The Mentor Hall of Fame MENTORS IN BUSINESS, INDUSTRY, EDUCATION, SCIENCE and METAPHYSICS

Virtually anyone can benefit from having a mentor. One of the oldest ways to pass on wisdom and knowledge from one generation of professionals to another has been through mentoring. The following list of mentor pairs was compiled by Rey Carr from a variety of sources including autobiographies, biographies, newspaper articles, personal interviews, and diligent historical research. If you know of mentor pairs that ought to be added, we have provided an opportunity for you to submit the names and details: Add a Mentor Pair.

MENTORS IN BUSINESS, INDUSTRY, EDUCATION, AND SCIENCE

Rudi Dornbusch (German economist) mentor to Paul Krugman (Nobel Prize economist) - Details and photos (Requires membership in the Peer Resources Network) Paul McKenna (author and hypnotist) calls Richard Bandler (co-creator of NLP) his mentor Jane Loevinger (Psychologist, 1918-2008) mentor to Susanne Cook-Greuter and many others - Details and photos (Requires membership in the Peer Resources Network) Egon Guba (Research and evaluation expert) mentor to dozens of colleauges, faculty and graduate students - Details and photos (Requires membership in the Peer Resources Network) Alexander Konovalov (Russian neurosurgeon) mentor to many others - Details and photos (Requires membership in the Peer Resources Network) Clare Graves (Psychologist, 1914-1986) mentor to Don Beck (Creator of Spiral Dynamics) C. Everett Koop (Former US Surgeon General) mentor to Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr. (physician and head of the Templeton Foundation) Rudy Lobo (Chief Operating Officer at Regus) mentor to future business leaders and the twin sons of Maria Paitchel (Area Director for Regus). Details. Dr. Arthur Kornberg (Nobel Prize winner for Medicine in 1959) was a mentor to many colleagues and students in his field of biochemistry. Dr. Leslie Orgel (discovered the importance of RNA) wasa mentor to many fellow scientists because of his passion, multiple interests, and commitment to collaboration. Freddie Laker mentor to Richard Branson (founder of Virgin Atlantic Airways) told Branson, "Make a fool of yourself. Otherwise you won't survive." Michael Lee-Chin (Chairman of National Commercial Bank in Jamaica, philanthropist, and businessman) was mentored in business by Warren Buffet and names his mother, Hyacinth Gloria Chen, as his life mentor. George Debelle (real estate appraiser) mentor to Gerry McCaughey (CEO, CIBC) E. Paul Torrance (the "Father of Creativity," 1915-2003, Bio) mentor to hundreds of graduate students and university faculty members Alicia Boole Stott (mathematician, Bio) mentor to Donald Coxeter (20th century's leading expert on geometry and Canadian professor, Bio) mentored by Arthur Burns (former US Federal Reserve Chairman) Peter Drucker (inventor of management consulting) mentor to Jim Collins (Author of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't Lee Pulos, PhD (Author of The Power of Visualization) mentor to Adam Dreamhealer Gordon Hollinger (founder of Hollinger Hardware) mentor to Walter Hachborn (retired president and founder of Home Hardware) A.G. Lafley (Chairman and CEO of Procter and Gamble) was told by his mentor, "Have the courage to stick with a tough job." William Denis (Nova Scotia senator) mentor to Ralph Vaughn (journalist and former Air Canada president) Amos Michelson (CEO, Creo) mentor to Judi Hess (President, Creo) Paul Tellier (CEO, Bombardier) mentor to Michael Sabia (CEO, BCE Inc.) George Steinbrenner (Owner, New York Yankees baseball team, Bio) said his mentor told him to "surround yourself with people who were smarter than you are." Little did he know how easy that was going to be. Ace Greenberg (Bear Stearns) was a mentor for Sumner Redstone (Chairman and CEO of Viacom) and told him, "Follow your own instincts, not those of the people who see the world differently." Meg Whitman (CEO and President of eBay) was told, "Be nice, do your best - and most important, keep it in perspective," by her mentor (father). Stuart Friend (KMart manager) mentor to Wayne Sales (CEO of Canadian Tire) Sallie Krawcheck (CFO of Citigroup) was told by her mentor, "Don't listen to the naysayers." Andrew Carnegie mentor to Charles Schwab (first president of US Steel, Bio) Keith Leighfield of Pembrokeshire won the 2002 Business Mentor of the Year Award from the Prince's Trust for his volunteer work with young people David J. Gearing was elected mayor of Mentor, Ohio with 26 votes in 2002 Jim Pattison (CEO, The Jim Pattison Group) mentor to Nick Geer (President and CEO, Insurance Corporation of British Columbia) Sydney Brenner (British researcher and winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine) mentor to H. Robert Horvitz (MIT professor and co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine) Warren Bennis mentor to Howard Schultz (CEO, Starbucks) suggested to his mentee "Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them." A.G. Osten (Oxford professor) mentor to Baruch S. Blumberg (Nobel Prize in medicine, 1976) Leon Levintow (National Institute of Health) mentor to J. Michael Bishop (Nobel Prize winner in medicine, 1989) Mr. Broakes (headmaster) mentor to Richard J. Roberts (Nobel prize laureate in medicine, 1993) Colin Reese (professor) mentor to John E. Sulston (Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, 2002) Professor Adachi mentor to Koichi Tanaka (Nobel prize laureate in chemistry, 2002) Karl Bohnoeffer (professor of psychiatry) mentor to Max DelbrŸck (Nobel laureate in medicine, 1969) Elwood Titus (chemistry professor) mentor to Louis J. Ignarro (Nobel laureate in medicine,1998) Harold Johnston (chemistry professor, Stanford University) mentor to Dudley R. Herschbach (Nobel laureate in chemistry, 1986) Victor Bloomfield (chemistry professor) mentor to Phillip A. Sharp (Nobel laureate in medicine, 1993) George J. Stigler (Nobel Prize economist) mentor to Gary S. Becker (Nobel Prize economist, 1992) Bruno Rossi (cosmic ray physicist) mentor to Riccardo Giacconi (Nobel prize winner in physics and space scientist and specialist in x-ray astronomy) Rosalyn Yanow (Nobel laureate) mentor to Mildred Dresselhaus (MIT physicist) Larry Bossidy (CEO, AlliedSignal) mentor to Bill Amelio (Dell, Senior VP) Steve Ross (former CEO Time Warner) told his mentee, Dick Parsons (Chairman and CEO of Time Warner), "When you negotiate, leave a little something on the table." Vivek Paul (President and CEO, Wipro Technologies) mentored by John Donahoe (President of eBay) Edward Ettin (Federal Reserve Board) mentor to Sherry Cooper (Bank of Montreal Economist) Jimmy Ferraro (found of Supervalu) mentor to William McEwan (supermarket guru) Brian Mulroney (former Prime Minister of Canada) mentor to Karl Péladeau (Quebecor CEO) Helmut Maucher (former CEO, Nestlé) mentor to Peter Brabeck (CEO, Nestlé) Frank Ianna (AT&T Network Services President) mentor to Hossein Eslambolchi (AT&T CTO Labs) Thomas Middlehoff (former CEO, Bertelsmann AG) mentor to Joel Klein (NYC Schools Chancellor) L. Dennis Kozlowski (former CEO, Tyco) mentor to Mark Swartz (CFO, Tyco) John Winborn (CTO, San Francisco Giants) mentored by his mother, Mary Ellen Winborn Bernie Ebbers (CEO, WorldCom) mentor to Scott Sullivan (CTO, WorldCom) Marc Lustgarten (Cablevision Executive) mentor to James Dolan (chairman of Madison Square Garden and president of Cablevision) Vivek Randivé (CEO, Tibco) mentor to John Mathon (CTO, Slam Dunk Networks) Mentor is the name of a four-winged flying robot (or ornithopter) being developed by the University of Toronto Jacques Nasser (former CEO, Ford Motor Co.) mentor to Wolfgang Reitzle (president, Premier Automotive Group) Ed Bersoff (CEO, BTG Group) mentor to Kathy Clark (CEO, Landmark Systems) Gary Rosenthal (designer, Stetson Hats) mentor to Victor Cornejo (designer, Stetson Hatco) William Swindells, Jr. (Chairman, Willamette Industries) mentor to Steve Rogel (Chairman, Weyerhaeuser) Charlie Corvell (CEO, Quebecor World) mentor to Pierre Karl Péladeau (CEO, Quebecor) Bill Bannerman (father) mentor to Monty Bannerman (VP and CTO, Terremark Worldwide) Gerald Levin (former CEO AOL Time-Warner) mentor to Richard Parsons (CEO AOL Time-Warner) David Shaw (Chairman, DE Shaw Co) mentor to Jeff Bezos (CEO Amazon.com) Benjamin Graham (Columbia University professor) and Howard Buffett (dad) mentors to Warren Buffett (CEO, Berkshire Hathaway) told him "You're right not because others agree with you, but because your facts are right. Virtual Mentor is the name of the Ethics Journal of the American Medical Association Bill Bailey and Earl Shoaff mentors to Jim Rohn (author, motivational speaker, Bio) Jim Rohn (author, motivational speaker) mentor to Anthony Robbins (author, motivational speaker, Bio) Mary Kay Ash (co-founder Mary Kay Cosmetics) mentor to Tom Wheatley (president fo global sales) Kelly Mahoney (Chief Marketing Officer, Staples) mentored by Robert Finnegan (husband) and Michael Bronner (CEO, Digitas, formerly Bronner, Slosberg Humphrey) Frederick Emmons Terman (Stanford University engineering professor and dean and son of equally famous Stanford psychologist, Lewis Terman) mentor to David Packard and Bill Hewlett (founders of Hewlett-Packard) Dr. Karl Menninger (psychoanalyst, Bio) mentor to Dr. Gordon Warme (psychiatrist and author of The Cure of Folly: A Psychiatrist's Cautionary Tale Dan Woods (CTO, Capital Thinking) mentor to Chad Dickerson (CTO, InfoWorld) Phyllis Jaffe (chief executive, Alliance Atlantis Broadcasting) mentored by Peter Grant (Canadian law firm senior partner) John Weaver (CEO, Abitibi-Consolidated) mentored by Ron Oberlander (former CEO, Abitibi) P.R.S. Oberoi (India hotel executive) mentored by his father, M.S. Oberoi (creator of world-class hotels in India) Robert Rubin (US Treasury Secretary) mentor to Lawrence Summers (President, Harvard University) B.F. Skinner (psychologist, Bio) mentor to Robert Epstein (Editor-in-Chief, Psychology Today) Paul Delage Roberge (CEO, San Francisco stores) mentor to Guy Charron (President, San Francisco stores) Doug Yoon (chief scientist at Logicon) mentor to Joe Neuhaus (CTO, Prime Advantage) Rob Carter (CIO, FedEx) mentor to Paul Orsak (CTO, NextJet) Hilmar Kopper (Deutsche Bank president) mentor to Jurgen Schrempp (CEO, DaimlerChrysler) Charles Simonyi (Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft) mentor to Richard Brodie (creator of Microsoft Word and author of Virus of the Mind: The New Science of Meme) John Bardeen (Nobel Prize winner in physics and co-inventor of transistors) mentor to Nick Holonyak (engineer and inventor of the light-emitting-diode (LED)) Niten Shah (vice-president, Lucent) mentor to Steven Spencer (CTO, Screaming Media) Warren Buffet (CEO, Bershire Hathaway) mentor to J. Richard Charlton Mark Starowicz (CBC radio broadcaster) and Brandon Tartikoff (former NBC program director) mentors to Ivan Fecan (Canadian media mogul) Jack Cockwell (CEO, Brascan Ltd) mentor to Kevin Benson (CEO, Canadian Airlines) Kenneth Cole (CEO, Cole Footware) mentored by his father, Charles Peter C. Newman (award-winning Canadian writer) mentor to Robert Lewis (VP, Rogers Media) Linda Hasenfratz (CEO, Linamar Corporation) mentored by her father, Frank Andre Bureau (former chair, CRTC and owner TMN) mentor to Lisa deWilde (president, TMN) Michael Cowpland (former CEO, Corel) mentor to Derek Burney (CEO, Corel) Ann Fudge (Chair and CEO of Young & Rubicam Brands) said the best advice she received from a mentor was "Dont' chart your career path too soon." Ben Montoya (former president and CEO, PNM) mentor to Jeffry Sterba (president, CEO and chairman, PNM) Herb Kelleher (Founder and chairman of Southwest Airlines) was mentored by his mother, Ruth, who told him, "Respect people for who they are, not for what their titles are." Raul Fernandez (CEO, Washington Capitals) mentored by Ted Leonsis (AOL executive) B. Gerald Cantor (founder of Cantor Fitzgerald) mentor to Howard Lutnick (Chairman, Cantor Fitzgerald) Walter A. Stewart mentor to W. Edwards Deming (business consultant, Bio) Don Penny and Dave Norris (founders of Meyers, Norris, Penny) mentors to Daryl Ritchie (current CEO of Meyers, Norris, Penny) The Mentor Group is a Palm Springs company that specializes in appraisal, valuation, and investment banking Peter Munk (Founder and Chairman, Barrick Gold Corp, CEO Trizec Hahn Group) mentor to Randall Oliphant (CEO Barrick Gold Corp) Robert Patterson (CEO, National Cash Register) mentor to Thomas Watson (founder of IBM) Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (Chair, IBM) mentor to G. Richard Thompson (former CEO Xerox) Peter Drucker says his best advice came from his first editor-in-chief, who told him, Get good or get out." Anne Mulcahy (CEO of Xerox) was told by her mentor, "When everything gets really complicated and you feel overwhelmed, you gotta do three things: first get the cow out of the ditch; second, find out how the cow got into the ditch; and third, make sure you do whatever it takes so the cow doesn't go in the ditch again." Hugh van Horn (Director of the National Science Foundation) mentor to Gilles Fontaine (Award-winning Quebec scientist) Doug Creighton (founder, Toronto Sun) mentor to Paul Godfrey (former CEO Sun Media Corp.) Alf Pouois (former CEO of Noranda) mentor to Bill James (retiring CEO of Inmet Mining) Scott McNealy (Sun CEO) and Paul Austin (Chairman, Coca Cola) mentors to Jack Welch (GE CEO); Mr. Austin told Jack to "Be yourself." Harold Lasswell (Yale professor) mentor to Chen Lung-chu (Chair, Taiwan New Century Foundation) Mentor-on-the-Lake is a city in Ohio with a population of 8271 Micheal Pitfield (CEO of Power Corp) mentor to Robert Rabinovitch (CBC president) Mentor - Innovations for the Future is the name of a company that provides mechanical, electronic and optoelectronic components Gordon Osbaldeston (former Clerk of Canada's Privy Council) mentor to Robert Brown (CEO of Bombardier) William Hughes (CEO Nebraska Beef) mentor to Shawn Buchanan (President of All American Meats, Inc.) George Gallup mentor to David Ogilvy Terry Matthews (CEO, Celtic House) mentor to Simon Gibson (CEO of Ubiquity Software Corp) Dan Bentzinger (Senior VP, Transportation.com) mentored by Scott Smith (American Century Investments) and Scott Avidson (Kansas City Southern Railway) Nat Taylor (Canadian movie mogul) mentor to Garth Drabinsky (movie theatre and entertainment company president) Howard Breen (former president of Young and Rubicam) mentor to John Farquhar (president of Young and Rubicam) Bill Gates mentored by the board games "Risk" and "Monopoly" Robert H. Boyle (environmentalist) mentor to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Warren Buffet (financier) mentor to Donald Graham (publisher, Washington Post) and Micheal Lee-Chin (CEO, AIC) Clare Franz (Latin teacher at Peekskill Military Academy) mentor to Sanford Weill (financier and philanthropist) Alfred Taubman (former chair, Sotheby's) mentor to Diana Dwyer Brooks (former CEO, Sotheby's) In the state of Wisconsin there is a city called Mentor with a population of 521 John Chambers (Cisco CEO) mentor to Donald Listwin (former VP Cisco and current CEO Software.com Inc.) Sanford Weill (Chairman Citigroup) mentor to James Dimon (CEO BankOne Corp) John L. Lewis (late president of the United Mine Workers Union) mentor to W.A. (Tony) Boyle (president of the United Mine Workers) Gordon Moore (founder of Intel) and Alois Xavier Schmidt (professor) mentors to Andrew Grove (co-inventor of the microprocessor and chairman of Intel) Barry Diller mentor to Edgar Bronfman and Michael Eisner Bobby Orr (Hall of Fame hockey player) mentor to Dr. Robert Thirsk (astronaut, physician, engineer, scientist) The US Interior Department paired California Condors raised in zoos with wild Condors as their mentors Father Thomas Philippe (chaplain, Trosly-Breuil) mentor to Jean Vanier (Canadian care-giver extrodinaire) John Chisholm (Chief of Police for Toronto) mentor to George Lang (late Toronto Police Staff Superintendent) Henry C. Lawrence (druggist) mentor to Eli Lilly Mentor Township in North Dakota has a population of 31 Trevor Clay (late president RCN) mentor to Christine Hancock (General Secretary Royal College of Nursing) William Bass (medical anthropologist) mentor to William Rodriguez (chief deputy US Armed Forces medical examiner) Visit the city of Mentor, Minnesota and meet the 94 people who live there Harry Harlow (psychologist, Bio) mentor to Abraham Maslow (psychologist, Bio) Robert Gagne (learning psychologist Bio) mentor to Bruce Tuckman (professor, Ohio State Bio) Richard Hofstadter (historian and winner of 1956 Pulitizer Prize) mentor to Eric Forner (Columbia University historian) Jerome Bruner (American psychologist) mentor to Berry Brazelton (Harvard Medical School pediatrician) Lawrence Cremin (education historian) mentor to Sol Cohen Tom Mabry (plant chemist) mentor to Elroy Rodriguez (plant chemist) Simon Flexner (Rockefeller Institute) mentor to Alex Carrel (1944 Nobel Prize winner for Medicine) Helen Davies (biologist) named in 1998 as the LIfetime Mentor by the American Academy for the Advancement of Science Dr. Benjamin Carson (Johns Hopkins pediatric neurosurgeon Bio) mentored by his mother, Sonya Dr. Patricia Goldman-Rakic (Yale professor of neuroscience, neurology and psychiatry Bio) mentored by Haldor Rosvold (pioneering expert on brain function, Bio) Alexsandr Luria (Russian neurologist) mentor to Oliver Sacks (neurologist and author, Bio) Dr. Roland Scott (physician) mentor to Angela Ferguson (distinquished African American scientist-physician) Alfred Adler mentor to Viktor Frankl Alan Carr (Sausalito psychologist and brother), John Seward (UCLA professor), Mervin Freedman (San Francisco State University professor), John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert Kennedy, Wayne Dyer mentors to Rey Carr (CEO, Peer Resources) Hugo Munsterberg mentor to Robert Mearns Yerkes (psychologist Bio) Gregory Bateson (social theorist) mentor to his daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson (anthropologist) Dr. Sam Gruber (biologist and shark researcher) mentor to Tim Calver (underwater photographer from Canada) Galen Rowell (National Geographic photographer) mentor to Gordon Wiltsie (high altitude photographer) Kingman Brewster (President of Yale) mentor to Derek Bok (President of Harvard) Robert McNamara (former US Secretary of Defense) mentor to Lee Iacocca (former president of Chrysler) J. Leslie Rollins (president of the Bendix Corporation) mentor to William Agee (former president of the Bendix Corporation) William Agee (former president of the Bendix Corporation) mentor to Mary Cunningham (business executive with Seagrams, Semper Corporation, and Bendix) Walter Shewhart (mathematician) mentor to W. Edwards Deming (business leader and mathematical physicist) Donald Spencer (pioneering US mathematician) mentor to John Nash (Nobel Prize mathematician) Antoni Zygmond (mathematician) mentor to Alberto Calderón (Argentine mathematician) Michael Ronca (high school band director) and Jim Farr (founder of the Center for Creative Leadership) mentors to Roger Herman (management consultant and author of the best-selling book, How to Become an Employer of Choice) Sidney Weinberg mentor to Henry Ford Take a stroll down Mentor Avenue in Painesville, Ohio Dallas Smythe (communications scholar) mentor to Sut Jhally (communications professor, University of Massachusetts) Vernon L. Smith (2002 Nobel Prize winner) mentor to Bart Wilson Mentor is a city in Kentucky (population 169) Earl Nightingale mentor to Jim Cathcart Sir Humphry Davy mentor to Michael Faraday (English physicist and creator of electromagnetism) Gottfried von Leibniz mentor to Sir Isaac Newton Dr. Arthur Walker (Stanford University physics professor) mentor to Sally K. Ride (first woman in space) Neils Bohr mentor Werner Heisenberg Horatio Hale mentor to Franz Boas (anthropologist and designer of phonetic alphabet for Aboriginal languages) Franz Boas mentor to Edward Sapir Alexander von Humboldt (German naturalist) mentor to Max Eisenstein (German mathematician) Christiaan Huygens (17th century astronomer) mentor to Gottfried Leibniz (father of calculus) Hermann von Helmholtz mentor to Max Planck Max Planck and Hans Geiger mentors to Walther Bothe (Nobel Prize winner in physics, 1954) John Stevens Henslow (academic and clergyman Bio) mentor to Charles Darwin (Bio) Gerolamo Cardano (Italian mathematician) mentor to Lodovico Ferrari (Italian mathematician and first to find algebraic solution to quartic equation) Leucippus of Miletus (Greek philosopher) mentor to Democritus of Abderra (created the theory of atoms) Wlater Headlam (Greek scholar and classicist) mentor to Dillwyn Knox Otto Stern (1943 Nobel prize in physics) mentor to Isidor Rabi (1944 Nobel prize in physics) Albert Claude (Nobel biologist) mentor to George Palade (Nobel physician) - Details and photos (Requires membership in the Peer Resources Network) George Palade (Nobel physician) mentor to Elizabeth Sztul (biochemist), Gunter Blobel (Nobel biochemist) andAjit Varki (glycobiologist) - Details and photos (Requires membership in the Peer Resources Network) Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam (Russian scientist) mentor to Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (1958 Nobel Laureate in Physics) Francis J. Ryan (Columbia professor) mentor to Joshua Lederberg (1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine) Reinhold Neibuhr (described as mentor to the 20th century) Bernard Maybeck (architect) mentor to Julia Morgan (architect) Eva Matsuzaki (architect) mentor to many students of architecture at the University of British Columbia Walter Gropius (Professor, Harvard School of Design) mentor to Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (Canada's foremost landscape architect) Frank Lloyd Wright (architect) mentor to Francis Conroy Sullivan (Canadian architect) and Arthur Erickson (Canadian architect) C.E. Pratt (Canadian architect) mentor to Ron Thom (Canadian architect) William Le Baron Jenney (architect and inventor of the term skyscaper) mentor to Louis Sullivan (father of modern US architecture) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (architect) mentor to Philip Johnson (dean of American architects) and Phyllis Lambert (founder, Canadian Centre for Architecture) Othmar Ammann (American engineer and designer of the George Washington Bridge) mentor to his rival Gustav Lindenthal (engineer) William Eliot (former president of Harvard) mentor to William Lyon Mackenzie King (former Prime Minister of Canda) Mentor Depret is the full name of a geologist in Belgium Joshua Lederberg (Nobel laureate and genetics resercher) and Gerard Kuiper (astronomer) mentors to Carl Sagan (astrophysicist and writer) Mason Cooley (U.S aphorist) is quoted as saying: "Pedgogical romances leave the mentor disgruntled, the pupil confused." Dr. Helen Singer Kaplan mentor to Dr. Ruth Westheimer (psychologist, sex counselor) Charles Cobb (former director of CORE) mentor to Benjamin Chavis (former director of the NAACP) Thomas Francis (epidemiologist) and Dr. R. Keith Cannon (professor of chemistry) mentors to Jonas Salk (physician and discovered polio vaccine while becoming independent of his mentor) Paul Bartlett (Harvard chemistry professor) mentor to Bojas Jennings (chemist) Norman Zinberg (psychoanalyst) mentor to Andrew Weil (health physician) K.O. Emery (Princeton professor) mentor to Robert Ballard (explorer and discoverer of the Titanic) Robert Scott (Antarctic explorer) mentor to Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Antarctic explorer, memoirist, and author of The Worst Journey in the World) James Neel (geneticist) mentor to Napoleon Chagnon (anthropologist) Virtual Mentor is the name of the ethics journal of the American Medical Association Dr. Francis S. Collins (Director, Human Genome Project) was mentored by a Yale Professor Dr. Alton Ochsner mentor to Dr. Denton A. Cooley (surgeon) James Durham (former dean of Temple University) mentor to Robert K. Merton (sociologist, writer) Benjamin E. Mays (former president of Morehouse College) mentor to David Satcher (physician and Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Mentor Engineering is a company in Calgary, Alberta Dr. W. Norman Scott mentor to Dr. Robert S. Gotlin (NBC sports medicine consultant) Thomas Sowell (economist) mentor to Clarence Thomas (US Supreme Court justice) Klaus Kleinfeld (CEO, Siemens) mentored by Georg Brandl who told him, "Keenly visualize the future." John R. Commons (economist) mentor to Selig Perlman (economist) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (former US Supreme Court justice) mentor to Alger Hiss (lawyer, peace activist) Donald Kendall (former CEO of PepsiCo) mentor to John Scully (former CEO of Apple) Harland Sanders (the Colonel) mentor to Dave Thomas (founder of Wendy's) Visit the village of Mentor in northwest Minnesota to see the maple leaves turn colors John Rowe Workman (Brown University classics professor) mentor to Ted Turner Brian Roberts (CEO, Comcast) was mentored by his father, Ralph Roberts, who told him, "Let others take the credit." Bob Glavin (CEO, Motorola) was a mentor to Hector Ruiz (CEO of AMD) and told him, "Surround yourself with people of integrity, and get out of their way." Larry Ellison (CEO, Oracle) and Alan Hassenfeld (CEO, Hasbro) were mentors to Marc Benioff (founder and CEO of Salesforce.com). Alan told him, "Incorporate philanthropy into your corporate structure." Conrad Black (Canadian businessman) mentored by his father, George (businessman) The National Attention Deficit Disorder Association is located in Mentor, Ohio Mentor Township (population 1098) is in the state of Michigan Everett Blackwood (President, City Tire and Auto Centre, Ltd) mentor to Rodney England (Guardian Security and winner, Young Entrepreneur Award) Nicolle Morrison (Co-Owner, Century 21 Northumberland) mentor to (David M. Collins and Carnah Collins, Atlantis Health Spa and winners, Young Entrepreneur Award) Marc Lefrançois (President, Via Rail Canada) mentor to Jeffrey Campbell (Core Networks, Inc. and winner, Young Entrepreneur Award) Donald Whitty (President and CEO, Mosaic Technologies Corporation) mentor to Philip Colton (Canos Consultants and winner, Young Entrepreneur Award) Henri-Paul Rosseau (President, Laurentian Bank of Canada) mentor to isabel Rodriquez and Yves Besner (i4design and winners, Young Entrepreneur Award) Luc Filiatrault (President, BellZinc) mentor to Ryan Kalt (NuMedia Internet, Inc. and winner, Young Entrepreneur Award) Roselyn Nugent (President, Bayridge Lumber and Forest Products) mentor to Jonathan Strauss (Strauss Communications and winner, Young Entrepreneur Award) Ron Waldman (President, Great Western Brewing) mentor to Ben Voss (B.D.I./Clear -Green Biotechnologies and winner, Young Entrepreneur Award) J. Richard Frey (President, Atco Electric) mentor to Marcos Lopez and Douglas Robertson (Bitonic Solutions, Inc. and winner, Young Entrepreneur Award) André Ouellet (President, Canada Post) mentor to Mark Whalen (Urban Organics and winner, Young Entrepreneur Award) Mentor-on-the-Lake is a city in Northeast Ohio Ken Toner (President and CEO, Atuqtuarviq Corporation) mentor to Tracy Wallace (Natsiq Productions and winner, Young Entrepreneur Award) Fred Hunt (President and CEO, Nunasi Corporation) mentor to Hau Thanh Huynh (Arctic Jewellers and winner, Young Entrepreneur Award) Janet Wood (CMA, Abacus Accounting) mentor to Melanie Graham (Kutters Hairstyling and winner, Young Entrepreneur Award) Joe Choti (CTO, MLB.com) mentored by his father Bob Moffatt (Leader personal computer division of IBM) mentored up by Inhi Cho (IBM mid-level manager) Pat Connolly (Williams-Sonoma) mentor to Hilary Billings (creator of web catalogues for Pottery Barn, RedEnvelope, Starwood)

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