William (Bill) V. Campbell

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur who mentored leaders at Apple, Intuit, and Google, Campbell was born and raised in Homestead, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, son of a local school official. He attended Columbia University and starred in football. He was head coach of Columbia's football team from 1974 to 1979. He left after the 1978 season, which featured a disastrous 69-0 defeat at the hands of Rutgers, which ended what had been one of college football's oldest rivalries. He met his wife, the former Roberta Spagnola, while she was the assistant dean in charge of Columbia's undergraduate dormitories.

Campbell joined J. Walter Thompson, the advertising agency, then Kodak, where he rose to run Kodak's European film business. Hired by John Sculley, he became Apple's VP of Marketing, then ran Apple's Claris software division. When Sculley refused to spin Claris off into an independent company, Campbell and much of the Claris leadership left. However, in 1997, upon the return of Steve Jobs to Apple, Campbell served as a corporate director on the board.

Campbell became CEO of GO Corporation, a startup pioneering a tablet computer operating system. After successfully selling GO to AT&T in 1993, he served as CEO of Intuit from 1994 to 1998. He subsequently served as Chairman of the Board of Intuit.

Campbell was an adviser to a number of technology companies, including Google, and served on the boards of Intuit and Apple. He was elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Columbia in 2005.