Past winners include: Howard W. Lutnick, chief executive of BGC Partners, who was credited with rebuilding BGC's predecessor Cantor Fitzgerald after two - thirds of its headquarters workers were killed in the 9/11
attacks on the World Trade
Center in 2010; Tom Adams, chief executive of
language - learning software Rosetta Stone, in 2009, and Matthew Szulik, chairman of Red Hat open - source software, in 2008.