This page lists notable alumni and students of the
University of California, Berkeley. Alumni who served as faculty are listed in bold font, with degree and year.
Eric Brewer, B.S. EECS 1989 – co-founder of web search engine company
Inktomi (acquired by
Yahoo! for $235 million[3]), director of
Intel Labs Berkeley; lead researcher at Google[4]
David Culler, B.A. 1980 – Chair of the Department of Computer Science at UC Berkeley, associate Chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (UC Berkeley), and Associate CIO of the College of Engineering (UC Berkeley); co-founder of
smart grid monitoring company Arch Rock (acquired by
Cisco Systems[9])
Weili Dai, B.A. Computer Science 1984 – co-founder (with
Sehat Sutardja MS 1983, PhD 1988 EECS and Pantas Sutardjai MS 1983, PhD 1988) of
NASDAQ-100 broadband technology company
Marvell Technology Group; namesake of Sutardja-Dai Hall[10] on the UC Berkeley campus
Donald Fisher, B.S. 1951 – founder and former CEO of
NYSE-listed
S&P 500 clothing retailer
The Gap, the largest[15] apparel retailer in the United States
Diane Greene, M.S. CS 1988[24] – co-founder (with Mendel Rosenblum M.S. 1989, PhD 1992 and Edward Wang BS EECS 1983, MS 1988, PhD 1994) of
NYSE-listed company
VMWare
Mike Homer, B.S. 1981 – co-founder and former CEO of networking company
Kontiki (acquired by
VeriSign for $62 million[32])
David T. Hon B.S. 1964 – physicist and founder of
Dahon folding bicycles
Chenming Hu, M.S. EE, PhD EE[33] – Distinguished Professor of Microelectronics at UC Berkeley, co-founder and chairman of Celestry Design Technologies (acquired by
Cadence Design Systems for over $100 million[34]); recipient of the Phil Kaufman Award; co-inventor of the 3D transistor (the
FinFET)[35]
Kai Huang, B.A. 1994 – co-founder (with Charles Huang BA 1992) and president of video game company
RedOctane[36] (publisher of Guitar Hero and acquired by
Activision for $99.9 million[37])
Jess S. Jackson, J.D. 1974 – founder of Kendall Jackson Wine Estates
Gene Kan, B.S. 1997 – founder of distributed search engine InfraSearch (acquired by Sun Microsystems for $12 million[39])
Victor Koo, co-founder of Chinese video website
Youku, whose
American depositary shares were listed on the
NYSE in 2010 and which was acquired by
Alibaba in 2016 for $5.4 billion; formerly president of Chinese internet company
Sohu
Anthony Levandowski, B.S. Industrial Engineering 2002, M.S. IEOR 2003 – co-founder (with Andrew Schultz MS 2006 and Pierre-Yves Droz MS) of the secretive[40] robotics hardware company 510 Systems, which developed the technologies for
Google Street View and
Google Car, and was acquired by Google)[41]
David R. Liu, PhD 1999 – co-founder of Editas Medicine
Brian Maxwell, B.A. 1975 – co-founder (with Jennifer Maxwell, BS 1988[46]) of
energy bar food company
PowerBar (acquired by
Nestlé for $375 million[47]); namesake of the Maxwell Family Field on the UC Berkeley campus[46]
Alan Miller, B.S. EECS 1973 – co-founder of first independent video game publisher
Activision (known now as the NASDAQ-100 video game company
Activision Blizzard), co-founder and former CEO of video game company
Accolade[55] (acquired by
Infogrames for $60 million[56])
Kim Polese, B.S. 1984 (
biophysics) – CEO of software company SpikeSource; original product manager of the
Java at
Sun Microsystems; co-founder and former CEO of software company Marimba (acquired by
BMC Software for $239 million[61])
Andrew Rudd, MS 1972, MBA 1976, PhD 1978 – co-founder (with UC Berkeley professor Barr Rosenberg) and chairman and CEO of
Barra Inc.[65] (acquired by
Morgan Stanley for $816.4 million[66][67] and known as
MSCI)
Sehat Sutardja, M.S. 1983, PhD 1988 EECS – co-founder (with Weili Dai BA Computer Science 1984 and Pantas Sutardjai MS 1983, PhD 1988) of NASDAQ-100 broadband technology company
Marvell Technology Group; namesake of Sutardja-Dai Hall[10] on the UC Berkeley campus
Alice Waters, B.A. 1967 –
celebrity chef, founder of
Chez Panisse, originator of the
California cuisine; 2015
National Humanities Medal recipient[77][78] for "celebrating the bond between the ethical and the edible. As a chef, author, and advocate, Ms. Waters champions a holistic approach to eating and health and celebrates integrating gardening, cooking, and education, sparking inspiration in a new generation";[79] member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences; recipient of five
James Beard Foundation Awards (1984 Who's Who of Food & Beverage, 1997 Fruits & Vegetables, 1992 Outstanding Chef, 1992 Outstanding Restaurant, 1997 Humanitarian of the Year, 2004 Lifetime Achievement)[80]
Mandy Ginsberg, BA – CEO of Internet dating site
Match.com (NASDAQ-listed
IAC-subsidiary), CEO of instructional web site
Tutor.com (subsidiary of NASDAQ-listed
IAC)[96]
John Riccitiello, B.S. 1981 – CEO of NASDAQ-100 video game company
Electronic Arts (April 2007 – March 2013); managing director and co-founder of
Elevation Partners; former president and chief operating officer (October 1997 to April 2004) of
Electronic Arts (grew the company from $673 million to $3 billion, increased profits over 900%); former president and chief executive officer, Bakery Division, at
Sara Lee; former president and chief executive officer of
Wilson Sporting Goods
Eric Schmidt, M.S. 1979, PhD 1982 – Inaugural CEO of NASDAQ-100 Internet search company Google (2001–2011); executive chairman at Google (2011–present),[103] 136th-richest person in the world in 2011
Weijian Shan, PhD – chairman and CEO of global investment firm
PAG (2022
AUM of $50 billion)
Bob Lutz, B.S. 1961, M.B.A. 1962 –
General Motors Vice chairman, Product Development, and chairman, General Motors North America, former vice-chairman for
Chrysler
^Elizabeth Holmes (February 2, 2011).
"Gap Installs a New Team". The Wall Street Journal.
Archived from the original on July 14, 2015. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
^Rita Koselka (December 2, 1996). "Save on dog food". Forbes Magazine: 237–238.
^"Stanford Engineering Hero – EDWARD GINZTON". Stanford Engineering Heroes (School of Engineering – Stanford University). Archived from
the original on June 11, 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2017. Edward Ginzton (1915–1998), co-founder of Varian Associates, was a pioneer in development of the Klystron radio tube for use in radar and linear accelerators.
^The Wall Street Journal List – One of the Journal's 50, Vermont Quarterly,
University of Vermont, Summer 2008.
^"Gruener, who had both a UCSD bachelor's and master's (UC-Berkeley, '77) in political science with an emphasis on technology, had started two businesses by the early '80s." Kelli Anderson (May 2006).
"Ask Jeeves". @UCSD (a publication of the
University of California, San Diego Alumni Association). Archived from
the original on July 25, 2012. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
^Key Note Speaker Ashraf Habibullah, Biography(PDF). NEDAASC 2009 International Convention. Embassy Suites, Anaheim, California: NED Alumni Association of Southern California. July 18, 2009. p. 6. Archived from
the original(PDF) on June 16, 2013. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
^"Infogrames is focusing sharply on North America, following the $60 million acquisition in April of San Jose, California-based videogame publisher Accolade."
"20 for 2000". Forbes. November 1, 1999. Archived from
the original on July 31, 2012.
^Ted Livingston.
"SDSU Sailing Team History". San Diego State University Sailing Team. Archived from
the original on April 26, 2005. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
^
ab"…[Terry Kohler] hopes that the gift not only will help MIT but also will honor Lowell North. North — who along with Peter Barrett won a gold medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City — in 1957 founded North Sails, a company that produced sailing equipment… North Sails — which designs and manufactures high-tech sails, sail cloth, and masts for sailing vessels — has long been the world's leading sailmaker."Liz Karagianis (Fall 2011).
"SMOOTH SAILING". MIT Spectrum.
Archived from the original on April 5, 2013. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
^"… North Sails has evolved into the world's major sail designer and manufacturer, with 25 lofts, as outlets are called in the sailing industry, and 10 service lofts in maritime areas from Sydney, Australia, to the shores of Connecticut. The company's sales last year topped $30 million…"United Press International (April 1, 1986).
"Advances In Fabrics Keep Sales Of Sails Brisk". Chicago Tribune.
Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
^"After one more semester at
Tufts,
Omidyar moved out West for good, finishing up his undergraduate degree at the University of California – Berkeley." Adam Cohen (2003). The Perfect Store: Inside eBay. Back Bay Books. pp. 16–17.
^"Rudd Family Endows Chair in Finance". Berkeley Haas – CalBusiness (Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley). 2005.
Archived from the original on June 13, 2011. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
^The White House (citation); Molly Wizenberg (article) (2015).
"Alice Waters". National Endowment for the Humanities.
Archived from the original on November 8, 2015. Retrieved November 18, 2015.{{
cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link)
^Don Clark, Anna Prior (June 16, 2014).
"SanDisk to Buy Fusion-io". Wall Street Journal.
Archived from the original on August 18, 2014. Retrieved March 14, 2017.
^"Greg Greeley, MBA 98". CalBusiness (The Magazine of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley). 2009.
Archived from the original on February 28, 2019. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
^"The entire interactive industry owes
Minoru Arakawa and
Howard Lincoln a debt of gratitude for their contributions. The
Academy salutes these two outstanding individuals, and recognizes their lifelong body of work in honoring them with the first- ever Lifetime Achievement Awards."
"Special Awards – Minoru Arakawa and Howard Lincoln". Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
Archived from the original on February 9, 2014. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
This page lists notable alumni and students of the
University of California, Berkeley. Alumni who served as faculty are listed in bold font, with degree and year.
Eric Brewer, B.S. EECS 1989 – co-founder of web search engine company
Inktomi (acquired by
Yahoo! for $235 million[3]), director of
Intel Labs Berkeley; lead researcher at Google[4]
David Culler, B.A. 1980 – Chair of the Department of Computer Science at UC Berkeley, associate Chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (UC Berkeley), and Associate CIO of the College of Engineering (UC Berkeley); co-founder of
smart grid monitoring company Arch Rock (acquired by
Cisco Systems[9])
Weili Dai, B.A. Computer Science 1984 – co-founder (with
Sehat Sutardja MS 1983, PhD 1988 EECS and Pantas Sutardjai MS 1983, PhD 1988) of
NASDAQ-100 broadband technology company
Marvell Technology Group; namesake of Sutardja-Dai Hall[10] on the UC Berkeley campus
Donald Fisher, B.S. 1951 – founder and former CEO of
NYSE-listed
S&P 500 clothing retailer
The Gap, the largest[15] apparel retailer in the United States
Diane Greene, M.S. CS 1988[24] – co-founder (with Mendel Rosenblum M.S. 1989, PhD 1992 and Edward Wang BS EECS 1983, MS 1988, PhD 1994) of
NYSE-listed company
VMWare
Mike Homer, B.S. 1981 – co-founder and former CEO of networking company
Kontiki (acquired by
VeriSign for $62 million[32])
David T. Hon B.S. 1964 – physicist and founder of
Dahon folding bicycles
Chenming Hu, M.S. EE, PhD EE[33] – Distinguished Professor of Microelectronics at UC Berkeley, co-founder and chairman of Celestry Design Technologies (acquired by
Cadence Design Systems for over $100 million[34]); recipient of the Phil Kaufman Award; co-inventor of the 3D transistor (the
FinFET)[35]
Kai Huang, B.A. 1994 – co-founder (with Charles Huang BA 1992) and president of video game company
RedOctane[36] (publisher of Guitar Hero and acquired by
Activision for $99.9 million[37])
Jess S. Jackson, J.D. 1974 – founder of Kendall Jackson Wine Estates
Gene Kan, B.S. 1997 – founder of distributed search engine InfraSearch (acquired by Sun Microsystems for $12 million[39])
Victor Koo, co-founder of Chinese video website
Youku, whose
American depositary shares were listed on the
NYSE in 2010 and which was acquired by
Alibaba in 2016 for $5.4 billion; formerly president of Chinese internet company
Sohu
Anthony Levandowski, B.S. Industrial Engineering 2002, M.S. IEOR 2003 – co-founder (with Andrew Schultz MS 2006 and Pierre-Yves Droz MS) of the secretive[40] robotics hardware company 510 Systems, which developed the technologies for
Google Street View and
Google Car, and was acquired by Google)[41]
David R. Liu, PhD 1999 – co-founder of Editas Medicine
Brian Maxwell, B.A. 1975 – co-founder (with Jennifer Maxwell, BS 1988[46]) of
energy bar food company
PowerBar (acquired by
Nestlé for $375 million[47]); namesake of the Maxwell Family Field on the UC Berkeley campus[46]
Alan Miller, B.S. EECS 1973 – co-founder of first independent video game publisher
Activision (known now as the NASDAQ-100 video game company
Activision Blizzard), co-founder and former CEO of video game company
Accolade[55] (acquired by
Infogrames for $60 million[56])
Kim Polese, B.S. 1984 (
biophysics) – CEO of software company SpikeSource; original product manager of the
Java at
Sun Microsystems; co-founder and former CEO of software company Marimba (acquired by
BMC Software for $239 million[61])
Andrew Rudd, MS 1972, MBA 1976, PhD 1978 – co-founder (with UC Berkeley professor Barr Rosenberg) and chairman and CEO of
Barra Inc.[65] (acquired by
Morgan Stanley for $816.4 million[66][67] and known as
MSCI)
Sehat Sutardja, M.S. 1983, PhD 1988 EECS – co-founder (with Weili Dai BA Computer Science 1984 and Pantas Sutardjai MS 1983, PhD 1988) of NASDAQ-100 broadband technology company
Marvell Technology Group; namesake of Sutardja-Dai Hall[10] on the UC Berkeley campus
Alice Waters, B.A. 1967 –
celebrity chef, founder of
Chez Panisse, originator of the
California cuisine; 2015
National Humanities Medal recipient[77][78] for "celebrating the bond between the ethical and the edible. As a chef, author, and advocate, Ms. Waters champions a holistic approach to eating and health and celebrates integrating gardening, cooking, and education, sparking inspiration in a new generation";[79] member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences; recipient of five
James Beard Foundation Awards (1984 Who's Who of Food & Beverage, 1997 Fruits & Vegetables, 1992 Outstanding Chef, 1992 Outstanding Restaurant, 1997 Humanitarian of the Year, 2004 Lifetime Achievement)[80]
Mandy Ginsberg, BA – CEO of Internet dating site
Match.com (NASDAQ-listed
IAC-subsidiary), CEO of instructional web site
Tutor.com (subsidiary of NASDAQ-listed
IAC)[96]
John Riccitiello, B.S. 1981 – CEO of NASDAQ-100 video game company
Electronic Arts (April 2007 – March 2013); managing director and co-founder of
Elevation Partners; former president and chief operating officer (October 1997 to April 2004) of
Electronic Arts (grew the company from $673 million to $3 billion, increased profits over 900%); former president and chief executive officer, Bakery Division, at
Sara Lee; former president and chief executive officer of
Wilson Sporting Goods
Eric Schmidt, M.S. 1979, PhD 1982 – Inaugural CEO of NASDAQ-100 Internet search company Google (2001–2011); executive chairman at Google (2011–present),[103] 136th-richest person in the world in 2011
Weijian Shan, PhD – chairman and CEO of global investment firm
PAG (2022
AUM of $50 billion)
Bob Lutz, B.S. 1961, M.B.A. 1962 –
General Motors Vice chairman, Product Development, and chairman, General Motors North America, former vice-chairman for
Chrysler
^Elizabeth Holmes (February 2, 2011).
"Gap Installs a New Team". The Wall Street Journal.
Archived from the original on July 14, 2015. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
^Rita Koselka (December 2, 1996). "Save on dog food". Forbes Magazine: 237–238.
^"Stanford Engineering Hero – EDWARD GINZTON". Stanford Engineering Heroes (School of Engineering – Stanford University). Archived from
the original on June 11, 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2017. Edward Ginzton (1915–1998), co-founder of Varian Associates, was a pioneer in development of the Klystron radio tube for use in radar and linear accelerators.
^The Wall Street Journal List – One of the Journal's 50, Vermont Quarterly,
University of Vermont, Summer 2008.
^"Gruener, who had both a UCSD bachelor's and master's (UC-Berkeley, '77) in political science with an emphasis on technology, had started two businesses by the early '80s." Kelli Anderson (May 2006).
"Ask Jeeves". @UCSD (a publication of the
University of California, San Diego Alumni Association). Archived from
the original on July 25, 2012. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
^Key Note Speaker Ashraf Habibullah, Biography(PDF). NEDAASC 2009 International Convention. Embassy Suites, Anaheim, California: NED Alumni Association of Southern California. July 18, 2009. p. 6. Archived from
the original(PDF) on June 16, 2013. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
^"Infogrames is focusing sharply on North America, following the $60 million acquisition in April of San Jose, California-based videogame publisher Accolade."
"20 for 2000". Forbes. November 1, 1999. Archived from
the original on July 31, 2012.
^Ted Livingston.
"SDSU Sailing Team History". San Diego State University Sailing Team. Archived from
the original on April 26, 2005. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
^
ab"…[Terry Kohler] hopes that the gift not only will help MIT but also will honor Lowell North. North — who along with Peter Barrett won a gold medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City — in 1957 founded North Sails, a company that produced sailing equipment… North Sails — which designs and manufactures high-tech sails, sail cloth, and masts for sailing vessels — has long been the world's leading sailmaker."Liz Karagianis (Fall 2011).
"SMOOTH SAILING". MIT Spectrum.
Archived from the original on April 5, 2013. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
^"… North Sails has evolved into the world's major sail designer and manufacturer, with 25 lofts, as outlets are called in the sailing industry, and 10 service lofts in maritime areas from Sydney, Australia, to the shores of Connecticut. The company's sales last year topped $30 million…"United Press International (April 1, 1986).
"Advances In Fabrics Keep Sales Of Sails Brisk". Chicago Tribune.
Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
^"After one more semester at
Tufts,
Omidyar moved out West for good, finishing up his undergraduate degree at the University of California – Berkeley." Adam Cohen (2003). The Perfect Store: Inside eBay. Back Bay Books. pp. 16–17.
^"Rudd Family Endows Chair in Finance". Berkeley Haas – CalBusiness (Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley). 2005.
Archived from the original on June 13, 2011. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
^The White House (citation); Molly Wizenberg (article) (2015).
"Alice Waters". National Endowment for the Humanities.
Archived from the original on November 8, 2015. Retrieved November 18, 2015.{{
cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link)
^Don Clark, Anna Prior (June 16, 2014).
"SanDisk to Buy Fusion-io". Wall Street Journal.
Archived from the original on August 18, 2014. Retrieved March 14, 2017.
^"Greg Greeley, MBA 98". CalBusiness (The Magazine of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley). 2009.
Archived from the original on February 28, 2019. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
^"The entire interactive industry owes
Minoru Arakawa and
Howard Lincoln a debt of gratitude for their contributions. The
Academy salutes these two outstanding individuals, and recognizes their lifelong body of work in honoring them with the first- ever Lifetime Achievement Awards."
"Special Awards – Minoru Arakawa and Howard Lincoln". Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
Archived from the original on February 9, 2014. Retrieved January 22, 2014.