NOTED REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL

ENTREPRENEURS
RONNY LAMPKIN, JORAI JACOB, AINSLEY LACROIX
 RICHARD BRANSON
• Born in July 18, 1950, in Shamley Green, Surrey, England.
• Attended Stowe School, 1964–1967.But dropped out due to
Having dyslexia at the age of 17.
• In 1966 Branson launched Student, a youth-oriented
magazine. As the editor Branson interviewed John Lennon,
Mick Jagger, Vanessa Redgrave, and other celebrities. Sold
This venture in 1970 to a larger company.
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• In 1970 Branson started a mail-order record company, Virgin Mail
Order Records. To fund this venture, in 1971 he opened the first
British discount record store, which by 1972 had become a chain of
14 shops around the United Kingdom.
• Continuing his journey with his solo venture; Virgin Mail, His next
project was to launch a record company of his own. With his
cousin Simon Draper as the creative director and Nik Powell as the
business manager, Branson inaugurated Virgin Records in 1973.
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Mike Oldfield's album Tubular Bells, which peaked at number one on the
American charts in 1974 and sold more than 13 million copies, was one
of the label's initial releases. Branson, unfazed by the controversial
reputation of the punk band, sold 100,000 copies of the single "God
Save the Queen" in a single week. Virgin didn't emerge from its funk
until the 1982 release of Culture Club's debut album. Phil Collins and
the Human League's successful albums and singles also did well for
Virgin.
• Branson invested his earnings in new businesses like Virgin Vision,
which distributes movies and videos, Virgin Games, which publishes
video games, Virgin Rags, which sells clothing, Vanson Property,
which develops real estate, and a number of nightclubs in the
London area.
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• 1984 Branson was approached by the American attorney Randolph
Fields with an offer to invest in a new transatlantic airline.
• June 22,1984, Virgin-Atlantic Airways embarked on its maiden flight
between London's Gatwick Airport and Newark, New Jersey. From a
single leased aircraft Virgin-Atlantic slowly grew during the 1980s,
adding routes to Los Angeles and Tokyo while seeking access to
London's Heathrow Airport.
• Virgin Records was sold to EMI in 1992 for $1 billion to fund his new
venture virgin Atlantic airlines which only had one aircraft.
• Virgin Atlantic Airlines was sold to Alaska Airlines in 2016 and
operations stop in 2018.
• As of present Richard has approximately 100 businesses with a
global net worth of $3.7B.
 ANTHONY SABGA
• Born in Syria in 1923 died in 2017.
• Came to Trinidad in 1930, due to religious persecution
• Anthony attended Nelson Street Boys R.C. School but
left because of a language barrier and was dyslexic in 1937.
• In 1937 he joined his family business venture within
haberdashery called Sabga and Sons.
• He then left the family business to start his solo venture
Standard Distributors in 1945.
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• He then partnered with the German company BOSCH which
Assisted Mr.Sabga by importing fridges and other small
appliances which in turn helped with the sales of his company.
• His partnership with BOSCH succumbed to failure between
the1950s and 1960s.
• He established Ansa Industries in 1966 to manufacture
refrigerators, cookers and other electrical appliances to sell in
his store.
• ANSA industries begun exports to CARICOM countries in
1914 and 1920 which led to the advancement in solidifying
the agreement among the CARICOM countries.
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• In the 1970s, Dr. Sabga was active in the garment industry
and real estate development. He developed what is now
Regents Park. He acquired the ailing Mc Enearny, Al stons
Group in 1986, when the economy was in the trauma of the
decline of oil prices after the OPEC oil-shock of 1973-1983.
Dr.Sabga transformed this ailing 28 company Group into a
formidable conglomerate within a space of a decade. He
tripled the number of companies to over 70 in 2017,
commanding profits that grew forty-fold over that period and
providing a share value that grew by 15,000 per cent.
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• He was succeeded by his son, A. Norman Sabga, as Chief
Executive Officer in 1996 and later as Group Chairman in
2000.Chairman Emeritus, Dr. Sabga focused his attention
on ANSA Merchant Bank, which he formed in 1994 in
partnership with Robert Fleming Ltd, a London investment
bank, and which subsequently, in 2004, became ANSA
Merchant Bank.
• At this point in time Mr.Sabga’s company are the building
blocks in the business community within the Caribbean. His
company ANSA-MCAL’s is responsible for creating over
6,000 jobs within the Caribbean.
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• Present day 2022, ANSAL MCAL is now Trinidad and

Tobago's largest conglomerates, with several diversified
companies in the Caribbean, Europe and North America with
a net worth of $8.1 billion as of 2017.
• They are a Corporate Group comprising of 48 companies in
over 8 territories, offering the world renowned brands and
product services and state of the art infrastructure, in over
30 markets across the world and employing a population of
close to 6000 people.
 ALEEM MOHAMMED
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 BILL GATES
• Born October 28, 1955, Seattle, Washington, U.S.
• Attended Harvard University as a sophomore in 1975 but dropped out in
his Junior year.
• At the age of 13 Gates wrote his first software program high school
he helped form a group of programmers who computerized their school’s
payroll system and founded Traf-O-Data, a company that sold traffic-
counting systems to local governments.
• In 1975 joined his hometown friend Paul G. Allen to develop software for
the first microcomputers. They began by adapting BASIC, a popular
programming language used on large computers, for use on
microcomputers.
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• With the success of this venture with Allen, they both left University and
started their Project Microsoft.
• Microsoft licensed an operating system called MS-DOS to International
Business Machines Corporation.
• In 1981 the companies first machine released, the world’s biggest
computer supplier and industry pacesetter—for use on its first
microcomputer, the IBM PC (personal computer).
• In 1990’s IBM and the makers completely became dependent on
Microsoft for software parts.
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• Beginning in 1995 and 1996, Gates feverishly refocused Microsoft on
the development of consumer and enterprise software solutions for the
Internet, developed the Windows CE operating system platform for
networking non computer devices such as home televisions and personal
digital assistants, created the Microsoft Network to compete with America
Online and other Internet providers, and, through Gates’s company Corbis,
,acquired the huge Bettmann photo archives and other collections for use
in electronic distribution.
• June 2008—although he remained chairman of the board—in order to
devote more time to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In February 2014
he stepped down as chairman but continued to serve as a board member
until 2020.
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• Microsoft is the world's largest software maker With a net worth as of
October 25, 2022 is $1805.7B. They are best known for its software
products, including Microsoft Windows operating systems, the Microsoft
Office suite, and the Internet Explorer web browser. Microsoft provides tools
enabling businesses to be productive and communicate effectively
regardless of location. They are constantly innovating and improving their
Brand from artificial intelligence, digital sustainability and their PCs.
• As of 2022 Microsoft and UBS plans to landmark the expansion of their
partnership to accelerate UBS’s public cloud footprint over the next five
years.
 REFERENCES

https://chamber.org.tt/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2008-sabga.pdf
https://www.ansamcal.com/news/forever-hearts-dr-anthony-n-sabga-o-r-t-t/
https://theorg.com/iterate/what-companies-does-richard-branson-own
https://www.forbes.com/profile/richard-branson/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Branson
https://www.virgin.com/branson-family/richard-branson-blog
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bill-Gates
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