A novelist and Virginia Woolf enthusiast, Michael Cunningham is an American writer, best known for his 1998 novel, The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award.

A high-flying media mogul—he was one of the founders of MTV and later served as the No. 3 at AOL Time Warner—he's currently the CEO of Clear Channel Communications.

The former press secretary to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Caputo is an Executive Vice President of Global Marketing and Corporate Affairs at Citigroup and leads the financial institution's efforts to reach out to women as president of the firm's (rather ridiculously) named Women & Company.

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Gabelli is chairman and CEO of Gabelli Asset Management. "Super Mario" is almost as well known to the general public as to the institutional investors who make up the lion's share of his backers, thanks to his frequent guest spots as a pundit on everything from CNBC to PBS.

Bandier is the CEO and chairman of the music publishing company Sony/ATV.

Peretsman is a managing director at Allen & Company and one of the most powerful women in finance. Put another way: She's Oprah's investment banker.

Perella is head of Perella Weinberg partners, a boutique M&A advisory firm.

The one-time protégé of former Citigroup chief Sandy Weill, Dimon is the chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase & Co.

Whitman, the eminence grise of value investors, is the founder of money management firm Third Avenue Management.

The CEO of bond trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald, Lutnick became a household name following Sept. 11th when his firm lost 657 employees in the attack on the World Trade Center.

An American advertising executive and restaurateur, Della Femina is also responsible for the book that inspired Mad Men. His book, From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor: Front-Line Dispatches from the Advertising War introduced the public to the debauched behavior of advertising execs which, four decades later, was brought back to life, courtesy of Don Draper.

The grandfather of sleazy tabloid journalism, Dunleavy worked for Rupert Murdoch for more than three decades. Most recently a columnist at the New York Post, the old-school Aussie muckraker retired in 2008.

Rubin served as co-chairman of Goldman Sachs and U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton. Most recently, he served as the chairman of Citigroup's executive committee and as senior counselor to Citi's board of directors.

With his wife Joanna, Rush is one-half of the tag team that puts together the gossip column Rush and Molloy in the Mort Zuckerman-owned Daily News.

The heir to a banking fortune and a prominent philanthropist, Ezra Zilkha is also the father of social fixture Bettina Zilkha.

Joanna Molloy produced the long-running Daily News gossip column "Rush and Molloy" alongside her third husband, George Rush.

The brash chairman of the advertising agency founded by his dad, Deutsch is an inescapable media presence and the former host of the late CNBC show, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch.

Kovner is the founder of Caxton Associates, a hedge fund with more than $16 billion under management. He's one of the world's most powerful—and secretive—hedge fund moguls.

Jim Simons is king of the "black box" hedge fund managers and the billionaire founder of the quantitative, technology-driven firm Renaissance Technologies.