BimanHans-Peter Wild sold the last of a WILD Flavors stake to agricultural processing giant Archer-Daniels Midland in 2014 for about $3 billion in cash. His father founded WILD Flavors in 1931 and the company grew into a leading supplier of flavors and extracts sweeteners and fermentation technology. He worked for a marketer of mineral oil … Read more
Under Armour founder Kevin Plank built a popular sportswear brand as the underdog competitor to Nike. Noticing his football teammates’ sweat-soaked shirts Plank came up with a lightweight sweat-wicking shirt using fabrics from women’s undergarments. In the mid 1990s he sold his first shirts from his grandmother’s basement exaggerating to early customers to make the … Read more
Patrick Hanrahan cofounded data analytics company Tableau in 2003. Salesforce acquired Tableau in June 2019 in a $15.7 billion all-stock deal. Hanrahan is a computer graphics and electrical engineering professor at Stanford University. Tableau was born out of research he and one of his cofounders were doing while analyzing and visualizing large databases of information … Read more
Masahiro Miki owns the majority of discount shoe store chain ABC-Mart. ABC-Mart owns U.S. shoe brand Danner. A former amateur boxer Miki founded ABC-Mart in the 1980s. He stepped down as chairman of the publicly traded company in 2007. You might be interested to know more about Masahiro Miki. So in this article we discussed … Read more
N.R. Narayana Murthy is the legendary cofounder and retired chairman of Indian tech giant Infosys in which he continues to hold a minority stake. Murthy stepped down as chairman in 2011 after 30 years with the company but returned in 2013 to hand over management to a professional CEO in 2014. In 2017 Murthy was … Read more
Yashpal Sharma is an Indian Bollywood Actor who has appeared in over 100 films. He was born in India in 1954. Sharma has worked as a theater actor producer and director. He made his film debut in the 1990 film “Afsana Pyaar Ka”. You might be interested to know more about Yashpal Sharma. So in … Read more
Lu chairs Jiangsu Linyang Energy an electronics supplier. The company was established in 1995 and trades on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. It currently employs 3000 people that churn out a variety of meters and offgrid solar power systems. Customers include State Grid Corporation of China and China Southern Power Grid. Want to more about Him? … Read more
Dmitri Bukhman and his brother Igor own online gaming upstart Playrix. The company is best known for free mobile-app games such as Homescapes and Fishdom. Born and raised in northern Russia the brothers started selling games online while Dmitry was still in high school. Playrix now does more than $2.7 billion in estimated annual revenue. … Read more
Twinkle Khanna is an Indian author and columnist. She is the daughter of actors Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia. After a brief career in films she took up writing and has since authored two best-selling books. Her columns have been published in various national newspapers. You might be interested to know more about Twinkle Khanna. … Read more
Virginia Carroll is an American actress known for her work in television and film. Carroll was born in Los Angeles California and raised in a family of entertainers. She began her career as a child actor appearing in commercials and television shows. Her first major role was in the NBC drama series “The West Wing” … Read more