There will also be dozens of prominent business leaders including Bill Gates and George Soros.
Some reformers, including Bill Gates, are finally catching on that our federally centralized, union-created system provides no incentive for better performance.
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Flight or security personnel working for prominent individuals, including Bill Gates and the late Steve Jobs, wrote the FAA about their security concerns.
Nobody, including Bill Gates, takes a salary of any consequence, but over the past three years Microsoft has granted options in excess of 50 million per annum.
High-profile companies failed, including Bill Gates-backed Pacific Ethanol.
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Certainly there are many examples of great companies led by engineers, including Microsoft with Bill Gates, Oracle with Larry Ellison, and Google with Larry Page.
News broke today that 25-year old chief scientist and LightSail co-founder Danielle Fong closed Series D funding with investors including Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla and Bill Gates.
Gavi is a public-private partnership which draws together a number of organisations including the World Health Organization and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as the vaccine industry.
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The management company for the Four Seasons Hotel chain, which Alwaleed co-owns with Bill Gates, manages several hotels in England, including the Savoy, the Park Lane the Canary Wharf Four Seasons.
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They would also be expected to have heard stories about "famous Americans of different ethnic groups, faiths, and historical periods", with a suggested list including Neil Armstrong, Cesar Chavez, the Wright Brothers, Colin Powell and Bill Gates.
Pirelli doles out "the Cal, " as those in the know call it, to a select group of 40, 000 special people, including members of the British royal family, the king of Spain, Paul Newman and Bill Gates.
Beyond her more recent work in corporate philanthropy -- including as the chief operating officer and founding president of the Global Development Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through 2011 -- Burwell has experience in government.
In addition, last November PNM formed a new firm with Cascade Investment, Bill Gates ' investment company, which will own and operate unregulated power plants in the Southwest, including Texas.
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