A celebrity chef, restaurateur, and philanthropist, Samuelsson is the owner of four restaurants across the globe, including Red Rooster Harlem.

Cho is the foxy co-anchor of local WABC evening newscast Eyewitness News.

Judith Shapiro is the outgoing, former president of Barnard College.

Sol Adler is the executive director of the 92nd Street Y, the city's premier Jewish community and cultural center.

Elena Holy is a founder and current artistic director of The New York International Fringe Festival, the annual downtown theater institution.

The former Anna Wintour protégé and ex-editor of Harper's Bazaar, Betts now oversees style coverage for Time and The Daily Beast.

Shaiman is a composer and lyricist known for the musical Hairspray, his scoring of dozens Hollywood films, and his work with Bette Midler.

A longtime banker at Lazard and former U.S. Ambassador to France, Rohatyn can also claim to have helped save New York City from bankruptcy in the '70s. Now largely retired, he's a senior advisor to Lehman Brothers.

As the former president of ABC News, Westin oversaw all of the news that emanates from the house of Mickey Mouse from 1997 to 2010. These days, he's the president and CEO of NewsRight.

Chris Anderson

The Canadian import is the sardonic morning anchor of the cable news network NY1.

The head of Columbia University's Earth Institute, founder of the non-profit group Millennium Promise, and friend of Angelina and Bono, Sachs may very well be the only economist you've ever heard of.

The longtime head of boutique investment banking firm Lazard, David-Weill left the firm in 2005.

Ken Auletta is an award-winning journalist known for his artful New Yorker profiles of media and tech moguls. He is married to super-agent Amanda "Binky" Urban.

Dyed-in-the-wool liberal and one-time Giuliani nemesis Donna Lieberman heads up the New York Civil Liberties Union, the state affiliate of the ACLU.

Charles is the chef and owner of Pearl Oyster Bar, the venue famous for its legendary lobster roll. Charles's other claim to fame? Bringing the smackdown on her competitors.

Ivan Seidenberg is the former CEO and current Chairman of telecom giant Verizon.

The tall, blond Huniford is one-half of Sills Huniford Associates, one of the city's most prolific—and controversial—interior design firms.

The third wife of financier Henry Kravis, Marie-Josée is a Canadian-born economist, political activist and philanthropist.

A billionaire heir to the Estée Lauder cosmetics fortune, Ron Lauder has dabbled in business, politics, diplomacy, philanthropy and art over the past four decades.