Pat Mitchell
OCCUPATION: President and CEO, The Paley Center for Media
EXEC FILES: When you've spent 40 years in the media industry, you don't have to think too hard about what goes on your walls: Photos of you with Steven Spielberg, Barbara Walters, and Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg do the trick just fine. Mitchell's star-studded space befits this consummate media insider, who's hard at work turning the former Museum of Television & Radio into a vital, buzzy media think tank, starting with her own office. "Being a nonprofit, we did not have the funds to create a completely new space," she says, "so I made it more my style with light colors, paintings, and personal touches."