BimanCharlie Ergen is the cofounder and chairman of satellite TV provider Dish Network and satellite communications company EchoStar. Ergen first began selling satellite dishes out of the back of a truck in Colorado in 1980. He took Dish public in 1996. Today it boasts over 11 million subscribers. EchoStar which has 10 satellites in space … Read more
Most of Carlos “Beto” Sicupira’s wealth comes from his shares of Anheuser-Busch InBev the world’s largest brewer in which he owns about a 3% stake. His fellow shareholders at AB Inbev include longtime Brazilian business partners Jorge Paulo Lemann and Marcel Herrmann Telles both billionaires. In 2016 AB InBev completed its nearly $100 billion acquisition … Read more
Virgil Fox was an American organist who is considered one of the greatest virtuosos of the 20th century. He was born in Kansas in 1912 and began studying the organ at the age of 12. He later studied at the Julliard School of Music and made his debut as a concert organist in 1938. He … Read more
Uday Kiran was born on October 10 1982 in Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh India. He is a film actor who predominantly appears in Telugu films. After making his acting debut in the 2002 Telugu film “Nuvve Nenu” he starred in films such as “Chitram” “Manmadhudu” and “Yamadonga”. In 2006 he won the Filmfare Award for Best … Read more
Jonathan Tisch’s late father Bob (d. 2005) started Loews Corporation with his brother Laurence as a New Jersey hotel venture in 1946. Tisch is co-chairman of Loews alongside his cousin Andrew Tisch; he’s also the CEO of Loews’ hotel unit. Loews is active in insurance drilling rigs natural gas pipelines and hotels. His father Bob … Read more
Alberto Siccardi founded medical device company Medacta and became a billionaire after taking it public on the Swiss stock exchange in April 2019. The $370 million (sales) firm based in Castel San Pietro Switzerland designs joint replacement and spinal surgery products. In the early 90s Siccardi had a bad fall in the Swiss Alps and … Read more
Bang Jun-hyuk is the chairman of South Korea’s largest mobile-gaming company Netmarble which he founded in 2000. He’s built Netmarble into a $2 billion gaming empire with its action-packed role-playing games that have become hits across Asia and the U.S. In May 2017 he took the company public raising $2.4 billion in what became South … Read more
Yvonne Lombard is a Swedish actress who was born in Stockholm Sweden. She has appeared in a number of Swedish films and television series and is perhaps best known for her role as Rebecka Martinsson in the Swedish crime drama series “Rebecka Martinsson”. You might be interested to know more about Yvonne Lombard. So in … Read more
Wally Patch was born in Willesden Middlesex England in 1917. He was an English actor. Patch was best known for his roles in BBC Radio’s “The Navy Lark” and in the films “The Mouse on the Moon” (1963) and “The Wrong Box” (1966). He died in London in 1997. Want to more about Him? In … Read more
Torbjorn Tornqvist is the Swedish co-founder of Gunvor Group one of the largest commodities conglomerates in the world. The massive oil trader benefits from an increasingly diverse presence with refineries pipelines terminals and mining operations in 35 countries. Tornqvist got his start at British Petroleum in 1977 and founded Gunvor with Russian billionaire Gennady Timchenko … Read more