Bill Neukom is the CEO and managing general partner of the San Francisco Giants — and he’s widely praised as the owner who helped the team achieve its only World Series championship since the franchise moved from New York to California in 1958. Neukom has found a way to succeed seemingly everywhere. He served as the President of the American Bar Association from 2007-08, where he established a major international rule of law initiative. The majority of his legal career was spent as the General Counsel at Microsoft, where he famously helped the company navigate an extensive antitrust inquiry. In his early law firm years, Bill was the Chairman of the Preston, Gates & Ellis law firm in Seattle, which is now part of K&L Gates.
