Dennis Bakke

Dennis Bakke is president and CEO of Imagine Schools, the largest commercial manager of charter schools in the United States. In 1981 Bakke co-founded AES Corporation, a global energy supplier which earned $8 billion in revenues and employed up to 50,000 employees in a highly unusual, decentralized business model. Bakke was president and CEO of AES from 1994 to 2002. He is also the author of the 2005 bestseller Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach to Fun on the Job.