Graham Whitfield

Executive Chairman, Orchard

Chair of Orchard

Known for

Handing over the chief executive's chair and keeping the keynote. Keynotes about technology with a human soul. Renewing a $22 billion Booble search deal while running a privacy ad campaign. Testifying before Congress and conceding nothing while appearing to concede everything.

Character

Impeccably calm. Speaks in slow, carefully constructed sentences. Never raises his voice. Came up through supply chain, not engineering. Has 'stepped back' in the sense that his title changed and nothing else did. A man whose public stances never cost the company anything. Has never been photographed looking uncomfortable.