Carly Fiorina
CATEGORY: Thinkers
COMPANY: Hewlett Packard
INDUSTRY: Politics and Technology
WHAT MAKES THEM HAUTE: Upon being named Hewlett-Packard Company’s CEO in 1999, she became the first woman to lead a Fortune 20 company. After leaving HP in 2005, she was named to the boards of directors at Revolution Health Group and Cybertrust. She is also on the board of trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum. She has been involved with Republican politics since the 2008 national election and made an attempt for Barbara Boxer’s Senate Seat in 2010. Though the Senate bid was unsuccessful, she received a number of high profile endorsements.
John J., Robert and William Fisher
CATEGORY: Entrepreneurs
COMPANY: The Gap
INDUSTRY: Retail
WHAT MAKES THEM HAUTE?
These three brothers are the heirs to the Gap fortune. Their parents, Doris and her late husband Donald, founded the denim company in 1969 in San Francisco, and passed 50 percent control over to their sons in 2004. The empire includes Banana Republic, Gap, Gap Kids, Old Navy, and has afforded the sons the wealth for each of them to be listed separately on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans. John also owns a minority stake in Oakland A’s baseball team.
Robert Friedland
CATEGORY: Entrepreneurs
COMPANY: Ivanhoe Mines, Inc.
INDUSTRY: Mining
He’s a billionaire mining tycoon with a heavy hand in the copper, gold and nickel industries. Though he and his businesses are based in Asia, he perfected the art of house flipping in the Bay area. In 2007, Friedland made a $15 million profit after spending nine years meticulously upgrading a Golden Gate Avenue mansion and selling it for $65 million.
Gordon Getty
CATEGORY: Billionaires
COMPANY: Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation
INDUSTRY: Venture Capitalism
WHAT MAKES THEM HAUTE?
This Haute Living San Francisco cover feature is the son of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty. Among a variety of professions, Getty is a classical music composer. His unmatched eye for sound investments ultimately led to the creation of one of the region’s most celebrated wine brands, PlumpJack, whose latest venture is CADE Winery. The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, which he runs with his wife, gives generously to music programs and Gordon is noted as one of the nation’s most generous philanthropists.
Vanessa Getty
CATEGORY: Thinkers
INDUSTRY: Philanthropy
WHAT MAKES THEM HAUTE:
She married into the Getty family fame with her 1999 nuptials to Bill Getty in Napa Valley. Vanessa Getty is beautiful and sophisticated and for many years was hailed as the queen of San Francisco’s charity circuit. She still is a leader in high society, only now she shares her throne with other San Francisco socialites.
Mary Gullixson
CATEGORY: Entrepreneurs
COMPANY: Mary and Brent Gullixson
INDUSTRY: Real Estate
WHAT MAKES THEM HAUTE: Gullixson is head of one of most powerful real estate teams in California, consisting of her and her son Brent. Since teaming up in 2005, this mother-son duo has been recognized each year by The Wall Street Journal for their professional excellence. Mary’s sales volume in residential real estate exceeds $2.4 billion. In the last 8 years she has averaged over $100 million in sales per year and in 2011 her sales were recorded at over $188 million.
Denise Hale
CATEGORY: Thinkers
WHAT MAKES THEM HAUTE?
Hale is undoubtedly one of the grande dames of San Francisco society. In fact, she may have taught today’s charity circuit queens a thing or two about how to rule. Ann Getty, Nancy Pelosi and Michael Tilson Thomas are among her friends, while her husbands’ include director Vincente Minnelli and Prentis Cobb Hale, department-store mogul and a staple of San Francisco high society in his own right. Hale has an art collection that belongs in museums, and a wardrobe to match.
Jeff Hammerbacher and Halle Tecco
CATEGORY: Power Couples
COMPANY: Cloudera/Rockhealth
INDUSTRY: Technology/ Healthcare
WHAT MAKES THEM HAUTE: He’s a co-founder of Cloudera, an integral Silicon Valley consulting company that helps other companies use Hadoop—the cloud computing software he invented. A friend of Mark Zuckerberg’s from Harvard, Hammerbacher is also a Facebook alum. He has been named one of the best young technology entrepreneurs by Bloomberg Business Week and was listed at one of the world’s seven most powerful data scientists by Forbes. He recently married Halle Tecco: L’Oreal Woman of Worth Honoree, philanthropist, media-active, and most recently, a co-founder of Rock Health—the San Francisco based non-profit seed accelerator program aimed at supporting healthcare tech startups.
H. William Harlan
CATEGORY: Entrepreneurs
COMPANY: Harlan Estate, Meadowood Napa Valley, BOND Estates
INDUSTRY: Wine and Hospitality
WHAT MAKES THEM HAUTE?
The former real estate developer came to Napa Valley in search of the ideal land to create a world-class wine, and discovered Meadowood, which was founded in 1964 as a private club. While it wasn’t what he was looking for in a winery, he saw potential for the property to become a center for life in Napa Valley, which he created. He continued his quest for the perfect plot for his winery and found it in a hillside estate in Oakville, now home to Harlan Estate, which has never produced more than 2,000 cases in a year, making it a cult classic. His latest venture, BOND Estates, is a portfolio of wines from various vineyard sites across Napa Valley that represent the very best of Napa Valley.
Reed Hastings
CATEGORY: Thinkers
COMPANY: Netflix
INDUSTRY: Technology/Entertainment
WHAT MAKES THEM HAUTE: This visionary single-handedly changed the way the world is entertained. Reed Hastings’ brainchild Netflix was founded in 1997 and has taken the world of film and television by storm ever since. Prior to his current post as Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Netflix, Hastings was CEO of Pure Atria Software. He also currently sits on Facebook and Microsoft’s Board of Directors.
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