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BILL GATES Bill Gates has created the world's largest company, he is the world'srichest man and he has become the biggest charitable giver in history. He may be a college drop-out and "computer geek" but rivals have often underestimated his abilities in the cut throat world of business. Despite the wealth and ruthless domination of the global computer industry, Gates maintains it is the programming itself which is his abiding passion. He stood down as chief executive of Microsoft in 2000, to focus on software development and the new challenges of the mobile internet age. The one-time high school computer enthusiast - whose worth passed the $100bn mark in 1999 - said he wanted to immerse himself again in the work he loves most. STEVE JOBS Steve Jobs regularly makes most rosters of the rich and powerful. It is surprising for a guy who takes home an annual salary of U.S. $1. The reasons why he is on all power lists are; Apple, Next, iPod and Pixar. Jobs is also known as the one man who could have upstaged Bill Gates. But Jobs was as excited about innovation as Bill Gates was interested in making money.Steve Jobs was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin to Joanne Simpson and a Syrian father AbdulfattahJandali (who became a political science professor). Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California then adopted him. The writer Mona Simpson is Jobs biological sister. In 1972, Jobs graduated from Homestead High School in Cupertino, California and enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon. One semester later he had dropped out. But instead of going back home he hung around college and took up the study of philosophy and foreign cultures. WARREN BUFFETT Businessman and investor. Born Warren Edward Buffett on August 30,1930, in Omaha, Nebraska. Buffetts father Howard worked as stockbroker and served as U.S. Congressman. His mother, Leila Stahl Buffett, was a homemaker. Buffett was the second of three children and the only boy.Buffett demonstrated a knack for financial and business matters early on in his childhood. Friends and acquaintances have said the young boy was a mathematical prodigy, and was able to add large columns of numbers in his head-a talent he still occasionally shows off to friends and business associates.The majority of Buffetts considerable fortune was amassed through Berkshire Hathaway, a company for which he is the largest shareholder and CEO. Ranked as Forbes wealthiest man in 2008, his net worth is estimated at more than $62 billion. MICHAEL DELL Michael Dell founded Dell in 1984, and currently serves as the chairman of the Board of Directors and chief executive officer. In 1998, Mr. Dell formed MSD Capital, and he currently serves on the boards of several organizations including the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, the executive committee of the International Business Council and is a member of the U.S. Business Council, the U.S. Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the Technology CEO Council and the governing board of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India.Michael Dell added a position as Chairman and CEO at Dell.Michael Dell invested in Qliance Medical Management.

RICHARD BRANSON Sir Richard Branson is best known for his Virgin brand of over 360 companies. His first successful business venture was at age 15, when he launched Student magazine. His next venture was a record mail-order business in 1970. Two years later, he opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records, later known as Virgin Megastores and rebranded as zavvi in late 2007. He is the founder of Virgin USA and Absolute Radio.

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CARLOS BHOLA Carlos M. Bhola is co-Founder and CEO of kikin, delivering next-generation user-centric web and mobile experiences. Carlos was previously Managing Partner of Celsius Capital, an investment and advisory services firm focused on companies in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT); consumer goods; and real estate sectors in the U.S. and China. Current and previous portfolio companies include Vonage (where Carlos was co-Founder and President); EachNet/eBay China; gate5/Nokia; China Technology Realty (CTR); Chengdu RE; and Aircom. Carlos also served as Global Head of Internet/Electronic Commerce Investment Banking at Credit Suisse First Boston; prior to which he led Internet/Electronic Commerce and High Technology initiatives for Fortune 500 firms at the Boston Consulting Group. Carlos most recent academic accomplishment was his pioneering post-graduate research in artificial intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University. N.R. NARAYANA MURTHY Mr. N. R. Narayana Murthy is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies Limited. He founded Infosys in 1981 along with six other software professionals and served as the CEO of Infosys for 21 years till March 2002. Under his leadership, Infosys was listed on NASDAQ in 1999. He served as the Executive Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor from 2002 to 2006. Mr. Murthy articulated, designed and implemented the Global Delivery Model which has become the foundation for the huge success in IT services outsourcing from India. He has led key corporate governance initiatives in India. He is an IT advisor to several Asian countries. Mr. Murthy serves as an independent director on the boards of several global companies including Unilever, NV, Unilever, plc and HSBC Holdings plc. He is the Chairman of the Asia Business Council. He is also a member of the advisory boards and councils of several educational institutions including Wharton, Cornell, INSEAD, Stanford, Tokyo University, SMU Singapore, IIIT Bangalore and ESSEC, Paris. JEFFRERY R. IMMELT Jeffrey R. Immelt is the CEO and ninth chairman of GE, a post he has held since September 7, 2001.Mr. Immelt has held several global leadership positions since coming to GE in 1982, including roles in GEs Plastics, Appliance, and Medical businesses. In 1989 he became an officer of GE and joined the GE Capital Board in 1997. A couple years later, in 2000, Mr. Immelt was appointed president and chief executive officer.Mr. Immelt has been named one of the Worlds Best CEOs three times by Barrons, and since he began serving as chief executive officer, GE has been named Americas Most Admired Company in a poll conducted by Fortune magazine and one of The Worlds Most Respected Companies in polls by Barrons and the Financial Times. RUPERT MURDOCH Rupert Murdoch is the Chairman & CEO of News Corp.A native of Australia, Murdoch is a leading global media executive and controls, among other properties, the Wall Street Journal, MySpace and DirectTV.

LARRY ELLISON Larry Ellison attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign but dropped out at the end of his second year after his adoptive mother died. He moved to California and studied at the University of Chicago but stayed there for only one term. He became an employee of Ampex Corporationwhere he worked on a database project for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), codenamed Oracle. In 1977 he founded Oracle and started marketing its now-flagship product Oracle Database. By 2007, thirty years later, Oracle is the third largest software company in the world, next to Microsoft and IBM.