Mr. Pottruck has received accolades and recognition from numerous organizations and publications. He has been named one of the \u201cTop 15 CEOs\u201d by\u00a0Worth<\/i>; \u201cCEO of the Year\u201d byInformation Week<\/i>; \u201cExecutive of the Year\u201d by the\u00a0San Francisco Business Times<\/i>; and \u201cCEO of the Year\u201d by\u00a0Morningstar<\/i>. Mr. Pottruck has been a frequent guest on CNBC and has been quoted, interviewed, and profiled by virtually every financial publication of note. He was named by\u00a0Smart Money<\/i>\u00a0as one of the three most influential executives in the world of investing, and\u00a0Institutional Investor<\/i>\u00a0named him the single most influential executive in online finance.<\/p>\n
Mr. Pottruck is the co-author with Terry Pearce of\u00a0CLICKS AND MORTAR: Passion Driven Growth in an Internet Driven World<\/i>. In 1999, he was appointed by Congress and then-President Clinton to serve as one of 19 commissioners on the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce. Mr. Pottruck has taught change leadership to hundreds of executives from around the world. He is a Senior Fellow and adjunct faculty member at the Wharton School\u2019s Center for Leadership and Change Management. In 2010 and again in 2012, he was Wharton San Francisco\u2019s highest rated faculty member and received the school\u2019s \u201cOutstanding Teaching Award\u201d for his class \u201cLeading Bold Transformational Change.\u201d Mr. Pottruck graduated with a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970, and earned his MBA with honors from Wharton in 1972.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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