Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born July 18, 1950) is a

British billionaire, entrepreneur, and business magnate. In the 1970s he founded

the Virgin Group, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields.
Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. His first
business venture, at the age of 16, was a magazine called Student. In 1970, he set
up a mail-order record business. He opened a chain of record stores, Virgin
Records later known as Virgin Megastores in 1972. Branson's Virgin brand grew
rapidly during the 1980s, as he started Virgin Atlantic airline and expanded the
Virgin Records music label. In 1997, Branson founded the Virgin Rail Group to
bid for passenger rail franchises during the privatization. The Virgin Trains brand
operated the InterCity West Coast franchise from 1997 to 2019, the InterCity
Cross-country franchise from 1997 to 2007, and the InterCity East Coast franchise
from 2015 to 2018. In 2004, he founded spaceflight corporation Virgin Galactic,
based at Mojave Air and Space Port in California, noted for
the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane designed for space tourism.

Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is an

American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, computer engineer, and
commercial astronaut. He is the founder, executive chairman and former president
and CEO of Amazon. With a net worth of around $136 billion as of September
2022, Bezos is the second-wealthiest person in the world and was the wealthiest
from 2017 to 2021 according to both Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index and Forbes.
Bezos founded Amazon in late 1994 on a road trip from New York City to Seattle.
The company began as an online bookstore and had since expanded to a variety of
other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming,
cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It is currently the world's largest online
sales company, the largest Internet company by revenue, and the largest provider
of virtual assistants and cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web
Services branch.

Henry Tan Chi Sieng Sy Sr. (October 15,1924 - January

19, 2019) was a Filipino businessman and investor. Born in Fujian, he moved with
his family to the Philippines at age 12. While his family returned to China, he
stayed behind and founded Shoe Mart, a small Manila shoe store, in 1958. Over the
decades he developed Shoe Mart into SM Investments, one of the largest
conglomerates in the Philippines, including 49 SM malls in the Philippines and
China, 62 department stores, 56 supermarkets and over 200 grocery stores. SM
also owns Banco de Oro, the second-largest bank in the Philippines, as well as real
estate holdings.