The head of independent book publisher Grove/Atlantic, Entrekin has spent over 25 years editing and publishing books, and partying with people who write them.

A phenom of the drugs-and-money-fueled 1980s art scene, Salle fell off the map in the 1990s, but has recently been staging a comeback.

As first deputy mayor, Harris is Mayor Bloomberg's second in command. She runs this city whenever Bloomberg skips town for a quickie vacation.

Publishing vet Ed Menicheschi is the vice president and publisher of Vanity Fair, the Condé Nast title edited by Graydon Carter.

An early advocate for AIDS research, Krim is the founding chairman of the American Foundation for AIDS Research.

If you're a billionaire interesting in having a college building named in your honor, you may want to give Melissa Berman a call. As the president of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Berman helps some of the world's richest people direct their money to worthy causes.

As the director of Swingers and Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Liman is responsible for unleashing both Vince Vaughn and Brangelina on the world.

McShane is the president of Fordham University. The affable college head (he cites ice cream as "proof for the existence of God") oversees more than 15,000 undergrads and graduate students across three area campuses.

Cohen is the co-founder and CEO of IvyWise, the admissions counseling service popular with some of the city's most affluent parents.

America's best-known literary critic, the prolific Harold Bloom, defends the Old School from his perch as Sterling Professor of the Humanities and English at Yale.

Brian Greene is a media-friendly Columbia physics professor known for popularizing the abstruse field of theoretical physics, particularly string theory. He has published four books, including 2 New York Times bestsellers.

If your SAT score sucked, you can blame Caperton. The former governor of West Virginia, was head of the College Board for over a decade until he retired in 2012.

If there's such a thing as an academic law prodigy, Schizer—the current dean of Columbia's Law School—is it.

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LeClerc was the former president of the New York Public Library, from the main Bryant Park branch to the dozens of smaller outposts scattered across the five boroughs.

A coiffeur to celebs and socialites, Knoll runs the Upper East Side salon that bears his name.

Raab is the publisher of Grand Central Publishing, the company formerly known as Warner Books. Authors on the Grand Central roster include Rosie O'Donnell, Stephen Colbert, and David Baldacci.

Formerly the head colorist at John Frieda—where she tended to the likes of Kate Hudson, Reese Witherspoon, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Renee Zellweger—Dorram-Krause is slated to be the colorist-in-chief at former Frieda colleague Sally Hershberger's soon-to-open salon on East 71st Street.

With his partner, colorist Joel Warren, Edward Tricomi presides over the Warren-Tricomi salons in New York, Connecticut, Florida and California. He's known for his rock star look and rather quirky cutting style.

New York's self-proclaimed "King of Color," Licari runs salons on both coasts, and like every other hair superstar, has a line of products, too.