Iconic image emerges from President Obama’s dinner with technology business leaders

Albizu Garcia
Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:02:13 +0000
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The White House have released this iconic image of US President Barack Obama’s dinner with technology business leaders last night in Woodside California. The aim of the gathering is said to promote technological innovation as a means to increase employment and boost the US economy.

President Barack Obama attending dinner with fourteen technology business leaders in California

The image is also the only approved image of Apple CEO Steve Jobs after his announcement last month that he would be taking an indeterminate leave of absence on medical grounds.

President Obama is depicted centre-stage with fourteen leaders in their own right seated clockwise as follows:

Barack Obama, President of the United States

Steve Jobs, chairman and CEO of Apple

Steve Westly, managing partner and founder of Westly Group

Marissa Mayer, vice-president of consumer products at Google

Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Google

Art Levinson, chairman and former CEO of Genentech

John Chambers, CEO and chairman of Cisco Systems

John Doerr, partner in Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (hosting the event)

Larry Ellison, co-founder and CEO of Oracle

Reed Hastings, CEO of NetFlix

John Hennessy, president at Stanford University

Carol Bartz, president and CEO of Yahoo!

Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter

an unidentified person

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook