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Paul Allen

2008-12-18T20:04:00.000-08:00

Paul Gardner Allen was born in Seattle, Washington, to parents Kenneth S. Allen, an associate director of the University of Washington libraries, and Faye G. Allen, in January 21, 1953. Allen attended Lakeside School, a private school in Seattle, and befriended Bill Gates, who was two years his junior but shared a common enthusiasm for computers. They used Lakeside's teletype terminal to develop their programming skills on several time-sharing computer systems. After graduation Allen attended Washington State University and was an active member in Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity. He dropped out after two years in order to work as a programmer for Honeywell in Boston, which placed him near his old friend again. Allen later convinced Gates to drop out of Harvard University in order to create Microsoft. It is also worth noting that during Paul Allen's childhood he received a perfect 1600 on his SATs.

Paul Allen

Michael Dell

2008-12-14T15:53:00.000-08:00

The son of an orthodontist and a stockbroker, Dell attended Herod Elementary School in Houston, Texas.

Dell had his first encounter with a computer at the age of 15 when he broke down a brand new Apple II computer and rebuilt it, just to see if he could. Dell attended Memorial High School in Houston where he did not excel academically. During that time he did however exhibit formidable business instincts selling subscriptions for the Houston Post. Dell found $18,000 in an untapped customer base in newlyweds; those "windfall profits" earned him a BMW and a computer.

While at the University of Texas at Austin, he started a computer company called PC's Limited in his room in Dobie Center. The company became successful enough that, with the help of an additional loan from his grandparents, Dell dropped out of the university at the age of 19 to run PC's Limited, which later became Dell Computer Corporation, then ultimately Dell, Inc.

Over time, and despite a number of setbacks (including laptops that caught on fire in 1993, temporarily losing the consumer market to Gateway in the mid 1990s, and others), Dell survived the race to become the most profitable PC manufacturer in the world, with sales of $49 billion and profits of $3 billion in 2004. As Dell expanded its product line to more than computers, shareholders voted to rename the corporation Dell, Inc. in 2003.

On March 4, 2004, he stepped down as CEO of Dell but stayed as chairman of the board, while Kevin B. Rollins, then president and COO, became president and CEO. On January 31, 2007, Dell returned as CEO, succeeding Kevin Rollins (who resigned earlier in the day).

Accolades for Dell include: "Entrepreneur of the Year" from Inc. magazine; "Man of the Year" from PC Magazine; "Top CEO in American Business" from Worth Magazine; "CEO of the Year" from Financial World and Industry Week magazines. At a speech before the Detroit Economic Club in November, 1999, Dell defined the "3 C's" of e-commerce (content, commerce, and community) while articulating his strategy for offering a superior customer experience online.
He appeared in the film, The Sno Cone Stand Inc., during the Summer of 2008.

Michael Dell

François Pinault

2008-12-04T15:37:00.000-08:00

What a great collention he had that those painting made him one of the most powerful people in modern art.

François Pinault (born 21 August 1936) is a billionaire French businessman who runs the retail company PPR. He is a friend of former French President Jacques Chirac. According to Forbes List of billionaires (2008) he is ranked 39th in the world, with an estimated fortune of US$16.9 billion.

His holding company Artemis S.A., owns (or owned), among others, Converse sneakers, Samsonite luggage, the Vail Ski Resort in Colorado, and Christie's auction house. Artemis also owns Executive Life (now Aurora Life) in California, which was sued by policy holders when the company failed.

Pinault owns one of the biggest collections of contemporary art worldwide. On the magazine ArtReview's 2006 list of most powerful people in modern art, he was ranked at the first place. In 2006 he obtained the ownership of Palazzo Grassi in Venice to display the collection.

François Pinault

David H. Koch

2008-10-21T17:18:00.000-07:00

Having an inherited wealth after his father's death was a great challenge for Mr. Koch. How will he continue her father's Jobs work? How will he manage the employment company left by his father?

Son of Koch Industries founder Fred Koch. With brother Charles, inherited holdings after father's death, today brothers run $35 billion (sales) business: oil services, pipelines, refineries, asphalt, chemicals, ranches. Last year buried the hatchet with litigious brother Bill (see), who claimed he was shortchanged in his inheritance. Koch Industries' $1 billion deal with Entergy filling energy-trading void left by Enron.

Mr. Koch, recently called the wealthiest resident of New York City, has agreed to contribute $100 million toward the renovation of the New York State Theater, which is home to the two companies. His gift will be the largest private capital donation in Lincoln Center’s history and a triumph in a period of growing economic uncertainty.

David H. Koch

Charles G. Koch

2008-10-19T15:41:00.000-07:00

Having a charitable heart make sense in his employment life. He is eager to make change in this world. He gave employment opportunities in 80,000 workers in 60 countries.

In his student days at MIT, Charles G. Koch rigorously studied the laws of science and principles of engineering. Throughout his adult life, he has applied the same mental discipline to methodically investigating the preconditions for prosperity. It has led him to an intensive, lifelong study of free societies.

Koch's studies have made him a passionate believer in free societies. True to his scientific bent----he holds a bachelor's and two master's degrees from MIT-Koch has systematized his beliefs into what he refers to as the "Science of Liberty." Its central premise: that free societies are the greatest generators of prosperity, and not just of economic prosperity, but of social, political, and cultural well-being, too.

Starting from that foundation, Koch has integrated theory and practice through continuous experimentation, and produced a powerful and effective management methodology, Market-Based Management (MBM). MBM aims to take what drives superior results in free societies and apply it to other realms, be they businesses or nonprofits, large or small. In the for-profit setting, MBM enables managers to create growth by applying the rules of market economics to their businesses.

Charles G. Koch

Suleyman Kerimov

2008-10-14T22:16:00.000-07:00

Being wise, as an economist gave him a big break in economy... His first employment as an economist help him a lot in building his own employment company.

Born in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan near Chechnya and the Caspian Sea. Worked as an economist at the Eltav factory in Dagestan and at other electronics companies. In early 1990s moved to Moscow and began buying up companies on the cheap and selling them for a profit. These include: Vnukovo Airlines (one of the biggest air carriers in Russia), Murmansk Airport, Avtobank, Nosta metal plant and Ingosstrakh insurance company, as well as a huge stake of preferred shares in Transneft, the oil-transportation monopoly. Since 2004 Kerimov has been buying shares in state-run Gazprom (the world's largest natural gas producer) and Sberbank (the biggest retail bank in the country), which now form the core of his wealth.

Suleyman Kerimov

Stefan Persson

2008-10-07T21:37:00.000-07:00

Continuing what his father founded was a great employment challenge for him.

Has run Swedish retailer Hennes & Mauritz, founded by his father, for 25 years. The hip clothing chain now has 1,300 stores in 24 countries. It plans to open its first stores in Hong Kong and Shanghai in 2007. Member of the board of the Mentor Foundation, which fights youth substance abuse and whose trustees include the Queen of Sweden and Queen Noor of Jordan. Enjoys downhill skiing, tennis and golf.

Stefan Persson

Michael Otto

2008-10-06T16:08:00.000-07:00

Dedicating most of his life in medical jobs are not so easy. Otto inspires lots of people on his status in life. His Jobs work was a great pattern for our newly a graduates now a days...

Michael Otto (born April 12, 1943, in Chełmno (Kulm) in the Nazi occupied Poland), is the head of Otto Group, the world's largest mail order company, with $24 billion in sales in fiscal year 2003. Thanks to a 30% rise in Internet sales last year, Otto also maintains its position as the Web's second-biggest retailer, behind Amazon.com.

Currently a Master's level Therapist working on licensure hours and gaining experience at this level in the mental health field. Practicing primarily from the Adlerian and Existential theoretical approaches - focusing on family and social influences, responsibility, authenticity, and meaningfulness; also occasionally using a Solution-Focused Brief Therapy approach.

Spent 5 years working with at-risk adolescents in the child welfare system in a County Funded Transitional Living program in the Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton Area. Assisted these youth who were "aging out of care" to learn the necessary life-skills in order to live successfully and independently while still working towards educational and employment goals.

1 year of Master's Level Therapy Internship at Muhlenberg College's Counseling Services Center. Worked with young adults in the areas of depression, anxiety, relationship issues, transitional adjustment, consultation and coaching for students with concerns about peers, and some trauma work. Otto just started as Resident Advisor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Future goals include the pursuit of a Doctoral Degree (Psy. D) with potential research in the culture of Heavy Metal music and the diversity of it's musicians and fans; also looking to explore the roots and meaning in this form of music.

Michael Otto

Larry Page

2008-10-05T19:39:00.000-07:00

Google was just started by their project called "The Anatomy of Search Engine" then, boom! It boosted out! That was a great discovery project. They are making their one job opportunity at that time. The effectiveness of their jobs work is a great achievement.

Larry Page is the son of the late Dr. Carl Victor Page, a professor of computer science and artificial intelligence at Michigan State University and one of the University of Michigan's first computer science Ph.D graduates, and Gloria Page, a computer programming teacher at Michigan State University. Despite his mother being Jewish, Page was raised similarly to his father: without a religion. He is also the brother of Carl Victor Page, Jr., a co-founder of eGroups, later sold to Yahoo! for approximately half a billion dollars.

Page attended a Montessori school in Lansing, Michigan, and graduated from East Lansing High School. Page holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan with honors and a Masters degree in Computer Science from Stanford University. While at the University of Michigan, "Page created an inkjet printer, made of Lego bricks", was a member of the solar car team and served as the president of the HKN.

The Beginnings of Google

Page and Brin began work on a project called "The Anatomy of a Large-scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" or simply, The Anatomy of a Search Engine. Their challenge was to crawl the web efficiently and provide more relevant results than the search engines that were available at that time. The dramatic growth of the web presented problems in crawling the web, keeping the crawled information up to date, storing the indices efficiently, and handling many queries quickly. The Google project relied on the PageRank technology that the pair developed.

Google PageRank

PageRank provided the basis for Brin and Page's Ph.D project and continues to be the major factor in Google's search algorithm today. Google PageRank™ ranks the quality of each web page using a complex calculation of link structure. The Google website describes PageRank in the following words;
"Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages 'important.' "

Larry Page

Sergey Brin

2008-10-02T16:28:00.000-07:00

Wow! Discovering Google was a great accomplishment! Just started his employment at Washington D.C. Google is a great achievement not only for him but also to all us users of this World Top Search Engine! He even don't need to look for a free resume posting site nor to look for a jobs work cause he now, one of the youngest billionaire and employer.

Sergey Mikhailovich Brin is a Soviet Union-born American entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Larry Page. Brin currently holds the position of President of Technology at Google and has a net worth estimated at $18.5 billion as of March 9, 2007, making him the 26th richest person in the world and the 5th richest person in the United States, together with Larry Page.[4] He is also the fourth-youngest billionaire in the world.

Sergey Mikhailovich Brin was born to a Jewish family, the son of Mikhail Brin and Evgenia Brin (née Krasnokutskaya), both mathematicians who graduated from the Moscow State University. In 1979, when Brin was six, his family emigrated to the United States. Brin attended grade school at Paint Branch Montessori School in Adelphi, Maryland, but he received further education at home; his father, a professor in the department of mathematics at the University of Maryland, nurtured his interest in mathematics and his family helped him retain his Russian-language skills. In September 1990, after having attended Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Brin enrolled in the University of Maryland, College Park to study computer science and mathematics, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in May 1993 with honors.

Brin began his graduate study in Computer Science at Stanford University on a graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation. He earned his master's degree in August 1995 ahead of schedule in the process of his Ph.D. studies. He is on leave from his Ph.D. studies at Stanford.
Brin has also received an honorary MBA from the IE Business School.

His first jobs were at Advanced Management Systems in Washington, D.C., and then at a company called CogniTek in Evanston, Illinois.

Brin expressed interest in the Internet very early on in his studies at Stanford. He authored and co-authored various papers on data-mining and pattern extraction. He also wrote software to ease the process of putting scientific papers often written in TeX, a text-processing language, into HTML form, as well as a website for film ratings.

The defining moment for Brin, however, was when he met future co-president of Google, Larry Page. According to Google lore, Page and Brin "were not terribly fond of each other when they first met as Stanford University graduate students in computer science in 1995." Nevertheless, they soon found a common interest: retrieving relevant information from large data sets. Together, the pair authored what is widely considered their seminal contribution, a paper entitled "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine."

Sergey Brin

David Thomson

2008-10-01T15:54:00.000-07:00

Becoming one of the family members of the Thomson family is a great privilege. Controlling one of the top in the world. You don't even need to look for your nor to else where. But in the other side, it's a great challenge for David Thomson.

David Kenneth Roy Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet (born 12 June 1957) is a Canadian businessman. He is the son of the late Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet and his siblings are actress Taylor Thomson and Peter Thomson. David Thomson was the chairman of Thomson Corporation since 2002 and after acquisition of Reuters, he is now chairman of merged entity, Thomson Reuters. He currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Thomson has worked a number of positions in companies controlled by his family. He was manager of The Bay store at Cloverdale Mall in Etobicoke, and President of Zellers. He founded a real estate firm Osmington Incorporated, owned and operated outside of the Thomson empire.

According to a plan devised decades ago by Thomson Corporation founder Roy Thomson, when Kenneth Thomson died (June 2006), control of the family fortune passed on to David.

"David, my grandson, will have to take his part in the running of the Organisation and David's son, too," Roy wrote in his 1975 autobiography. "With the fortune that we will leave to them go also responsibilities. These Thomson boys that come after Ken are not going to be able, even if they want to, to shrug off these responsibilities.

David Thomson

Alice Walton

2008-09-28T17:00:00.000-07:00

Choosing what you really want rather than a great job opportunity from her family was a great decision. She rather choose to enjoy her hobby first rather than those employment opportunities at her table, knowing that she will not go on Job seeking process like what a common job seekers do.

Alice Walton graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio, and lives in Mineral Wells, Texas on The Rocking W Ranch.

Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton's only daughter, Alice chose not to get involved in the operations of the family business. For a time, she was a broker for E.F. Hutton. Her hobby is horses. She is the second richest woman in the United States after sister-in-law Christy Walton, and the third richest woman in the world.

Walton was the twentieth largest individual contributor to 527 committees in the U.S. presidential election, 2004, donating US$2.6 million to the conservative Progress for America group. During the 2004 election cycle, Progress for America ran advertisements supporting the Iraq occupation and praising George W. Bush for preventing "another 9/11". The ads were criticized for their inaccuracy.

Alice Walton has had a life-long passion for horses. She is a prominent breeder and trainer of cutting horses, and has competed for many years in cutting horse competitions. Cutting horses and their riders are skilled at herding technique and the subtle art of "cutting" cattle from the herd.

Alice Walton

Lee Shau Kee

2008-09-24T20:55:00.000-07:00

Made his fortune in property as founder of Henderson Land - an employment company.Adding to wealth through investments in such recent initial offerings as Nine Dragons, the paper manufacturer founded by fellow billionaire Yan Cheung. A great example, seeing his jobs work.

Born in Guangdong, Dr Lee Shau Kee settled in Hong Kong in his early years and has since been actively engaged in property development and other commercial businesses for over 40 years. Dr Lee is the founder of Henderson Land Development Company Limited and has been the Chairman and Managing Director of the Company since 1976. Dr Lee is also the Chairman and Managing Director of Henderson Investment Limited, Chairman of Henderson Cyber Limited, Executive Director of Henderson China Holdings Limited, Chairman of The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited, Miramar Hotel and Investment Company Limited, and Vice-Chairman of Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited. Dr Lee also holds directorship of various companies, including Hong Kong Ferry (Holdings) Company Limited and The Bank of East Asia Limited.

Dr Lee has made tremendous contributions towards the promotion of Hong Kong's economic prosperity. His enthusiastic support has also been instrumental to many major educational and cultural development projects both in Hong Kong and overseas. Dr Lee is the Chairman of Pei Hua Education Foundation Company Limited, and the Honorary Councilor of Rehabilitation International.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong benefited immensely from the support and encouragement given by Dr Lee over the years. Since 1977, Dr Lee has been a Member of the then Advisory Board of the Three-year MBA Programme (later reconstituted as the Advisory Board of the MBA Programmes), and a Member on the Board of Trustees of the United College since 1988. In 1993, Dr Lee was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Social Science by the Chinese University. Dr Lee has given to the Chinese University magnanimous donations in support of various human resources development and scholarly pursuits. In 1991, Dr Lee made a most generous donation to support the CUHK-Yale South China Studies Programme, which provided fellowships for doctoral students and funds for engaging experienced researchers and lectureships, built up library collections and research resources, and financed research projects and academic conferences. The research programme has enabled successful collaboration between Yale University and the Chinese University, enhanced the understanding of South China by practitioners in various professions and the commercial sector, thereby contributing towards the continued development of Hong Kong and South China.

Lee Shau Kee

S. Robson Walton

2008-09-23T16:52:00.001-07:00

His Father starts all of what he has now... starting his first job opportunity as a retailer, boost their business and giving people lot of employment opportunities in retail careers.

Samuel Robson (Rob) Walton (born 1945, in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is the eldest son of Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer. He is currently chairman of the world-wide company. According to Forbes, his net worth is $16.7 billion as of 2007.

Walton graduated from Columbia Law School in 1969 and became a member of the law firm that represented Wal-Mart until his father's death. Rob Walton was named chairman of the Board of Directors of Wal-Mart on April 7, 1992, two days after his father's death, and still maintains that title. The name Robson comes from his mother's side of the family, the Robsons.

He is the child of Sam Walton (d. 1992), who began retail career 1940 making $75 a month as a clerk for J.C. Penney. Opened Ben Franklin 5-and-dime store in Newport, Ark. 5 years later; lost lease 1950. With brother James L., opened new chain of general stores in Bentonville, Ark. 1962. Took Wal-Mart public 1970, now world's largest retailer, with 6,500 stores in 15 countries; 1.8 million employees serve 176 million customers a week. Sales: $315 billion. Company claims to save average American household $2,300 a year. But stock down 10% since beginning of 2005; Wall Street unimpressed by earnings. Family controls 40% of Wal-Mart. Rob: Columbia Law, company's first lawyer; now serves as chairman. Mother, Helen, No. 11 on our list.

S. Robson Walton

Jim Walton

2008-09-22T19:26:00.000-07:00

Starting gaining experiences from your past job opportunity and employment company is a great tactic to improve your self. Continuous learning in life really matters in our personal development.

Jim Carr Walton (born 1948 in Newport, Arkansas) is the youngest son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and the Chairman of Arvest Bank.

With an estimated current net worth of around $23.3 billion, Walton is ranked by Forbes as the 4th-richest person in America. He is married to Lynne McNabb Walton and has four children, including Alice Anne Walton and Thomas Layton Walton. The family resides in Bentonville, Arkansas.

His first job was Developer / Analyst in May 1995 — February 1998 (2 years 10 months). He was employed in a Public Company in Financial Services industry.

Over 12 years of I.T. experience has given me a wide range of experiences ranging from analysis, code writing, debugging, report writing, writing SQL queries and other DBA functions, such as managing DTS packages and jobs in SQL Server. A bachelor's degree in business administration, plus 5 years in the banking industry right out of college, helps me to effectively relate to the needs of the business community and translate that to development practices.

Being a leader, I tend to excel when able to take the lead on projects and cast vision for where we are going. I am also skilled at pulling together the developers and business people to help everyone.

Jim Walton
more... at Wikipedia

Christy Walton

2008-09-21T20:43:00.000-07:00

No need for free resume posting site. Just to have an employment opportunities cause everything is inherited to her after the death of his husband. She just Started earning 75$ a month.

Christy Ruth Walton is the wife of late John T. Walton. After his death in June 2005, she inherited his fortune of $15.7 billion. As of March 2007, she is the 24th richest person in the Forbes World's Billionaires, and lately the richest woman in the United States at rank #12 with a net worth of $16.3 billion dollars published by Forbes 400 Richest Americans in September, 2007.

She currently resides in Jackson, Wyoming. She has one son, Luke.

Daughter-in-law of Sam Walton (d. 1992), who began retail career 1940 making $75 a month as a clerk for J.C. Penney. Opened Ben Franklin 5-and-dime store in Newport, Ark. 5 years later; lost lease 1950. With brother James L., opened new chain of general stores in Bentonville, Ark. 1962. Took Wal-Mart public 1970, now world's largest retailer, with 6,500 stores in 15 countries; 1.8 million employees serve 176 million customers a week. Sales: $315 billion. Company claims to save average American household $2,300 a year. But stock down 10% since beginning of 2005; Wall Street unimpressed by earnings. Family controls 40% of Wal-Mart. Christy: widow of John Walton, who died when his ultralight aircraft crashed last summer.

Christy Walton
Her life at Wikipedia

Vladimir Potanin

2008-09-18T18:47:00.000-07:00

Studying in an elite school became his stepping stone in making his own job opportunity.

Vladimir Potanin, 42, was born in 1961 into a high-ranking Communist family. He attended the Moscow Institute for International Relations, an elite school that groomed students for the KGB and offices of the Kremlin. He then went to work for the Soviet Department of Trade, where his father had also worked. In 1991, he created Interros, a foreign trade association that traded nonferrous metals, including aluminum, copper and lead. With the capital he accumulated from Interros, he started two banks, the Oneximbank and the MFK, to which many state enterprises transferred their accounts. Later, Potanin became one of the principal authors of the Loans for Shares program, in which the Russian government traded ownership in state industries for loans.

The controversial program was administered through auctions, but only select bidders were invited to attend, usually at the discretion of President Boris Yeltsin's daughter. Potanin was among the invited bidders. During Russia's transition to a market economy, he acquired control of more than 20 formerly state-owned enterprises. Potanin's business empire was considerably dented by Russia's 1998 economic crisis, but he managed to set up numerous companies to shelter his personal assets. He also diverted considerable sums to his accounts outside of Russia and threw a party at the height of the crash for more than 100 of his closest friends in a nightclub at the French ski resort Courchevel.

Vladimir Potanin attended the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), an elite school that groomed students for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Upon graduating MGIMO, he followed in his father's footsteps and went to work for the Soviet Department of Trade.

Married with three children, he is fluent in English and French.

His hobbies include: traveling, football, alpine skiing, various water sports and chess

Vladimir Potanin
His Life Story@Wikipedia

Mikhail Prokhorov

2008-09-17T19:21:00.001-07:00

Maintaining your good employment record plus your good looks is a great combination in business. More girls plus more employment opportunities.

Mikhail Prokhorov (born May 3, 1965) is a Russian self-made billionaire and oligarch. He made his name in the financial sector and went on to become one of Russia's leading industrialists in the precious metals sector. He is the former chairman of Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest producer of nickel and palladium, and the current chairman of Polyus Gold, Russia's largest gold producer.

In May 2007, Prokohorov launched a $17 billion private investment fund, Onexim Group, focused on the development of nanotechnology, including hydrogen fuel cells, as well as other high-technology projects and non-ferrous and precious metals mining. One of the key areas of development is the production of materials with ultra–tiny structures used in energy generation and medicine.
In June 2007, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov announced the formation of the Government Council for Nanotechnology, to oversee the development of nanotechnology in the country. Prokhorov was one of 15 individuals appointed to the council, which will be chaired by Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov.
Mikhail Prokhorov's net worth is currently estimated at $19.5 billion, making him the 24th richest man in the world according to Forbes magazine's list of the World's Richest People in 2008.

Mikhail Prokhorov was born on May 3, 1965, one of two children in his family. His father was a member of the Soviet sports committee and his mother was a scientist. His parents sent him to a language medium school in Moscow and then to the Moscow Financial Institute. In 1989, he graduated with a first class degree from the International Economic Relations Department of Moscow State Financial Institute. He also has an older sister named Irina.

From 1989 to 1992 he was head of the International Bank for Economic Cooperation’s Management Board. In 1993, during the largely unregulated privatization of former state-controlled industries after the fall of Communism, Prokhorov (together with Vladimir Potanin) engineered the acquisition of Norilsk Nickel by the Onexim Bank, of which he was then chairman of the board.

Mikhail Prokhorov

Kwok Brothers

2008-09-16T18:01:00.001-07:00

Starting as brothers at the family can be in employment company, as what the Kwok brothers did. They give lots of employment opportunities in their country.

Raymond Kwok Ping Luen (at the left)(born in 1952 in Hong Kong with family roots in Zhongshan, Guangdong, China) is the vice-chairman and managing director of Sun Hung Kai Properties, the largest property developer in Hong Kong. He is the chairman of SUNeVision Holdings Ltd. and SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Limited. He is the youngest son of Kwok Tak Seng, the founder of SHK Properties and the younger brother of Walter Kwok, the chairman of SHK Properties, and Thomas Kwok, another vice-chairman of SHK Properties.

He holds a Master of Arts degree in Law from Jesus College, Cambridge, a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard University, an Honorary Doctorate degree in Business Administration from the Open University of Hong Kong and an Honorary Doctorate degree in Laws from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Dr Raymond Kwok Ping Luen is a noted entrepreneur and leader in Hong Kong's property sector. For many years the Kwok family has taken a leading role in the territory's property development business. In the 1980s the family diversified its business portfolio into transport, infrastructure and logistics, telecommunications and information technology. Dr Kwok, through his vision and knowledge, has since applied advanced technologies to the field of business and management with remarkable success, thus contributing to Hong Kong's development into an international business and IT hub.

Walter Kwok Ping-sheung, (at the center) is born in Hong Kong with family roots in Zhongshan, Guangdong), is the eldest son of Kwok Tak Seng (郭得勝). Together with brothers Thomas and Raymond, they inherited Sun Hung Kai Properties, Hong Kong's largest real estate developer, in 1990 following their father's death.

Walter is the chairman and CEO of that organization, and the brothers share control of the firm. The Kwok brothers are the third wealthiest people in Hong Kong and Greater China Region, just after Li Ka Shing and Lee Shau Kee. Their wealth is estimated to be 15 billion US dollars in Forbes' latest annual list of billionaires.

Kwok fell in love with an ambitious lawyer Ida Tong Kam-hing (唐錦馨), but Kwok's father did not allow Walter to marry her.

His parents introduced him to Lydia Ku, whom he married, but the marriage broke up six months afterwards. Later, he married his present wife, Wendy Lee.

1997 Abduction

In 1997, Walter Kwok was allegedly kidnapped by the notorious gangster "Big Spender" Cheung Chi Keung, and was released seven days later without police intervention. Negotiations fronted by wife Wendy resulted payment of a ransom rumoured to have been in nine figures. Following his arrest in Guangzhou in 1998, Cheung confessed that he had put Kwok in a wooden container blindfolded for four days, and fed him regular meals of roast pork with rice, until the ransom of some HK$600 million was paid. The ransom in 1,000 dollar notes was packed inside 20 large carrier bags and driven in two Mercedes saloon cars to a quiet lane in Central district. After the kidnap, the badly shaken Walter handed over the executive duties of SHKP to his younger brothers while retaining the title of Chairman and Chief Executive.

The younger Kwoks controlled day to day operations of the group, although Walter has been increasingly rehabilitated into the business in recent months. During this time, a former girlfriend, Ida Tong, is said to have become increasingly influential. This influence has led to business decisions by Kwok which departed from its previous conservative model, and without the consensus of his brothers.

Thomas Kwok Ping Kwong SBS, JP (at the right) (born in Hong Kong in 1951 with family roots in Zhongshan, Guangdong, China) is the vice-chairman and managing director of Sun Hung Kai Properties, the largest property developer in Hong Kong. He is the second son of Kwok Tak Seng, the founder of SHK Properties and the younger brother of Walter Kwok, the chairman of SHK Properties.

He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from London Business School, University of London and a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Imperial College, University of London.

Raymond Kwok | Thomas Kwok | Walter Kwok

Amancio Ortega Gaona

2008-09-15T16:56:00.000-07:00

Incidentally went to Spain not knowing that it is his Job Bank place. Starting in just a simple employment.

Amancio Ortega Gaona (born March 28, 1936, Spain) is a Galician fashion entrepreneur. Ranked by Forbes as Spain's richest man and the 8th richest man in the World in 2007. He is the founder, with his then-wife Rosalía Mera, and chairman of the Inditex Group. He currently lives with his second wife in a discreet apartment building in the centre of La Coruña (Corunna).

Ortega arrived at La Coruña, Spain, at the age of 14, due to the job of his father, railway worker. Starting as a gofer in various shirt stores in La Coruña, Galicia, in 1963 he founded Confecciones Goa (his initials in reverse), which made bathrobes. In 1975 he opened the first store in what would grow into the enormously popular chain of fashion stores called Zara. He owns 59.29% of the Inditex group (Industrias de Diseño Textil Sociedad Anónima) which includes the brands Zara, Massimo Dutti, Oysho, Zara Home, Kiddy's Class, Tempe, Stradivarius, Pull and Bear/Often and Bershka and has more than 14,000 employees.

Ortega keeps a very low profile and there are practically no photographs of him (except from one photo published at the Inditex website). He refuses to wear a tie, and likes to dress in blue jeans. He is said to take a very active part in the production and design process in the company.

When he made a public appearance in 2000 - as part of the warm-up prior to floating his company on the stock market in 2001 - it made headlines in the Spanish financial press. However, he has never given an interview, and his secrecy has led to the publication of books such as Amancio Ortega: DE CERO A ZARA (From Zero to Zara) (ISBN 84-9734-167-8).

Amancio Ortega Gaona

Vladimir Lisin

2008-09-14T17:38:00.000-07:00

Lots of employment opportunities came along him. And he became an employee of many employment company before he gets whats his position now.

Vladimir Lisin has been a member of the Board Directors of Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) since 1996 and its chairman since 1998.

His first job was as a mechanic in a coal mine. After graduating from a college in Siberia got a job as a steelworker. In 1991, when his boss was appointed minister of metallurgy, Lisin came with him to Moscow. The next year joined up with a tough group of traders called Trans-World Group, which came to dominate Russia's aluminum and steel exports. Since 1993, he has served as a Board member of several leading Russian metal producers, including NLMK, MMK and Sayansk and Novokuznetsk Aluminium Plants. He previously worked as Deputy Chief Engineer and as Deputy General Director of the Karaganda Steel Plant, one of Kazakhstan’s four largest steel plants. A graduate of the Siberian Metallurgic Institute, he started his career at the Tulachermet Metals Works as a foreman, rising through the ranks to become section manager and shop manager. His postgraduate studies include an MSc in 1989, a PhD in engineering and DSc in economics. He holds various patents for metallurgical processes and has published numerous articles on metallurgy and economics.

He is a professor of the Academy of National Economy and the holder of the Council of Ministers’ prize in the science and engineering (1989), the Honorary Metallurgist of Russia (1999), the Knight of the Order of Honour of the Russian Federation (2000) and the Knight of the Order of St. Sergiy Radonezhsky (2001).

Dr. Lisin was born on May 7, 1956 in Ivanovo. He is married, with three children.

Vladimir Lisin

Mikhail Fridman

2008-09-11T18:12:00.000-07:00

making your own employment company is great motivation to us all... Just started with his college friends.

Mikhail Maratovich Fridman Russian: Михаи́л Мара́тович Фри́дман; born 21 April 1964) or Mikhail Friedman is a Russian businessman. He is one of the youngest of Russian oligarchs (Roman Abramovich is younger). In 2008, Forbes assessed his wealth as $20.8 billion, placing him 20th richest in the world.

Along with Peter Aven, Fridman founded the Alfa Group Consortium, a holding company which today controls Alfa Bank (opened in 1991), Alfa Capital, Tyumen Oil and several construction material firms (cement, timber, glass) as well as food processing businesses and a supermarket chain. The two are also major holders of tea and sugar plant processors.

Fridman in 2003 sold half of his Alfa group's oil subsidiary Tyumen Oil to BP for $6.15 billion, so far the biggest foreign investment ever in a Russian company.

In 2005, he succeeded Sergei Karaganov as Russian representative on the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Since 2005 he has been a member of the Public Chamber of Russia.
Alfa Group and its telecoms subsidiary Altimo have been the subject of various actions taken by other telecoms operators, concerning disputed stakes in a range of companies.

Fridman spent his childhood in Ukrainian city of Lvov and studied at the Moscow Institute of Steel & Alloys in 1980s. He founded Alfa Group in 1990s with college friends (and now fellow billionaires) German Khan and Alexei Kuzmichev; it's now a diverse conglomerate with oil, retail, telecom and banking interests. Strong Kremlin connections include a former subordinate who now serves as a political adviser to Putin. In 2003 he merged his oil company, TNK, with British oil giant BP, an achievement, considering that six years prior the two parties were fighting, with protesting his methods for taking over a partly BP-owned oilfield. Now focusing on telecom; his Altimo group has telecom holdings in Ukraine, Turkey, Russia and Uzbekistan. In 2007 Fridman was declared unofficial winner of a protracted and multimillion-dollar legal battle over a stake in Russia's third-largest mobile carrier, Megafon.

Mikhail Fridman

Al-Waleed bin Talal

2008-09-10T16:12:00.000-07:00

having lots of millionaire friends keeps us to motivate our selves to stand out in our Job Bank.

Al-Walid was born to Prince Talal, son of the founding King of Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz Al Saud, and Princess Mona El-Solh, daughter of Riad El-Solh, the first Prime Minister of modern day Lebanon and a leader of Lebanese independence. He is also a cousin of Prince Moulay Hicham of Morocco, whose mother is Mona's sister. He is also a good friend of the Egyptian millionaire Mohamed Yehia Fadli
Al-Walid completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration at Menlo College in 1979 and a Masters in Social Science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University, in 1985. He was also awarded an honorary PhD from the University of Exeter. He has been divorced three times. As of 2006, he is married to Princess Ameera and has two children: Prince Khaled and Princess Reem from his first wife, his cousin Princess Dalal bint Saud bin Abdul Aziz. Despite being the nephew of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, he has stayed outside of the core of political power in Saudi Arabia, instead building a large international corporation called the Kingdom Holding Company, through which he makes his investments

Al-Walid began his business career in 1979 upon graduation from Menlo College. Funded by a $30,000 loan from his father and a $300,000 mortgage on his house, he initially brokered deals with foreign firms wishing to do business in Saudi Arabia.This was followed by land deals in the 1980s, along with major investments in the Saudi banking industry, which proved to be undervalued at the time.

The Prince's activities as an investor came to prominence when he bought a substantial tranche of shares in Citicorp in the 1990s when that firm was in difficulties. With an initial investment of $550 million to bail out Citibank caused by underperforming American real estate loans and Latin American businesses, his holdings in Citigroup now comprise half of his wealth worth US$10 billion. He has also made large investments in AOL, Apple Inc., Worldcom, Motorola, News Corporation Ltd and other technology and media companies.

His real estate holdings have included large stakes in the Four Seasons hotel chain and the Plaza Hotel in New York. He sold half of his shares in the latter in August 2004. He has made investments in London's Savoy Hotel and Monaco's Monte Carlo Grand Hotel. He currently holds a 10% stake in Euro Disney SCA, the organization which manages and maintains the Disneyland Resort Paris in Marne-la-Vallee, France.
In January 2005 Al-Walid purchased the Savoy Hotel in London for an estimated GBP £250 million, to be managed by Fairmont Hotels, in which Al-Walid owns an estimated 16% stake. In January 2006, in partnership with the U.S. real estate firm Colony Capital, Kingdom Holdings acquired Toronto, CA-based Four Seasons for an estimated $3.9 billion.

As of 2007, he was believed to be in talks with Robert Earl, founder of Planet Hollywood, about taking a controlling stake in the English Premier League's Everton F.C.
As of 2008, there are plans for the $10 billion construction of the Burj Al-Meel (Arabic for "the Tower of One Mile"), a supertall skyscraper to be the tallest in the world, at one mile (1600m) in height.

Al-Walid is heavily involved in charitable activities across the Middle East, Asia and Africa, and is estimated to donate more than $100 million annually to charity. Much of this expenditure is in the field of educational initiatives to bridge gaps between Western and Islamic communities by funding centers of American studies and research in universities in the Middle East and centers of Islamic studies in American universities.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Alexei Mordashov

2008-09-09T18:15:00.000-07:00

Hard working is really a must if we want to develop our job skills...

Alexei Mordashov was born on September 26, 1965 in Cherepovets, Russia. is a Russian business oligarch and self-made billionaire. He is the main shareholder and the chairman of the board of Severstal, Russia's second largest steel company.

Mordashov is a graduate of the Leningrad Engineering-Economical Institute. After graduation he joined Cherepovetskiy Metallurgical Plant in 1988 as an economist. He later gained an MBA from Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne in 2001.

He began his career as the finance director of a steel mill, later buying most of the company's shares himself and became general director. He built a conglomerate, Severstal, acquiring automakers, coal companies, ports and transportation companies.

After divorcing his first wife, Mordashov was alleged to have ensured that she received no financial settlement, despite his wealth. She was reportedly left with only a small, rented apartment and a second-hand Lada. He has since remarried and has four children.

Alexei Mordashov

Liliane Bettencourt

2008-09-08T18:18:00.000-07:00

Wealth inherited from your parents are very valuable. So like Liliane did, she give her best in her job.

Liliane Bettencourt (born 21 October 1922) is the second richest person in France, ranking 17th in wealthiest people in the world and the wealthiest woman living. Forbes magazine estimated her wealth in 2008 at $22.9 billion.

Bettencourt was the only child of Mr. Eugène Schueller, the founder of L'Oréal, one of the world's leading cosmetics and beauty companies. In 1927, her mother died when Liliane was 5 years old.

In 1950, she married French politician André Bettencourt and lived in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France together until Andre's death in November 2007. They had one daughter, Françoise, who married Jean-Pierre Meyers, the grandson of a rabbi who died in Auschwitz concentration camp. Françoise Bettencourt Meyers is a member of L'Oréal's board of directors

In 1957, Bettencourt inherited the L'Oréal fortune from her father. She is the principal shareholder of L'Oréal. The company ownership breakdown: 27.5% by Liliane Bettencourt, 26.4% by Nestlé, the remaining 46.1% are publicly traded.

She created the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, which awards the "Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Life Sciences" to a European researcher under the age of forty-five.

A report by Forbes has her listed as the second richest person in France behind Bernard Arnault who has an estimated $26.0 billion.

Liliane Bettencourt is the inspiration for the character of Lilliane Mattencourt in the Matthew Reilly novel Scarecrow.

As of March 7, 2008 Liliane Bettancourt is the world's richest woman. She ranked 17th with $22.9 Billion.

Liliane Bettencourt