The Ulker Group also sells biscuits, wafers, confectionaries, chewing gums, baby foods and diapers, and personal care items. The company acquired Godiva in 2007 for $850 million and in 2013 it acquired DeMet’s Candy Company for $221 million. Ulker is the Chairman and CEO of Yidiz Holding AS. In 2010 he became the Chairman of the Board of Gozde Private Equity Inc. in 2010. Ulker has been listed as Turkey’s wealthiest man....
In 1998 he starred as Deke Slayton in the Tom Hanks produced miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. From 1998 to 2001 Nick starred as Nathan Ramsay in the series Seven Days. He starred as Barry in the TV series Rodney from 2004 to 2008 and as Roy Buffkin in Easy Money from 2008 to 2009. One of his best known roles has come as Art Mullen in the television series Justified from 2010 to 2015....
One of his best known roles came starring as Walter Simmons in the CBS television series CSI: Miami from 2009 to 2012. Omar has also starred in the movies Pizza Wars: The Movie, Sorority Boys, 8 Mile, Shall We Dance, Man of God, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, Lucky You, Grindin’, Things We Lost in the Fire, Miracle at St. Anna, The Express, Liquor Store Cactus, Blood Done Sign My Name, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The Love Section, 1982, and Homefront....
As a solo artist Gripp is known for his novelty songs, jingles, and television theme songs. His debut solo album For Those About to Shop, We Salute You was released in 2005. Parry Gripp went on to release the albums One Donut a Day in 2007, Do You Like Waffles in 2008, Space Unicorn in 2012, Raining Tacos in 2012, and Mega-party in 2013. He co-owns the Santa Barbara Orchid Estate with his sister....
She has appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Pryor has acted in theater playing Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. She is also a jazz and blues vocalist who released the album Rain Pryor Live in London. She was named the artistic director of Baltimore’s Strand Theater in 2012. Her book Jokes My Father Never Taught Me was published in 2006....
Ralph Lauren was born “Ralph Lifshitz” on October 14, 1939 in New York City. His parents were immigrants from Belarus and Ashkenazi Jews. When Ralph was 16-years old, he and his brother Jerry changed their last name to Lauren after getting teased over “Lifshitz” for years. Their brother Lenny chose to keep the family name alive. Ralph studied business for two years at Baruch College, but dropped out before he got his degree....
With all his partying, jet-setting, Vegas trips, and whatever else he does for a good time you would think he’s put a sizable dent in the small fortune he has amassed since he was drafted in the second round out of Arizona back in 2010—but he hasn’t. In fact, if you believe what the big man says (and why wouldn’t you?) he has not spent a penny of his NFL money; not a red cent since he signed his four-year, $4....
Early Life Sadio Mané was born on April 10, 1992, in Bambali, Sédhiou, Senegal. Although his imam father forbade him from playing football, he chose to pursue a career in the sport nonetheless. At the age of 15, Mané left his home village and moved to Dakar to fulfill his career ambitions. Career Beginnings Referred by scouts to the association football club Génération Foot, Mané joined the partner club Metz in 2011....
His brothers, Alec Gores and Tom Gores, are both private equity multi-billionaires. Early Life and Education Sam Gores was born in 1954 in Nazareth, Israel. He has two brothers and three sisters. Both of his brothers, Alec and Tom, are founders of private equity firms and have been listed by Forbes as among the richest people in the world. When Gores was 14, his parents sold the family home and purchased plane tickets to immigrate to the United States....
So there isn’t an award left for him to win that he hasn’t already. He has made more money than most people could ever dream of earning, and he has been playing on a reduced salary for the last few years anyway, so that the team could sign the younger guys to their first big contracts. He is taking a former financial advisor to court over $25 million in bad investments, but even if he doesn’t see a dime of that the Big Fundamental is set financially....
Early Life Ali Hassan was born on May 10, 1996 in Austin, Texas. He is of Palestinian descent, and has two younger brothers named Junior and Otto. Internet Career Hassan launched his YouTube channel, SypherPK, in 2011. Four years later, he launched his Twitch channel and began gaming full-time. Hassan has done gaming streams and videos of such games as “RuneScape,” “Call of Duty: Warzone,” “Fall Guys,” and “Among Us,” but is best known for playing the popular battle royale game “Fortnite....
Sanford is infamous in the business world for the credit cards issued by First Premier Bank and Premier Bankcard, which to this day carry the highest credit card fees in the country. Despite their low credit limits, these cards carried fees of $256 a year until federal law banned these types of fees in the credit card business. Now, they have a fee of 79.9% which still puts them at the very top of the list of highest credit card fees in the United States....
Early Life Taylor Hackford was born December 31, 1941 in Santa Barbara, California. Taylor’s initial passions lay with international relations, which he studied while pursuing a degree in pre-law at the University of Southern California. After graduating in 1968, he headed to Bolivia as part of the Peace Corps, where he began experimenting with a Super-8 camera in his spare time, documenting the world around him. He abandoned law in favor of a film degree from USC’s School of Cinema then took a job in the mail-room at the Los Angeles public television station KCET-TV....
They were both born in Chicago, Illinois. Laurence “Larry” Wachowski was born on June 21, 1965. Andrew Paul “Andy” Wachowski was born on December 29, 1967. Film Career They are the creative minds behind one of the most imaginative and influential film series in Hollywood, The Matrix. The first Matrix installment was released in 1999, three years after they made their directing debut with the 1996 thriller Bound. The Matrix was their second theatrical film release....
In 2007 he developed the game Pac-Man Championship Edition for the Xbox 360 and said that it would be the last game he will develop. He also created the game LIbble Rabble. Iwatani taught at the Osaka University of Arts and became a full-time lecturer at Tokyo Polytechnic University in 2007. He holds a Guinness World Record for Pac-Man being the most coin-operated arcade machine installed worldwide with almost 300 thousand....
Early Life Travis Bagent grew up in West Virginia, immersed in arm wrestling. His father, Jerry Boyd, was a national arm-wrestling champion who installed competition tables at a local bar, giving Travis an unusual training ground from childhood. As a teenager, Bagent was already testing his strength against adults, an experience that gave him an edge when he entered formal competitions. In the late 1990s, he won his first national arm-wrestling championship, signaling the start of an extraordinary competitive career....
Early Life Vice Ganda was born Jose Marie Borja Viceral on March 31, 1976, in Tondo, Manila, Philippines. As a child, his nickname was “Tutoy.” He grew up in the Sta Cruz neighborhood with five older siblings. His father, a barangay captain, was murdered, then Vice Ganda’s mother left her children to work as a caregiver abroad. An unknown Japanese woman granted him a scholarship that paid for his schooling from third grade until college....
Early Life and Education William Ruto was born on January 21, 1967, in Kamagut, Kenya, to Sarah and Daniel Cheruiyot. His family hails from the indigenous Kalenjin people of the Rift Valley Province. As a youth, Ruto was educated at Kamagut Primary School, Kerotet Primary School, Wareng Secondary School, and Kapsabet High School. For his higher education, he attended the University of Nairobi, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1990....
Early Life and Education Much of Xu’s early life and educational background remain a mystery to the public. Different sources have reported different information about his life, with some sources reporting that he was born in 1984 in Shandong and was educated at Qingdao University of Science and Technology. Other sources say he is Chinese-American and was educated at George Washington University. According to his company Shein, Xu was born in China....
