David Zaslav and Comcast’s Brian Roberts. Disney’s well represented with CEO Bob Iger, Disney-ABC Television Group's Ben Sherwood, ESPN’s John Skipper and former COO Tom Staggs. Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner’s also there."

Jewish. In 1986, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College with an AB degree. From 1986-89, Sherwood was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, and he and his sister, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, were the first brother and sister team of Rhodes scholars.

In 1997, Sherwood joined NBC's Nightly News with Tom Brokaw as a Producer, a Senior Producer, and ultimately the Senior Broadcast Producer, where he was present during coverage of the September 11 attacks. Sherwood left NBC News in January 2002. In April 2004, Sherwood was the Executive Producer of the ABC's Good Morning America, and on December 3, 2010, Sherwood was appointed President of ABC News in New York. In January 2015, Sherwood was named President of Disney-ABC Television Group, and Co-Chairman of Disney Media Networks.

Member of the Advisory Board of the Ford, Soros, MacArthur and Omidyar foundation-funded Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York

At 61, managing director Stanley Shuman is a 35-year veteran of Allen & Co. Shuman is one of media magnate Rupert Murdoch's closest advisers, and he's close to wealthy Manhattan real estate developer Bernard Mendik. Shuman is no shrinking violet, and his large ego is a source of amusement to some of his colleagues.

Source(s): July 6, 2016, Business Insider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and the big names in tech and media swarm to Sun Valley, Idaho, for Allen & Co.'s mogul fest'

Attended MIT. Graduated Yale. Worked at Google in the online advertising group. Co-founder in March 2010 and CEO of Pinterest. Co-founded Pinterest with Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp (Columbia and University of Chicago graduate; worked as a product engineer at Facebook and did the designing and programming).

Source(s): July 10, 2015, CNN, 'Why CEOs and tech titans converge on Sun Valley for 'summer camp'': "Roger Goodell (L), commissioner of the NFL, and Adam Silver, Commissioner of the NBA, attend the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on Thursday."

Graduated from Duke University in 1984. Legal aide to Congressman Les AuCoin 1984-1985. Law degree from the University of Chicago in 1988. Litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Deputy NBA commissioner 2006-2014, and NBA commissioner since 2014. Trustee of Duke University.

Source(s): July 8, 2013, zimbio.com/photos/, 'Business Leaders Meet in Sun Valley for Conference': "John Skipper, president of ESPN Inc. and co-chairman of Disney Media Networks, arrives for the Allen & Co. annual conference at the Sun Valley Resort on July 9, 2013..."; July 6, 2016, deadline.com, 'Herb Allen's Sun Valley Retreat: Politicians Talk Morality And Future Of Cities': "Others who made the trip include Discovery CEO David Zaslav and Comcast’s Brian Roberts. Disney’s well represented with CEO Bob Iger, Disney-ABC Television Group's Ben Sherwood, ESPN’s John Skipper and former COO Tom Staggs. Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner’s also there."

Senior vice president and general manager of ESPN the Magazine 1997-2005, executive vice president of content 2005-2012. President of ESPN Inc. and co-chairman of Disney Media Networks 2012-December 2017. Skipper told S.I. that a cocaine extortion attempt led to his ESPN departure.

Source(s): July 10, 2015, Idaho Mountain Express, 'At Allen & Co., the moguls are mum'.

Key founder of Snapchat while he and two others were students at Stanford. CEO of Snap, Snapchat's holding company. Named the youngest billionaire in the world in 2015. Started dating supermodel Miranda Kerr in 2017 and married her in 2017. Member of the Berggruen Institute's 21st Century Council, an institute where Rockefeller-Soros economists as Joseph Stiglitz and Nouriel Roubini can also be found. Worth $4.3 billion in February 2018.

Source(s): June 23, 1995, Los Angeles Times, 'Company Town: The Stormy Gathering at Sun Valley': "Diller and Redstone are regulars at the annual Sun Valley gathering (now in its 12th year), as are Murdoch, Malone, Gates, Ted Turner ... Dream Teamers David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg (Steven Spielberg is in Europe and won't be there this year), Time Warner's Gerald Levin [and] Warren Buffett [and] Jack Valenti..."

The most famous brand name in moviemaking since Walt Disney, Steven Spielberg broke into Hollywood at a very young age, directed and/or produced many of the biggest box-office hits of the last three decades, and opened the first successful new movie studio in Los Angeles since the mid-1930s. Spielberg is the wealthiest filmmaker in history and renowned throughout the industry as the toughest of negotiators. While the Spielberg Legend can be recited by film fans and students around the world, the sheer enormity of his popular achievements continue to obscure an important fact: Steven Spielberg is one of the all-time great film directors. Co-founder of Dreamworks.

Source(s): July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Former COO of The Walt Disney Company.

Source(s): July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp': "There are people [Herbert Allen] always invites because they're old friends: ... the producer Ray Stark..."

Influential and prolific film producer who made more than 125 films, including Funny Girl and Steel Magnolias. Died in 2004. First introduced Herbert Allen to the Sun Valley.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

David Stern has been the commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) since February 1, 1984. Mr. Stern began his association with the NBA in 1966 as outside counsel, joined the NBA in 1978 as general counsel and became the league's executive vice president in 1980. In addition to being chairman of the board of trustees at Columbia University, Mr. Stern currently serves on the boards of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, the Rutgers University Foundation, the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund, the Museum of Television and Radio, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. He is also a member of the Reading is Fundamental Advisory Council and the Board of Associates of Gallaudet University.

Source(s): July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp': "There are people [Herbert Allen] always invites because they're old friends: Bob Strauss and his law partner, Vernon Jordan ... Walter Mondale; former Senator Bill Bradley ... Meredith and Tom Brokaw..."

Robert Strauss became Chairman of the Board of the U.S.-Russia Business Council in January 1993. He is a Partner at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. In August 1991, Mr. Strauss was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he in turn became U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation. In November 1992, he resigned from the Foreign Service to rejoin his law firm. Mr. Strauss served as a Special Agent in the FBI after receiving his law degree from the University of Texas. In January 1946, he entered private law practice and founded the firm that became Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., with offices in Texas, Washington, Brussels, and Moscow. Mr. Strauss served as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1973 to 1976. He served as Chairman of President Carter's election campaign in 1976, and then in President Carter's Cabinet as Special Trade Representative. Over the next two-and-a-half years, Mr. Strauss successfully concluded the Tokyo Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations and directed its passage through Congress, culminating in the Trade Act of 1979. Following the completion of the trade agreements, President Carter asked Mr. Strauss to serve as his Personal Representative to the Middle East peace negotiations. In 1981, Mr. Strauss was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award. A popular lecturer, he speaks extensively across the country and abroad and has authored numerous articles for professional journals, newspapers and magazines. Director of Archer Daniels Midland, Xerox, and many other companies. He previously held the Lloyd Bentsen Chair at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, where he has lectured at the School of Law and the Graduate School of Business. Member of the Alfalfa Club, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, and a trustee for the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS). Strauss is a friend of Herbert Allen

Source(s): July 13, 2007, Washington Post, 'It's Not All Play at Media Conference'; July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

BA; MA in Modern History, Oxford Univ., UK. Thirty years with CBS: 1976-81, Exec. Producer, CBS Reports; 1981-84, Exec. Producer, CBS Evening News; 1984-86, Vice-President and 1986-88, President, CBS News; 1988-95, President, CBS Broadcast Grp. 1995-97, Chairman and CEO, Tele-TV, USA. Since 1997, current position and Chairman, Sony Canada. Member of the Board of Directors: SCA; Sony Electronics; Sony Music; Sony Pictures; 1999, Sony Corp. Member of the Board, Sony Europe. Vice-Chairman, American Film Inst. Member of the Board of Trustees, Museum of Television and Radio. Trustee, American Women in Radio and Television. Director, Motion Picture & Television Fund Foundation. Director or Member of the Board of Governors of several organizations. Recipient of numerous awards, honours and January 2000, awarded Knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II. Goes to DAVOS.

July 13, 2007, Washington Post, 'It's Not All Play at Media Conference': "...former CIA chief George Tenet, who is attending the conference again, and ... former Senator and Allen & Co. executive Bill Bradley, who was also present."; July 8, 2016, Deadline.com, 'Moguls At Sun Valley Bone Up On Artificial Intelligence, Terrorism, And Biotech': "Yesterday’s sessions included one with former CIA director George Tenant who spoke about the Middle East and terrorism with New York Police Department Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence & Counter-terrorism John Miller and a former chief of Israeli intelligence agency Mossad."; July 17, 2017, Time, 'Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner Just Went to 'Summer Camp for Billionaires''.

Jesuit Georgetown University - School of Foreign Service - Bachelor's degree 1976, Columbia University - School of International Affairs - Master's degree 1978, staff director of the Senate Committee on Intelligence 1988-1993, National Security Council staff 1993-1995, deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) 1995-1996. CIA director 1996-2004. Went to the Sun Valley meeting in 2003, giving a private intelligence briefing. Announced his resignation as CIA director for personal reasons and "the well-being of his family" on 3 June 2004. Chairman United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation. Invited in 2005 to the SUn Valley as a member of the panel on terrorism. Former anchor of NBC Tom Brokaw (CFR) and New York Times / Foreign Affairs columnist Thomas Friedman (CFR) were the other members of the panel. The panel was established, because at the start of the conference there were terrorrist attacks in London. After his resignation as the DCI he became a professor at Georgetown University.

Tenet became a managing director of Allen & Co. in October 2007.

Joined the Trilateral Commission no later than that year. 2008 membership list, Trilateral Commission: "George J. Tenet - Georgetown Univ., former CIA Director ... Gerald M. Levin - AOL Time Warner, Inc. ... Charles Rose - The Charlie Rose Show, PBS ... Henry A. Kissinger - Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission... Robert S. McNamara - Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission... David Rockefeller -Founder, Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Comm."
2010 membership list, Trilateral Commission: "George J. Tenet, Managing Director, Allen & Company, New York, NY... Charles Rose... Richard Plepler, Co-president, HBO, New York, NY. ... John Podesta ... [Gerald Levin gone]"

Source(s): December 5, 2013, Forbes: "Palantir CEO Alex Karp (left) with billionaire cofounder Peter Thiel at the Sun Valley conference in 2009. (Credit: Allen & Co.)"; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List': "Peter Thiel and Palantir’s Alex Karp grabbing a coffee between panels at the lodge..."; July 7, 2015, New York Post, 'Zuckerberg in, Peter Thiel out at annual Sun Valley Conference': "Peter Thiel — who last year was seen powwowing with fellow libertarian Rand Paul at the annual media mogul bash thrown by Allen & Co. in Idaho — isn't coming in 2015..."

Founded Thiel Capital Management in 1996. Co-founder of PayPal in 1998, serving as its chairman and CEO until PayPal was sold to eBay in 2002. In 2002 he founded Clarium Capital Management, a global macro hedge fund. Key founder of national security datamining firm Palantir in 2004, together with Alex Karp. Palantir received CIA and DOD backing. In July 2005 Thiel was the key founder of Founders Fund. Hired Sean Parker to Founders Fund in 2006. Through Founders Fund he became the earliest institutional investor in Facebook, Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Palantir Technologies. Director of Silicon Valley start-up financier Y Combinator and an early investor in Airbnb (a Y Combinator client) and Spotify. Sean Parker played a key role in bringing Thiel to Facebook and Spotify. In 2007 Thiel first visited Bilderberg -- as president of Clarium Capital Management -- and soon joined Bilderberg's steering committee. Thiel has visited Bilderberg every single year since then, at least until 2017. Appears to have recruited LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman to Bilderberg in 2011, who also has been visiting every year since. Founded venture capital firm Mithril Capital Management in 2012.

foundersfund.com/story/about (accessed: March 26, 2018): "[Thiel] serves as a primary supporter of the Committee to Protect Journalists ... the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence ... the SENS Foundation, a medical charity dedicated to extending healthy human lifespans. Peter remains active at his alma mater, and has taught at Stanford Law School, in addition to serving on the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution at Stanford."

Palantir

In 2004 Thiel was a key founder of national security data mining software producer Palantir, together with Alex Karp. Early on, Palantir received support from Richard Perle and financial backing from the CIA's In-Q-Tel. Later on, reportedly, its relationship with the CIA, NSA and FBI soured, but its software is still being used. The first major investor in Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook. Both Peter Thiel and Google CEO Eric Schmidt went to Bilderberg for the first time in 2007, with both soon joining the steering committee.

Despite being founded in 2004, Palantir appears to have had no website pre-2010. In similar fashion, Founders Fund first had a basic website in 2009. Anno 2018 Thiel Capital has a website that only reads "Thiel".

May 31, 2014, Palantir, 'Unlocking Secrets, if Not Its Own Value': "Its advisers include James Carville, the Democratic strategist; Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state; George J. Tenet, the former C.I.A. director; and Michael Ovitz, the former head of Disney."

Early history as an anti-Moveon,org and anti-multiculture crusader

January 12, 2008, The Guardian, 'With friends like these ...': "A philosophy graduate from Stanford, in 1998 he co-wrote a book called The Diversity Myth, which is a detailed attack on liberalism and the multiculturalist ideology that dominated Stanford. He claimed that the "multiculture" led to a lessening of individual freedoms. While a student at Stanford, Thiel founded a rightwing journal, still up and running, called The Stanford Review - motto: Fiat Lux ("Let there be light"). Thiel is a member of TheVanguard.Org, an internet-based neoconservative pressure group that was set up to attack MoveOn.org, a liberal pressure group that works on the web. Thiel calls himself "way libertarian". ...
Thiel's philosophical mentor is one Rene Girard of Stanford University, proponent of a theory of human behaviour called mimetic desire. Girard reckons that people are essentially sheep-like and will copy one another without much reflection."

Thiel tie to social justice warriors Eric and Bret Weinstein

Eric Weinstein: managing director of Thiel Capital. Research fellow at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University. Member of the Edge Foundation. Expert at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, which since 2011 has an official partnership with the George Soros-funded Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), linked to cryptocurrencies Ethereum (kickstarted by Peter Thiel in 2014) and IOTA. Guest on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast and the Sam Harris podcast. Bret Weinstein is Eric's brother. Bret has often appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast and has also appeared on the one of Sam Harris.

August 8, 2017, CNBC, 'Google is teaching my girl that 'complaining to HR [Human Resources]' is path to success, says Peter Thiel-linked investor': "Google is teaching girls that their path to "financial freedom" lies in "complaining to HR," the managing director of a Peter Thiel investment fund said on Tuesday, drawing sharp criticism on social media.
The comments, made by Eric Weinstein, the managing director of Thiel Capital, come after Google fired engineer James Damore for circulating a memo that argued biological differences were the reason for the shortage of women at the company.Many employees in Google were outraged by the memo. ...
And then the Thiel Capital managing director likened Damore's dismissal from Google to firing a biologist for making a factual comment on biology but accusing him of sexual harassment."

Ties between Napster and Facebook founder Sean Parker and Peter Thiel

February 6, 2010, Vanity Fair, 'With a Little Help From His Friends': "In 1999 [Sean Parker] became rather notorious, at 19, for helping an even younger teenager named Shawn Fanning create Napster. That free song-sharing service upended the music industry. More recently, Parker played an indispensable role as the founding president of Facebook... Had he not joined founder Mark Zuckerberg in Palo Alto in the summer of 2004, when the fledgling Facebook was just five months old, the service almost certainly would not be the colossus it is today. ... Parker is widely considered a Web oracle; more than a few acquaintances and colleagues use the word "genius" to describe him. ... He was pushed out of Facebook after an arrest for cocaine possession in 2005. (No charges were filed.) Even among his many supporters, he has a reputation for being an erratic party animal. ...
Back then Parker apparently believed even more passionately in the company’s potential than did Zuckerberg himself. Peter Thiel—the billionaire hedge-fund manager and co-founder of PayPal, who became Thefacebook’s first investor—says that around that time "Sean consistently argued that Facebook was going to be really big. If Mark ever had any second thoughts, Sean was the one who cut that off." In late August 2004, Zuckerberg and Parker went into a branch of Silicon Valley Bank to open a business account. With only two weeks before the fall semester, Zuckerberg was still talking about returning to Harvard, and the two argued over it right then and there, according to Ken Loveless, a senior vice president at the bank. Parker was adamant that Zuckerberg shouldn’t go back. (Zuckerberg dropped out.) ...
In the financing that Parker negotiated with Thiel, as well as a much larger deal signed seven months later with the Accel Partners venture-capital firm, Parker was able to negotiate for Zuckerberg something almost unheard of in a venture-funded start-up: absolute control for the entrepreneur. Because of that, Zuckerberg, to this day, allocates three of Facebook’s five board seats (including his own). Without that control, Facebook would almost certainly have been sold to either Yahoo or Microsoft, whose C.E.O., Steve Ballmer, offered $15 billion for it in the fall of 2007—only to be met with a blank stare from the then 23-year-old Zuckerberg. ...
Reid Hoffman, a longtime friend and the founder of LinkedIn, who sits with Parker on the board of Gowalla—a location-based social-media service—remembers Parker suggesting an intriguing new concept for the company while the two of them were chatting in Davos, Switzerland. ...
"Sean is a genius, no question," says Ashton Kutcher, whom Parker advised while the actor was developing his own Net-oriented production company. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales met Parker in 2008 and the two started hanging out." ...
Actress and activist Trudie Styler, who is married to Sting, invited Parker and his then girlfriend to a retreat for philanthropists and activists that the couple hosted at their Tuscany estate last year. ...
Parker also fraternizes in the most elite precincts of global governance and policy—but in his own way. At the World Economic Forum in January, he was disappointed in the quality of the nightlife in Davos...
Today, Parker spends most of his time finding and managing investments for Founders Fund, Thiel’s venture-capital shop. His current passion: a London-based music company called Spotify, which he thinks can finish the job that he and Fanning started with Napster—this time, legally."

September 21, 2011, Forbes, 'Sean Parker: Agent Of Disruption': "At 15 his hacking caught the attention of the FBI, earning him community service. At 16 he won the Virginia state computer science fair for developing an early Web crawler and was recruited by the CIA. Instead he interned for Mark Pincus' D.C. startup... Parker made $80,000 his senior year, enough to ­convince his parents to let him put off college and join Shawn Fanning, a teenager he’d met on a dial-up bulletin board, to start a music-sharing site that became Napster in 1999." Anno 2018 this CIA tie is not on his English Wikipedia.

October 6, 2011, Forbes, 'Sean Parker And Shawn Fanning's Secretive Airtime Gets Big Backers': "[Napster founders] Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning are back together. ... [Parker] made $2.1 billion as Facebook's first president, and joined the board of Daniel Ek's Spotify (a music site out to challenge Apple's iTunes) ... Parker and Fanning tell me they've raised roughly $8 million in Series A financing from a roster that includes: [Thiel's] Founders Fund, Accel's Jim Breyer, Yuri Milner, SV Angel with Ron Conway as a special advisor, Andreessen Horowitz, Michael Arrington, Marissa Mayer, Ari Emanuel (William Morris Endeavor Entertainment), Scott "Scooter" Braun (Justin Bieber's manager), plus celebrity investors like Aston Kutcher and The Black Eyed Peas' Wil.i.am."

May 29, 2012, Tech Crunch, 'F50: A Different Kind Of Tech Conference': "In between this barrage of formal tech conferences, I briefly popped into F50 earlier this month... Founders Fund’s first attempt at a tech conference, F50 is the ultimate "un-conference," where fifty of the technology industry’s "most promising" engineers and entrepreneurs were brought together on the Hawaiian island of Lanai. Founders Fund partner Bruce Gibney...
The mentors, who flew in on a different plane along with Founders Fund partners Peter Thiel, Ken Howery, Luke Nosek, Brian Singerman, Bruce Gibney and Sean Parker included Yelp’s Russell Simmons, Palantir’s Stephen Cohen, World Economic Forum CTO Brian Behlendorf, and Airtime co-founder Joey Liaw."

foundersfund.com/team/peter-thiel/ (accessed: March 26, 2018): "Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor [and main founder of Founders Fund in 2005]. He started PayPal in 1998, led it as CEO, and took it public in 2002, defining a new era of fast and secure online commerce. In 2004 he made the first outside investment in Facebook, where he serves as a director. The same year he launched Palantir Technologies, a software company that harnesses computers to empower human analysts in fields like national security and global finance. He has provided early funding for LinkedIn, Yelp, and dozens of successful technology startups, many run by former colleagues who have been dubbed the "PayPal Mafia." He is a partner at Founders Fund, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has funded companies like SpaceX and Airbnb. He started the Thiel Fellowship, which ignited a national debate by encouraging young people to put learning before schooling, and he leads the Thiel Foundation, which works to advance technological progress and long-term thinking about the future."

Ties between Peter Thiel and anti-NSA encryptor James Dolan of the Freedom of the Press Foundation:

October 20, 2016, Vanity Fair, 'Jeff Bezos: Peter Thiel is "a Contrarian," and Contrarians "are Usually Wrong": "Thiel, who sits on the board of Facebook and Y Combinator, among other jobs, ignited a fierce debate in Silicon Valley earlier this week when it was reported that he had donated $1.25 million to Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Some called on Y Combinator to part ways with Thiel, prompting YC president Sam Altman to defend Thiel's right to hold unpopular opinions. Facebook C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg also stood by Thiel's board membership, remarking in a leaked internal memo, "We can't create a culture that says it cares about diversity and then excludes almost half the country because they back a political candidate.""

James Dolan developed SecureDrop with the Y Combinator-supported Aaron Swartz (a Soros and "liberal CIA"-linked social justice warrior). After working for the Soros-Rockefeller-Ford Foundation, etc.-supported Freedom of the Press Foundation, implementing SecureDrop in many different places, Dolan went to work for Classy in 2015. Wondering if classy has any peculiar ties, it soon turned out Peter Thiel had become the primary financier of the company earlier in 2015.

January 30, 2015, Business Wire, 'Classy Partners with Leading Technology Investor Mithril to Power the Next Generation of Social Impact Organizations': "Classy, the leading cloud-based fundraising platform that helps nonprofits and social enterprises mobilize and empower communities, today announced several major milestones, including an $18M growth round of funding led by Mithril Capital Management, the leading technology growth capital firm founded Ajay Royan & Peter Thiel. ...
Mithril led Classy’s growth round, with investors Salesforce Ventures, Bullpen Capital, Venture51, Galileo Partners and Rethink Impact also contributing. ...
Classy is now working with over 1,500 of the world’s top nonprofits and social enterprises including Oxfam, National Geographic ... Michael Young, the former Chief Technology Officer at Redfin and Plumtree [and Lead Program Manager at Microsoft], is also joining Classy as its first CTO."

classy.org/company/team (accessed: March 24, 2018): "Board of Directors: Scot Chisholm: CEO & Co-Founder Classy. Pat Walsh: Chief Impact Officer & Co-Founder Classy. Chris Himes: Managing Director Bristlecone Capital. Howard Deshong: Founder & Managing Partner Galileo Partners. Paul Leggett: Managing Partner [of Peter Thiel's] Mithril Capital Management. Brian Hersman: General Partner JMI Equity..."

Advisory Board: ... Elizabeth Gore: Resident Entrepreneur United Nations Foundation [chair Global Entrepreneurs Council and also worked for Ted Turner-Rothschild-Maurice Strong ran UN Foundation; previously a Peace Corps volunteer who managed a USAID grant; no relation to Al Gore]. ... Ajay Royan: Co-Founder & Managing General Partner [of Peter Thiel's] Mithril Capital Management."

Peter Thiel ties to Ethereum and cryptocurrencies

Financed Vitalik Buterin with a $100,000 to develop Ethereum, the first blockchain DAPP/smart contract platform. June 6, 2014, Cointelegraph.com, 'Ethereum Founder Awarded $100K Thiel Fellowship': "Buterin, from Toronto, is currently working full-time on developing the Ethereum project, will receive US$100,000 over the next two years as a fellow."

• September 26, 2013, CoinDesk, 'Who is right? Winklevosses for, Peter Thiel against bitcoin':
• January 3, 2018, kitco.com, 'Billionaire Peter Thiel Buys $20M Worth of Cryptos, Compares Bitcoin To ': ""
• October 26, 2017, CNBC, 'Bitcoin potential 'very underestimated', billionaire Peter Thiel says'.
• March 16, 2018, bitcoinist.com, 'Peter Thiel is 'Long Bitcoin' and 'Neutral to Skeptical' of Everything'.

Peter Thiel link to CNN dissenter turned psychedelics guru Amber Lyon

Amber Lyon's website was built by Toi.io, the same webdesigner who counts Peter Thiel as its chief client.

Peter Thiel, along with George Soros and Goldman Sachs, also have been in business with Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Trump:

May 3, 2017, Daily Mail, 'Jared Kushner is in business with George Soros, Peter Thiel and Goldman Sachs and has personally guaranteed vast borrowing from European banks - but never declared his financial secrets': "Jared Kushner didn't report on a government financial disclosure form that he is the part-owner of a real estate start-up [Cadre] that counts Goldman Sachs clients and billionaires Peter Thiel and George Soros among its investors. The Wall Street Journal first reported the connection, pointing out that the president's son-in-law and White House senior adviser, continued to have a stake in Cadre...
Kushner's Cadre stake was one of many interests that the Journal found unreported in Kushner's disclosure firm, which also included loans totaling at least $1 billion from more than 20 lenders, including Deutsche Bank and the Royal Bank of Scotland.
President Trump's son-in-law also provided personal guarantees on more than $300 million worth of debt.
Kushner's attorney Jamie Gorelick told the Journal that Kushner's stake in Cadre is under the umbrella of another company he owns called BFPS Ventures LLC, which is reported in his financial disclosures. ... Kushner, Gorelick said, 'resigned from Cadre's board, assigned his voting rights and reduced his ownership there.'"

January 27, 2017, The Real Deal, 'George Soros is the secret financier behind Kushner-backed startup Cadre; Investor's family fund issued $250M credit line: sources': "George Soros' Soros Fund Management has quietly been financing the Kushner-backed real estate finance startup Cadre with a substantial credit line, according to sources familiar with the matter. A source familiar with the financing arrangement told The Real Deal that "Soros has had a long and productive relationship with the Kushner family." ... Business Insider first reported the existence of $250 million credit line in June, but didn't mention its source. ...
Jared Kushner recently joined the White House as an adviser to his father-in-law Donald Trump. Politico reported that he plans to sell his stakes in 35 companies to avoid conflicts of interest.
The irony of the Soros-Kushner connection is that Donald Trump's presidential campaign, which Jared Kushner helped orchestrate, vilified George Soros. A November campaign video showed Soros' face while Trump's voice sounded off on "global special interests" who "don't have your good in mind." ...
Soros vocally opposes Trump. "I have described him as an impostor and a con man and a would-be dictator," Soros told Bloomberg last week."

cadre.com/about (accessed: May 21, 2018): "Cadre is a technology-enabled real estate investment platform that provides qualified individuals and institutions access to fully vetted commercial real estate opportunities. ...
Investors: Andreessen Horowitz. BreyerCapital [of billionaire Jim Breyer, a co-founder of the pro-Third World immigration FDW.us outfit]. Ford Foundation [mega-pro-Third World immigration]. Founders Fund [of Peter Thiel]. General Catalyst. Goldman Sachs. Khosla Ventures. SL Green Realty Corp. Sound Ventures. Thrive Capital [of Joshua Kushner]."

Source(s): July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Past professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University. Past Google vice president and fellow, where he founded Google X and Google's self-driving car team. CEO of the electric aircraft manufacturer, the Kitty Hawk Corporation, and chairman and co-founder of Udacity.

Source(s): July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Co-founder and CEO of Nextdoor, a private social network for neighborhoods.

Source(s): July 6, 2016, deadline.com, 'Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Retreat: Politicians Talk Morality And Future Of Cities': "...a morning session to hear Canada's 45-year-old Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. ... Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper... and an executive from Google spoke about autonomous cars, education and housing."

Eldest son of late former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Leader of the Liberal Party since 2013 and prime minister of Canada since November 2015. Upon hearing the news of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's death, Trudeau released a statement that described Castro as a "remarkable leader" and a "larger than life leader who served his people."

January 27, 2016, The Globe and the Mail, 'Maurice Strong remembered for putting environmental issues on global stage': "From right, former governor-general Adrienne Clarkson, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Hanne Strong... attend a commemoration ceremony in Ottawa for Strong."

February 7, 2018, The Guardian, 'Justin Trudeau tells woman to say 'peoplekind' not 'mankind'': "The Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has come under fire for "mansplaining" and being too politically correct after he interrupted a woman and lightheartedly corrected her for saying "mankind" not "peoplekind" at a town hall event in Canada on Friday."

Source(s): July 17, 2017, Time, 'Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner Just Went to 'Summer Camp for Billionaires'': "Variety reported that Kushner and Trump tried to keep a low profile during the conference, while attending panels on Middle East peace and race relations, among other subjects."

Daughter of President Donald Trump.

Source(s): July 6, 2016, deadline.com, 'Herb Allen's Sun Valley Retreat: Politicians Talk Morality And Future Of Cities': "The guest list includes regulars ... Warner Bros' Kevin Tsujihara... "All the usual suspects are here and right now everyone is networking," an attendee says. "Some people get a lot out of just being here.""; July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

MBA from Stanford. President of Warner Bros. Entertainment until 2013. Succeeded Barry Meyer as CEO of Warner Bros. Entertainment in March 2013 and as chairman in December 2013.

Source(s): June 23, 1995, Los Angeles Times, 'Company Town: The Stormy Gathering at Sun Valley': "Diller and Redstone are regulars at the annual Sun Valley gathering (now in its 12th year), as are Murdoch, Malone, Gates, Ted Turner..."

Robert Edward (Ted) Turner III is the charismatic and controversial founder of Turner Broadcasting Systems (TBS) and Cable News Network (CNN). TBS (currently a division of AOL Time Warner) was a pioneer cable network that grew to become one of the world's most successful broadcasting and media conglomerates. Turner has become known for a flamboyant and outspoken personal style that has earned him nicknames such as "Captain Outrageous," and "the Mouth from the South." Vice-chairman of AOL Time Warner. Donated to the Lucis Trust. His words about the Sun Valley Meetings after he stopped going and subsequently wasn't invited anymore: "I guess I made it known that I found it too boring hanging around all those people." In 1996, Turner apologized to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for comments he made comparing FOX head Rupert Murdoch to Hitler. In 1997, Turner announced that he will donate $1 billion over the next decade to United Nations programs. In 2004 Ted Turner called FOX an arm of the Bush administration and compared FOXNEWS’s popularity to Hitler’s popular election to run Germany before WWII.

Source(s): June 23, 1995, Los Angeles Times, 'Company Town: The Stormy Gathering at Sun Valley': "Motion Picture Assn. of America President Jack Valenti, who each year moderates "The Entertainment Seminar" at the conference..."

LBJ aide in the motorcade when JFK was shot. In 1966 Hollywood kingpin Lew Wasserman installed Valenti as head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Valenti remained in this position until 2004.

March 17, 1993, Hollywood Reporter, 'Last gasp of FBI H'wood probe': "In 1987, Robert Booth Nichols was the target of an FBI investigation of organized crime and labor racketeering in the entertainment industry. ...
The most notable casualty was Gene Giaquinto, the former president of MCA Home Video, who was forced to leave the company in December 1988 when news accounts revealed that he, too, was one of the targets of the FBI probe. Giaquinto and Nichols, it turns out, had become fast friends and business associates during the course of the FBI's investigation. Nichols, an arms manufacturer who claims to have been a CIA operative from 1968-86, placed Giaquinto on the board of directors of the parent company of his arms company. Prior to his downfall at MCA, Giaquinto had tried to get MPAA president Jack Valenti to give Nichols a job."

1994, Carol Marshall, 'The Last Circle', Chapter 12: "Nichols' secret desire to write about his exploits in the CIA had led him to contact Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Assn. of America, through his (then) corporate partner Eugene Giaquinto. The three met at the Beverly Hills Hotel where Nichols attempted to sell Valenti manuscripts disclosing top secret CIA technology. Nichols later said Valenti refused the manuscripts because they contained "classified national security information." (Valenti once served as assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson)."

Source(s): July 13, 2007, Washington Post, 'It's Not All Play at Media Conference': "notably absent was Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook Inc. ... Facebook's COO Owen Van Natta did attend."

Vice President of Worldwide Business and Corporate Development at Amazon.com 1998-2005. COO of Facebook 2005-2008. In April 2009, Van Natta became CEO of MySpace.

Senior vice president of Consumer Strategy and Partnerships at Microsoft. Vigil is responsible for developing Microsoft's consumer strategy. Before he held this position, Vigil was senior director of Strategy Planning and Business Development for the Digital Television Group at Microsoft, responsible for the development of Microsoft's digital TV strategy. Previously Vigil was general manager of the Internet Commerce Business Unit, where he drove the acquisition of eShop Inc., and general manager of the Interactive Television Business Unit, where he redirected Microsoft's development efforts toward the emerging Internet market. From 1990 to 1995, as director of marketing for Desktop Applications, he was responsible for overall marketing and business strategy for Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.

Source(s): July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp'.

Founder of the online business (Priceline.com)that lets users name their price for plane tickets, hotel rooms and mortgages. Also responsible for reviving career of William (Captain Kirk) Shatner, star of Priceline's unsettling television ads. With copycat Web sites cropping up, trying to patent Priceline's "business model." Has patents on scores of other ideas through his R&D lab, Walker Digital. Launched online bargaining platform for gasoline and groceries through Priceline subsidiary WebHouse Club. This year sold options for 8 million Priceline shares to Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures and John Malone's Liberty Digital for $190 million. Also gearing up for the IPO of Synapse Group--a marketing firm for magazine publishers he cofounded in 1991. Yonkers, N.Y. native has seen net worth tumble 62% since last year, but still rich enough to collect misprinted U.S. currency and space memorabilia. Has a personal fortune of about 1.6 billion.

Founder, chairman and CEO of Computer Associates International Inc. (CA). He was born in Shanghai, but moved to Queens, NY when he was eight years old.

Source(s): July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here's The Complete List'; July 10, 2013, zimbio.com/photos/, 'Business Leaders Meet in Sun Valley for Conference'; 2016 list

Grandson of MCA chief Lew Wasserman. BA in Political Science from UCLA. After graduation from UCLA, Casey Wasserman worked as an investment banker. In 1998, he purchased the Los Angeles Avengers of the Arena Football League (AFL). He paid about $5 million for the franchise rights. Despite his youth, he was elected chairman of the league. In 2002 he negotiated a groundbreaking national television partnership between the league and NBC television. President and CEO of the Wasserman Foundation. Co-chaired a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign on August 22, 2016. Successfully led Los Angeles' bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics and will head the city's Olympic organizing committee.

Source(s): July 6, 2016, Business Insider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and the big names in tech and media swarm to Sun Valley, Idaho, for Allen & Co.'s mogul fest'

BS in Chemistry from Georgetown University, where he was an editor for The Hoya. MS in Applied Physics from Stanford University, where he was a National Science Foundation fellow. Wehner worked at Allen & Company for nearly a decade until 2010, when he became the CFO of Zynga. Joined Facebook in 2011 as vice president of corporate finance and business planning, CFO since 2014.

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley': "Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) chats with LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 7, 2011..."; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; July 14, 2014, deadline.com, 'UPDATE: Herb Allen's Sun Valley Retreat – Recap'

BA from Wharton in 1992. Various leadership roles at Yahoo 2001-2008, including as executive vice president of Yahoo's Network Division. Vice president of Warner Bros. Online, developing its initial business plan. In 2011 Weiner and former PayPal co-founder and fellow-Sun Valley visitor Reid Hoffman (both of Greylock Partners) were the U.S. Overall winners of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Started at LinkedIn on December 15, 2008 as Interim President and soon became CEO. Played an instrumental role in LinkedIn's acquisition by Microsoft for $26 billion in June 2016.

Source(s): July 6, 2010, San Francisco Gate, 'Want To Spy On Millionaires and Billionaires In Sun Valley, Idaho?': "Harvey Weinstein [at the] media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho, Thursday, July 9, 2009."; July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; July 14, 2014, deadline.com, 'UPDATE: Herb Allen's Sun Valley Retreat – Recap'; July 6, 2016, deadline.com, 'Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Retreat: Politicians Talk Morality And Future Of Cities': "The guest list includes regulars Harvey Weinstein..."

Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob Weinstein founded Hollywood film production company Miramax. Harvay Weinstein became involved in a massive number of sex scandals in 2017, leading to the #MeToo campaign.

May. 13, 2013, eonline.com, 'Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel Among VIPs at Obama Event in New York City': "Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel get political from time to time. Along with various other VIPs, the longtime Barack Obama supporters were guests tonight at the West Village home of Harvey Weinstein and Georgina Chapman, who hosted the president and some of his top donors (including designer Tommy Hilfiger) for an evening of discussion about recent national tragedies and Obama's legacy."

August 20, 2016, New York Daily News, 'Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel to host $34G Hillary Clinton fund-raiser in place of Leonardo DiCaprio': "Pal Leonardo DiCaprio had a scheduling conflict, according to People [because he is] working on his climate change documentary, "Before the Flood." ... DiCaprio has been a huge supporter of the Democratic presidential nominee, and attended a past fundraiser in New York City at the home of megaproducer [and disgraced sexual abuser] Harvey Weinstein. "Before the Flood" — which features President Obama, Bill Clinton, Secretary of State John Kerry, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Pope Francis — is set to premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 9."

Source(s): July 9, 2004, Gettyimages.nl: "Herb Allen, president & CEO, and Meg Whitman, CEO, eBay Inc. walk to the Inn in the Sun Valley resort during the Allen & Co conference in Sun Valley, Idaho July 9, 2004."; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; July 6, 2016, Business Insider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and the big names in tech and media swarm to Sun Valley, Idaho, for Allen & Co.'s mogul fest'

Princeton and Harvard educated. Vice president of strategic planning at Walt Disney throughout the 1980s. Board member of DreamWorks, Procter & Gamble, and Hasbro in the 1990s and 2000s. President and CEO of Pierre Omidyar's eBay 1998-2008. Senior member of Mitt Romney's presidential campaigns in both 2008 and 2012. Fourth-wealthiest woman in California with a net worth of $1.3 billion in 2010. Declined to join The Giving Pledge in 2010. In 2010 she ran for governor of California as a Republican in 2010, but lost to Democratic opponent Jerry Brown. In March 2010, Whitman described California Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's climate change bill as a "job-killer". During the 2016 Republican primaries, Whitman was finance co-chair of Chris Christie's presidential campaign. Compared Trump to Hitler and Mussolini and eventually supported Hillary Clinton in 2016. Director of Hewlett Packard, Inc. 2011-2017. President and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise since February 2018.

Source(s): July 14, 2014, deadline.com, 'UPDATE: Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Retreat – Recap'

President, co-CEO and later chairman of Endeavor Talent Agency 1999-2009, until it was bought by WME. Strategist & Connector for Entertainment Business, Technology & Philanthropy for AOL since 2010.

Co-founder and chairman of Sterling Equities and chairman and chief executive officer of the New York Mets. He bought the New York Mets in 2002 for $391 million.

Source(s): gettyimages.co.uk: "Fred Wilson, co-founder of Union Square Ventures, walks to a morning session at the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., on Thursday, July 11, 2013."; gettyimages.co.jp: "Fred Wilson ... attends the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 10, 2014..."; "

Founder in 2003 of Union Square Ventures, which in November 2011 took an important position in privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo.com.

June 14, 2010, New York Times, 'One on One: Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures': "[NYT:] Your first big sale was Geocities right?
[Wilson:] Yes. Back in late 1999. And that sold for $3.5 billion. ... Yes, completely [broke]. Right before the Geocities sale went through, my wife went to the cash machine to buy groceries for the week and there wasn't any money in our bank account. I told her to put groceries on the credit card because I knew we were going to sell Geocities the following week. But before that happened, we were living hand to mouth. ... We had to move out of New York City because we just couldn't afford to live in the city. We had three kids, and I was barely scraping by to pay the mortgage. ...
Yes. It's at AVC.com. I write a blog post every single day."

Source(s): July 10, 1999, Associated Press, 'Media titans gather in Sun Valley'; July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley': "Oprah Winfrey and Ted Sarandos (R), chief content officer at Netflix, chat [and hold hands] at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 7, 2011 in Sun Valley, Idaho."; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'

Oprah Winfrey, the star of the nationally and internationally syndicated talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, has built her celebrity into a sizeable media empire under the banner of her private company, Harpo Entertainment. Named as one of the 100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century by Time magazine, Winfrey’s influence extends well beyond her financial reach and viewership numbers. Her relationship with her audience at once embodies fanatical loyalty and casual intimacy, making Winfrey perhaps the public figure with the most profound affect on the lives of those who watch her show.

Source(s): July 10, 2008, pictures.reuters.com: "Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang (C) talks to Google co-founders Larry Page (L) and Sergey Brin (R) at the 26th annual Allen & Co conference in Sun Valley, Idaho July 10, 2008. Second right is Brin's wife Anne Wojcicki."; July 13, 2012, TechCrunch, 'Which Moguls Are Attending Sun Valley This Year? Well Here’s The Complete List'; July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Jewish. Daughter of a Stanford physics professor. BS in biology from Yale in 1996. Key founder in 2006 of 23andMe, a privately held personal genomics and biotechnology company. Married Google co-founder Sergey Brin in 2007.

Sister of Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube, a company owned by Google since 2006.

Source(s): July 2, 2013, Forbes, 'Going To Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley Conference?'; July 10, 2015, Business Insider, 'Power couples at Sun Valley Allen & Co conference'; July 14, 2017, Idaho Mountain Express, 'Mum's the word at Allen & Co.'; July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Jewish. Daughter of a Stanford physics professor. Harvard and UCLA graduated. In September 1998, the same month that Google was incorporated, its founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin set up office in Susan Wojcicki's garage in Menlo Park. She worked in marketing at Intel at the time. In 1999 she became Google's first marketing manager in 1999. CEO of YouTube since February 2014. Her sister, Anne, married Sergey Brin in 2007 and founded 23andMe.

June 20, 2016, Time, 'Susan Wojcicki: Refugees Are Trying to Escape Terror—Not Create It': "My family and millions of other refugees have been welcomed into the US and Europe since World War II. But today, that willingness to open our borders to meaningful numbers of refugees is almost nowhere to be found. The United States and several other European countries have put in rigorous screening processes...
However you feel about the media’s coverage of the refugee crisis, one thing is certain: far more airtime has been granted to those who denounce refugees than to those who humanize them. ... Watch VICE News and see the tears of joy flow from the eyes of African refugees after their raft is narrowly rescued at sea by [the David and Richard Rockefeller-founded and overseen] Doctors Without Borders."

February 12, 2018 live stream of "Recode", 'Full Interview: Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, at Code Media': "[Interviewer Kara Swisher:] Logan Paul. I am using him as an example of just awfulness on your platform. ... Why haven't you absolutely kicked him off your platform. ...
[Susan Wojcicki:] We're in the process of having 10,000 people that will be looking at controversial content at Google. ... We have 400 hours [of video] uploaded every minute. ... We think that the combination of that many people and the [AI] machines will really help us to manage the content on out platform. ... It's really important to have both. The people train the machines. The machines do that work at scale. And then the humans double-check the work. ...
At the beginning of last year, actually anyone could be in the partner program. Then we made a change to 10,000 lifetime views late last year. And then most recently we made a change to having to have a thousand subscribers and 4,000 watch hours within a 12 month period. ...
We've enabled all these voices that before never had an audience. We talk about the big diversity [inaudible] of content. ... We see that we have a-billion-and-a-half people coming to our site every month and we can use that as a way to drive our users to our subscription products. ...
To answer you question, [Logan Paul] hasn't done anything that would cause those three strikes. We can't just be pulling people off of our platform [Swisher sarcasm: [when] they are tasteless and vile.] Well, they need to violate a policy and we need to have consistent behavior. This is like a code of law. [Interviewer Kara Swisher:] Why don't you - You are Google. You can change the rules, right? You can just say, "Now we're doing this [we just get rid of you]." ... It's not just you. I think Facebook is even worse. They run away from themselves from the idea that they are a media company. And I think I know why. Because then you have to impose values, right? ... My point is, at some point you have to have a set of values [and ban anyone you disagree with] ...
I know you all got attacked at Davos by George Soros, etc. Tech is being the punching bag for everyone now. ... The Russia stuff... What have you been doing to ensure that that doesn't happen again..."

support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?hl=en: "Advertiser-friendly content guidelines: ...
Content that is not suitable for most advertisers:
- Controversial issues and sensitive events: Video content that features or focuses on sensitive topics or events including, but not limited to, war, political conflicts, terrorism or extremism, death and tragedies, sexual abuse, even if graphic imagery is not shown, is generally not suitable for ads. ...
- Drugs and dangerous products or substances: Video content that promotes or features the sale, use, or abuse of illegal drugs, regulated drugs or substances, or other dangerous products is not suitable for advertising. Videos discussing drugs or dangerous substances for educational, documentary, and artistic purposes are generally suitable for advertising, so long as drug use or substance abuse is not graphic or glorified. ...
- Hateful content: Video content that promotes discrimination or disparages or humiliates an individual or group of people on the basis of the individual's or group's race, ethnicity or ethnic origin, nationality, religion, disability, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristic that is associated with systemic discrimination or marginalization is not suitable for advertising. Content that is satire or comedy may be exempt; however, simply stating your comedic intent is not sufficient and that content may still not be suitable for advertising." March 11, 2019, recode.net, 'Full Q&A: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki talks about child safety, the Google walkout, and AI on Recode Decode; Wojcicki spoke with Recode's Kara Swisher at the Lesbians Who Tech summit in San Francisco.': "Kara Swisher: Susan and I have known each other, we just figured out, for about 20 years. Susan Wojcicki: Yep. We met a long time ago. I'll tell this story very quickly. Her and it was Larry Page ... Who else was with us? David Drummond." ... And Megan [Smith, Swisher's ex-wife who served as Google vice president, Obama chief technology officer and USAID advisor] ...
[Swisher:] My son, who is 13 years old, started watching Ben Shapiro videos. And he's like the gateway drug to the next group. And then it goes right to Jordan Peterson, then it goes down and in three clicks he was in Neo-Nazi stuff. It was astonishing. And then I had to listen to it at dinner. And I was sort of like, "I'm going to kill Susan Wojcicki first. ...
You know, last time I saw you, I was like, "Get Alex Jones off that platform," and you're like, "Well the community guidelines," and then you got him off. ... [Oh, that] was [on] the terms of service. He broke the terms of service."

Source(s): July 2, 1993, Los Angeles Times, 'When Herb Allen Talks, Star Makers Listen'; July 26, 1999, The New Yorker, 'What I did at summer camp'.

Roman Catholic who was educated by the Jesuits at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. LLB from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1968. Held several posts at General Electric in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, and served as General Electric's vice chairman until 2008. After General Electric bought NBC owner Radio Corporation of America (RCA), Wright became head of NBC. President and CEO of NBC 1986-2001, chairman and CEO 2001-2007. Wright is best known for transforming NBC from a narrowly focused broadcast network to a global media conglomerate. His tenure as NBC head has been the longest since that of broadcast pioneer, David Sarnoff. Following the 2003 announcement that NBC would merge with Vivendi Universal Entertainment (VUE), owner of Universal Pictures and the USA Network, Wright was appointed to head the merged company, NBC Universal.

Source(s): July 10, 1999, Associated Press, 'Media titans gather in Sun Valley'; July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 17, 2017, Time, 'Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner Just Went to 'Summer Camp for Billionaires''.

Jerry Yang is the young Taiwanese-born, Stanford-educated co-founder and "Head-Yahoo" (his official title) of Yahoo! Inc., purveyors of the Web’s most visited site, Yahoo.com. In their own version of the iconic Silicon Valley success story, Yang and Yahoo! co-founder David Filo were a couple of computer-obsessed college students who spent late nights among stacks of pizza boxes working on an original idea. Their efforts created a new institution, the Internet portal, and earned billions for Yahoo!’s founders when the company’s stock was taken public.

Source(s): July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 6, 2016, deadline.com, 'Herb Allen's Sun Valley Retreat: Politicians Talk Morality And Future Of Cities': "Others who made the trip include Discovery CEO David Zaslav..."; July 12, 2018, businessinsider, 'Millionaires, billionaires, and tech titans are swarming to Sun Valley, Idaho'.

Jewish. Executive at NBC Universal, where he oversaw NBC Universal's interests in A&E, The History Channel, The Biography Channel, National Geographic International, the Sundance Channel and TiVo. President and CEO of Discovery, Inc. since January 2007. Discovery, Inc., established in 1985, controls the TV channels as the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery, Science, TLC, the Food Network, HGTV, and Travel Channel. Co-founded the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) TV channel with Oprah in January 2011.

Source(s): July 10, 2007, stock.adobe.com, 'NBC Universal president and CEO Zucker arrives at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley': "NBC Universal president and CEO Jeff Zucker arrives at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho July 10, 2007."; July 9, 2008, New York Times, 'Sun Valley Diary: Jeff Zucker, a Man of the Hour?': "At Sun Valley, it appears that everyone wants to be Jeff Zucker's friend. According to The New York Post, everyone is speculating — and potentially salivating — over the possibility of Mr. Zucker's company, NBC Universal, being sold by parent General Electric."; July 13, 2017, Business Insider, 'The summer camp for billionaires, which just kicked off in Sun Valley, has yielded some blockbuster deals over the years': "NBC CEO Jeff Zucker, who was also at the conference but was not privy to the deal talks."

Jeff Zucker of CNN was President of Harvard's newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, during his senior year and as such he encouraged the decades-old prank rivalry with the Harvard Lampoon, headed by future NBC colleague Conan O'Brien. Executive in residence at Columbia Business School.

Joined NBC out of Harvard in 1986 and rose through the ranks. Served as Tom Brokaw's executive producer at NBC Nightly News. President of NBC Entertainment December 2000 - May 2004. Personally developed Fear Factor, continued Friends and signed Donald Trump for the reality show The Apprentice.

February 28, 2001, New York Post, ''Fear' Strikes NBC': "The new show called "Fear Factor"... executive producer Matt Kunitz, a veteran of five years at "The Real World." ... NBC entertainment president Jeff Zucker said the show – hosted by [NBC] "NewsRadio" alumnus Joe Rogan – is likely to make its debut sometime this summer."

September 16, 2001, New York Times, 'The Stunt Man': "'All anyone can talk about is 'Fear Factor,''' he continues, referring to the NBC hit that is the latest -- and grossest -- addition to the rapidly growing reality genre. ''But 'Fear Factor' is fun,'' he says dispassionately. ''And it's saving us this summer.'' Zucker, who is 36, ... introduces Joe Rogan, the host of ''Fear Factor,'' to Andy Lack, while photographers click away. ''We don't want a picture with him,'' Zucker jokes, throwing his arm around Rogan."

President of NBC Universal 2004-2007, president and CEO 2007-2010. Created a giant mess in 2009-2010 when he replaced Jay Leno with Conan O'Brien (his old Harvard rival) as host of The Tonight Show, with a decline in viewership as a result. Accused of not taking responsibility for the situation. Ousted in 2010 when Comcast took over the company from General Electric.

Visited Davos / the World Economic Forum in 2011. Zucker was picked to take over as the president of CNN Worldwide in January 2013. Zucker oversees CNN, CNN International, HLN, and CNN Digital. CNN is owned by the Turner Broadcasting System, a division of Time Warner, headed by fellow Sun Valley visitor Jeff Bewkes anno 2018. The chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting, John Martin, also visits the Sun Valley. So did Ted Turner before he sold Turner Broadcasting in 1996.

Director at the Robin Hood Foundation, founded in 1988 by billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones, a close ally of George Soros. Harvey Weinstein also sat on the board, along with various other elites. George Soros helped fund the foundation, and in 2009 even pledged $50 million. Director of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Temple Emanu-El, the Robin Hood Foundation, the American Film Institute, the Paley Center.

June 9, 2008, Slate, 'HBO's Roman Polanski Problem': "We're told that [Ari] Emanuel [Joe Rogan's later boss] expressed similar negative thoughts to Silverman's boss, Jeff Zucker..."

Source(s): July 7, 2010, Los Angeles Times, 'Allen & Co. summer camp mogulfest gets underway': "The usual suspects are attending including ... Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg... [Google's Eric] Schmidt and Zuckerberg drove off together for a meeting..."; July 5, 2011, zimbio.com/pictures/, 'CEO's And Corporate Executives Gather For Annual Allan And Co Gathering In Sun Valley'; July 14, 2014, deadline.com, 'UPDATE: Herb Allen's Sun Valley Retreat – Recap'.

Jewish. Went to the super-elite New Hampshire prep school Phillips Exeter Academy (Senator Jay Rockefeller, David Rockefeller, Jr., Rockefeller friend H.J. Heinz III and John Negroponte also graduated here) before attending the equally elite Harvard. On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room. Then spread Facebook to Columbia University, New York University, Stanford, Dartmouth, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, Brown, and Yale. Moved to Silicon Valley where Bilderberg steering committee member Peter Thiel invested in his company. In later years Facebook also acquired WhatsApp and Instagram.

Hardcore pro-Third World immigration stance with his FWD.us, along with countless of his Sun Valley associates.

Chamath Palihapitiya

Head of AOL's instant messaging division in 2004-2005. At Mayfield Fund in 2005. Joined Facebook in 2005 and became good friends with Mark Zuckerberg. Made a popular statement that 150 rule the world. Deeper checking, however, reveals that Palihapitiya is still simply promoting unrestrained Third World immigration, exactly what the elites he is complaining about are doing.

October 6, 2006, New York Times, 'In Flip-Flops and Jeans, An Unconventional Venture Capitalist': "Started in June, his firm, the Social+Capital Partnership, has raised about $300 million. [Palihapitiya] put up roughly $60 million, or about 20 percent of its capital. He has hand-picked a dozen or so other investors, a collection of connected and deep-pocketed technologists and industry insiders, including Adam D'Angelo, an early Facebook employee and founder of the question-and-answer site Quora; Kevin Rose, founder of the social news Web site Digg; Joe Hewitt, creator of the Firefox web browser; and Charles Coleman, the hedge fund manager behind Tiger Global Management. Its lone corporate investor is Mr. Palihapitiya’s former employer Facebook. ... He frequently calls on Facebook’s founder, and his friend, Mark Zuckerberg, for instance, to brainstorm investment ideas."

November 10, 2017, gsb.stanford.edu (Stanford Graduate School of Business), 'View From The Top: Chamath Palihapitiya' (interview): "Here's the thing. There are about 150 people who run the world. Anybody who wants to go into politics; they're all fucking puppets. Okay? There are a 150 and they are all men that run the world. Period. Full stop. They control most of the important assets. They control the money flows. And these are not the tech entrepeneurs. Now, they are going to get rolled over over the next 5 or 10 years by the people that are underneath pulling the strings. And when you get behind the curtain and see how that world works, what you realize is that it is unfairly set up for them and their progneries. Now, I'm not saying that this is something we can rip apart, but first order of business is, I wanna break through and be at that table. That's the first order of business. And the way that I do that is by proving that I can do what they do as well as they do it and then do it better than how they do it."

December 12, 2017, Chamath Palihapitiya on CNBC's "Squawk Box": "I think the tools that have been created today are starting to erode the social fabric of how society works. ... Today we live in a world now where it is easy to confuse truth and popularity. And you can use money to amplify whatever you believe and get people to believe that what is popular is now truthful. ... The reality is now, I can take money and I can use that through all of these social media systems that exist to hundreds of millions of people and I can convince all of Joe's friends and everytbody like him of my opinion in very subtle and small ways."

December 12, 2017, Chamath Palihapitiya on CNBC's "Squawk Box": "I've gotten pulled over by the police, just driving. I don't think it's their fault. I just think it's part of the milieu that we live in. I've gone on planes where I know people feel uncomfotable, because their initial reaction is "Oh, there's a kind of brown-bearded man"."

May 3, 2017, Chamath Palihapitiya on Bloomberg Technology, subtlely bashing Trump and any Third World immigration limitations: "If you are really good at anything you wanted to come here. And what is interesting is that the early data is starting to show signals that that is changing. ... We want the smartest, best people working here on behalf of Americans. On the human capital side, I think a lot of businesses that are frankly having terrible difficulty recruiting people and what that means is wage inflation - which means it doesn't really add to anything, because all you're doing is burning more money without necessarily incremental productivity. You're starting to see competitive businesses now being created in increasing velocity outside of the United States: in Canada, in China, in India. That is generally bad if you think about businesses that could theoretically be build here. ...
When stars, and famous people, and rich CEOS, call you and wanna spent time with you and take you out and invite you to things - all this external validation that tells you that you are important - you have to ignore it. ... You have to spent time with your engineers in your boiler room."