Pat Hanrahan

Hanrahan is one of the biggest names in big data. The company he helped found, Tableau, which creates charts/graphs from large volumes of data and, just had a spectacular IPO. He s also a Canon professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford and an advisor to a other big data startups, like Skytree. And he helped Pixar studios create its award winning rendering tech, earning two Oscars along the way.