Chen ("Diana") Ningning is an entrepreneur and philanthropist. She is the founder and CEO of Pioneer Group Holdings, Chair of Yintai Securities Co., Ltd, and CEO of Yintai Investment Company LLC. She is a self-made billionaire, with an estimated net worth of $1.8 billion (as of 2011). [1] She graduated with an MBA degree from the New York Institute of Technology. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
A world-renowned philanthropist and educator, Diana serves on the Board of Trustees for Harvard-Westlake School, Yale University Sterling Fellows, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs Advisory Council, Lincoln Center Board of Trustees, and the Harvard Alumni President's Associates.
As an alumnae, she also serves on the Advisory Council of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. And she is a distinguished member of the Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs Global Advisory Council.
Diana is Chair of the Centrum Charitas Foundation. She has been awarded the JP (Justice of the Peace) and BBS (Bronze Bauhinia Star) by the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and she has participated in various Hong Kong government committees.
Stephen Allen Schwarzman is an American businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of the Blackstone Group, a global private equity firm he established in 1985 with Peter G. Peterson. Schwarzman was chairman of former President Donald Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum.
Jaime Augusto Miranda Zóbel de Ayala, also known as Jaime Augusto Zóbel, is a Filipino businessman from the prominent Zóbel de Ayala family. He currently serves as the chairman of Ayala Corporation since 2016. He succeeded his father, Jaime Zóbel de Ayala, as the company's president and CEO in 1994. He was the company's chairman and CEO from 2006 to 2021.
Joe Kaeser is a German manager who served as CEO of Siemens AG from 2013 to 2021.
Jean Case is an American businesswoman, author, and philanthropist who is chair of the board of National Geographic, CEO of Case Impact Network, and CEO of the Case Foundation. She is married to AOL co-founder Steve Case.
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Zhang Xin is a Chinese billionaire businesswoman, having primarily earned her fortune in the real estate industry. With her husband Pan Shiyi, she is the co-founder and former CEO of SOHO China, a Chinese office building developer. She stepped down from the role of CEO on 7 September 2022 “in order to focus on supporting the arts and philanthropic pursuits.” She has since taken on the role of Founder of Closer Media, a New York City-based film production company and financier.
Anand Gopal Mahindra is an Indian billionaire businessman, and the chairman of Mahindra Group, a Mumbai-based business conglomerate. The group operates in aerospace, agribusiness, aftermarket, automotive, components, construction equipment, defence, energy, farm equipment, finance and insurance, industrial equipment, information technology, leisure and hospitality, logistics, real estate and retail. Mahindra is the grandson of Jagdish Chandra Mahindra, co-founder of Mahindra & Mahindra.
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John S. Chen is a Hong Kong-American businessman who served as executive chairman and chief executive officer of BlackBerry Ltd. Previously, he served as the chief executive officer and president of Sybase, a software vendor specializing in data management, analytics and mobility technology.
James W. Breyer is an American venture capitalist, founder and chief executive officer of Breyer Capital, an investment and venture philanthropy firm, and a former managing partner at Accel Partners, a venture capital firm. Breyer has invested in over 40 companies that have gone public or completed a merger, with some of these investments, including Facebook, earning over 100 times cost and many others over 25 times cost. On the Forbes 2021 list of the 400 richest Americans, he was ranked #389, with a net worth of US$2.9 billion.
Chen Tianqiao ; born 1973) is a Chinese businessman who co-founded the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute in 2016. His net worth is an estimated US$4,000,000,000.
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