Roman Avdeev is an influential Russian businessman, banker, investor, philanthropist, father of 23 children — his own and adopted. Estimates of his wealth put it at US$ 1.7 billion (September 2018, Forbes). Early life Roman Avdeev was born in Odintsovo city, Moscow Region in a family of factory workers. His birthday – July 17, 1967. In 1984, he graduated from Odintsovo regular school. 1986-1988, did his military service. In 1988, went to Spitak as volunteer to eliminate the damage caused by the earthquake. Roman Avdeev studied power...
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Whitney Wolfe is an American entrepreneur, humanitarian, co-founder of Tinder, and the founder and CEO of Bumble. She is also a supporter of women in the tech industry. In fact, she has been in the Business Insider’s 30 Most Important Women Under 30 in Tech. She was reached by Andrey Andreev in 2014 to become a partner in a new company. Their new project, Bumble, was a dating platform with reinvented specifications that is most beneficial for women. As of February 2017, there are about 12.5 million users all over the world. She...
David Michael Overton is an American entrepreneur who owns the ninth largest company in the United States of America. He owns and manages The Cheesecake Factory, Inc., and takes the position as Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer. He has inherited and continued the family business for a long time and has helped raise the initial $52 million sales to $1.97 billion. This was just in 2014 and since then the company has about 18% yearly revenue. He has been recognized as “Executive of the Year” and has been given the...
Sallie Krawcheck is an American entrepreneur, CEO and Founder of Ellevest, and Chair of Ellevate Network. She has been the president of Global Wealth & Investment Management division of Bank of America as well. Her success is widely recognized in the industry. She shares her knowledge by advising any start-up business. In the 2005 Forbes’ List of Most Powerful Women, Sallie she snatched the 7th position out of 25. She is also one of the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum and a recipient of the Business Leader...
Gong Hongjia is an outstanding, Chinese entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder, Vice Chairman and largest shareholder of Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology in China. This firm is the world’s largest supplier of video surveillance products. The firm provides equipments such as cameras, video recorders and others. Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology has over 15,000 employees. Early Life and Education Gong Hongjia was born in Zhejiang, a province in eastern China, in 1965. During his school days, he preferred to literature...
Daniel Och is a well-known American investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He is the Chairman and CEO of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group. This is a global hedge fund or alternative asset management firm. Daniel donated $15 million to Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex and Union in December 2010. Also, this school was renamed to Golda Och Academy, in honour of his mother. Personal Life of Daniel: Daniel Och was born in 1961 in Maplewood, New Jersey. He attended Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex and Union in...
Andrew “Drew” Houston is an American Founder and Entrepreneur. Drew Houston and his MIT classmate, Arash Ferdowsi founded Dropbox, online sharing tool. Their popular file-sharing tool hit 100 million users in late 2012. Personal Life of Andrew Houston: Andrew “Drew” Houston was born on 4th March 1983 in Acton, Massachusetts, USA. Drew started reading at 18 months. At 2½ years, Drew began playing games on IBM PC at home. By 8 years, he used bulletin board systems and learned how to make games, work on reverse-engineer....
Katarina Martinson and her sister Louise Lindh each own 14% stake in their family’s investment outfit, L. E. Lundbergforetagen AB. This Company is into property management, various investments including pulp and paper Company. Both the sisters have Board seats along with their father, Fredrik Lundberg who is the Chairman. This Company was founded in 1944 by Lars, Fredrik’s father, as a construction outfit. Personal Life of Katarina: Katarina Martinson was born in 1981 in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father is Fredrik Lundberg,...
Kevin Systrom was born on 30th December 1983 at Holliston, Massachusetts. He is one of the co-founders behind the mobile app known as Instagram. Kevin is a renowned Entrepreneur, programmer and code developer. He went to Middlesex School, Concord for his schooling and there he first came to knew about computer programming. His interest for programming grew older and when he started to play DOOM 2. To prank on his friends he invented a messenger account that looks like an account has been hacked. In 2006 he got his bachelor’s degree...
Ronda Stryker was born in 1954 and she spends her childhood in Kalamazoo near Westnedge Hills. She completed her graduation from Norrix and attended college at Northern Colorado University where she received certification in teaching. After the death of her parents, she moved to live with her grandfather Homer Stryker when she was only 22 with Patricia and Jon. In the starting of her career, she joined South Junior High School and started teaching there. She moved to Northeastern Elementary School, Kalamazoo in 1977 to started to teach...
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