His father (Michael) is the president of a company that creates advertising software for newspapers and magazines.
"I wanted to be a president of a company, and I didn't want to wait until I was 60, " he says.
And these children could not go home with a pacemaker, but Mr. Earl Bakken, who was the president of a small company called Medtronic in Minneapolis, then built a portable, battery powered pacemaker that these children could use.
That's part of the reason that Chuck is here today -- he's the president of a construction company in Pennsylvania, and the Recovery Act will fund about a third of the work his paving company will do this year.
Robyn Spoto, a mother of young children herself, is President of Mamabear, a company makes an app of the same name that serves the specific purpose to help parents have this dialogue with children.
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All of these factors are of course critical for a CEO of a company, or President of a country.
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My father was the well-paid president of a marketing company, and made extra income from his side consulting business.
The president of a Website company bet that if I asked summit participants what they used the Internet for, most would say nothing but E-mail.
William Sordoni, 61, president of a construction company in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Orbanes' book suffers from disorganization, and he offers too much information about abstruse Monopoly tournaments: Not surprising, given that he's a game fanatic, a former Parker Brothers executive and president of a gaming company called Winning Moves.
Fellow guests during my stay included a famous fashion designer, the president of a French car company, and a cabinet minister.
James, equal pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter and Blake Jones, the co-founder and president of a solar electric company.
Implied throughout the article is that a man named Lawrence Yen, president of a Chinese furniture company, was the architect of some crafty plan to avoid U.S. duties.
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Co-Author Cindy McCombe Spindler is the founder and president of AbilityCatcher, a company with the goal of humanizing the way the world thinks and treats individuals with differing abilities.
As the president of a century-old company, Schmitz considers himself its steward of the future.
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Finally, I spoke with Anthony Mongeluzo, the president of Pro Computer Service of Philadelphia, a company he founded in 2000.
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"We keep an eye on all this stuff so that the clinician can do what she needs to do without fearing for her safety, " said Tom Flanagan, a retired police officer and president of Accord Detective Agency, a company that provides security for Advocate's nurses.
Luigi Forino, the president of MCC Holding Group, a company that specialises in the business of oil and gas marketing facilitation.
But the 43-year-old Enfield also did something extraordinary for a coach: He worked as a vice president of finance for a contract-management company.
Texas Tech and was recently the vice president of a commercial real estate company.
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"In Japan, everything continues for as long as it can continue, " says Akio Mikuni, president of a credit-rating company.
"Shoppers are spoiled, " says Mark Goldstein, president of Loyalty Lab, a company that helps retailers build rewards programs for their online businesses.
But I really think that -- and admittedly I'm the president of a very large magazine company -- I think this is a great opportunity.
Charles L. Hooper is president of Objective Insights, a company that consults for pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and a visiting fellow with the Hoover Institution.
"There's a huge push in general around more and more companies allowing employee-owned mobile devices on the network, " said Todd Christy, president of Pyxis Mobile, a company that develops enterprise app platforms.
He also knows the Persian Gulf states well, having lived in Bahrain as President of Gulf Air, a company that was partially funded by the rulers of Abu Dhabi, a city in the United Arab Emirates.
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Jeff Greason, the president of XCOR Aerospace, a company that makes rocket engines for suborbital craft, worries that the X Prize, with its attached conditions, may not in practice lead to the right sort of craft being built.
"The biggest problem in the past with aerial imagery in agriculture is that everything is time-sensitive, and with unmanned aerial vehicles we'd be able to process that data much more quickly, " said Steve Cubbage, president of Prime Meridian, a company that sells precision agriculture data services to growers.
They were all told they would play the role of a division president at a major company who was giving away bonus money among four department managers, two of whom had achieved 150% of their sales goals and two of whom had achieved 75%.
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Non-automotive judges were Michael Zimbalist, vice president of research and development operations for The New York Times Company who is a co-founder and former president of the Online Publishers Association (OPA), and Joseph Essas, chief technology officer of the online restaurant reservation service, OpenTable, and formerly vice president of engineering for Yahoo!
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