who is the richest person in the world 2017
1.Bill Gates
Signature 
Born:
William Henry Gates II
Warren Buffett at the 2015 Select USA Investment Summit
Born: Warren
Edward Buffett August
30, 1930 (age 87) Omaha,
Nebraska, U.S.
Residence: Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Alma mater
: University of Pennsylvania
Children : Susan Alice Buffett Howard Graham Buffett Peter Buffett
Parent(s) : Howard Buffett Leila Stahl Buffett
Relatives : Howard Warren Buffett (grandson)
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3. Jeff Bezos
Bozos in 2016
Born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen
SIGNATURE
Amancio
Ortega
The Zara Founder Has Just Become The Richest Man In The World, Overtaking
Bill Gates
Software tycoon Bill Gates has been dethroned as the richest man in the world by a grandfather from Spain who makes clothes.
These aren’t any clothes though. Amancio Ortega is the shy and reclusive founder of Zara, the fast fashion brand that’s revolutionised fashion the world over. And a surge in its stock price has pushed Ortega’s net worth to $79.5 billion, marginally ahead of Bill Gates’ $78.5 billion fortune.
Ortega was born in 1936 in a small town in
Spain to a railway construction worker. His family had limited means during his
early years. He recalls an incident when a grocery store had refused to give
his mother any more credit. “‘I was deeply hurt and humiliated,” he later told
an interviewer. He vowed never to let his family suffer poverty again, left
school, and went to work in a shirt shop.
In the 1960s, he set up a textile business,
and later founded Zara. Zara worked on a simple insight he’d gleaned from his
years in the clothing industry. Traditionally, fashion brands created designs
for a collection, and pushed them onto the consumers. Designs would stay the
same until the next collection rolled out.
Ortega realized, though, that consumer
preferences changed a lot more quickly. He set up Zara to listen to customer
feedback from retailers and stores, and based on it, quickly bring out new
designs. This “fast fashion” helped Zara stay on top of trends, and develop
cult followings.
Today Zara’s parent company is the largest
clothes retailer in the world, with brands like Massimo Dutti, Pull and Bear,
and Oysho. It has 2,000 stores worldwide, and its sales draw throngs of
shoppers eager to stock up on latest fashion trends.
Ortega, for his part, has remained private
and reclusive in spite of his success. He still stays in the same town as he
was born in, and can be seen taking strolls around the marina. Locals describe
him as being no fuss, and although he retired from his business five years ago,
he still turns up at office once in a while. When not working, he spends time
with his grandkids and tries to avoid the spotlight.
5.Mark Zuckerberg
Born : Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
Occupation
: Computer
programmer, Internet entrepreneur
Salary : One-dollar salary[2]
Net
worth : IncreaseUS
$72.4 billion (February 14, 2018)[3]
Title :Chairman and CEO of Facebook Spouse(s) Priscilla Chan (m. 2012)
Children : 2
Relatives : Randi Zuckerberg (sister)
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6.Carlos Slim
Born Carlos Slim Helú
Carlos Slim Helú is the Chief
Executive and the Chairman of the giant telecommunications twin companies-
América Móvil and Telmex . Born in Mexico City to Lebanese parents Julián Slim
Haddad and Linda Helú, Carlos Slim Helú was ranked as the world’s richest
person from 2012-2013 and was popularly known as the “Warren Buffet of Mexico”.
After immigrating to Mexico from
Lebanon, Slim’s father changed his original name and started operating in the
country. He made his wealth from Mexico’s lucrative real estate market and
Carlos Slim’s exposure to the world of business happened with his father’s
business, where he used to earn 200 pesos a week by working for his father’s
organization.
Carlos developed a deep and thorough
understanding of monetary transactions from his childhood and later went on to
become one of the wealthiest men in Mexico and
the entire world. A brother to five sisters and brothers, Carlos and his
siblings were taught the basics of business by their father at the tender age
of 12 years. His understanding of the money market was so clear that Carlos
didn't waste his time in playing like most children. Instead, he bought shares
at the age of just 12 years from a Mexican bank.
Despite having a knack of the money market and business,
Carlos completed his studies and was bright student. He passed out in civil
engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico where he
simultaneously taught linear programming and algebra along with pursuing his
studies.
However, his natural entrepreneurial
instincts couldn't keep his restricted anymore and Carlos finally started
working as a trader. He honed his business skills from his first business and
thereafter opened a brokerage firm for every sector, starting from
manufacturing to restaurants and construction to retail.
Starting out with Grupo and later
with the Nacrobre group of companies, Carlos commenced his operations into some
other fields like tobacco, aluminum, food and copper. His strategy of placing
one foot at a time with immense strength and focus made him the business magnet
that he is today.
Carlos’s entry into the world of
telecommunications happened as early as in 1990, when he worked with South Bell
Corporation and France Télécom. His immense interest in the field made him
acquire the very prestigious government telecommunications company Telmex from
the Mexican government.
Carlos Slim with Bill Gates
He later expanded into
this horizon by buying stakes in multiple telecommunications companies like
Techtel, ATL etc. Unfortunately at this very important phase of his life,
Carlos Slim underwent a major heart surgery and rumors spread that he will no
longer be in charge of the company and that all his assets will be either sold
out or liquidated.The biggest things in life are not materials. - Carlos SlimHowever;
Carlos was way too young to let his company and his dream go down the drain.
Despite the challenges, he came back in full strength and acquired the charge
of his company and took it to the top position.
The biggest things in life are not materials.
- Carlos Slim
Carlos Slim Helu is now ranked as the
wealthiest man on earth and was also elected as the New York Stock Exchange
Administration Council’s first president of the Latin-American Committee
(from1996 to 1998).
Larry Ellison in 2016
Born
: Lawrence Joseph Ellison
Born:
William Henry Gates II
Warren Buffett at the 2015 Select USA Investment Summit
Born: Warren
Edward Buffett August
30, 1930 (age 87) Omaha,
Nebraska, U.S.
Residence: Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Alma mater
: University of Pennsylvania
Children : Susan Alice Buffett Howard Graham Buffett Peter Buffett
Parent(s) : Howard Buffett Leila Stahl Buffett
Relatives : Howard Warren Buffett (grandson)
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3. Jeff Bezos
Bozos in 2016
Born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen
SIGNATURE
Amancio
Ortega
The Zara Founder Has Just Become The Richest Man In The World, Overtaking
Bill Gates
Software tycoon Bill Gates has been dethroned as the richest man in the world by a grandfather from Spain who makes clothes.
These aren’t any clothes though. Amancio Ortega is the shy and reclusive founder of Zara, the fast fashion brand that’s revolutionised fashion the world over. And a surge in its stock price has pushed Ortega’s net worth to $79.5 billion, marginally ahead of Bill Gates’ $78.5 billion fortune.
Ortega was born in 1936 in a small town in
Spain to a railway construction worker. His family had limited means during his
early years. He recalls an incident when a grocery store had refused to give
his mother any more credit. “‘I was deeply hurt and humiliated,” he later told
an interviewer. He vowed never to let his family suffer poverty again, left
school, and went to work in a shirt shop.
In the 1960s, he set up a textile business,
and later founded Zara. Zara worked on a simple insight he’d gleaned from his
years in the clothing industry. Traditionally, fashion brands created designs
for a collection, and pushed them onto the consumers. Designs would stay the
same until the next collection rolled out.
Ortega realized, though, that consumer
preferences changed a lot more quickly. He set up Zara to listen to customer
feedback from retailers and stores, and based on it, quickly bring out new
designs. This “fast fashion” helped Zara stay on top of trends, and develop
cult followings.
Today Zara’s parent company is the largest
clothes retailer in the world, with brands like Massimo Dutti, Pull and Bear,
and Oysho. It has 2,000 stores worldwide, and its sales draw throngs of
shoppers eager to stock up on latest fashion trends.
Ortega, for his part, has remained private
and reclusive in spite of his success. He still stays in the same town as he
was born in, and can be seen taking strolls around the marina. Locals describe
him as being no fuss, and although he retired from his business five years ago,
he still turns up at office once in a while. When not working, he spends time
with his grandkids and tries to avoid the spotlight.
5.Mark Zuckerberg
Born : Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
Occupation
: Computer
programmer, Internet entrepreneur
Salary : One-dollar salary[2]
Net
worth : IncreaseUS
$72.4 billion (February 14, 2018)[3]
Title :Chairman and CEO of Facebook Spouse(s) Priscilla Chan (m. 2012)
Children : 2
Relatives : Randi Zuckerberg (sister)
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6.Carlos Slim
Born Carlos Slim Helú
Carlos Slim Helú is the Chief
Executive and the Chairman of the giant telecommunications twin companies-
América Móvil and Telmex . Born in Mexico City to Lebanese parents Julián Slim
Haddad and Linda Helú, Carlos Slim Helú was ranked as the world’s richest
person from 2012-2013 and was popularly known as the “Warren Buffet of Mexico”.
After immigrating to Mexico from
Lebanon, Slim’s father changed his original name and started operating in the
country. He made his wealth from Mexico’s lucrative real estate market and
Carlos Slim’s exposure to the world of business happened with his father’s
business, where he used to earn 200 pesos a week by working for his father’s
organization.
Carlos developed a deep and thorough
understanding of monetary transactions from his childhood and later went on to
become one of the wealthiest men in Mexico and
the entire world. A brother to five sisters and brothers, Carlos and his
siblings were taught the basics of business by their father at the tender age
of 12 years. His understanding of the money market was so clear that Carlos
didn't waste his time in playing like most children. Instead, he bought shares
at the age of just 12 years from a Mexican bank.
Despite having a knack of the money market and business,
Carlos completed his studies and was bright student. He passed out in civil
engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico where he
simultaneously taught linear programming and algebra along with pursuing his
studies.
However, his natural entrepreneurial
instincts couldn't keep his restricted anymore and Carlos finally started
working as a trader. He honed his business skills from his first business and
thereafter opened a brokerage firm for every sector, starting from
manufacturing to restaurants and construction to retail.
Starting out with Grupo and later
with the Nacrobre group of companies, Carlos commenced his operations into some
other fields like tobacco, aluminum, food and copper. His strategy of placing
one foot at a time with immense strength and focus made him the business magnet
that he is today.
Carlos’s entry into the world of
telecommunications happened as early as in 1990, when he worked with South Bell
Corporation and France Télécom. His immense interest in the field made him
acquire the very prestigious government telecommunications company Telmex from
the Mexican government.
Carlos Slim with Bill Gates
He later expanded into
this horizon by buying stakes in multiple telecommunications companies like
Techtel, ATL etc. Unfortunately at this very important phase of his life,
Carlos Slim underwent a major heart surgery and rumors spread that he will no
longer be in charge of the company and that all his assets will be either sold
out or liquidated.The biggest things in life are not materials. - Carlos SlimHowever;
Carlos was way too young to let his company and his dream go down the drain.
Despite the challenges, he came back in full strength and acquired the charge
of his company and took it to the top position.
The biggest things in life are not materials.
- Carlos Slim
Carlos Slim Helu is now ranked as the
wealthiest man on earth and was also elected as the New York Stock Exchange
Administration Council’s first president of the Latin-American Committee
(from1996 to 1998).
Larry Ellison in 2016
Born
: Lawrence Joseph Ellison
Warren Buffett at the 2015 Select USA Investment Summit
Born: Warren Edward Buffett August 30, 1930 (age 87) Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Residence: Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Born: Warren Edward Buffett August 30, 1930 (age 87) Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Residence: Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Alma mater
: University of Pennsylvania
University
of Nebraska–Lincoln
Columbia
University
Occupation: Investor, business magnate, and philanthropist
Years active: 1951–present
Known for : Leadership of Berkshire Hathaway with Charlie Munger
Salary
: US$100,000[1]
Net worth : US$87.9
billion (February 2018)
Political Party : Democratic
Children : Susan Alice Buffett Howard Graham Buffett Peter Buffett
Parent(s) : Howard Buffett Leila Stahl Buffett
Relatives : Howard Warren Buffett (grandson)
3. Jeff Bezos
Signature
3. Jeff Bezos
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| Bozos in 2016 |
Born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen
January 12, 1964 (age 54)
Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
Alma mater Princeton University
Occupation Technology and retail entrepreneur and
investor
Known for Founder of Amazon.com
Net worth US$120.2 billion (February 2018)[1]
Spouse(s) MacKenzie Tuttle (m. 1993)[2]
Children 4[3] |
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SIGNATURE
Amancio
Ortega
Born : Amancio Ortega Gaona
28 March 1936 (age 81)
Busdongo de Arbás, León, Spain
Residence A Coruña, Spain
Nationality Spanish
Occupation: Businessman
Known for: Co-founder of Inditex Group
Net worth : US$77.6 billion
(January 2018)[1]
Board member of : Inditex (CEO) Daez (COO)
Spouse(s) : •RosalÃa Mera (m. 1966; div. 1986)
•Flora Pérez Marcote (m. 2001)
Children : 3 (including Sandra Ortega Mera)
The Zara Founder Has Just Become The Richest Man In The World, Overtaking
Bill Gates
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Larry Ellison Lists Ultra LuxuriousLakefront Lake Tahoe Mansion for $28.5 Million
Larry Ellison Biography
Larry Ellison is the founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation,
which earned him a spot as fifth wealthiest person in the world in 2014.
Background and Early Career
Larry Ellison was born in the Bronx, New York, on August 17,
1944, to single mother Florence Spellman. When he was nine months old, Ellison
came down with pneumonia, and his mother sent him to Chicago to be raised by
her aunt and uncle, Lillian and Louis Ellison,who adopted the baby.
After high school, Ellison enrolled at the University of Illinois, Champaign (1962), where he was named science student of the year. During his second year, his adopted mother died, and Ellison dropped out of college. The following fall, he enrolled at the University of Chicago, but he dropped out after only one semester.
Ellison then packed his bags for Berkeley, California, with
little money, and for the next decade he moved from job to job at such places
as Wells Fargo and Amdahl Corporation. Between college and his various jobs,
Ellison had picked up basic computer skills, and he was finally able to put
them to use as a programmer at Amdahl, where he worked on the first
IBM-compatible mainframe system.
In 1977, Ellison and two of his Amdahl colleagues founded
Software Development Labs and soon had a contract to build a
database-management system—which they called Oracle—for the CIA. The company
had fewer than 10 employees and revenue of less than $1 million per year, but
in 1981, IBM signed on to use Oracle, and the company’s sales doubled every
year for the next seven years. Ellison soon renamed the company after its
best-selling product.
Oracle Corporation
In 1986, Oracle Corporation held its IPO (initial public
offering), but some accounting issues helped wipe out the majority of the
company’s market capitalization and Oracle teetered on the brink of bankruptcy.
After a management shakeup and a product-cycle refresh, however, Oracle’s new
products took the industry by storm, and by 1992 the company was the leader in
the database-management realm.
Success continued, and as Ellison was Oracle’s largest
shareholder, he became one of the wealthiest people in the world. Ellison set
his sights on growth through acquisitions, and over the next several years he
gobbled up several companies, including PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems and Sun
Microsystems, all of which helped Oracle reach a market cap of roughly $185
billion with some 130,000 employees by 2014.
When he’s not busy
bolstering his software empire, Ellison races yachts (his yacht Rising Sun is
over 450 feet long—one of the largest privately owned vessels in the world),
and in 2010 he joined the BMW Oracle racing team and won the prestigious
America’s Cup. The victory brought the cup to the United States for the first
time in 15 years, a win the team repeated in 2013.
larry
ellison signature
8. Charles Koch
Born : Charles
de Ganahl Koch
Charles Koch Biography
Education: 1960 -
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, 1958 - Massachusetts Institute Of
Technology, 1957 - Massachusetts Institute Of Technology,
Awards: Honorary Doctor Of Science
From George Mason University
For His Continued Support Of The Economics Program At GMU
Charles Koch is an American businessman and philanthropist
who is the co-owner and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Koch Industries.
Charles and his younger brother David inherited the business from their father,
Fred Koch, who had founded the company in 1940. The brothers, especially
Charles, played a major role in expanding the business and growing it into one
of the largest privately held companies in the United States. Born as one of
the four sons in an industrialist’s family, Charles was intelligent and
hardworking from an early age. He was also a brilliant student who went to the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to study engineering and earned two
Master’s degrees, one each in mechanical engineering and chemical engineering.
After working for a while in Arthur D. Little, Inc. after completing his
studies, Charles joined his father’s business, Rock Island Oil & Refining
Company. He eventually became the president of the business and renamed the
firm Koch Industries in honor of his father. He also has an interest in
politics and along with his brother David has made significant financial
contributions to libertarian and conservative think tanks and campaigns. A
generous philanthropist, he has donated millions of dollars to fund research,
policy, and educational projects.
Childhood & Early Life
Charles Koch was born on November 1, 1935, in Wichita,
Kansas, to Mary and Fred Chase Koch. His father was an engineer turned
industrialist who later founded what was to become Koch Industries. Charles has
three brothers: Frederick, David, and William.
He went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) to study engineering. He earned his Bachelor of Science in general
engineering in 1957, and a Master of Science (M.S.) in mechanical engineering
in 1958. He then completed another Master’s degree and received his M.S. in
chemical engineering in 1960.
Career
After graduation he joined Arthur D. Little, Inc.
However, this job lasted for a very short while as he moved back to Wichita in
1961 in order to join his father’s business, Rock Island Oil & Refining
Company.
He was a hard working young man, determined to expand the
family business which had become a medium sized oil firm by the late 1960s. He
became the president of the business in 1967 and renamed it Koch Industries in
his father’s honor. He has also been serving as the Chairman of the Board and
CEO since then.
A highly competitive businessman, he worked tirelessly to
grow the business which is today involved in diverse fields such as the
manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy,
fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper.
He became the Director of Koch Industries in 1982 and
also serves, or has served, as the Director of other corporations including
Entrust Financial Corp. and Georgia-Pacific LLC, paper and pulp products.
Under the leadership of Charles Koch, the Koch Industries
saw an unprecedented rate of expansion and at present has its presence in
around 60 countries around the world and employs more than 100,000 people
worldwide.
Over the recent years Koch Industries have invested more
than $70 billion in acquisitions and other capital expenditures and own
Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch
Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, and Matador Cattle Company.
Charles Koch credits his phenomenal success to the
business philosophy of Market Based Management (MBM), a concept which he
developed. He describes this philosophy in detail in his 2007 book, ‘The
Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest
Private Company’.
The principles of MBM are taught to students, educators,
community leaders and government officials by the Market-Based Management
Institute, an educational non-profit, through their partnership with the
Wichita State University (WSU).
He is a libertarian and is in favor of free-enterprise
policy and advocacy organizations. He supports a number of free market-oriented
educational organizations, including Cato Institute, the Institute for Humane
Studies, Bill of Rights Institute, and the Mercatus Center at George Mason
University.
Major WorkS
As the co-owner, chairman of the board, and Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of Koch Industries, Charles Koch, has played a pivotal
role in transforming the company from a medium sized firm to one of the largest
privately held companies in the United States. Koch Industries is also the
recipient of more than 930 awards for safety, environmental excellence,
community stewardship, innovation, and customer service.
Awards & Achievements
He was presented with the Adam Smith Award by American
Legislative Exchange Council in 1994.
In 1999, he won the Directors’ Award for Global Vision in
Energy from the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The Heritage Foundation bestowed upon him the Spirit of
Justice Award in 2003.
In 2005 he won the Herman W. Lay Memorial Award by the
Association of Private Enterprise Education.
He was honored with the William E. Simon Prize for
Philanthropic Leadership by Philanthropy Roundtable in 2011.
Personal Life & Legacy
Charles Koch is a very private person and likes to avoid
the limelight. He is also particular about guarding the privacy of his family.
He has been married to his wife Liz since 1972 and has two children. He is a
prostate cancer survivor.
Larry Ellison was born in the Bronx, New York, on August 17,
1944, to single mother Florence Spellman. When he was nine months old, Ellison
came down with pneumonia, and his mother sent him to Chicago to be raised by
her aunt and uncle, Lillian and Louis Ellison,who adopted the baby.
After high school, Ellison enrolled at the University of Illinois, Champaign (1962), where he was named science student of the year. During his second year, his adopted mother died, and Ellison dropped out of college. The following fall, he enrolled at the University of Chicago, but he dropped out after only one semester.
Ellison then packed his bags for Berkeley, California, with
little money, and for the next decade he moved from job to job at such places
as Wells Fargo and Amdahl Corporation. Between college and his various jobs,
Ellison had picked up basic computer skills, and he was finally able to put
them to use as a programmer at Amdahl, where he worked on the first
IBM-compatible mainframe system.
In 1977, Ellison and two of his Amdahl colleagues founded
Software Development Labs and soon had a contract to build a
database-management system—which they called Oracle—for the CIA. The company
had fewer than 10 employees and revenue of less than $1 million per year, but
in 1981, IBM signed on to use Oracle, and the company’s sales doubled every
year for the next seven years. Ellison soon renamed the company after its
best-selling product.
Oracle Corporation
In 1986, Oracle Corporation held its IPO (initial public
offering), but some accounting issues helped wipe out the majority of the
company’s market capitalization and Oracle teetered on the brink of bankruptcy.
After a management shakeup and a product-cycle refresh, however, Oracle’s new
products took the industry by storm, and by 1992 the company was the leader in
the database-management realm.
Success continued, and as Ellison was Oracle’s largest
shareholder, he became one of the wealthiest people in the world. Ellison set
his sights on growth through acquisitions, and over the next several years he
gobbled up several companies, including PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems and Sun
Microsystems, all of which helped Oracle reach a market cap of roughly $185
billion with some 130,000 employees by 2014.
When he’s not busy
bolstering his software empire, Ellison races yachts (his yacht Rising Sun is
over 450 feet long—one of the largest privately owned vessels in the world),
and in 2010 he joined the BMW Oracle racing team and won the prestigious
America’s Cup. The victory brought the cup to the United States for the first
time in 15 years, a win the team repeated in 2013.
larry
ellison signature
8. Charles Koch
Born : Charles
de Ganahl Koch
November 1, 1935 (age 82) Wichita, Kansas, U.S.
Residence : Wichita,
Kansas, U.S.
Alma mater :Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Occupation: Chairman
and CEO of Koch Industries
Net worth:$60
billion (February 2018)[1]
Political party : Republican
Spouse(s) :Liz Koch
(m. 1972)
Children : Chase
Koch[2] Elizabeth Koch[3]
Parent(s) : Fred C.
Koch Mary Robinson
Relatives : Siblings:
Frederick R. Koch David Koch Bill Koch
Charles Koch Biography
Education: 1960 -
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, 1958 - Massachusetts Institute Of
Technology, 1957 - Massachusetts Institute Of Technology,
Awards: Honorary Doctor Of Science
From George Mason University
For His Continued Support Of The Economics Program At GMU
Honorary Doctor Of Laws From Babson College
Charles Koch is an American businessman and philanthropist
who is the co-owner and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Koch Industries.
Charles and his younger brother David inherited the business from their father,
Fred Koch, who had founded the company in 1940. The brothers, especially
Charles, played a major role in expanding the business and growing it into one
of the largest privately held companies in the United States. Born as one of
the four sons in an industrialist’s family, Charles was intelligent and
hardworking from an early age. He was also a brilliant student who went to the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to study engineering and earned two
Master’s degrees, one each in mechanical engineering and chemical engineering.
After working for a while in Arthur D. Little, Inc. after completing his
studies, Charles joined his father’s business, Rock Island Oil & Refining
Company. He eventually became the president of the business and renamed the
firm Koch Industries in honor of his father. He also has an interest in
politics and along with his brother David has made significant financial
contributions to libertarian and conservative think tanks and campaigns. A
generous philanthropist, he has donated millions of dollars to fund research,
policy, and educational projects.
Childhood & Early Life
Charles Koch was born on November 1, 1935, in Wichita,
Kansas, to Mary and Fred Chase Koch. His father was an engineer turned
industrialist who later founded what was to become Koch Industries. Charles has
three brothers: Frederick, David, and William.
He went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) to study engineering. He earned his Bachelor of Science in general
engineering in 1957, and a Master of Science (M.S.) in mechanical engineering
in 1958. He then completed another Master’s degree and received his M.S. in
chemical engineering in 1960.
Career
After graduation he joined Arthur D. Little, Inc.
However, this job lasted for a very short while as he moved back to Wichita in
1961 in order to join his father’s business, Rock Island Oil & Refining
Company.
He was a hard working young man, determined to expand the
family business which had become a medium sized oil firm by the late 1960s. He
became the president of the business in 1967 and renamed it Koch Industries in
his father’s honor. He has also been serving as the Chairman of the Board and
CEO since then.
A highly competitive businessman, he worked tirelessly to
grow the business which is today involved in diverse fields such as the
manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy,
fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper.
He became the Director of Koch Industries in 1982 and
also serves, or has served, as the Director of other corporations including
Entrust Financial Corp. and Georgia-Pacific LLC, paper and pulp products.
Under the leadership of Charles Koch, the Koch Industries
saw an unprecedented rate of expansion and at present has its presence in
around 60 countries around the world and employs more than 100,000 people
worldwide.
Over the recent years Koch Industries have invested more
than $70 billion in acquisitions and other capital expenditures and own
Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch
Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, and Matador Cattle Company.
Charles Koch credits his phenomenal success to the
business philosophy of Market Based Management (MBM), a concept which he
developed. He describes this philosophy in detail in his 2007 book, ‘The
Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest
Private Company’.
The principles of MBM are taught to students, educators,
community leaders and government officials by the Market-Based Management
Institute, an educational non-profit, through their partnership with the
Wichita State University (WSU).
He is a libertarian and is in favor of free-enterprise
policy and advocacy organizations. He supports a number of free market-oriented
educational organizations, including Cato Institute, the Institute for Humane
Studies, Bill of Rights Institute, and the Mercatus Center at George Mason
University.
Major WorkS
As the co-owner, chairman of the board, and Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of Koch Industries, Charles Koch, has played a pivotal
role in transforming the company from a medium sized firm to one of the largest
privately held companies in the United States. Koch Industries is also the
recipient of more than 930 awards for safety, environmental excellence,
community stewardship, innovation, and customer service.
Awards & Achievements
He was presented with the Adam Smith Award by American
Legislative Exchange Council in 1994.
In 1999, he won the Directors’ Award for Global Vision in
Energy from the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The Heritage Foundation bestowed upon him the Spirit of
Justice Award in 2003.
In 2005 he won the Herman W. Lay Memorial Award by the
Association of Private Enterprise Education.
He was honored with the William E. Simon Prize for
Philanthropic Leadership by Philanthropy Roundtable in 2011.
Personal Life & Legacy
Charles Koch is a very private person and likes to avoid
the limelight. He is also particular about guarding the privacy of his family.
He has been married to his wife Liz since 1972 and has two children. He is a
prostate cancer survivor.
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Net Worth
As of 2015,
Charles Koch has a net worth of $ 43.1 billion
Philanthropic Works
He is a renowned philanthropist and focuses on funding
projects in the fields of research, policy and education which are intended to
advance free-market views. He has financed the research of economists like
James Buchanan and Friedrich Hayek. Till date he has donated millions to the
causes he believes in. Koch Industries and the Koch family foundation donated
$11.25 million to the Wichita State University in 2014.
What are
Koch brothers products?
Here
are a list of companies and industries in which the Koch brothers own a stake:
Paper
Products: Angelsoft, Brawny, Dixie, Mardi Gras, Quilted Northern, Soft n
Gentle, Sparkle, Vanity Fair.
Wood:
Georgia-Pacific (largest plywood manufacturer in US – also owns most of the
paper companies above).
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8.David Koch
Born : David Hamilton Koch
May
3, 1940 (age 77)
Wichita,
Kansas, U.S.
Alma mater : Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Occupation : Vice President of Koch
Industries
Known for :
Philanthropy to cultural and medical institutions
Support
of libertarian and conservative causes[1][2]
Net worth : US$52 billion (January 2018)
Political party Libertarian (Before 1984)
Republican
(1984–present)
Board member of : Aspen Institute, Cato Institute, Reason Foundation, Americans
for Prosperity Foundation, WGBH, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
American Ballet Theatre, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Deerfield
Academy, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center, American Museum of Natural History
Spouse(s) : Julia Flesher[3][4]
Children : 3
Parent(s) : Fred C. Koch Mary Robinson
Relatives : Siblings: Frederick
R. Koch Charles
Koch Bill
Koch
David H. Koch Biography
David Hamilton Koch is an American
businessman who is a co-owner of Koch Industries, a conglomerate that is the
second-largest privately held company in the United States. He also serves as
the company’s executive vice president. An alumnus of the prestigious
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he is a professionally qualified
chemical engineer. Following the completion of his education he worked for
several engineering consulting firms including the Amicon Corporation, Halco
International, and the Scientific Design Company. Eventually he joined the
family business Koch Industries that had been founded by his father, Fred Koch,
in 1940. At the time of his joining his elder brother Charles was heading the
company and young David worked as a technical-services manager under him.
Eventually David went on to found
his company’s New York office and became the
president of his own division, Koch Engineering, renamed Chemical Technology
Group. The Koch family is counted amongst the wealthiest ones in the United
States, and David himself was named the ninth wealthiest person in the world in
2014. He is also a very generous philanthropist and as a cancer survivor, has
donated millions to medical research causes and institutions including $100
million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the construction
of a new research and technology facility
Childhood & Early Life
David Koch was born on May 3, 1940 to Mary and Fred Chase Koch. His father was a chemical engineer cum businessman who founded the Koch Industries the same year David was born. He has three brothers: Frederick, Charles, and William.
David attended the Deerfield Academy prep school in Massachusetts, graduating in 1959. Then he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering in 1962. He completed his Master’s degree a year later. As a college student he was also an active sportsman, a skilled player of basketball.
Career
After completing his education he embarked on
an engineering career and worked as a research and process design engineer at
several consulting firms over the next few years. Arthur D. Little, the Amicon
Corporation, Halco International, and the Scientific Design Company are some of
the companies he worked for in the 1960s.
David Koch joined the family business, Koch
Industries, in 1970. It was founded by his father years ago and at that time it
was headed by his elder brother Charles Koch. One of his initial positions at
the company was that of a technical-services manager.
Eventually David went on to found the company’s
New York office and by 1979 had become the president of his own division, Koch
Engineering which was later renamed Chemical Technology Group.
He developed an interest in politics and became
the Libertarian Vice-Presidential candidate in the U.S. presidential election
in 1980, sharing the party ticket with presidential candidate Ed Clark.
The duo promised to abolish Social Security,
the Federal Reserve Board, welfare, minimum-wage laws, corporate taxes, all
price supports and subsidies for agriculture and business, and received just
under a million popular votes in what was the most successful Libertarian U.S.
presidential campaign until that date.
Once a staunch believer in the Libertarian
ideals, he broke with the Libertarian Party in 1984 when it supported
eliminating all taxes. Since then he has been a Republican.
In 1984, David Koch along with his brother
Charles, established Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE), a conservative
political group operating in the United States. The group was dedicated to free
markets and called for the highest level of personal involvement in public
policy activism.
David Koch was diagnosed with prostate cancer
in 1992 and underwent surgery, radiation and hormone therapy. Yet the cancer
recurred numerous times. His personal experiences as a cancer patient motivated
him to fund medical research.
Listed as one of the world's top 50
philanthropists by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, David Koch serves on the
boards of more than 20 non-profit corporations including the National Cancer
Advisory Board of the National Cancer Institute, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
in Houston, Texas, Rockefeller University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and Aspen Institute, among others.
David Koch
Awards & Achievements
In 2004, he received the
prestigious Corporate Citizenship Award from the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars.
He was honored with the
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's Excellence in Corporate Leadership
award in 2005.
He is also the recipient of
Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s George Washington Award for Principled
Leadership (2007).
Personal Life & Legacy
He is married to Julia M. Flesher Koch and has
three children.
Net Worth
As of 2015, David Koch has a net worth of $43.1
billion.
Philanthropic
Works
As David Koch is a cancer survivor, he has
donated generously to fund medical research regarding cancer. He is a member of
the Board of Directors of the Prostate Cancer Foundation. So far he has
contributed $41 million to the foundation, including $5 million to a
collaborative project in the field of nanotechnology.
He established the David H. Koch Charitable
Foundation which has till date funded cancer research and a number of arts and
science organizations, including the American Ballet Theatre, New York City
Ballet, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
and the American Museum of Natural History.
In 2007, he made a donation of $100 million to
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the construction of a new
research and technology facility to serve as the home of the David H. Koch
Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.
The Koch brothers David and Charles provided
the initial funding to the Americans for Prosperity Foundation and to a related
advocacy organization, Americans for Prosperity which is one of the most
influential American conservative political advocacy organizations.
Koch in Columbus, Ohio
David Koch theater
10.Michael Bloomberg
108th Mayor of New York City
Personal details
Born: Michael
Rubens Bloomberg
February 14, 1942 (age 76)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality: American
Political party: Independent (2007–present)
Other political: Republican (2001–2007)
Affiliations: Democratic (Before 2001)
Spouse(s): Susan
Elizabeth Barbara Brown-Meyer (m. 1975; div. 1993)
Domestic: partner Diana Taylor (2000–present)
Children: Emma Frissora
Georgina Bloomberg
Alma mater: Harvard
University (MBA)
Johns Hopkins University (BS)
Net worth: US$50.8
billion (January 2018)[1]
Signature
In office
January 1, 2002 – December 31, 2013
Preceded by Rudy
Giuliani
Succeeded by Bill
de Blasio
Personal details
Website Official website : mikebloomberg
michael bloomberg childhood photography
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Bloomberg Biography
Michael Bloomberg is a billionaire buisnessman and a
three-term mayor of New York City.
Who Is Michael Bloomberg?
Michael Bloomberg was born on February 14, 1942, in Boston,
Massachusetts. Bloomberg put himself through Johns Hopkins and Harvard and
became a partner at Salomon Brothers. He started his own company which
revolutionized the distribution of financial information and made him a
billionaire. In 2002, Bloomberg became mayor of New York City. He was
re-elected for a second, then a controversial third term.
Early Life
Michael Rubens Bloomberg was born on February 14, 1942, in
Boston, Massachusetts. The son of a bookkeeper, Bloomberg put himself through
Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University, where he earned a Master of
Business Administration degree in 1966. His first Wall Street job was with
Salomon Brothers, where he quickly climbed the ladder, becoming partner in
1972.
Bloomberg L.P.
When Salomon Brothers was bought in 1981, Bloomberg started
his own company, Bloomberg L.P., built around a financial information computer
that revolutionized the way securities data was stored and consumed. The
company was enormously successful and soon branched into the media business
with more than 100 offices worldwide. As one of the wealthiest men in the
world, Bloomberg chose to turn his attentions to philanthropy, with an emphasis
on education, medical research and the arts.
New York Mayor
Bloomberg entered the political arena in 2002, when he won
election as the 108th mayor of New York. Considered a liberal Republican turned
Independent, Bloomberg is pro-choice and favored legalizing same-sex marriage.
His most popular program as mayor was establishing a 311 telephone line that
put callers in contact with the city, allowing them to report crimes, trash
problems, or anything else. Bloomberg was re-elected mayor in November 2005.
Controversially, in 2008 Bloomberg was able to push through
legislation allowing him to run for a third term as mayor, citing that the
particularly difficult economic climate and his financial skills warranted his
remaining in office. After spending an unprecedented amount of his own money
(upwards of $90 million) on the campaign, Bloomberg secured a third four-year
term in November of 2009 -- this time as an Independent, which he registered as
two years prior.
Bloomberg stepped down from his political duties on January
2014 and spent that year focusing on his philanthropical pursuits before
returning as CEO of Bloomberg L.P. Democrat Bill de Blasio took his place as
New York City's new mayor.
Politics and Climate Issues
During the 2016 presidential election, Bloomberg had
considered running as a third party Independent, fearing that the candidates
from both the Democratic and Republican parties were too extreme and would turn
off many voters. However in March, he officially reneged on pursuing the
matter.
On July 27, 2016, Bloomberg spoke at the Democratic National
Convention in support of Hillary Clinton, speaking honestly about how he came
to endorse her, as well as his approach to politics.
"When I enter the voting booth each time, I look at the
candidate, not the party label," Bloomberg stated in his prime-time
speech. "There are times when I disagree with Hillary Clinton. But let me
tell you, whatever our disagreements may be, I've come here to say: We must put
them aside for the good of our country. And we must unite around the candidate
who can defeat a dangerous demagogue," he said, referring to Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Although Bloomberg was unable to prevent the election of
Trump, he later found solidarity among others who opposed the president's
actions. After Trump announced he was pulling the U.S. out of the Paris
Agreement in June 2017, the former mayor immediately rallied a coalition of
influential leaders and announced that Bloomberg Philanthropies would provide
up to $15 million in funding to make up for the loss of American resources.
In December, marking the second anniversary of the Paris
Agreement, Bloomberg joined an all-star gathering of heads of state,
environmentalists and other business leaders at the One Planet Summit in Paris.
Asked if Trump's withdrawal damaged the goals of the Paris Agreement, Bloomberg
seemed to believe the opposite: “The fact that President Trump has a different
view has been a rallying cry for the pro-environmentalists groups. And that has
been very helpful,” he said. “So I just want to thank him for all of his
assistance.”
Personal Life
Bloomberg was married to Susan Brown from 1975 to 1993.
Despite the divorce, the couple are close friends and have two daughters,
Georgina and Emma.
Since 2000 Bloomberg has been in a relationship with banking
superintendent Diana Taylor.
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