Five San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl champs turned Silicon Valley business execs

Rich Pilling

Joe Montana
Position: Quarterback
Teams: San Francisco 49ers, Kansas City Chiefs
Years played: 1979-1994
Career highlights: A Hall of Fame quarterback with the San Francisco 49ers for 14 seasons, he started in four Super Bowl games and won all of them. He played in eight Pro Bowls and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000.
His career now: Montana is part of the investor group that plans to build a luxury hotel and restaurants on city-owned land next to the new Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara that is scheduled to become the 49ers home in 2014.
Residence: Atherton

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Linda Taaffe: Special Section/Focus Editor- Silicon Valley Business Journal; Email

It would be hard for San Francisco 49ers fans to forget Dwight Clark’s catch from quarterback Joe Montana in the final minute of the NFC Championship against the Dallas Cowboys in 1982, spring-boarding the team into Super Bowl XVI in 1982 and onto a decade-long dynasty.
It'd be equally as difficult for fans to forget the time that safety Ronnie Lott opted to amputate the tip of his crushed pinky finger rather than miss the following season recovering from bone graft surgery.
Lott, Montana and Clark are just a few of the football legends that led the 49ers to the Super Bowl multiple times in the 1980s. But where are those 49ers’ Super Bowl champs now?
Click on the slideshow to find out how these former NFL players are impacting Silicon Valley’s business world.
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