List of University of Chicago Booth School of Business alumni explained

This list of University of Chicago Booth School of Business alumni consists of notable people who graduated or attended the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Chicago Booth), formerly known as the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. The business school was renamed in 2008 in honor of the $300 million gift made by David G. Booth.^[1] Chicago Booth has over 49,000 alumni.^[2]

Banking and financial services

• Andrew Alper, president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, youngest Goldman Sachs partner in company history, university trustee
• Roger Altman, chairman, co-CEO and co-founder of Evercore Partners; former vice chairman of The Blackstone Group; former Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary under the Clinton administration; former Assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary under the Carter administration
• Martin Blessing, former CEO of Commerzbank and board member of UBS
• Archie R. Boe, former chairman and CEO of the Allstate Corporation
• Dennis Chookaszian, businessman and former Chairman and CEO of CNA Insurance
• Jon Corzine, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, former governor of New Jersey
• Brady Dougan, former CEO of Credit Suisse Group
• Eric Gleacher, founder chairman of Gleacher & Co.
• Joe Mansueto, chairman and CEO of Morningstar, Inc.
• Philip J. Purcell, former chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley, and current president of Continental Investors
• Jerry Rao, founder and former CEO of the software company MphasiS
• Pete Ricketts, former vice-chairman of TD Ameritrade and candidate for the U.S. Senate in Nebraska
• Thomas S. Ricketts, CEO of Incapital LLC; family trust was selected as winning bidder for the Chicago Cubs
• Robert Steel, CEO of Wachovia; former Under Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for domestic finance; former vice chairman of Goldman Sachs
• Joel Stern, CEO of Stern Stewart & Co and developer of Economic value added concept
• Barry F. Sullivan, former chairman and CEO of First Chicago Corporation, deputy mayor of New York City under David Dinkins, chairman of the university board of trustees
• Susan Wagner, co-founder and former COO of Blackrock, board member of Apple Inc.

Private equity

• William E. Conway, Jr., founding partner and managing director of The Carlyle Group
• Marcel Erni, billionaire co-founder of Partners Group
• James M. Kilts, founding partner of Centerview Partners; former chairman, president, and CEO of Gillette Company
• Eric Kriss, co-founder of Bain Capital
• Martin Nesbitt, co-founder of The Vistria Group, former national treasurer for the Barack Obama campaign, chairman of the Barack Obama Foundation
• Peter G. Peterson, founder and chairman of The Blackstone Group, one of the world's largest buyout firms; U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1972–73); former CEO of Lehman Brothers; co-founder of the Concord Coalition
• Byron D. Trott, managing partner and chief investment officer of BDT Capital Partners, former vice chairman of investment banking for Goldman Sachs and head of their Chicago Office and Mid-West region
• Jon Winkelried, CEO of TPG Capital and former COO of Goldman Sachs

Investment management

• Clifford S. Asness, founder of AQR Capital, firm with $170+ billion under management; previously with Goldman Sachs as director of Quantitative Research
• David G. Booth, co-founder and CEO of Dimensional Fund Advisors
• Mark Carhart, portfolio manager of Goldman Sachs $8 billion hedge fund called Global Alpha
• Amy Cooper, former insurance portfolio manager at Franklin Templeton
• Eugene Fama, "father of the efficient-market hypothesis", Nobel Laureate in Economics, professor at the Booth School of Business, co-founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors and co-developer of the Fama–French three-factor model; the Research Papers in Economics project ranked him as the seventh-most influential economist of all-time based on his academic contributions
• Diane Garnick, chief income strategist of TIAA
• Roger G. Ibbotson, founder of Ibbotson Associates
• Daniel Ivascyn, CIO of PIMCO
• Michael Larson, investment manager of Bill Gates
• Howard Marks, co-founder and chairman of Oaktree Capital Management, investment firm with $77 billion under management
• John Meriwether, founder and CEO of JWM Partners; founder of Long-Term Capital Management
• Victor Niederhoffer, former hedge fund manager for George Soros, champion squash player
• Emmanuel Roman, CEO of PIMCO and former CEO of Man Group
• Myron Scholes, co-founder of Long-Term Capital Management, co-developer of the Black–Scholes model, co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
• Rex Sinquefield, co-founder along with David G. Booth and Eugene Fama of Dimensional Fund Advisors
• John Studzinski, Vice Chairman of PIMCO, former Vice Chairman of The Blackstone Group, former Head of the European investment banking division and Deputy Chairman of Morgan Stanley

Marketing

• Bart Becht, former CEO of Reckitt Benckiser
• Debra Crew, president and COO of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
• J. Patrick Doyle, CEO of Domino's Pizza
• Melvin Goodes, retired chairman and CEO of Warner-Lambert
• Scott Griffith, CEO of Zipcar
• Charles M. Harper, former chairman and CEO of ConAgra Foods, Inc.
• Timothy E. Hoeksema, chairman, president and CEO of Midwest Airlines
• Mark Hoplamazian (MBA 1989), president and CEO of Hyatt Hotels Corporation
• Porter Jarvis (MBA), president, then chairman of Swift & Co., 1955–1967; trustee of the University of Chicago
• David Johnson, former president and CEO of Campbell Soup Company
• James M. Kilts, vice chairman of Procter & Gamble and former chairman, CEO, and president, The Gillette Company^[3]
• Philip Kotler, author of textbook "Marketing Management: Analysis, Planning, Implementation and Control", received his master's degree in economics and did post-doctoral work in behavioral science at the University of Chicago
• Robert W. Lane, former chairman and CEO of John Deere
• Mark Loughridge, CFO of IBM^[4]
• Dave MacLennan, president and CEO of Cargill
• Joseph Neubauer (MBA 1965), chairman and CEO of ARAMARK Corporation
• Brian Niccol, CEO of Starbucks
• Daniel Ninivaggi, CEO of Lordstown Motors, Chairman of Garrett Motion, former CEO of Icahn Enterprises and Federal-Mogul
• Thomas Pritzker, executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels Corporation
• Peer M. Schatz, CEO of Qiagen
• Frederick D. Sulcer, vice chairman DDB Worldwide, wrote Put a Tiger in Your Tank for ExxonMobil^{[5] [6]}
• Dylan Taylor, United States CEO of Colliers International
• John S. Watson, chairman and CEO of Chevron Corporation
• Ray G. Young, CFO and EVP GMC

Government / public service / non-profit

• Andrew Alper, former president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation
• Roger C. Altman, former Deputy United States Secretary of the Treasury under the President Bill Clinton administration; former Assistant United States Secretary of the Treasury under the President Jimmy Carter administration; chairman, co-CEO and co-founder of Evercore Partners, a leading M&A advisory investment bank; former vice chairman of The Blackstone Group
• Elizabeth H. Bradley, eleventh president of Vassar College
• Jon Corzine '73, governor of New Jersey, and former CEO of Goldman Sachs
• Erroll Davis, 1967, Superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools
• Dirk J. Debbink, United States Navy vice admiral and head of the United States Navy Reserve
• Arnold Donald, president and CEO of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
• Don Harmon, President of the Illinois Senate
• Ron Huberman, CEO of Chicago Public Schools, previously president of the Chicago Transit Authority
• Christina Liu (MBA, PhD), former finance minister of Taiwan (2012)
• Jack Markell, 1985, Governor of Delaware
• Peter G. Peterson, (1972–73) U.S. Secretary of Commerce; chairman of The Blackstone Group
• Charles Plosser, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
• Steven Preston, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Administrator of the Small Business Administration
• Pete Ricketts, Governor of Nebraska
• Emil Skodon, US Ambassador to Brunei Darussalam
• Beryl Wayne Sprinkel, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, 1985-1989
• Robert K. Steel, former Under Secretary for Domestic Finance within the United States Department of the Treasury; former CEO of Wachovia Bank (2008–2010); former vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs
• Krishnamurthy Subramanian, 17th Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India
• Mark Villar, Senator of the Philippines (2022-present), Secretary of Public Works and Highways (2016-2021), member of the House of Representatives from Las Pinas (2010-2016)
• Todd Young, 2000, U.S. Senator from Indiana
• Kateryna Yushchenko, first lady of Ukraine^[7]

Technology

• Dan Caruso, founder and CEO of Zayo Group Holdings
• George Conrades, former chairman and CEO of Akamai Technologies
• Bryan Johnson, founder of Braintree, OS Fund and Kernel
• David Lawee, head of corporate development at Google
• Mark Loughridge, CFO of IBM
• Matt Maloney, co-founder and CEO of GrubHub^[8]
• Satya Nadella, CEO at Microsoft
• John R. Opel, former chairman and CEO of IBM
• Dhiraj Rajaram, founder and CEO of Mu-Sigma
• Karen Sheriff, president and CEO of Q9 Networks Inc.^{[9] [10]}
• Todd Simmons, former president of Cub Crafters and current president at Cirrus^[11]
• Robert Whittington, chief information officer at Wendy's

Venture capital

• Richard H. Kimball, co-founder and general managing partner of Technology Crossover Ventures
• Robert McCormack, co-founder and Advisory Director, Trident Capital
• Mark Suster, investment partner at Upfront Ventures (formerly GRP Partners); prominent blogger

Consulting

• James O. McKinsey, founder of McKinsey & Company
• Horacio D. Rozanski, CEO of Booz Allen Hamilton^[12]
• Harold L. Sirkin, senior partner of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and adviser to President Barack Obama

Journalism/publishing/media

• Megan McArdle, economics journalist and blogger, formerly at Atlantic Monthly, now with Bloomberg^[13]
• Sara Paretsky, novelist and creator of the V.I. Warshawski mystery series

Sports and entertainment

• Mike Girsch, general manager of the St. Louis Cardinals^[14]
• Jay Rasulo, CFO of The Walt Disney Company
• Craig Robinson '92, head basketball coach at Oregon State University, brother-in-law of former US President Barack Obama
• Jason Wright, president of the Washington Football Team and former NFL running back^[15]

Notes and References

1. http://www.chicagobooth.edu/about/history.aspx Chicago Booth History
2. http://www.chicagobooth.edu/about/facts.aspx Chicago Booth Facts
3. http://www.pg.com/content/pdf/04_news/mgmt_bios/Kilts-James.pdf
4. https://web.archive.org/web/20061214231027/http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/biography/10065.wss
5. News: Deaths. 2011-10-03. University of Chicago Magazine. 2004. Frederick D. Sulcer, AB’47, MBA’63, an advertising executive, ... vice chair of DDB Needham Worldwide,.
6. News: Paid Notice: Deaths SULCER, FREDERICK D. SANDY. DDB Worldwide staff. January 25, 2004. 2011-10-03. The New York Times. SULCER--Frederick Sandy. DDB Worldwide and its staff deeply mourn the death of advertising great Sandy Sulcer. The former copywriter, who penned Put a Tiger in Your Tank, ....
7. https://web.archive.org/web/20090107041004/http://www.yuschenko.com.ua/eng/Private/Family/2822/
8. https://web.archive.org/web/20131103074141/http://press.grubhub.com/2013-08-09-Seamless-North-America-LLC-and-GrubHub-Inc-Complete-Merger
9. Web site: The Lunch: Karen Sheriff: A steady climb to the top of the telephone pole. Gordon. Pitts. 16 March 2012. 12 September 2015. The Globe and Mail.
10. Web site: Karen Sheriff named President and CEO of Q9 Networks (press release). 25 November 2014. 12 September 2015. Q9 Networks. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150908220212/http://www.q9.com/pr170.html. 8 September 2015.
11. Web site: Todd Simmons - President of Customer Experience, Cirrus Aircraft. National Business Aviation Association.
12. News: Horacio D.. Rozanski. Horacio D. Rozanski's journey from Argentina to the top of Booz Allen Hamilton. March 23, 2017. The Washington Post. January 5, 2014.
13. https://web.archive.org/web/20071011215425/http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/bio.php
14. Web site: jim S. . Q&A: Michael Girsch, St. Louis Cardinals Assistant General Manager | FanGraphs Baseball . Fangraphs.com . November 21, 2013 . July 2, 2017.
15. Web site: Washington Football Team Appoints Jason Wright as President. WashingtonFootball.com. August 17, 2020. August 17, 2020.