Rayner John A. Cartagena Gr.

XII- Our Lady of the Holy Rosary

1. Warren Buffett (Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway)

Warren Buffett is an American business magnate, investor, speaker and philanthropist who
serves as the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is considered one of the most
successful investors in the world and has a net worth of US$89.9 billion as of May 4, 2019,
making him the third-wealthiest person in the world. Buffett was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He
developed an interest in business and investing in his youth, eventually entering the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1947 before transferring and graduating from
University of Nebraska at the age of 19. He went on to graduate from Columbia Business
School, where he molded his investment philosophy around the concept of value investing that
was pioneered by Benjamin Graham. He attended New York Institute of Finance to focus his
economics background and soon after began various business partnerships, including one with
Graham. He created Buffett Partnership, Ltd in 1956 and his firm eventually acquired a textile
manufacturing firm called Berkshire Hathaway and assumed its name to create a diversified
holding company. In 1978, Charlie Munger joined Buffett and became vice chairman of the
company. Buffett has been the chairman and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway since
1970, and he has been referred to as the "Wizard", "Oracle", or "Sage" of Omaha by global
media outlets. He is noted for his adherence to value investing and for his personal frugality
despite his immense wealth. Research published at the University of Oxford characterizes
Buffett's investment methodology as falling within "founder centrism" – defined by a deference
to managers with a founder's mindset, an ethical disposition towards the shareholder collective,
and an intense focus on exponential value creation. Essentially, Buffett's concentrated
investments shelter managers from the short-term pressures of the market. Buffett is a notable
philanthropist, having pledged to give away 99 percent of his fortune to philanthropic causes,
primarily via the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He founded The Giving Pledge in 2009 with
Bill Gates, whereby billionaires pledge to give away at least half of their fortunes. He endorsed
Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential election; and will judge
current U.S. President Donald Trump by his results on national safety, economic growth, and
economic participation when deciding if he will vote for him in the 2020 U.S. presidential
election.

2. Robin Li (Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Baidu, Inc.)

Robin Li is a Chinese politician, internet entrepreneur, co-founder of the search engine
Baidu and one of the richest people in China, with a net worth of US$18.5 billion as of October
2017. Li is a member of the 12th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Li studied
information management at Peking University and computer science at the State University of
New York at Buffalo. In 2000 he founded Baidu with Eric Xu. Li has been CEO of Baidu since
January 2004. The company was listed on NASDAQ on August 5, 2005. Li was included as one
of the 15 Asian Scientists To Watch by Asian Scientist Magazine on 15 May 2011. On August
29, 2014, Robin Li was appointed by the United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon,
as co-chair of the Independent Expert Advisory Group on Data Revolution for Sustainable
Development.

3. Raymond Albert “Ray” Kroc (Established McDonald’s)

Raymond Albert “Ray” Kroc was an American fast-food tycoon. He joined the California
company McDonald's in 1954, after the McDonald brothers had franchised 6 locations out from
their original 1940 operation in San Bernardino. This set the stage for national expansion with
the help of Kroc, eventually leading to a global franchise, making it the most successful fast food
corporation in the world. Kroc was included in Time 100: The Most Important People of the
Century, and amassed a fortune during his lifetime. He owned the San Diego Padres baseball
team from 1974 until his death in 1984.
 4. Oprah Winfrey (Founder of Harpo Productions)
Oprah Winfrey is an American media executive, actress, talk show host, television producer
and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the
highest-rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to
2011 in Chicago. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she was the richest African American of the
20th century and North America's first black multi-billionaire, and has been ranked the greatest
black philanthropist in American history. She has also been sometimes ranked as the most
influential woman in the world. Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage
single mother and later raised in inner-city Milwaukee. She has stated that she was molested
during her childhood and early teens and became pregnant at 14; her son was born prematurely
and died in infancy. Winfrey was then sent to live with the man she calls her father, Vernon
Winfrey, a barber in Tennessee, and landed a job in radio while still in high school. By 19, she
was a co-anchor for the local evening news. Winfrey's often emotional, extemporaneous
delivery eventually led to her transfer to the daytime talk show arena, and after boosting a third-
rated local Chicago talk show to first place,[16] she launched her own production company and
became internationally syndicated. redited with creating a more intimate confessional form of
media communication, infrey popularized and revolutionized the tabloid talk show genre
pioneered by Phil Donahue. hrough this medium, Winfrey broke 20th-century taboos and
allowed LGBT people to enter the mainstream through television appearances. In 1994, she
was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

5. Howard Schultz (Chairman and CEO of Starbucks)

Howard Schultz is an American businessman and multi-billionaire. He was Chairman and
Chief Executive of Starbucks from 1986 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2017, as well as its
Executive Chairman from 2017 to 2018. He is a former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics, and
was a member of the Board of Directors at Square, Inc. In 1998 Schultz co-founded Maveron,
an investment group, with Dan Levitan. He was named by Forbes in 2016 as the 232nd richest
person in the United States, with a net worth of $3.7 billion as of April 2019. Schultz resigned as
the Chief Executive of Starbucks and became Executive Chairman in April 2017. He was
succeeded as CEO by Kevin Johnson. Schultz retired as executive chairman in June 2018, then
becoming Chairman Emeritus of the company. Long known for his outspoken political views,
Schultz announced in January 2019 that he was exploring a run in the 2020 United States
presidential election as an independent candidate.