Obama meets with high-tech heavyweights from Twitter, Facebook, Apple, Google
The White House released its full list of high-tech CEOs and investors meeting with President Obama Thursday evening in the San Francisco Bay area.
He's meeting with all the big players before heading to Intel's Hillsboro, Ore. chip manufacturing plant on Friday.
The list includes:
John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Carol Bartz, President and CEO, Yahoo!
John Chambers, CEO and Chairman, Cisco Systems
Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter
Larry Ellison, Co-Founder and CEO, Oracle
Reed Hastings, CEO, NetFlix
John Hennessy, President, Stanford University
Steve Jobs, Chairman and CEO, Apple
Art Levinson, Chairman and former CEO, Genentech
Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO, Google
Steve Westly, Managing Partner and Founder, The Westly Group
Mark Zuckerberg, Founder, President, and CEO, Facebook
Read here for Perry Bacon's story on Obama's trip to the West Coast.
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Cecilia Kang
| February 17, 2011; 2:20 PM ET
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