Morgan BellMost Influential Business People
May 9th 2008 10:42
Time Magazine has published the Top 100 most influential people list.
Included in the list were the following:
Oprah Winfrey
media talk-show host, political networker, and charitable role model
Rupert Murdoch
the worlds most influential newspaper publisher and media mogul, NewsCorp has a $29 billion revenue, he recently purchased the Wall Street Journal
Ben Bernanke
the new chairman of the US Federal Reserve, replacing Alan Greenspan
Bob & Suzanne Wright
Bob was formerly the CEO of NBC and currently raises money and awareness with his wife for a charity called Autism Speaks
Jeff Han
the 32 year old computer science researcher who introduced the concept of multi-touch sensing screens
Mary Lou Jepsen
the 43 year old lead innovator and architect of the One Laptop Per Child initiative aiming to provide solar powered $100 computers to children across the globe
Paul Allen
co-founder of Microsoft who is the head of the Allen Institute for Brain Science which is mapping the brain according to cells and genes
Mark Zuckerberg
the 23 year old college kid who created the internet networking site Facebook, now hosting 70 million active users
Isaac Berzin
the 40 year old chemical engineer from Israel farming $92 million worth of algae to produce fuel and reduce carbon dioxide
Alex Rigopulos & Eran Egozy
the creators of Harmonix classic rock video games Guitar Hero and Rock Band
Indra Nooyi chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, increasing international business by 22% last year, moving towards healthier products, and entering into a partnership with Starbucks
Steve Jobs
co-founder, CEO and chairman of Apple Inc, $24 billion in annual sales, 22,000 employees
Ratan Tata
developer of the $2,500 car in India
The CEOs of Amazon, Digg, Cisco, and GE were also profiled, as were many prominent scientists, entertainers and politicians
Australian edition published May 12, 2008
Included in the list were the following:
Oprah Winfrey
media talk-show host, political networker, and charitable role model
Rupert Murdoch
the worlds most influential newspaper publisher and media mogul, NewsCorp has a $29 billion revenue, he recently purchased the Wall Street Journal
Ben Bernanke
the new chairman of the US Federal Reserve, replacing Alan Greenspan
Bob & Suzanne Wright
Bob was formerly the CEO of NBC and currently raises money and awareness with his wife for a charity called Autism Speaks
Jeff Han
the 32 year old computer science researcher who introduced the concept of multi-touch sensing screens
Mary Lou Jepsen
the 43 year old lead innovator and architect of the One Laptop Per Child initiative aiming to provide solar powered $100 computers to children across the globe
Paul Allen
co-founder of Microsoft who is the head of the Allen Institute for Brain Science which is mapping the brain according to cells and genes
Mark Zuckerberg
the 23 year old college kid who created the internet networking site Facebook, now hosting 70 million active users
Isaac Berzin
the 40 year old chemical engineer from Israel farming $92 million worth of algae to produce fuel and reduce carbon dioxide
Alex Rigopulos & Eran Egozy
the creators of Harmonix classic rock video games Guitar Hero and Rock Band
Indra Nooyi chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, increasing international business by 22% last year, moving towards healthier products, and entering into a partnership with Starbucks
Steve Jobs
co-founder, CEO and chairman of Apple Inc, $24 billion in annual sales, 22,000 employees
Ratan Tata
developer of the $2,500 car in India
The CEOs of Amazon, Digg, Cisco, and GE were also profiled, as were many prominent scientists, entertainers and politicians
Australian edition published May 12, 2008
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yeah the list recognised quite a few innovative people, i just selected a few that had impacted on the business world . . . i guess alot were american but there were innovators from all over the world
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