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Kevin Allen (author)	In 2010, Allen created a growth consulting firm KevinAllenPartners Company.
Arthur Shakespeare	In 1957, Federal Capital Press Ltd founded Canberra Television Ltd, of which Arthur Shakespeare was chairman.
Dave Ramsey	Ramsey founded his company, The Lampo Group, Inc., in 1992, initially helping people one-on-one who were struggling with financial issues.
Tony Spaeth	Spaeth returned to undiluted identity focus in 1985, when he joined the consulting firm Anspach Grossman Portugal (whose partners he had known from Lippincott & Margulies in the 60s) as director of marketing and a consulting principal.
Shirish Saraf	After a short stint as a county cricketer, Saraf started his career in 1991 in the capital markets group of the ANZ Investment Bank, where he set up the first India-dedicated private equity fund focused on India.
Yue-Sai Kan	In 1992, Yue-Sai successfully transformed herself from a TV personality to an entrepreneur by creating the Yue-Sai cosmetics brand which became China's leading Cosmetics Company, eventually selling products in more than 800 outlets through 23 regional companies in China's major markets.
Joel Levine	Levine created the first Section 351 Rollup in the real estate industry, combining on a tax-free basis several public real estate limited partnerships with related private corporations to form a single public corporate entity which in 1984 was sold to GAMI owned and controlled by the financier Sam Zell.
Andy Hornby	On 1 July 2009, Hornby became Group chief executive of Alliance Boots, an international pharmacy-led health and beauty group with over 115,000 employees and a presence in over 20 countries worldwide.
Preston Doerflinger	He founded and served as the chief executive officer of PLD Management, a business consulting and investment firm, until 2009.
Andr? Vallerand	Vallerand was appointed as chairman of the board for Advantage Link Inc., a publicly traded computer services company, in August 2001.
Isabel dos Santos	Since 2008 she has had relevant interests in telecommunications, media, retail, finance and the energy industry, both in Angola and in Portugal.
Pan Shiyi	In 1992, he co-founded Beijing Vantone Co., Ltd., a developer now listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Kneeland Youngblood	In 1997, Youngblood, along with Michael Devlin and Robert Crants, founded Pharos Capital Group, LLC, a private equity firm.
Michael Capellas	In 2010 it was announced he would be chairman and CEO of VCE, a joint venture of Cisco Systems and EMC Corporation with investment from Intel and VMware that specializes in cloud computing.
Martin J. Wygod	In the 1970s he shifted his focus to the burgeoning health care industry, buying Glasrock Medical Services in 1977 and after five years of solid growth, sold it for a large profit.
Greg Norman	In 2006, Norman and Australia's leading beef producer, Australian Agricultural Company (AAco), announced the formation of a venture to develop and export a line of Greg Norman-branded premium steaks and beef products.
Natalia Kapchuk	In 2010 Kapchuk became Director of leading Lifestyle Management and Business Concierge company called The Anonymous with offices in London, Paris, Montenegro and Dubai.
Steven Rattner	After Lehman was sold to American Express in 1984, he followed his boss Eric Gleacher and several colleagues to Morgan Stanley, where he founded the firm's communications group.
Tom Tureen	In 1983, Tureen founded Tribal Assets Management with Daniel Zilkha, an investment banker who attended Princeton with Tureen, which at one time in the 1980s handed $ 250M in investments for tribes across the US.
Phil Knight	He had been the chairman and chief executive officer of the San Diego-based Arrowhead General Insurance Agency and grew his business into a nationwide organization with written premiums of nearly US$ 1 billion when he sold the company in 2006.
Hugh Denison	In 1938 he founded Macquarie Broadcasting Services Pty Ltd, which controlled fifteen radio stations across Australia.
Sanjay Jha	In 2002, Jha led the formation of Qualcomm Technologies & Ventures, where he managed both the technology investment portfolio and the new technology group as senior vice president and general manager.
Nagar Lai	He is now an alumnus of Hong Kong University Business School and Cambridge Judge Business School Nagar Lai worked as marketing director of big companies including a listed company Shun Cheong Holding (Stock number in Hong Kong 650) and multinationals until the age of 40, then he became an educator until 2011.
Lucio Tan	In 1982, after then President Ferdinand Marcos lifted the ban on the establishment of new beer companies, Tan established Asia Brewery, the second largest brewery in the country, with a 10 % share of the Philippine market.
Dave Checketts	In September 2001, Checketts founded SCP Worldwide, a consulting and investment service firm for sports teams.
Omar Harfouch	In Kiev, he owns with his brother Valid Arfush, the Supernova media group which holds between the other first in Ukraine creates FM radio Supernova He made his fortune in Ukraine at the age of 28 years (to 1997).
Stephen Brown (film producer)	Since 2008 he has served as a consultant to Vahid & Associates Brand Futurists in Bahrain, advising companies and individuals looking to launch businesses in the Gulf Region as well as local media companies with brand redevelopment and extension activities.
Paul Griffiths (CEO)	Paul Griffiths FRCO FRAeS (born 16 October 1957) is a British businessman, CEO of Dubai Airports, a company based in the United Arab Emirates and wholly owned by the Dubai government.
Jochen Wermuth	In 1997, he joined Deutsche Bank's Global Markets Division in London as Director of Russian debt capital markets origination, working from Moscow as a member of the management committee responsible for setting up Deutsche's fully licensed subsidiary there.
Josh Linkner	Since 2010 Linkner has served as CEO and Managing Partner of Detroit Venture Partners, a venture capital firm helping to rebuild urban areas through technology and entrepreneurship.
Thierry St-Cyr	He has also been a president and shareholder of an information technology company until 2000, when he started working for TETRA Technologies, Inc., an international oil and gas services company.
Joel Cadbury	Cadbury and Vigors are currently seeking investment opportunities in India in areas where Longshot has previously had great success.
Simon Beresford-Wylie	On 4 November 2009, Beresford-Wylie became the CEO of Elster Group, a technology and innovation driven provider of smart metering and smart grid systems and solutions to the gas, electricity and water industries.
Harlette	At the age of 30, she moved to London, where she gained contract roles at investment banks including Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley In 2005, Harlette founded the company `` Harlette Luxury Lingerie'', to provide a one of a kind luxury lingerie concierge service.
Arthur J. Samberg	Arthur J. Samberg (born 1941) was the chief executive officer, president and chairman of Pequot Capital Management, a hedge fund which at one point was the largest in the world at over $ 15 billion.
Alfred R. Kelman	Leaving the broadcast arena for the burgeoning knowledge industry in 1968 Kelman was a principal in a publicly held corporation (Medcom, Inc.) specializing in medical education and allied health personnel training.
Andrew Rosenfeld	From 2006, he has been based in Geneva, Switzerland, where he set up the investment group Air Capital and formed a real estate partnership with Goldman Sachs Whitehall Fund.
David Nason	In 2008, Nason was designated by Secretary Paulson to serve on the board of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), a federal non-profit corporation that protects securities investors from financial harm if a broker-dealer company fails.
Shaun Goater	Goater and three other partners in the Bermuda based East End Group Limited announced an amalgamation with Telecommunications Networks Limited (now renamed East End Telecom) on 9 November 2007, which added to the group's two other business subsidiaries, East End Asphalt and East End Aviation.
Peter Carl Goldmark	Approaching the mandatory company retirement age of 65, Goldmark left CBS Laboratories in 1971, and formed Goldmark Communications, where he pursued research on the use of communication technologies to provide services like teleconferencing and remote medical consultations to people in rural areas.
Jack Quinn (lawyer)	He also serves on the Board of Academi, a private security company that was purchased in December 2010 from the owners of the Blackwater USA security firm.
John Meriwether	Meriwether founded the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1994.
Georges Ugeux	In 2003, Georges Ugeux founded an investment banking advisory firm, Galileo Global Advisors, and, since then, has been its CEO.
Rex Tillerson	In 1998, he became a vice president of Exxon Ventures (CIS) and president of Exxon Neftegas Limited with responsibility for Exxon's holdings in Russia and the Caspian Sea.
Paul Duffen	With Duffen as CEO, Catalyst Media Group plc (the company changed its name in 2004), was involved in significant M&A activity successfully raising over # 75 million in debt and equity to enable various transactions on both sides of the Atlantic.
Robert Pittman (media executive)	In November 2010, Pittman took on the role of Chairman of Media and Entertainment Platforms for Clear Channel and made a personal equity investment in the Company.
Leo Melamed	In 1972, under his leadership, the CME created the International Monetary Market (IMM), the world's first financial futures exchange, and launched currency futures.
Ed Esber	In May 2011 Esber was appointed as a board member of the Utah Capital Investment Corporation overseeing the Utah Fund of Funds which invests in Venture Capital Funds in Utah, California and throughout the United States.
Tissa Wijeyeratne	Thus in 1978, he formed what is today Sinhaputhra Finance Ltd, a Central Bank Registered Finance Company, of which he was the founder Chairman.
Sunil Paul	In 1998 Paul founded Brightmail (previously knows as `` Brightlight''), an e-mail filtering company, and raised $ 55 million in three rounds of venture capital led by Accel, TCV and Symantec.
Edward Isaac Ezra	From 1900 Ezra had diversified his economic activities, adding large-scale real estate investment s, construction, and management.
Randy Altschuler	With RR Donnelley's acquisition of OfficeTiger from Altschuler and Sigelman in March 2006 for $ 250 million, and its combination by Donnelly with another Donnelley acquisition, Astron BPO, by September 2006, OfficeTiger expanded to 29 offices and 42 client locations across nine countries and employed 4,000 people in India, 4,000 in Europe, 1,000 in Sri Lanka, 750 in the United States, and 300 in the Philippines.
Tom Ruud (businessman)	From 2001 he was Nordea's country senior executive in Norway, and the corporation's leader of'' Banking & Capital Market Products''.
Rodney Mullen	In 2002, World Industries under the holding name Kubic Marketing, was sold to Globe International for US$ 46 million, making Mullen and Rocco instant multi-millionaires.
Lewis M. Eisenberg	In 1990 Eisenberg Co-Founded Granite Capital International Group L. P., an investment management firm where as Co-Chairman he oversaw investment management for private clients.
Matt Ballinger	(2009) Matt is living in New York City and currently working as a recruiter in the pharmaceutical division of Green Key Resources, a Manhattan based executive search & staffing firm.
Rob Lewis (entrepreneur)	Lewis brokered a majority stake sale to US-based power and utilities company AES Corporation in 2007, pairing Wind Energy with AES owned SeaWest Wind Power bringing a host of development skills to Wind Energy and accelerating the development of clean renewable energy for the UK.
Ahmed Abdelkefi	In 1994 he founded the Tuninvest Finance Group (TFG), the first Tunisian company specialized in private equity.
Jos Clijsters	In 1995, he set up the Banque de la Poste, a joint venture between Generale Bank and the Belgian Post Office, and became the company's first CEO.
Andrey Kirikov	Andrey Kirikov became one of three founders, a core shareholder and Board Member of public joint-stock OAO Sibir Cement Holding Company, a major Russian financial and industrial groups, in 2004.
Michael Steinhardt	In 2004, Steinhardt came out of retirement to work for Index Development Partners, Inc., now known as WisdomTree Investments.
Michael Eisner	In October 2007, Eisner, through his Tornante Company investment firm, partnered with Madison Dearborn Partners in the acquisition of Topps Company, the bubble-gum and collectibles firm.
John Sykes (American businessman)	In March 2008 Sykes left Viacom to join his MTV co-founder Robert W. Pittman at Pilot Group, a private equity venture firm.
Adamjee Haji Dawood	By 1922, he had accumulated sufficient resources and a strong presence in the commodities markets, enabling him to setup his first Industrial venture - a match factory in Rangoon -LSB- now Yangon -RSB-.
Nelson Riis	He resigned those positions on November 22, 2005 and now serves as Rockport's Global Ambassador and is focused on the Company's overseas expansion.
Simon Acland	In October 2010 Nicholas Brealey Publishing published Acland's Angels, Dragons and Vultures : How to tame your investors... and not lose your company, a guide for entrepreneurs to raising finance and managing investors based on his experience of the venture capital world.
Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria	Since 2011 he has been Chairman of Molson Coors Cobra India, a joint venture between Cobra Beer and Molson Coors in India.
Svend Robinson	Robinson took a position in 2007 with the global trade union federation Public Services International based in Ferney-Voltaire, near Geneva in the French Alps, where he moved with his partner Max Riveron and their two dogs.
Charles O. Rossotti	In 1970, Rossotti and several DOD colleagues co-founded American Management Systems, a technology and management consulting firm.
Andy Hornby	On 18 July 2011, he commenced his role as chief executive of Coral, which consists of a Retail estate of 1,750 betting shops, as well as an interactive business offering betting via Internet, telephone and mobile.
Barbara Rosen	In 1991 Barbara met Finnish-American technology and marketing entrepreneur Ilkka'' I. J.'' Ikävalko and went to work for his consulting firm which represented a large Finnish construction enterprise working in Russia with American companies, often large oil firms, as partners.
Lee Kranefuss	In December 2012, Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity firm backed by more than $ 30B in capital focused on growth investing, announced the appointment of Kranefuss as an Executive-in-Residence to identify and evaluate investment opportunities in the areas of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), index investing and asset management, particularly in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Jean-Pierre Clamadieu	Since 2012 and in a short time, Jean-Pierre Clamadieu led the new group to integrate successfully, to reorganize it into a flatter and more agile structure (with five clusters and a new visual logo), and to transform it into a more balanced portfolio (output of PVC in Europe through JV with Ineos and selling Indupa in Latin America, investment in energy in U. S. A. with the acquisition of Chemlogics, important investments in emerging areas of high growth : Russia, India, China, Thailand...).
Martin Garrick	In 1991, he founded Admiral Industries, Inc., a telecommunications company and he currently owns Admiral Property Company, a real estate investment and asset management firm.
Georges Ugeux	Georges Ugeux joined the New York Stock Exchange in September 1996, as Group Executive Vice President, International & Research, a financial news outlet labeling him'' the face of the New York Stock Exchange outside of the United States''.
Philip Yeo	In 2013, Yeo joined the board of directors of the Baiterek National Managing Holding of Kazakhstan, which is a trust management company which manages key Kazakh financial institutions like the Development Bank of Kazakhstan.
Alison Lawton	In 1997, she founded her own investment company, Winfield Venture Group ; a private angel investment and corporate finance boutique.
Antoine Beaussant	In 2005, Beaussant, who is a keen oboist, joined the Supervisory Board of Buffet Crampon, Europe's leading wind instrument manufacturer since its takeover by the Argos Soditic investment fund.
Manoj Bhargava	He started a plastics raw material company in 1990, Prime PVC Inc., later called Prime Conduit, which he grew to $ 20 million in sales and then sold to a private equity firm.
William A. Haseltine	In 1987 Haseltine became an advisor to a venture capital company, Healthcare Ventures lead by Wallace Steinberg.
Lee Kranefuss	In 1997 Kranefuss joined Barclays Global Investors (BGI), the company that invented index fund s. BGI was then the world's largest manager of institutional assets.
David M. Kennedy	In October 1962, President John F. Kennedy (no relation) appointed him a member of a private corporation (COMSAT) to own and operate the United States' share of a global satellite communication system.
Norton Simon	His marketing strategy worked, and by 1945 Hunt Foods became a household name and one of the largest food processing businesses on the West Coast.
Ron Grzywinski	htm In 1997, Ron helped to launch ShoreBank Pacific, the nation's first commercial bank formed to support environmentally sustainable development.
Madhavi Vuppalapati	Madhavi founded the telecom and IT services multinational Prithvi in 1998, and together with her brother Satish Vuppalapati, took the company public in India 7 years later.
Michael A. Neuman	In 2002, Neuman assumed the leadership of BCE's mobile phone operator Bell Mobility.
Ivan Selin	In 1970, Selin and several DOD colleagues co-founded American Management Systems, a technology and management consulting firm.
Rich Kelley	He has also invested in many limited partnerships, including venture funds, and has been involved as a search fund investor since 1994.
Ranjana Kaushal	From 2011 Kaushal has specialized in the energy sector, initially writing for Argus Media, then joining news and information provider Energy Intelligence in July 2011 to cover liquefied natural gas and other gas markets.
Suneet Maheshwari	Suneet moved to Feedback Ventures, a boutique infrastructure advisory company, in 2000, where he worked as a Partner and Managing Director (CEO) of their Core Infrastructure Advisory business (Energy, Transport & Urban Infra).
Ben Chiu	On March 23, 1999 he sold his company to CNET in a stock swap valued at USD 54 million and joined CNET as the Director of Commerce Services.
Nicholas F. Brady	He has been the Chairman of Darby Overseas Investments, Ltd. and Darby Technology Ventures Group, LLC, investment firms, since 1994.
Werner Christie	In 2001 he started his own full-time consulting business, World Health Connections, focusing on entrepreneurship and investment strategies in medical technology and biotechnology, as well as health care development and consulting.
Marcos Elias	br Brascan, in the early 2002 he co-founded GAS Investimentos, thereafter acquired by com Vinci Partners today one of the largest independent equity houses in Brazil.
Ferenc Bartha	He founded and led Bartha Financial Advisor Ltd. since 1995.
Philippe Gas	Philippe Gas (born 1964 in at Rueil-Malmaison) is the president of Euro Disney S. A. S., the management company of Euro Disney S. C. A. and Euro Disney Associés S. C. A., the operator of Disneyland Paris.
Chris Cantell	In March 2004, Chris Cantell and Frédéric Artru incorporate privately funded Sigex Ventures Euro Fund, SAS, a French investment vehicle for telecommunications technology ventures.
Bob Froehlich	He then joined Kemper Funds, with $ 75 billion in assets among 50 different funds, as their Vice Chairman in 1997.
Tad Devine	In 2007, Devine joined with Julian Mulvey to form com/about/overview Devine Mulvey, a US and international political consulting firm offering strategic and communications advice to clients across the globe.
David A. Marcus	Marcus started his career at 23 when he founded his first venture, GTN Telecom and served as the Chairman and CEO until GTN was acquired by World Access in 2000.