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Bill Telepan

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:30PM

Bill Telepan is the chef and owner of the restaurant Telepan on the Upper West Side.

Jeffrey Bilhuber

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:30PM

The founder of Bilhuber & Associates, Bilhuber is one of the city's leading interior designers.

Sheldon Solow

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:30PM

The curmudgeonly, litigious Solow is one of the most prominent developers in New York City.

Michele Kleier

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:30PM

Kleier is head of the high-end real estate agency Gumley Haft Kleier, one of the most prominent boutique agencies in town.

Mary Ellen Mark

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:30PM

A contributing photographer for The New Yorker, Mark is known for her affecting portraits of the downtrodden and occasionally, of the rich and famous.

Robert Gober

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:30PM

A major American artist since the mid-'80s, Gober is best known for his surrealist sculptures of sinks and disembodied legs jutting out of walls.

Ghada Amer

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:30PM

Amer is an artist known for her sex and religion-themed embroidery.

Michael Graves

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:30PM

The design guru runs two companies: Michael Graves & Associates, an architecture/interior design outfit; and the Michael Graves Design Group, a product design firm. He's best known, though, for the incredibly popular line of housewares he's been designing for Target for almost a decade.

John McDonald

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:30PM

McDonald is the owner of a handful of restaurants and bars, including Lure Fishbar and Chinatown Brasserie. He's also the publisher of the style mag City.

Alan Greenberg

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:30PM

The former chairman and CEO of Bear Stearns, Greenberg handed over the reins to Jimmy Cayne in 2001, only to watch him run the firm into the ground. Teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, Bear Stearns was sold for a mere pittance to Jamie Dimon's JP Morgan Chase in 2008.

Robert D. Joffe

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:30PM

A partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, a renowned anti-trust expert, and the firm's presiding partner through 2006, Joffe died of pancreatic cancer in 2010.

Paul Roth

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:30PM

Roth is one of the founding partners of the law firm Schulte Roth & Zabel, and the go-to lawyer for hedge funders.

Edward D. Herlihy

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:30PM

The co-chairman of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Herlihy is one of the most prominent M&A lawyers in the U.S.

Stephen Dannhauser

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:30PM

Dannhauser is managing partner at mega-firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges. He's helmed the organization for nearly two decades.

Robert B. Fiske, Jr.

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:30PM

A senior partner at the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell, Fiske is a seasoned litigator with a long record of public service. He's most famous for heading up the Whitewater investigation before being replaced by Kenneth Starr.

Theodore Chapin

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:30PM

As president of the Rodgers and Hammerstein organization, Ted Chapin is a powerful player on the Great White Way.

Michael Gabellini

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:30PM

Gabellini is an architect/interior designer known for his work on expensive retail spaces.