PHILANTHROPY
Jonelle Procope
C.E.O. // Apollo Theater Foundation

DEVELOPMENT DIVA When Jonelle Procope took over as president and C.E.O. of the Apollo Theater Foundation in 2003, her first task was to find $96 million. Opened in 1934, the Harlem theater helped launch the careers of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Michael Jackson, and Stevie Wonder, but it went bankrupt in 1979 and suffered an accounting scandal in the late '90s. On Procope's first day, the building was covered by scaffolding, and passersby couldn't tell whether it was open. Since then, the former lawyer has raised more than $50 million, largely by mobilizing the black business community and tapping into Manhattan-based corporate donors like Citigroup, News Corp., and Bloomberg. (The mayor and his company both gave.) The marquee was one of the first features to be restored, followed by new seating that offers more legroom—a change that Procope knows is particularly appreciated by one patron, Time Warner chairman Dick Parsons, who also chairs the Apollo's board. "He's 6-foot-5," she says. —Jennifer Close

POLITICS
Bob Barnett
Partner // Williams & Connolly

MASTER NETWORKER Who listens to Bob Barnett? Everyone who matters in national politics. In the 2008 presidential campaign, the 61-year-old lawyer has worked with Hillary Clinton and has had five other clients in the race: John Edwards, Jim Gilmore, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, and Fred Thompson. Barnett has represented Tony Blair, Queen Noor of Jordan, and James Carville. Book publishers also know him as the attorney who has handled most of the biggest political memoirs of late—Alan Greenspan's The Age of Turbulence, Bill Clinton's My Life, and Karl Rove's as-yet-untitled book. And if he's not representing politicians, he's channeling them; Barnett has played Bush and Cheney during mock debates to help prep Democratic candidates. His secret to establishing such a wide network? "Many people believe the only way to succeed is by scorching the earth," he says. "I'm a big believer in growing the grass." —J.C.

TECHNOLOGY
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Co-founders // Google

CLOUD FORECASTERS During the PC age, everybody watched Bill Gates. In the new internet era, all eyes are on Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Just as their company revolutionized Web searches, it's now at the forefront of a new technology called cloud computing, in which programs reside not on your personal computer but on servers across the internet (a.k.a. the cloud). Same for your pictures, music, and other files. One example is Google Docs, a free alternative to Microsoft Word that people can use to access their documents—and even work on them offline.