#CELEBRITY_PROFILING BlLL GATES Born: William Henry Gates III on October 28, 1955 (age 58) in Seattle, Washington, US. Residence: Medina, Washington, US. Alma mater: Harvard University (dropped out, then got honorary doctorate there and elsewhere). Occupation: Technology Advisor of Microsoft, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. CEO of Cascade Investment. Chairman of Corbis. Years active:1975–present Net worth:US$81.3 billion (as of September 2014) Board member of Microsoft Berkshire Hathaway. Religion: Roman Catholicism. Spouse(s): Melinda Gates (m. 1994) Children: Jennifer, Rory, and Phoebe Parents: William H. Gates, Sr. Mary Maxwell Gates. Gates is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor. Gates is the former chief executive and chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked in the Forbes list of the worlds wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009—excluding 2008, when he was ranked third; in 2011 he was the wealthiest American and the worlds second wealthiest person. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires List, Gates became the worlds richest person again in May 2013, a position that he last held on the list in 2007. He held the position until Carlos Slim reclaimed it in July 2014. As of September 2014, he is the second richest person in the world. Gates was born in Seattle, Washington, in an upper-middle-class family, the son of William H. Gates, Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates. His ancestral origin includes English, German, and Scots-Irish. His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way. Gatess maternal grandfather was JW Maxwell, a national bank president. Gates has one elder sister, Kristi (Kristianne), and one younger sister, Libby. He was the fourth of his name in his family, but was known as William Gates III or Trey because his father had the II suffix. Early on in his life, Gatess parents had a law career in mind for him.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 07:27:15 +0000
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