With the death of company founder and first CEO Willard Rockwell in 1978, and the stepping down of his son Willard Rockwell, Jr. in 1979 as the second CEO, Bob Anderson became CEO and led the company through the 1980s when it became the largest U. S. defense contractor and largest NASA contractor.

Its first CEO, chairman, and founder was Russell Noftsker.

** Walter J. Zable, American founder and CEO of Cubic Corporation ( d. 2012 )

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

The Métis Nation of Canada was founded on January 21, 2009 by founder and CEO Bryce Fequet.

* Jack Roush, ( 1942 -), is the founder, CEO, and co-owner along with John Henry of Roush Fenway Racing, a NASCAR team headquartered in Concord, North Carolina, and is Chairman of the Board of Roush Enterprises.

* Notable recent graduates of the college include: former Missouri Senator Jim Talent, Nevada Senator Chic Hecht, and former Nebraska Congressman Hal Daub ; George Zimmer, founder of Men's Wearhouse ; Avram Glazer, chairman of Manchester United ; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Ken Cooper and Hank Klibanoff ; Jon Feltheimer, CEO of Lionsgate films ; actors Peter Sarsgaard ( Boys Don't Cry, An Education, Flight Plan ) and Harold Ramis ( Ghostbusters, Caddyshack ); U. S. Ambassador Sam Fox ; baseball player Dal Maxvill ; and science-show host Deanne Bell ( Design Squad ).

Vince McMahon, founder of Titan Sports, Inc. and current Majority owner, Chairman, and CEO of WWE.

His son, Hirotoshi Honda, was the founder and former CEO of Mugen Motorsports, a tuner for Honda vehicles who also created original racing vehicles.

* William Dean Singleton, founder and CEO of MediaNews Group

Samuel D. " Sam " Waksal, Ph. D., ( born 8 September 1947 ) is the founder and former CEO of the biopharmaceutical company ImClone Systems.

He is also the founder and CEO of Kadmon Corporation, LLC, which raised $ 200M dollars and commenced operations in New York City in 2010.

* Tianqiao Chen, listed as one of the richest in China, founder and CEO of SNDA Co & ( Nasdaq: snda ).

* JianZhang Liang, founder and CEO of CTRIP Co & ( Nasdaq: CTRP ).

* John Bogle, founder and retired CEO of The Vanguard Group

Inside the limo is Malcolm Corley, CEO and founder of the last domestic motorcycle manufacturer in the country, Corley Motors.

Graduates who have found success in business include Pierre Omidyar, eBay founder ; Roy Raymond, founder of Victoria's Secret ; Laura Lang, CEO of Time Inc ; Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase ; John Bello, SoBe Beverages founder ; Jeff Kindler, Former CEO of Pfizer ; Jonathan Tisch, CEO of Loews Hotels ; Ellen J. Kullman, CEO of DuPont ; and Andy Fastow, Former CFO of Enron.

The Geffen Film Company ( also known as The Geffen Company and later Geffen Pictures ) was a film distributor and production company founded by David Geffen, the founder of Geffen Records, and future co-founder of DreamWorks.

Animation began to disappear from movie theaters ; while Disney continued to produce animated features after losing its founder, MGM and Warner Bros closed their studios, outsourced their animation, and got out of it entirely by the end of the decade.

After a period as artist-in-residence at the Television Laboratory WNET / 13 ( New York ), he moved to California where he was the founder of the CalArts Computer Animation Lab and served as dean of the School of Film / Video at the California Institute of Arts from 1979 to 1990.

* Patrick Murphy ( 1969 – present ) Artist and Independent Curator, founder of HIVE Gallery, Small World International Short Animation Festival ( held at The Civic, Barnsley ) and also founder of Northern Futures Award a cultural award for the North of England which is also based at The Civic in Barnsley

When TVNZ scaled back its Dunedin studios, they were purchased by Ian Taylor, the founder of Animation Research and Taylormade Media.

Many of the original CGL team now forms the elite of the CG and computer world with members going on to Silicon Graphics, Microsoft, Cisco, NVIDIA and others, including Pixar President Ed Catmull, Pixar co-founder and Microsoft Graphics Fellow Alvy Ray Smith, Pixar co-founder Ralph Guggenheim, Walt Disney Feature Animation Chief Scientist Lance Williams, Dreamworks Animator Hank Grebe, Netscape and Silicon Graphics founder Jim Clark ( James H. Clark ), Microsoft Graphics Fellow Jim Blinn, Thad Beier, Andrew Glassner and Tom Brigham.

In 1974, NYIT ’ s Computer Graphics Lab ( CGL ) was established and attracted the likes of: Pixar Animation Studios President Edwin Catmull and co-founder Alvy Ray Smith ; Walt Disney Feature Animation Chief Scientist Lance Joseph Williams ; Dreamworks animator Hank Grebe ; and Netscape and Silicon Graphics founder Jim Clark.

A feature film adaptation of the book has been in development since 2003 by Vanguard Animation and its founder John H. Williams.

* Osamu Kobayashi ( animation director ) ( born 1945 ), animation director and founder of Ajia-do Animation Works

Bob Kurtz, founder of Kurtz & Friends Animation, is a director, producer, artist, and designer who primarily works in films and TV commercials.

With its history standing astride all but the very beginnings of the industrial revolution, Brown & Sharpe has become over the years a singular monument to the mechanical foresight of its founder, Joseph R. Brown, and a world-renowned synonym for precision and progress in metalworking technology.

Vincent Sorrentino, founder and board chairman of the Uncas Mfg. Co., has been designated a Cavaliere of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy.

* Russell W. Porter founded Stellafane and has been referred to as the " founder "< ref >

The idea has also some backing in German legend, for example the Gesta Treverorum ( a 12th century German medieval chronicle ) makes Trebeta son of Ninus the founder of Trier.

As of late 2005, the area once devoted to a live-action facsimile of Dogpatch ( including a lifesize statue in the town square of Dogpatch " founder ," General Jubilation T. Cornpone ) has been heavily stripped by vandals and souvenir hunters, and is today slowly being reclaimed by the surrounding Arkansas wilderness.

Controversy has existed between the two largest denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement over some sections added to the 1876 LDS edition, attributed to founder Smith.

He was also the founder of the Intensify / Downplay pattern that has been widely used to identify instances of Doublespeak being used.

Subsequently, William Branham has been credited as being the founder of the pos-World War II healing revivals.

Greenpeace used to list Moore among " founders and first members " of The Don't Make a Wave Committee but has later stated that while Moore was a significant early member, he was not a founder.

Hinduism is formed of diverse traditions and has no single founder.

That the founder of genre science fiction who gave his name to the field's most prestigious award and who was the Guest of Honor at the 1952 Worldcon was pretty much a crook ( and a contemptuous crook who stiffed his writers but paid himself $ 100K a year as President of Gernsback Publications ) has been clearly established.

Hinduism is formed of diverse traditions and has no single founder.

Wade Schuman, founder of the group Hazmat Modine, has fused overblowing with older traditional styles and middle European harmonies.

* As a teenager, IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad was directly involved in the pro-Nazi New Swedish Movement ( Nysvenska Rörelsen ) until at least 1948, causing tensions when IKEA began opening stores in Israel, although one source has claimed that the movement was not pro-Nazi.

First has been the founder, Paul Glover, moving out of town.

It has been criticized numerous times by religious organizations for its diabolic undertones and was dubbed a " mass murder simulator " by critic and Killology Research Group founder David Grossman.

Jason has connections outside of the classical world, as he is seen as being the mythical founder of the city of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.

As noted, however, Jain mythology asserts that the line of Tirthankars in the present era began with Rishabhdeva ; moreover, Jains themselves believe that Jainism has no single founder, and that it has always existed and will always exist, although it is occasionally forgotten by humans.

Pro-gay rights groups called Falwell an " agent of intolerance " and " the founder of the anti-gay industry " for statements he has made and for campaigning against LGBT social movements.

Gottfried Leibniz has been credited with being the founder of symbolic logic for his work with the calculus ratiocinator.

Malcolm's main achievement is to have continued a line which would rule Scotland for many years, although his role as " founder of a dynasty " has more to do with the propaganda of his youngest son David, and his descendants, than with any historical reality.

It has continuously existed since the succession crisis of 1844 that split the Latter Day Saint movement after the death of founder Joseph Smith, Jr.

On 16 June 2009, the Pave the Way Foundation announced that it would release of 2, 300 pages of documents in Avellino, Italy, dating from 1940 to 1945, which the organization claims show that Pius XII " worked diligently to save Jews from Nazi tyranny "; the organization's founder, Krupp has accused historians of harboring " private agendas " and having " let down " the public.

* Saint Philip Benizi, a noble Florentine, a religious of the order of the Servants of Mary, of which he was the reviver, and not, as has been stated by some, the founder.