Michael Eisner is an American businessman who has been the chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company. Eisner was born in Mount Kisco, New York, and he went on to earn his B.A. in English from Denison University. Eisner went on to work as an Assistant to the National Programming Director at ABC. Over the years, Eisner moved up... read full bio
Ban Ki-moon is a South Korean politician and diplomat who has previously served as the 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations. Ki-moon was born in Insei, Japanese Korea, which is now known as Eumseong County, South Korea. While in high school, Ki-moon excelled in his studies of the English language which led to him winning an essay contest that earned... read full bio
Ed Balls is a retired British Labour and co-operative politician who has previously been a member of parliament for Normanton as well as for Morley and Outwood. Balls was born in Norwich, Norfolk, England, and he later studied philosophy, politics and economics at Keble College, Oxford before going on to study at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, where... read full bio
Deval Patrick is an American political author, civil rights lawyer, and businessman who has previously served as the 71st Governor of Massachusetts. Patrick was born in Chicago, Illinois, and he earned his A.B. and J.D. from Harvard University. After earning his J.D., Patrick went on to serve as a law clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt on the United States Court... read full bio
Tommy Hilfiger is an American fashion designer who is found of the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation. Hilfiger was born in Elmira, New York, and he began his career working in a clothing store where he saved 150 dollars and went on to open his first clothing store, People’s Place, which was located in Elmira. While working there, he began sketching his... read full bio
Roman Atwood is an American YouTube personality, comedian, and vlogger. He is best known for his YouTube channel, “RomanAtwoodVlogs”, which he currently holds over 10 million subscribers and counting. He also has another channel entitled, “RomanAtwood”, which is inactive but was where he posted pranks. Atwood has two Diamond Play Buttons for his two YouTube channel becoming the second YouTuber... read full bio
Peter Farrelly is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and novelist. He is the brother of Bobby Farrelly whom he often works with on films such as, “Dumb and Dumber”, “There’s Something About Mary”, “The Heartbreak Kid”, and “Me, Myself and Irene”. Farrelly graduated from Providence College and went on to apply to graduate school with his work of “Outside... read full bio
Mark Fischbach, better known as his YouTube name, Markiplier, is an American YouTuber. Currently, Mark holds over 23 million subscribers on the outlet and he focuses on Let’s Play videos, a majority of which are survival horror games. Some games that Mark has played on his channel includes, Five Nights at Freddy’s, Amnesia, Minecraft, Slender: The Eight Pages, and many... read full bio
GloZell Green is an American YouTube personality, singer, comedian, actor, and rapper. She is best known for her YouTube channel which she has nearly 5 million subscribers. Since her growing fame from social media, Green has gone on to interview President Barack Obama, release an autobiography, “Is You Okay”, and appear on films and series. Green studied at the University... read full bio
Vasant “Vas” Narasimhan is an Indian-American physician and CEO of Novartis, which is a Swiss pharmaceutical company. Narasimhan was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and he earned his B.A. in biological sciences from the University of Chicago, his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and his master’s in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Narasimhan has been working... read full bio
Trisha Paytas is an American Internet personality, recording artist, actress, and entrepreneur from Riverside, California. She is best known for her YouTube channel, ‘blndsundoll4mj’, which she currently has over 1.5 billion views and nearly 5 million subscribers on. She is best known for her mukbang eat challenges, her haul videos, her lifestyle videos, her discussions about her personal life, and... read full bio
Jeffree Star is an American Internet celebrity, makeup artist, model, singer-songwriter, and entrepreneur. He is best known for being the founder and owner of Jeffree Star Cosmetics. He grew into popularity with one of the first social medias, Myspace, where he worked on his music. During his musical career, Star released one studio album, “Beauty Killer”, which peaked at number... read full bio
Since making his culinary debut, Matty Matheson, an internationally renowned chef, TV personality, author and businessman, has been breaking through barriers. His two New York Times best-selling cookbooks, Matty Matheson: A Cookbook and Home Style Cookery, were both written by him. After becoming well-known as the host of the Viceland cookery programs It's Suppertime! and Dead Set on Life, Matheson made... read full bio
Jairek Robbins' quest for significance and purpose and his willingness to share what he discovers have shaped his life. He has worked hard at a Canadian lumberyard and as a volunteer in a Ugandan hamlet before becoming a global executive coach. And now, in his current position as president of SUCCESS Enterprises, which includes SUCCESS magazine, SUCCESS.com, SUCCESS Coaching, Achievers All-Access and... read full bio
Matthew Samuels, better known as Boi-1da, is a Canadian record producer and songwriter. He is best known for working with artists such as, Drake, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Nas, Jay-Z, Eminem, and many more. His most notable work includes being executive producer for Drake’s mixtape, “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late”. Samuels taught himself how to use FL Studio beat-making... read full bio
Linda Perry is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer. She started her career as a singer-songwriter for the band 4 Non Blondes and has gone on to become a founder of two record labels and compose and producer numerous singles. Artists that Perry has produced or written for include, Pink, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, Courtney Love, Kelly Osbourne, Alicia Keys,... read full bio
John Mackey, co-founder of Whole Foods Market, has served as Chief Executive Officer for over thirty years. He studied at the University of Texas at Austin and at Trinity University. Mackey started his career co-founding his first store, SaferWay, with his girlfriend at the time. Within two years they merged SaferWay with the local Clarksville Natural Grocery and renamed it... read full bio
An MIT Professor of Information Technology, Erik Brynjolfsson is a leading technology, e-commerce and productivity expert. At MIT, he teaches courses on the Economics of Information and on Information Technology and Organizations. His work is dedicated to the exploration of three questions: How can information technology transform the structures of markets and firms What is the impact of information technology... read full bio
Thomas Siebel is an American businessman, technologist, and author who is the founder, chairman, and CEO of C3.ai, an AI software platform and applications company. Siebel has also been founder of the software company, Siebel Systems. Siebel was born in Chicago, Illinois, and he has earned his B.A. in history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, his M.B.A. and... read full bio
After specializing in Energy Systems Engineering at Stanford University, Straubel quickly established himself in the business. After graduating from college, he worked with Rosen Motors to build a new hybrid car drivetrain. Straubel was one of the original members of the Pentadyne Power Corporation team that contributed to the advancement of this technology. After that, Straubel was the Chief Technical Officer... read full bio
