Notable Alumni

MIT Sloan attracts people who like to make things happen, so it's no surprise that more than half of our 20,000 alumni are senior executives; some 20 percent have earned the role of president or CEO. Many are also entrepreneurs: MIT Sloan graduates have founded more than 650 companies.

Flourishing in 90 different countries, our alumni include prominent leaders inside and outside the world of business, including:

Principal federal official and federal coordinating officer for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita recovery efforts
Vice Admiral Thad Allen, SF ’89
Former U.N. Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Kofi Annan, SF ’72
CEO of GoLoco, Former Zipcar CEO
Robin Chase, SM ’86
Former Hewlett-Packard President and CEO
Carly Fiorina, SF ’89
Former Ford Chairman and CEO
William Clay Ford, Jr., SF ’84
Former President of NAACP
Bruce Gordon, SF ’88
President of the Kennedy Center
Michael Kaiser, SM ’77
Battelle Memorial Institute President and CEO
Carl Kohrt, SF ’91
Merck Executive Vice President-CFO
Judy Lewent, SM ’72
Cerveceria Polar CA CEO
Lorenzo Mendoza, SM ’93
PA Consulting Group Chairman and CEO
Jonathan Moynihan, SM ’77
Prime Minister of Israel
Benjamin Netanyahu, SM ’76
Chairman & Co-Founder Founder and Chairman Emeritus International Securities Exchange E*Trade Group
William (Bill) Porter, SF ’67
U.S. Postmaster General
John Potter, SF ’95
Former Chairman of Citicorp
John Reed, SM ’65
Former Chairman Massachusetts Financial Svcs
Jeffrey Shames, SM ’83
Former President & CEO NTT Mobile Comm. Inc.
Keiji Tachikawa, SF ’78
President & CEO Symantec
John Thompson, SF ’83
Aetna Inc. President
Ronald William, SF ’84