Dame Anita Perella Roddick was an activist and entrepreneur. Born on October 23rd 1942 in Littlehampton, Sussex, United Kingdom, she was also a human rights supporter and an environmentalist. She established The Body Shop, a worldwide retail of stores of over 2000. Her business sells ethically made cosmetics...

As the CEO of sales solutions company Cydcor, Gary Polson has tripled the company’s revenue. Under his leadership, Cydcor has also become recognized as a positive place to work, cited as one of the “Best Places to Work” by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal for two years in a row. Cydcor...

Samuel Moore Walton is a man whose legacy will live long after him. The retailing mogul, who created the World’s Largest Retailer ($374.526 billion in sales, fiscal year ending January 31, 2008), Wal-Mart, has operations with various business models from neighborhood markets, discount stores and...

As the founder and CEO of Intelius, Naveen Jain has been recognized numerous times as a visionary entrepreneur and successful businessman. Naveen Jain graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1979 and worked for Microsoft Corporation for a number of years as a senior executive. He founded...

David Koch is co-owner and executive vice president of Koch Industries, a Wichita, Kansas-based oil, gas, and plastics conglomerate. Koch Industries is now the largest privately-held company in the United States, producing annual revenues of more than $95 billion. Born in 1940, he inherited (along with his...

Philip Hampson Knight, co-founder of Nike, Inc. built the company along with track coach at Bill Bowerman to carry out a plan he developed while taking his masters degree at Stanford University. The plan was to make low-cost running shoes in Japan and sell them in the United States. It became a reality when...

At age 69, Carlos Slim Helu has made a huge impact on the Telecommunications Industry in Mexico and Latin America. Owning a telecommunications conglomerate and two mobile network operators, Slim was named the third wealthiest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $35 billion from investments....

Philip Frederick Anschutz began working his way to success by taking after his father in the lucrative wildcatting business. His first test happened when his initial oil find in Gillette, Wyoming caught fire. What the resilient Philip Anschutz did was charge Universal Studios, which was filming a biopic on...

Sir Tom Hunter (born Thomas Blane Hunter) started out as the son of a grocer and later on became a Scottish billionaire with an estimated wealth of £1.06 billion. Aside from his enormous reputation as one of Britain’s richest individuals, Sir Tom Hunter is also a notable philanthropist. What is more...

A consistent ranker in the exclusive Forbes World’s Richest People list, Dan L. Duncan ranked 117th in 2008, then 81st the year after with a net value of $8.2 billion. Profiled in several other prominent philanthropic rosters as well, he is one of BusinessWeek’s 50 Top American Givers of 2008 and the...