Nicolas Berggruen (born 10 August 1961) is a billionaire investor and philanthropist. A dual American and German citizen, he is the founder and president of Berggruen Holdings, a private investment company and the Berggruen Institute, a think tank that works on…
Ajay Piramal (born 3 August 1955) is an Indian billionaire industrialist, and the chairman of the Piramal Group, a conglomerate with interests in pharmaceutical, financial services, real estate, healthcare analytics, and glass packaging. Apart from India, the Piramal Group has a presence in…
Boyan Slat (born 27 July 1994) is a Dutch inventor and entrepreneur. A former aerospace engineering student, he is the CEO of The Ocean Cleanup. In 2011, age 16, Slat came across more plastic than fish while diving in Greece. He decided…
Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen; July 20, 1939) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history and culture. During the 1970s, Chicago founded…
Allison Jones (born 1955) is an American casting director who is credited for helping bring together realistic ensemble casts for such popular television shows as Freaks and Geeks (for which she won an Emmy), Undeclared, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Good Place, Curb…
Charles Robert Schwab (born July 29, 1937) is an American investor and financial executive. He is the founder and chairman of the Charles Schwab Corporation. He pioneered discount sales of equity securities starting in 1975. His company became by far the…
Konrad Zuse (22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world’s first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its predecessors,…
Melinda Ann Gates (August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist and a former general manager at Microsoft. After graduating from Ursuline Academy of Dallas in 1982, Melinda joined Microsoft as a marketing manager, where she was responsible for leading the development of various multimedia products. In 2000, she co-founded the Bill…
Scott Raymond Adams (born June 8, 1957) is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, and business. His Dilbert series came to national prominence through the downsizing period in 1990s America and was then distributed worldwide.…
Don Tapscott CM (born June 1, 1947) is a Canadian business executive, author, consultant and speaker, who specializes in business strategy, organizational transformation, and the role of technology in business and society. He is the CEO of the Tapscott Group and the co-founder and Executive Chairman…
Jeffrey Lawrence Bewkes (born May 25, 1952) is an American media executive. In 1974, he graduated from Yale University with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. Upon graduation, he “tried his hand at documentary work for NBC News” before going to Stanford…
Scott Samuel “Scooter” Braun (born June 18, 1981) is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, record executive, investor, and philanthropist. In 2013, Braun was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. He is…