The World's 12 Most Powerful Entrepreneurs Of 2013

On Forbes’ annual list of the 72 World’s Most Powerful People, you’ll find a panoply of names, from CEOs and cofounders to billionaires and bureaucrats. While these people all have the influence to change the world, within the ranks is an even more elite subset that is crucial to the spirit of economical growth: the 12 most powerful business founders and entrepreneurs.

The list is U.S.-concentrated, exclusively male, and dominated by tech-founders. One sure commonality, though, is that each person on the list has built his business from the ground up–and, ultimately, used his power and money to do two things: invest in charitable aims and solve the problems of global development.

No. 1 should come as little surprise: though Microsoft MSFT -0.09% isn’t the behemoth it was back in the ’90s, Bill Gates still remains the richest person in the world–a title he’s held since 1994. In recent years, the chairman of the software company has set boisterous standards for efforts to eradicate a variety of the most dire diseases, from polio to HIV. Thanks to his strong ties with billionaire comrades like Carlos Slim and Michael Bloomberg, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has secured up to $335 million in pledges.

Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin both take the No. 2 spot. Combined, the two have an estimated net worth just shy of $50 billion. Page, who is tasked with running Silicon Valley’s most celebrated company, is a huge spender when it comes to research and development.

In September, he announced Google’s new investment in Calico, a company created to take on the challenges of age-associated diseases. Brin oversees Google X, a division that has greeted with world with breakthrough technologies (driverless car, Google Glass). Earlier this year, he and Anne Wojcicki donated $52 million to the Michael J. Fox Foundation to fight Parkinson’s disease.

At 29, Mark Zuckerberg (No. 3) is the youngest entrepreneur to make the list. The Facebook CEO has expanded his influence beyond the social network by advocating for immigration reform and technology education. Last year, he donated $10 million shares of his company to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

But some of the names on the list go beyond the U.S. A few standouts: Masayoshi Son (CEO of SoftBank), Terry Gou (CEO of Hon Hai Precision Industry) and Mo Ibrahim (CEO of Mo Ibrahim Foundation).

10 most powerful business people in Southeast Asia

They are all talented entrepreneurs, diversified businesses with powerful influence throughout the country. Among them were both politicians. Most of these are from Indonesia and Malaysia.

The following list of 10 most powerful business people in Southeast Asia, is extracted from the list of 29 people by the Wall Street Journal magazine poll. Vietnam has a single representative is Mr. Doan Nguyen Duc, Chairman of Hoang Anh Gia Lai, who holds the 29th position.

1. Aburizal Bakrie

He is one of Aburizal Bakrie businessman and politician most prominent of Indonesia. The Group's billionaire co-owner companies of Indonesia's largest coal producer Bumi Resources. He is also the Golkar party leader, a member of the coalition to power in this island nation.

2. Putra Sampoerna

Putra his assets estimated at over $ 2 billion. After selling its cigarette factory in 2005, he invested in an array of online games and business in the agricultural sector.

3. Anthoni Salim

CEO của Tập đoàn Salim. Ảnh: detik.com

Anthoni Salim was head of the Salim Group, where money invested in real estate and agriculture. Indofood Sukses Makmur Company under the group has become one of the companies producing the largest instant noodle world.

4. Eka Tjipta Widjaja

Sáng lập viên của Tập đoàn Sinar Mas. Ảnh: fokusdotvivanews.com

Widjaja is the founder of the production company paper, palm oil and is one of the richest people in Indonesia. He has stakes in both companies is Asia Paper and Pulp big Co. Golden Agri-Resources and.

5. James Riady

CEO của Tập đoàn Lippo. Ảnh: newscred.com

His Lippo Group is growing steadily and is one of the factors boosting Indonesia's economy booming. The company's profits earned from the sale of investment real estate and media.

6. Ananda Krishman

Chủ tịch tập đoàn Usaha Tegas. Ảnh: therichestdotorg

Tycoon is one of the most prominent figures in the telecommunications industry and Malaysian TV, with satellite TV company Astro and mobile provider Maxis Communications Bhd.

7. Robert Kuok

"Vua đường" của Malaysia. Ảnh: forbes.com

Robert Kuok born in 1923 in Malaysia, is now considered the richest man in Southeast Asia with personal assets holding income from business sources as sugar, palm oil, hotels and public services. Now he resides in Hong Kong.

8. Tony Fernandes

CEO của hãng hàng không AirAsia. Ảnh: wemotor.com

Tony served as the CEO of a company in the music industry. He was intending to increase AirAsia routes by introducing more options for cheap flights across the continent. Currently Tony has expanded its business into other areas such as hotels, telecommunications and most recently the acquisition of the football club Queens Park Rangers London.

9. Lim Kok Thay

CEO kiêm Chủ tịch Tập đoàn Genting. Ảnh: timesunion.com

Lim Kok Thay is the son of the founder of Genting Group, Mr Lim Goh Tong. Mr Lim's business has expanded from the border corporate Malaysia and Genting turn into multinational enterprises with profits ranging from Australia, Singapore to America.

10. Nazir Razak

CEO Tập đoàn CIMB. Ảnh: credit-suisse.com

CIMB CEO Nazir has taken to become one of the most powerful corporations in the banking sector of South East Asia. His father was Abdul Razak, second Prime Minister of Malaysia, while his brother is the main Najib Razak holds this position.

20 most powerful businesswomen world

Leading the Forbes list this year as Facebook COO - Sheryl Sandberg, followed by Pepsi CEO - Indra Nooyi and CEO Kraft - Irene Rosenfeld.
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Sheryl Sandberg 1
Company: Facebook
Age: 43

After 4 years as Director of Operation (COO) and efforts to achieve $ 100 billion IPO for Facebook, Sandberg has been appointed as member of the Board of Management of the largest social network in the world.

Indra Nooyi 2
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Company: Pepsi
Age: 57

CEO and Chairman of PepsiCo has consistently ranked in the top 20 most powerful women in the world since 2006. Last year, she helped Pepsi sales of USD 66 billion, up 14% over the same period, and pay dividends on to $ 5.6 billion.

3. Irene Rosenfeld
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Company: Kraft
Age: 59

Former chairman and CEO of Kraft confectionery firm has made an historic split, turning parts business in North America and globally into two independent companies. She is currently the CEO of a global division with the name Mondelez International.

4. Virginia Rometty
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Company: IBM
Age: 54

10/2011, the village of 30-year old employee at IBM - "Ginni" Rometty was appointed the first female CEO of technology giant this information. Last year, IBM's revenue is more than $ 100 billion.

5. Ursula Burns
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Company: Xerox
Age: 54

Xerox Chairman and CEO of the company is to develop a service-oriented rather than just selling printers and copiers. Management services such as e-ticketing transaction, machine tolls or parking levy is brought half the revenue for the company.

6. Meg Whitman
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Company: HP
Age: 56

Former CEO of eBay cum CEO of Hewlett-Packard Front (HP) has been knocked off the California governor's election in 2010. However, she was faced with the difficult task much as turn things around for a tech giants is difficult.

7. Maria das Gracas Silva Foster
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Company: Petrobras
Age: 59

Petrobras oil company production to 91% oil and 90% natural gas to Brazil. Petrobras CEO, Foster has brought more than 130 billion US dollars revenue for the company in 2011.

8. Marissa Mayer
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Company: Yahoo!
Age: 37

Google's 20th employee has shocked the tech world when claiming the search giant to leave as CEO for Yahoo on May 7. In his new role, she plans to improve the operation of franchise is very strong Yahoo on email, finance and sports.

9. Anne Sweeney
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Company: Disney-ABC Television Group
Age: 55

Co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney-ABC Television Group is managing ABC Studios, ABC Television Network and Disney Channel Worldwide with more than 100 channels, covering up to 600 million viewers in 169 countries.

10. Susan Wojcicki
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Company: Google
Age: 44

Wojcicki - senior vice president of Google, is the man behind all the giants of this search (AdWords, AdSense, Analytics and DoubleClick). These services contribute to Google to 96% of revenue in 2011 (37.9 billion dollars).

11. Arianna Huffington
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Company: Huffington Post
Age: 62

Co-founder of The Huffington Post online newspaper, was sold to AOL in 2011, has won this year's Pulitzer Prize for local reporting segment. She is focusing on the Huffington Post plans to expand globally by introducing new versions in Spain and Italy.

Diane Von Furstenberg 12
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Company: Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA)
Age: 66

Designer Von Furstenberg Belgian fashion entrepreneur with $ 30,000 in 1970 and quickly climbed to the top of the village design. She is currently President of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), including 350 top designers in the country. Von Furstenberg is also the organizer of the campaign You Can not Fake Fashion, co-sponsored by the CFDA and eBay, to raise awareness of people about counterfeit and pirated goods.

13. Amy Pascal
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Company: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Age: 54

Co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment is behind a lot of American blockbusters. This year, the company launched the comedy 21 Jump Street, a science fiction film Men in Black action and The Amazing Spiderman 3 - expected earned $ 800 million worldwide.

14. Sheri McCoy
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Company: Avon
Age: 53

After leaving the pharmaceutical company Johnson and Johnson, CEO chair at McCoy receiving cosmetic company Avon on June 4. Avon remains a direct distributor of beauty products the world's largest, with 6.4 million people sales in 100 countries.

15. Mary Barra
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Company: General Motors
Age: 50

As senior vice president in charge of global product development, women Barra is the highest authority at General Motors - the largest car manufacturers in the world. She currently manage 36,000 employees, head of design, engineering and quality management 11 GM global brands.

16. Laura Lang
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Company: Time

Former director of Digitas just started as CEO at Time in January this year. In June, she has agreed to sell the right to membership in 20 of Time magazine on the Apple iPad tablet.

17. Angela Ahrendts
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Company: Burberry
Age: 52

As CEO of the largest high-end fashion England - Burberry, Ahrendts has helped the company achieve annual sales of $ 2.9 billion.

18. Sue Naegle
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Company: HBO
Age: 43

As chairman of Time Warner's HBO Entertainment, Naegle has created successful series of programs, from Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire and most recently the film The Newsroom, premiered to 2.1 million viewers in June.

Safra Catz 19th
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Company: Oracle
Age: 51

Oracle's longtime chairman became its chief financial officer last year. She is very optimistic about the future and believe that the company can achieve the highest operating profits in history this year.

10 most powerful business world

The most powerful people do not need the richest, but billionaires are widely influential on world stock markets, to the industry, and in some cases, to manipulate the military field history.

Forbes annual list building are the most powerful people in the world, next to the list of the richest. Most people who have a pervasive effect on the oil industry giants, telecommunications and hedge funds.

1. Michael Bloomberg - Mayor of New York, chairman of Bloomberg

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As mayor of New York, a city most rich world with over 8 million people, using 40 languages, Michael Bloomberg executive administrative 311,000 employees with total annual city budget to 60 billion USD. After taking office in 2001, Bloomberg has been rebuilt from the rubble of New York's 11/9 service, increased control over the schools, no smoking and put this city at the forefront in the field of energy clean. His Group Bloomberg activities in the areas of news services, cable television, radio and magazine publishers. Michael Bloomberg is now holding 88% of the company after the acquisition of Merrill Lynch by 20% from hand last summer. Photo: AP
2. Silvio Berlusconi - Italian Prime Minister, Chairman of Fininvest

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Berlusconi currently holds the position of prime minister Italy 3rd term country He runs 58 million people and GDP of $ 2.4 trillion defense budget is about 43 billion dollars. In addition to mastering the Italian national broadcaster, his Fininvest conglomerate also manipulates the other private channels. Photo: AP
Lakshmi Mittal 3. - ArcelorMittal Group

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Governance Mittal Steel factory ArcelorMittal the world's largest, accounting for 10% of global raw steel. Mittal was born in India but lives in England. In 2002, it was rumored that a letter from the UK has been sent to the Prime Minister of Romania, suggested if Lakshmi Mittal countries sold to a steel company, the road to the European Union for Romania will open. Photo: AP
4. Warren Buffett - Berkshire Hathaway

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The influence of tycoons such that he simply was coughing a stock market shaken. Berkshire Hathaway when Buffett's investment Warrn billions into Goldman Sachs in 9/2008, immediately Hathaway shares rose 6% in value. During the US Presidential election and then, Barack Obama received valuable advice and support from Warren Buffett financially. Photo: AP
Vagit Alekperov 5. - Group Lukoil

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Alekperov former factory workers in Caspian Sea oil, and now becomes the President of Lukoil, the leading energy company in Russia. Group's oil reserves are second in the world behind ExxonMobil. He is a friend of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin had proposed tax breaks for oil companies. Photo: AP
6. Carlos Slim - telecommunications group America Movil

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The son of a Lebanese immigrant, Slim Helu Calos become the world's second richest man in 2008. His Telmex company dominates 90% of the telephone network in Mexico. America Movil cellular network up to 173 million subscribers in Latin America. Carlos Slim has been a fan of football, both the art gallery, as well as a multi-talented investors in the fields of construction, retail, banking, railways, mining mines and communications. He also has 6.9% stake in The New York Times newspaper. Photo: AP
7. Mukesh Ambani - Reliance Industries Petrochemical Company

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Governance giant petrochemical plant Reliance Industries, the largest company on the stock market of India, Ambani produces oil, gas, and textile products. He used their own funds to invest in building a 27-story building in Mumbai worth $ 2 billion. Also with his brother Anil, inherited his fortune from his father, tycoon Dhirubhai Ambani. But the brothers did not get along with each other, their mother really stood out division of property inherited in 2005.
8. Brothers Charles and David Koch - Koch Industries Corporation

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The brothers turned the company's refining conglomerate family become the second largest privately America. Koch Industries has stakes in many sectors: oil pipelines, refineries, fertilizers, materials, forestry, consumer products, chemical technology. 2008 sales of 110 billion Koch Industries. Kock brothers each own 42% stake in the consortium Kock, in the hands of 80,000 employees, operating in 60 countries around the world. 2007. David Koch gave $ 100 million for cancer research and treatment. In 2008 he continued to donate $ 100 million to the Lincoln Center in New York. Photo: AP
9. Bill Gates - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Microsoft Corporation

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The man was so popular many years maintained the top position in the world's richest list. Since 2008, Bill Gates gradually relinquish power and responsibility at Microsoft to wholeheartedly for charity work. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's $ 36 million worth of his wife to help poor people in developing countries, improve the quality of education in America, and the development of vaccines against malaria, diseases TB and AIDS. Photo: AP
10. Edward and Abigail Johnson Your father - Fidelity Group

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Johnson and her father operated the Fidelity Investments, America's largest mutual funds with total assets of $ 1.2 trillion in 2008. Johnson's family holds 49% stake in the company. There he announced Edward served as president, and the daughter in charge of private sector investment