Prominent Alumni
Darden's list of prominent alumni (in order of graduation) includes:
- John H. Bryan (MBA '60), CEO and Chairman of Sara Lee from 1976 to 2001
- George David (MBA '67), CEO and Chairman of United Technologies Corporation
- Rea S. Hederman (MBA '68), Chairman since 1984, New York Review of Books
- John D. Shafer Jr. (MBA '68), CEO of Dunkin' Donuts
- Ronald E. Trzcinski (MBA '71), President and Founder of The Original Mattress Factory
- Lewis F. Payne, Jr. (MBA '73), former Virginia congressman
- Henri Termeer (MBA '73), former President, Chairman and CEO of Genzyme Corporation
- Michael O’Neill (MBA ’74), Chairman, Citibank N.A.
- John Strangfeld (MBA '77), Chairman and CEO, Prudential Financial
- Roger L. Werner Jr. (MBA '77), founder Speedvision and Outdoor Life Network; CEO, The Outdoor Channel
- Charles A. de Mestral (MBA '78), current CEO of Winstar Resources Inc.
- Steven Reinemund (MBA '78), former CEO and Chairman of PepsiCo. Voted number 15 in Barron's 2006 "World's Most Respected US CEOs."
- Mark B. Templeton (MBA '78), President and CEO, Citrix Systems Inc.
- Doug Scovanner (MBA '79), Executive Vice President & CFO, Target Corporation
- Bill Hawkins (MBA '82), former President and CEO, Medtronic Inc.; CEO, Immucor Inc.
- Tom Watjen, (MBA '81), President and CEO, Unum Group
- Warren M. Thompson (MBA '83), President and Chairman, Thompson Hospitality Corporation
- Frank Batten Jr (MBA '84), CEO of Landmark Communications (owner of The Weather Channel and many newspapers)
- V.N. Dalmia (MBA '84), Chairman Dalmia Continental, Chairman Sunshine Tourism Services
- Daniel S. Lynch (MBA '84), former CFO and CEO of ImClone Systems
- Robert Hugin (MBA '85), Chairman, President and CEO, Celgene
- Martina Hund-Mejean (MBA '88), CFO, MasterCard Worldwide
- Carolyn Miles (MBA '88), CEO, Save the Children
- Mark Sanford (MBA '88), former Governor of South Carolina
- Naren K. Gursahaney (MBA '89), President, ADT Worldwide, Tyco
- Scott Price (MBA '90), President and CEO, Walmart Asia
- Steven Silbiger (MBA '90), author, The Ten-Day MBA, fourth edition, Harper Business, 2012
- Bruce Thompson (MBA '90), CFO, Bank of America
- Thomas Baltimore (MBA '91), Co-founder and President, RLJ Development; President and CEO, RLJ Lodging Trust
- James Geisler (MBA '93), Vice President Finance, United Technologies Corporation
- Trip Davis (MBA '94), Co-founder and former CEO, TRX, Inc.
- Ned Hooper (MBA '94), Senior VP and Chief Strategy Officer, Cisco Systems
- Doug Lebda, founder of Lending Tree, which was conceived as business plan during his first year. Doug left Darden (Class of 98) to pursue the business.
- Dustin Masaru Shindo (MBA '99), Chairman and CEO, Savingspoint; Founder, former Chairman and CEO, Hoku Scientific
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