TED TURNE

You’ve all heard about American media mogul and philanthropist Ted Turner. He founded the cable network CNN. In 1997, he donated $1 billion to the United Nations to promote causes related to women, children’s health, environment, world peace, and security. His Lifetime donations reached $1.2 billion

Ted Turner

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Ted Turner
Turner in 2007
Born	Robert Edward Turner III November 19, 1938 (age 78) Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Alma mater	Brown University
Occupation	Founder of TBS and CNN Co-founder of the Nuclear Threat Initiative Former Atlanta Braves owner WCW Ted's Montana Grill Founder of TV-6 (Russia)
Home town	Atlanta, Georgia
Net worth	US$2.3 billion (February 2017)^[1]
Spouse(s)	Julia Gale Nye (1960–1964) Jane Shirley Smith (1965–1988) Jane Fonda (1991–2001)
Children	5
Website	Official website

Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television.

As a philanthropist, he is known for his $1 billion gift to support the United Nations, which created the United Nations Foundation, a public charity to broaden domestic support for the UN. Turner serves as Chairman of the United Nations Foundation board of directors.^[2] Additionally, in 2001, Turner co-founded the Nuclear Threat Initiative with US Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA). NTI is a non-partisan organization dedicated to reducing global reliance on, and preventing the proliferation of, nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. He currently serves as Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Turner's media empire began with his father's billboard business, Turner Outdoor Advertising, which he took over in 1963 after his father's suicide.^[3] It was worth $1 million. His purchase of an Atlanta UHF station in 1970 began the Turner Broadcasting System. CNN revolutionized news media, covering the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986 and the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Turner turned the Atlanta Braves baseball team into a nationally popular franchise and launched the charitable Goodwill Games. He helped revive interest in professional wrestling by buying World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Turner's penchant for controversial statements earned him the nicknames "The Mouth of the South" and "Captain Outrageous".^[4]^[5] Turner has also devoted his assets to environmental causes. He was the largest private landowner in the United States until John C. Malonesurpassed him in 2011.^[6]^[7] He uses much of his land for ranches to re-popularize bison meat (for his Ted's Montana Grill chain), amassing the largest herd in the world. He also created the environmental-themed animated series Captain Planet and the Planeteers.^[8]

JAMES SIMONS

James Simons is the chairman of Renaissance Technologies, a very successful hedge fund that owns $65 billion in assets. With his wife Marilyn, he opened the Simons Foundation, which primarily supports educational causes. They have also opened two other organizations in memory of their two sons who died in 1996 and in 2003: the Paul Simons Foundation and the Nick Simons Foundation. Altogether, the Simons couple has made $1.2 billion worth of donations

James Harris Simons

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James Harris Simons
Simons speaking at the Differential Geometry, Mathematical Physics, Mathematics and Society conference in 2007 in Bures-sur-Yvette.
Born	1938 (age 78–79) Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley
Occupation	Mathematician, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist
Known for	Founding and managing Renaissance Technologies Creating the Chern–Simons formwith Shiing-Shen Chern
Net worth	US$18 billion (February 2017)
Spouse(s)	Barbara Simons Marilyn Hawrys Simons^[1]
Children	3,^[1] including Nat Simons
Parent(s)	Matthew Simons Marcia Kantor
Awards	Oswald Veblen Prize (1976)^[2]

James Harris "Jim" Simons (born 1938) is an American mathematician, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He is known as a quantitative investor and in 1982 founded Renaissance Technologies, a private hedge fund based in New York City. Although Simons retired from the fund in 2009, he remains its non-executive chairman and adviser.^[3]

He is also known for his studies on pattern recognition for which he developed (with Shiing-Shen Chern) the Chern–Simons form,^[4] and contributed to the development of string theory by providing a theoretical framework to combine geometry and topology with quantum field theory.^[5] From 1968 to 1978,^[6] Simons was a mathematics professor and subsequent chair of the mathematics department at Stony Brook University.^[7]

As reported by Forbes, his net worth as of June 2017 is estimated to be $18 billion, while in the previous year, it was $15.5 billion.^[8]

In 2016, asteroid 6618 Jimsimons,^[9] discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1936, was named after Simons by the International Astronomical Unionin honor of his numerous contributions to mathematics and philanthropy.

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Michael S. Dell

Michael Dell is chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Technologies, a unique family of businesses encompassing Dell, Dell EMC, Pivotal, RSA, SecureWorks, Virtustream and VMware. Dell Technologies is an innovator and technology leader providing the essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future, transform IT and protect their most important information.

With revenues of $74B and 138,000 team members, Dell Technologies is one of the world’s largest IT companies serving the needs of global corporations and governments to small businesses and consumers. The company's unique structure allows innovative, fast-moving startups to co-exist with, and leverage, the global reach and trusted reputation of the large enterprise.

Michael’s story started when he founded Dell with $1000 in 1984 at the age of 19. Notably quoted as saying that “technology is about enabling human potential,” Michael’s vision of how technology should be designed, manufactured and sold forever changed the IT industry. In 1992, Michael became the youngest CEO ever to earn a ranking on the Fortune 500. Known and admired for his astute business vision and bold moves, Michael took Dell private in 2013, setting the stage to architect the largest technology deal in history with the combination of Dell, EMC and VMware in 2016.

In 1998, Michael formed MSD Capital, and in 1999, he and his wife established the Michael & Susan Dell Foundationto provide philanthropic support to a variety of global causes. Michael is an honorary member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum and is an executive committee member of the International Business Council. He is also a member of the Technology CEO Council, the U.S. Business Council and the Business Roundtable. He serves on the governing board of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India and is a board member of Catalyst. Michael also served as the United Nations Foundation's first Global Advocate for Entrepreneurship.