Showing posts with label American business magnate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American business magnate. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Steve Jobs - business magnate, co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc,


Steven Jobs is an American business magnate and inventor. He is the co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. Jobs also before served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became an associate of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in the 1995 movie Toy Story as a managerial producer. In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula and others. After down a power struggle with the board of directors in 1984, Jobs resigned from Apple and established NeXT, a computer platform development company concentrate in the higher education and business markets.

Apple's later 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he has served as its CEO since 1997. In 1986, he obtains the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios. He remained CEO and mass shareholder at 50.1% until its acquisition by The Walt Disney company in 2006. Consequently Jobs became Disney's major individual shareholder at 7% and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. On March 2, 2011 Steve Jobs complete an appearance at the iPad 2 launch event.


Born Name

Steven Paul Jobs

Date Of Birth

February 24, 1955

Place Of Birth

San Francisco, California, U.S.

Nationality

American

Alma mater

Reed College

Occupation

Chairman and CEO, Apple Inc

Net worth

increase$8.3 billion

Board member

The Walt Disney Company

Religion

Buddhism

Spouse

Laurene Powell

Monday, September 20, 2010

Bill Gates

http://the-american-history.blogspot.com/
William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, philanthropist, author and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009, excluding 2008, when he was ranked third. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8 percent of the common stock. He has also authored or co-authored several books.

In June 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He gradually transferred his duties to Ray Ozzie, chief software architect and Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer. Gates' last full-time day at Microsoft was June 27, 2008. He remains at Microsoft as non-executive chairman.

http://the-american-history.blogspot.com/

Born

October 28, 1955

Birth Place

Seattle, Washington, USA

Nationality

American

Alma mater

Harvard University

Occupation

Chairman of Microsoft,

Co-Chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,

Director of Berkshire Hathaway

CEO of Cascade Investment

Net worth

US$53 billion

Spouse

Melinda Gates

Larry Ellison

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Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison is an American business magnate, co-founder and chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation, a foremost enterprise software company. As of 2010 he is the sixth richest person in the world, with an individual wealth of US$28 billion. During the 1970s, Ellison worked in a Ampex Corporation. One of his projects was a database for the CIA, which he was named "Oracle". Ellison was stimulated by the paper written by Edgar F. Codd on relational database systems called "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks."

He founded Oracle in 1977, putting up a sheer $1400 of his own money, under the name Software Development Laboratories (SDL). In 1979, the company was renamed Relational Software Inc., afterward renamed Oracle after the flagship product Oracle database. IBM dominated the mainframe relational database market with its DB2 and SQL/DS database products, it late entering the market for a relational database on UNIX and Windows operating systems. This left the door open for Sybase, Oracle, and Informix (and eventually Microsoft) to control mid-range systems and microcomputers.

http://the-american-history.blogspot.com/

Born

August 17, 1944

Birth Place

Manhattan, New York, USA

Birth Name

Lawrence Joseph Ellison

Nationality

American

Occupation

Co-founder & CEO of Oracle Corporation

Salary

$70.1 Million

Net worth

US$28 billion

Spouse

Adda Quinn, Nancy Wheeler Jenkins,

Barbara Boothe, Melanie Craft