Lifetime Achievement in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Award
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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 lifetime achievement 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
Through the Lifetime Achievement Award, we seek to identify exemplars of entrepreneurship whose success can teach future generations by the example they set. Further, it allows us to bring outstanding practitioners to the Berkeley campus, creating opportunities for exchanges of ideas with faculty and students. We believe that by enhancing the interaction among academics, entrepreneurs, scientists and faculty, pragmatists and idealists, we help foster entrepreneurial success for individuals and the community as a whole.
The Lester Center has identified three distinct components shared by successful entrepreneurs. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes the presence of these elements in the people who are thus honored. First, the award recognizes entrepreneurial excellence. This is reflected in the individual’s success in multiple business arenas and the significant impact of that success on a given industry.
Second, the award acknowledges the individual’s leadership in both business and community. As a leader, the award recipient models behavior that young entrepreneurs can emulate.
The third component of the award recognizes the efforts by which the entrepreneur returns value to his/her community. The award recipient’s contributions may be to the preservation of the environment, improvement of educational opportunity, or some other substantial contribution to the well-being of the community.
