Businesspersons
Melinda Gates Net Worth
Melinda Ann French was born on 15 August 1964, in Dallas, Texas USA, and now as Melinda Gates her surname announces her importance as one of the most powerful and influential women in the world, regardless that she is married to the richest man in the world. She is businesswoman and philanthropist, and with her husband controls the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, founded in 2000 and acknowledged as the most generous private philanthropic organisation in the world.
So, how rich is Melinda Gates? Notionally, Melinda has equal shares in the fortune accumulated by her husband and herself – she has a big say in Microsoft too – so to say that her nominal net worth is around $40 billion is not over-stating her wealth.
Melinda Gates Net Worth $40 Billion
Melinda was a successful pupil of St. Monica Catholic School. It could be said, that the fortune of Melinda Gates was decided at a young age as she was educated at the Ursuline Academy of Dallas, and later graduated with a Bachelors degree in economics and computer science from Duke University, followed by a Master of Business Administration from Fuqua School of Business. Having an impressive education, it was not problematic for Melinda to start earning her net worth by joining the Microsoft Company and taking part in the development of Microsoft’s products. Melinda is known for her work at Microsoft – American multinational corporation, for her work as project manager of profitable products such as Expedia, Microsoft Bob and Microsoft Encarta.
However, it is Melinda’s relationship with Bill and their philanthropic activities which inevitably take centre stage. While working in Microsoft she met her husband-to-be, and after six year dating they married in 1994 in Hawaii. Shortly after marriage Melinda Gates left her full-time job to care for their three children. The businesswoman could take care of her children and also become involved in charity work. The philanthropic work of the Gates family is really notable, as they have founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and donated huge sums of over $35 billion and rising. The primary idea of the foundation was to set computers in all libraries of USA, but later the goals became bigger, to contribute to education and health, and alleviate poverty all over the world. Another imposing act of charity work is an estimated $560 million spent to improve access to contraception for girls and women in needy countries. The impressive net worth of Melinda has also benefited her high school Ursuline Academy of Dallas, to which she has donated $10 million.
In 2002 Gates received an Award for Greatest Public Service. In three years the Gates family has been named Time’s People of the Year. In 2006 they received Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation and Order of the Aztec Eagle. In 2013 Gates was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters by Duke University and she is named one of the most powerful women in the world by Forbes magazine.
To sum up, Melinda French Gates is a powerful philanthropist whose notional net worth of 40 billion dollars makes her one of the world’s richest people. Her wealth is earned with the help of her boss in Microsoft Corporation, her husband Bill Gates. Their Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is one of the biggest organizations of charity which cares about reduction of poverty, promotion of education and healthcare issues. Gates has also been an associate of Duke University’s board of committee for six years.
A part of her less-than-private personal life is that Melinda and Bill Gates are still raising three children.
Businesspersons
Charles Saatchi Net Worth
Charles Saatchi is one of the richest and best known businessmen in the world and one of many millionaires. Saatchi’s overall net worth has been stated to be $100 million for 2014. Charles Saatchi was born in Baghdad, Iraq, but later had to move together with his family to London, UK to avoid the persecution of Jews in his home country. He was the second son in the family of four kids. As a teenager Charles was really interested in American pop culture and studied at the London College of Communication. After graduation he began his professional career as a copywriter working for “Benton & Bowles” and later started to work in tandem with an art director, Ross Cramer, and together they formed their own company called “CramerSaatchi”.
Charles Saatchi Net Worth $100 Million
They were successful and took-on employees John Hegarty and Heremy Sinclair, but true success came to Charles later. In 1970 Charles Saatchi started his business together with brother Maurice: they established “Saatchi & Saatchi” agency which had become the largest advertising agency in the world by the mid-80’s with just a huge number of high-profile clients like UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and British Airways. However, Charles and Maurice left the agency and together founded another one called “M&C Saatchi”. They took many of their important clients with them, and one of these was British Airways. Nowadays, thanks to his prosperous business, Charles Saatchi has a net worth of $100 million dollars.
To the rest of the world Saatchi is also known as one of the most famous modern art collectors. He purchased his first art work in 1969 – by Sol LeWitt, a minimalist from New York. His passion for paintings only grew, and in 2009 he even published the book “My Name Is Charles Saatchi And I Am An Artoholic” wherein the author answered many questions and even gave some advice about collectibles. But the book didn’t become as popular as Saatchi expected, so the author asked his personal assistant to buy a huge number of books to help his work hit some positions in bestseller charts. Later in 2009 Saatchi appeared on the BBC program “School of Saatchi” and gave many young artists a perfect opportunity to show their talent and showcase artworks: some artists even painted portraits of Saatchi himself. In July 2010 Charles Saatchi donated his Saatchi Gallery to the British public together with 200 works of art.
Saatchi’s personal life has never been very public, but he married his first wife in 1973. He had met Doris Lockhart Dibley in 1965 while working for “Benton & Bowes”. The couple lived together for the six years before marrying, but divorced in 1990. Saatchi’s second wife was Kay Hartenstein to whom he was married from 1990-2001, and they even had a daughter together. Then Saatchi married for the third time in 2003, to English journalist, food writer, gourmet and television personality Nigella Lawson, but after public disagreements, were divorced 2013.
Businesspersons
Mikey Teutul Net Worth
Michael Joseph was born 26 November 1978, in Montgomery, New York State USA, and widely known as Mikey Teutul, is a reality television personality, the youngest son of Orange County Choppers founder Paul Teutul, Sr. Mikey began his working life at 14, in the family business.
So just how rich is Mikey Teutul, as of late 2017? Authoritative sources estimate that Mikey has a net worth of over $3 million dollars, largely earned by working at his father’s and older brother Paul Jr,’s company Orange County Choppers (OCC), and Orange County Iron Works, and through his TV appearances.
Mikey Teutul Net Worth $3 Million
Little is known of Mikey’s early life or education – it seems to have always revolved around the family business. Helping out his family in his teens, theoretically he worked as Assistant General Manager. but his main duties were to answer ‘phones, and clear-up and take out the trash. He was on rare occasions given the chance to build bikes, until he was competent to build his own. He also attended events for promoting OCC.
In 2002, the family was invited to take part in a reality show, Discovery Channel’s “American Chopper”, and subsequently “American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior”, in the course of which the youngest son was thrown out of the business – the middle son is Daniel, and younger sister Cristin. The reason for Mikey’s exclusion was that Mikey tried to be a mediator between his father and his brother, but his father seemed to be offended that his younger son did not take his side, and so threw him out of the business. During the filming of the show, Mikey was somethoing of a comedy relief to his father’s workers, and that comedy streak helped gain him popularity in TV shows. Mikey then joined his brother’s post-OCC venture, -Paul Jr Designs – along with most of their father’s employees; obviously the work atmosphere with Paul Teutul, Sr. was not a particularly happy one. Mikey’s eldest brother Paul Jr. was the former chief fabricator of OCC.
So actually the main source of Mikey Teutul’s wealth is not his father’s business, but the shows he eventually took part in. These have included ‘The Late Show with David Letterman”, “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”, and also “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno. The shows became very popular and Mikey’s appearances earned him a significant amount of money. To say the least, the family drama did not go without consequences – according to rumours, Mikey Teutul was suffering from an addiction problem, and consequently admitted himself to rehab, and managed to overcome the bad habits which were apparently hindering his progress in life, obviously including business.
In his life away from the businesses already referred to and the limelight of TV, Michael loves to paint, and is apparently respected for his productions, as he opened “The Wolfgang Gallery” gallery in Montgomery, New York, where he has sold or auctioned his paintings, adding somewhat to is net worth, although rumours suggest that the gallery may now be closed. Most recently, Mikey is now trying to enter the market under the moniker LLC FarQueue Products with his line of gourmet pasta sauces. Good luck, Mikey!
In his less-than-private personal life, Mikey is apparently still single – there aren’t even any rumours of romantic liaisons.
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