2021 Honorees
James P. Gorman ’87
Distinguished Leadership in Business Award
Chairman and CEO
Morgan Stanley
James P. Gorman is chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley. He became CEO in January 2010 and chairman in January 2012, after joining the firm in February 2006 and being named co-president in December 2007.
Before joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Gorman held a succession of executive positions at Merrill Lynch. Prior to this, he was a senior partner at McKinsey, and began his career as an attorney in Melbourne, Australia.
Among his civic activities, Mr. Gorman serves as a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Council on Foreign Relations, chair of the Financial Services Forum, and as co-chair of Columbia Business School’s Board of Overseers. He is a member of the Business Council and the Business Roundtable.
He formerly served as president of the Federal Advisory Council to the US Federal Reserve Board, co-chairman of the Partnership for New York City, chairman of the board of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, and co-chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s business committee.
Mr. Gorman, who was born in Australia, earned a BA and a law degree from the University of Melbourne and an MBA from Columbia University.
Timothy Campos ’11
Distinguished Early Achievement Award
Co-founder and CEO
Woven
Timothy Campos is co-founder and chief executive officer of Woven, an enterprise software company that uses machine intelligence to help people and organizations optimize how they utilize time through an intelligent calendar. Prior to Woven, he served as chief information officer of Facebook from August 2010 until November 2016. During his tenure at Facebook, he was responsible for helping to double employee productivity to an industry-leading $1.8M in revenue per employee through innovation in software development and operations. He joined the social media giant after becoming the youngest CIO of any Fortune 500 company at KLA-Tencor, a leading supplier of semiconductor equipment and services.
In addition to his career-long focus on workforce productivity, Mr. Campos is passionate about helping businesses grow. He serves on the board of directors of Viavi Solutions and Rackspace, and is an advisor to several Silicon Valley startups. He also serves on the board of directors of the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
Mr. Campos is an active member of the community. At Facebook, he created the company's program to donate laptops and computer equipment to under-resourced school systems in the Bay Area and around the country. He has also been a longtime advocate for and board member of Year Up, an underprivileged youth-focused organization dedicated to reducing the opportunity divide. He helped Facebook become the second-largest sponsor of Year Up interns in the Bay Area, enabling more than 140 young adults to find new opportunities in high-tech fields.
Mr. Campos has a BS in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA from Columbia, where he participated in the Columbia Business School and Haas School of Business exchange program.