2006 Recipient:
F. Warren Hellman

Warren Hellman is the Chairman and co-founder of San Francisco-based Hellman & Friedman, LLC, a private equity investment firm. Since he founded the company in 1984, Mr. Hellman has grown Hellman & Friedman into one of the top 100 private equity funds in the country. Hellman & Friedman has raised and managed more than $5 billion in capital and invested in over 45 job-creating companies. Hellman is currently a director of The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc., in which Hellman & Friedman is a 10% investor. Previously, he was a general partner of Hellman, Ferri Investment Associates, Matrix Management Company and Lehman Brothers. At Lehman Brothers, he served as president and chairman of Lehman Corporation. He is a board member of the San Francisco Committee on Jobs and SFSOS; a trustee of The San Francisco Foundation; and a member of the University of California Walter A. Haas School of Business Advisory Board. A native of New York City, Hellman is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the Harvard Business School.

The award was inaugurated in 1998.
Honorees include:
2007 Recipient: L. John Doerr
2006 Recipient: F. Warren Hellman
2005 Recipient: C. Richard Kramlich
2004 Recipient: Sanford R. Robertson
2003 Recipient: Dr. Ralph Landau
2002 Recipient: Dr. Edward Penhoet
2001 Recipient: Mr. William Hambrecht
2000 Recipient: Dr. Gordon Moore
1999 Recipient: Mr. Arthur Rock
1998 Recipient: Dr. Alejandro Zaffaroni

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