Partnership for a New American Economy

Steven A. Ballmer is Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing. Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 and was the first business manager hired by Bill Gates. Since then, Ballmer's leadership and passion have become hallmarks of his tenure at the company. Ballmer and the company's business and technical leaders are focused on continuing Microsoft's innovation and leadership across the company's core businesses. Microsoft's goal is to provide an integrated platform to enable a seamless experience across a wide range of computing and non-PC devices and services. Variously described as ebullient, focused, funny, passionate, sincere, hard-charging and dynamic, Ballmer has infused Microsoft with his own brand of energetic leadership, vision and spirit over the years. Ballmer was born in March 1956, and grew up near Detroit, where his father worked as a manager at Ford Motor Co. He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and economics. While in college, Ballmer managed the football team, worked on the Harvard Crimson newspaper as well as the university literary magazine, and lived down the hall from fellow sophomore Bill Gates. After college, he worked for two years at Procter & Gamble Co. as an assistant product manager and, before joining Microsoft, attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Michael R. Bloomberg was elected the 108^th Mayor of the City of New York in 2001. He began his career in 1966 at Salomon Brothers, and after being let go in 1981, he began Bloomberg LP, a start-up financial news and information company that now has more than 11,000 employees around the world. As Mayor, Bloomberg has cut crime more than 30 percent, revitalized the waterfront, implemented ambitious public health strategies, including the successful ban on smoking in restaurants and bars, and expanded support for arts and culture. His education reforms have driven graduation rates up by over 20 percent. The Mayor's economic policies have helped New York City avoid the level of job losses that many other cities experienced, with New York City accounting for 10 percent of the nation's job growth over the past year. Mayor Bloomberg attended Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Business School, and is the father of two daughters, Emma and Georgina.

Julian Castro was elected Mayor of San Antonio on May 9, 2009 and, at 36, is the youngest mayor of a Top 50 American city. As mayor, Mr. Castro has placed an unprecedented emphasis on education with a holistic program to raise local educational attainment levels by increasing city participation in early childhood education, high school dropout prevention and comprehensive higher education counseling. A former city councilman, Castro graduated from Stanford University and received a law degree from Harvard Law School. He is married and has a daughter. San Antonio, with over 1.3 million residents, is the seventh largest city in the country.

Robert A. Iger is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company, a company with over 144,000 employees, and one of the world's premier family entertainment and media companies. Mr. Iger began his career at ABC in 1974 and eventually served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Capital Cities/ABC, where he guided the complex merger of ABC with The Walt Disney Company. He officially joined the Disney senior management team in 1996 as Chairman of the Disney-owned ABC Group and in 1999, was given the additional responsibility of President, Walt Disney International. Mr. Iger is a member of the board of directors for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. He serves on the Executive Advisory Board of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

J.W. Marriott, Jr. is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Marriott International, Inc., one of the world's largest lodging companies. His leadership spans more than 50 years, and he has taken Marriott from a family restaurant business to a global lodging company with more than 3,100 properties in 67 countries and territories and approximately 300,000 associates who serve guests in Marriott managed and franchised properties throughout the world. Marriott International has consistently been named to Fortune's lists of most admired companies, best places to work and top companies for minorities. Mr. Marriott attended St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., earned a B.S. degree in banking and finance from the University of Utah and served as an officer in the United States Navy. He is married and has four children and 14 grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Jim McNerney is Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Boeing Company. Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and a top U.S. exporter; it supports airlines and U.S. and allied government customers in more than 90 nations. Mr. McNerney was previously the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of 3M, and prior to that served 19 years at the General Electric Company, where he held top executive positions including president and CEO of GE Aircraft Engines and GE Lighting. Mr. McNerney chairs the President's Export Council, which operates as an advisory committee on international trade. A native of Providence, R.I., McNerney earned a B.A. degree from Yale University in 1971 and an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1975. McNerney is married and has five children.

Rupert Murdoch is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of News Corporation, one of the world's largest diversified media companies. News Corporation's global operations include the creation and distribution of media products and services in the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America. In 1954, Mr. Murdoch took control of News Limited, an Australian-based public corporation whose key asset was a majority interest in the number-two daily newspaper in Adelaide, South Australia. Since then, Mr. Murdoch has overseen the expansion and development of News Corporation as it has become the world's leading publisher of English-language newspapers; a premier provider of filmed entertainment; the top American television network; the foremost group of local television stations across the U.S.; the creator of some of cable television's fastest-growing channels; a leading book publisher; and a pioneer in direct broadcast satellite television and next generation Internet properties. Mr. Murdoch is married and has six children.

Michael A. Nutter was elected the 98^th Mayor of Philadelphia in 2007. As mayor, he has implemented a crime fighting strategy that has resulted in sharp declines in the rates of homicide and violent crime, and has focused his efforts on improving the city's education system, driving economic growth, and improving government services. The Mayor has pledged to increase the city's high school graduation rate to 80% by 2015 and to double the college attainment rate from 18% to 36% by 2018. Mayor Nutter has reoriented city government, and worked to plan future development along the Delaware River, the Navy Yard and Philadelphia International Airport. He improved created tools for small businesses, worked to foster minority- and women-owned business and created a language access program to improve municipal customer service for all Philadelphia's residents. The Nutter administration has set bright line standards for ethical conduct, increased funding for the City's Inspector General's office, and established the City's first ever Chief Integrity Officer.

Antonio R. Villaraigosa was elected the 41^st Mayor of Los Angeles in 2005 and reelected in 2009. Mayor Villaraigosa has built the police force to its largest size in history; overseen the steepest reduction in crime since the 1950s; developed Los Angeles' first comprehensive anti-gang strategy; worked to improve public education; launched Green LA to set Los Angeles on the path to becoming one of the greenest big cities in the nation; and made large investments in LA's mass transit system. Mayor Villaraigosa graduated from UCLA and went on to earn a law degree from the People's College of Law. At 25, Mayor Villaraigosa was elected president of a local union representing civil rights workers and lawyers in six states. In 1994, Villaraigosa was elected to the California State Assembly and, four years later, his colleagues elected him the first Assembly Speaker from Los Angeles in 25 years. Los Angeles, with 3.8 million residents, is the second largest city in the U.S.