| Name |
Class year |
Notability |
References |
| Rawi Abdelal |
1993 |
Professor of business administration at Harvard Business School |
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| Dean Alford |
1976 |
President and CEO of Allied Energy Services; convicted criminal |
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| Ronald W. Allen |
1964 |
President, chairman and CEO of Delta Air Lines (1987–1997); chairman and CEO of Aaron's, Inc. (2012–2014) |
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| Gil Amelio |
1965 |
CEO emeritus of National Semiconductor and Apple; IEEE Fellow |
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| Charles "Garry" Betty |
1979 |
President and CEO of EarthLink (1996–2007) |
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| W. Frank Blount |
1961 |
Businessman, chairman and CEO of venture capital firm JI Ventures, Inc.; former chairman and CEO of Cypress Communications Inc.; former director and CEO of Telstra in Australia |
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| John F. Brock |
1971 |
Chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. |
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| Paul J. Brown |
1989 |
CEO of Inspire Brands |
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| Gary C. Butler |
1968 |
CEO of Automatic Data Processing |
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| Brook Byers |
1968 |
Venture capitalist of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers |
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| Ben Chestnut |
1998 |
Co-founder and CEO, MailChimp |
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| George G. Crawford |
1890 |
Headed the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company |
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| Cecil B. Day |
1958 |
Founder of Days Inn Hotels |
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| David Dorman |
1975 |
Chairman and CEO emeritus of AT&T Corporation |
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| Mike Duke |
1971 |
Former president and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores |
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| Walter Ehmer |
1989 |
President and CEO of Waffle House |
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| David C. Garrett Jr. |
1955 |
CEO of Delta Air Lines (1978–1987) |
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| Jaime Gilinski |
1978 |
Chairman of JGB Financial Holding Company |
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| Frank Gordy |
1929 |
Founder of The Varsity chain, which includes the world's largest drive-in |
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| James Gulliver |
1950 |
Founder of Argyll Foods, one of the United Kingdom's largest retail businesses |
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| Dennis Hayes |
1973 |
Founder of Hayes Communications, an early developer of PC modems |
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| Ed Iacobucci |
1975 |
Leader of the IBM OS/2 Design Team; founder of Citrix Systems; president and CEO of DayJet; member of SCO Group's board of directors |
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| Chris Klaus |
1994 |
Founder and current CEO of Kaneva, Inc.; co-founder and former CTO of Internet Security Systems; his company was acquired by IBM for over $1.3 billion; donated $15 million to Georgia Tech toward the construction of the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, which is named after him |
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| Roger Krone |
1978 |
CEO of Leidos Holdings Inc. |
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| Alan J. Lacy |
1975 |
Last chairman and CEO of Sears, Roebuck and Company |
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| Mike Levy |
1969 |
Founder and current CEO of Maxxpoint.com; founder and former president, chairman and CEO of Sportsline.com, now CBSSports.com |
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| David S. Lewis Jr. |
1939 |
Major force in the aerospace and defense industry for three decades |
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| Calvin Mackie |
1996 |
Award-winning mentor; motivational speaker; entrepreneur |
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| Scottie Mayfield |
1973 |
President of Mayfield Dairy Farms |
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| Robert Milton |
1983 |
Former chairman, president and CEO of Air Canada; former chairman of the board of directors of United Continental Holdings, the parent company of United Airlines |
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| Charles Moorman |
1975 |
Former CEO of Norfolk Southern, current CEO of Amtrak |
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| Blake Moret |
1985 |
Current president and CEO of Rockwell Automation Inc. |
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| David Perdue |
1972 |
Former CEO of Dollar General and Reebok International; former Georgia US senator |
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| J. Paul Raines |
1985 |
CEO of GameStop |
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| Hazard E. Reeves |
1928 |
Introduced magnetic stereophonic sound to motion pictures; was president of over 60 companies, including Cinerama |
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| Glen P. Robinson |
1948 |
Researcher at the Georgia Tech Research Institute; went on to found Scientific Atlanta |
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| James D. Robinson III |
1957 |
CEO of American Express Co. (1977–1993); director of The Coca-Cola Company (1975–present) |
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| Joe Rogers Jr. |
1968 |
Longtime CEO of Waffle House |
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| Chuck Sannipoli |
1967 |
Executive in the data networking industry; Senior Member of the IEEE |
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| Derek V. Smith |
1979 |
CEO of ChoicePoint (1997–2008) |
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| Mark C. Smith |
1962 |
Co-founder of ADTRAN, Inc. |
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| E. Roe Stamps |
1967 |
Founding managing partner of venture capital firm Summit Partners; member of the Georgia Tech Foundation Board of Trustees |
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| Henry Grady Weaver |
1911 |
Director of Customer Research Staff for General Motors Corporation, appeared on the cover of the November 14, 1938 issue of Time magazine |
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| George W. Woodruff |
1917 |
Engineer, businessman, and philanthropist who gave generously to both Georgia Tech and Emory University; namesake of the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering |
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