BimanRichard Li is a son of one of Hong Kong’s wealthiest billionaires Li Ka-Shing. He chairs Asia-based investment company Pacific Century group. Pacific Century owns most of life insurance company FWD which operates in ten markets across Asia including Hong Kong and Singapore. The group also has interests in businesses spanning financial services technology and … Read more
Wang Jian is the president of BGI one of Asia’s largest genomics companies. Wang worked as a senior research fellow at the University of Washington between 1990 and 1994. Wang Jian graduated from Central South University and holds a master’s degree from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. After graduation he performed postdoctoral research at the … Read more
‘Star Wars’ creator George Lucas has largely retired from filmmaking since he sold his Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 for $4.1 billion in stock and cash. Lucas is now focused on philanthropy: his charitable family foundation has more than $1 billion in assets. Lucas attended junior college in his hometown of Modesto California where his … Read more
Eric Smidt is CEO of $5 billion (sales) Harbor Freight Tools a home improvement retailer that has over 1200 stores in 48 states. Smidt was a teenager when he started Harbor Freight Tools with his father Allan in 1977. He earned enough credits at his job to graduate high school. In the beginning Harbor Freight … Read more
Will Walling is an American actor. He was born in Iowa and raised in Texas. He has been acting since he was a teenager and has appeared in many films and television shows. He is best known for his roles in the films “The Ring Two” and “A Cinderella Story”. You might be interested to … Read more
Clive Calder became a billionaire in 2002 when he sold his music company Zomba Group to German mass media corporation Bertlesmann for $2.7 billion. The crown jewel of his empire was Jive Records the record label behind many of the first commercially successful hip hop artists. The South Africa native founded Zomba in London in … Read more
Gustaf Douglas was born into nobility but without exceptional riches. The Harvard graduate eventually ran state-owned TV channel SVT2 and newspaper Dagens Nyheter. In 1985 Douglas acquired a controlling stake in Swedish security firm Securitas eventually turning into a global powerhouse. Today his sons Carl and Eric sit on the board of both Investment AB … Read more
Juan Carlos Escotet is the founder of Caracas-based banking group Banesco. Banesco is operational in Panama the Dominican Republic Puerto Rico Colombia and the United States. His son Juan Carlos Escotet Alviarez died in March in a boating accident trying to rescue his fiance who had fallen overboard. Escotet began working as a messenger for … Read more
Stefano Gabbana is the Milanese half of fashion house Dolce & Gabbana. Born to a printing factory worker father and a mother who ironed clothes for a laundry service he started the company with Domenico Dolce in 1985. The next year Dolce & Gabbana known for its extravagant style and animal print designs made its … Read more
Finn Rausing sits on the board of packaging company Tetra Lavel with his siblings Kirsten and Jörn. Finn’s grandfather founded Tetra Pak which invented aseptic packaging technology. The new packaging made it possible to store beverages like milk and orange juice in cartons instead of glass bottles His late father Gad bought out Finn’s uncle … Read more