John Rice Jr., President, Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), New York, N.Y.

Rice is the founder and president of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a nonprofit organization that works to increase minority participation in institutions that develop talent, such as first-tier business schools and Fortune 500 companies. He has also worked for the Walt Disney Co. and the National Basketball Association. Rice earned a bachelor’s degree from Yale University, where he founded a Young Men’s Leadership program at an urban New Haven high school, and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Andrea, and their two children.