Scott Oki is in his mid-sixties and is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, philanthropist, author and community activist. He retired as Senior Vice-President of Sales and Marketing of Microsoft in 1992 at age 43. Currently, he is Chairman of Oki Developments Inc., which operates 11 Seattle area golf courses. It also designs and manufactures cotton-flannel baby blankets which it sells online. Oki Developments also sells and distributes cigars, pipes, tobacco and other cigar accessories. In addition, it operates Japanese restaurants that offer soups, salads, sashimis, rolls, wines, and noodles. Scott was hired by Microsoft to its head international sales division in 1982. He has been widely credited with building its international operations …show more content…
Today, he refers to himself as Chief Volunteer,” a title that he prints on his business card. His personal mission statement is "to marry my passion for things entrepreneurial with things philanthropic in a way that encourages others to do the same. Scott serves on dozens of advisory boards and boards of directors for both private companies and non-profits organizations. A partial list and is the Co-Founder of Sounders for Kids, America's Foundation for Chess, First Tee of Greater Seattle, Social Venture Partners and Seattle Police Foundation. He is the Founder and Chairman of the Japanese American Chamber of Commerce, the Chief Seattle Council Boy Scout Foundation and is Founder and Chairman of Densho., the Japanese American Legacy Project. He has served as Co-Chair of the United Way of King County Campaign Board and Co-Chair of the Million Dollar Roundtable. He is past-President of the Board of Regents for the University of Washington and the immediate past Chair of the Children's Hospital Foundation. Mr. Oki also serves on the national boards for United Way of America, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Japanese American National Museum, and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team …show more content…
In 1993, they made a $1 million Challenge Gift to Seattle Children's Hospital, where Laurie had been serving as a board member for twenty years. They have given over $10 million to the University Of Washington School Of Medicine cumulatively and over $1 million to Harborview Medical Center. They have also given at least $700,000 to America’s Foundation for Chess, an organization Scott founded in 2000. A list of their known gifts of $1,000 or more is available. When Scott retired he cashed-in most of his Microsoft stock options which has anat about $100 million. Despite his position with Microsoft, Scott was never an SEC “Insider” required to disclose his shares of the company’s stock. When retired in 1992, he cashed in his stock options, although he hung onto some of his stock. Several sources have estimated that he received about $100 million after cashing in his stock, although the exact amount remains unknown. Likewise, the value of any Microsoft he owns today is also not public. What is own about his wealth and public assets is as
He said he owned 875 shares in Woodside, which he bought last November and sold on Tuesday.
Microsoft was once a small software business ran by a young Bill Gates in a tiny
Kenneth Lay was the CEO and Chairman of a successful energy trading company called Enron. Kenneth Lay was born April-15-1942 (Johnson, 2004). His company was widely known to have the most innovated accounting procedures. Kenneth Lay grew up as son to a religious Baptist family. Kenneth Lay is also an educated man; his highest academic achievement is a Ph.D in economics. Kenneth Lay also served the U.S Navy for around 3 years. Kenneth was brought up knowing that he had to always provide for his family. Kenneth Lay married a woman named Linda and in total they have five children. Kenneth Lay was once seen as a “Good Man” due to his charity commitments and his dedication to the minority communities. However In today’s society Kenneth Lay is more known to be one of the biggest conspirators of the globally known pension wipe out and Freud scandal.
He respects creation administrations specifically, just like an energizing and high adrenalin business to be in. This is the reason he began the company. As the company has developed he has ended up mindful of that it is so essential
As noted above, Steve Jobs was the co-founder of Apple. Shockingly, he was fired from his own company. His idea of introducing the second-generation Mac, the Macintosh Office didn’t get much appreciation. That product was launched in 1985, and
In May of 1985 Steve Jobs tried to convince some directors and top executives that Sculley needed to go. It turned out many of them had spoken with Sculley and went to the board of directories. The board decided to remove Steve Jobs from all operational duties and he would only be the chairman of the board.
Mark Cuban most people know him from the owner of the basketball team dallas mavericks. He was born in pittsburg in 1958 and was raised in a middle class family. When he was younger he would sell sets of garbage bags to make money to buy the pair of shoes he liked, he would do anything in school to make a dollar. He became the stamp and coin salesman of the school. His go getter attitude extended in the classroom as well.
At just twenty years old, Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. He is now the richest man in the world with over $85.2 billion to his name. So why did Microsoft end up being way more successful than any computer program like it? The answer is because of the free enterprise system, and competition. Gate's product was considered new and innovative at the time, which made customers want to try it out.
Stewart owned 4,000 shares of ImClone stock and sold all of her shares two days prior to the FDA’s rejection of the company’s cancer treatment drug, Erbitux. The FDA’s denial of Erbitux resulted in a 16% drop in ImClone’s stock value. Stewart sold her shares based on a tip provided by her broker, Peter Bacanovic; he was also the broker for ImClone’s CEO, Sam Waksal. Bacanovic had told Stewart that Waksal was selling his $5 million in shares along with his daughter’s holdings (Leite,
He absolutely loves helping out his community and his fans regardless of how incredibly hard it might be. With his ambassador job he
He was named CNN’s Hero of the Year award, and said “I want to tell you that yes you can. You can dream and you can achieve your dreams." (www.ibtimes.com). He also said that he figured out that he would be able to accomplish everything he put his mind to (www.vibe.com). He wanted to inspire people with his work, and he did. People say that he has given his confidence to thousands of kids with his business (www.vibe.com).
When most people hear about Bill Gates the first thing that comes to mind is the obscene amount of money he has made through out his career. Owning many different foundations, the most common foundation known to most college students is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that provide many different scholarships. However, this foundation also does various things to give back to communities and aiding suffering countries. Within this foundation there are also various branches such as the United States Program, The Global Development Program and the Global health program that have grown over time making the Gates a commonly used household name.
Microsoft is the leading and the largest Software Company in the world. Found by William Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 Microsoft has grown and become a multibillion company in only ten years. It all started with a great vision – “a computer on every desk and every home” - that seemed almost impossible at the time. Now Microsoft has over 44,000 employees in 60 countries, net income of $3.45 billion and revenue of 11.36 billion. Company dramatic growth and success was driven by development and marketing of operational systems and personal productivity applications software.
In December 1996, Apple bought Next Inc for $400 million dollars. After Apple buying Next Inc Apple was generating big losses due to competing companies using the Intel chips and Microsoft software. Just after eight months after Apple bought Steve Jobs company Next Inc Apple appointed him as interim CEO and permanent CEO by January 2000. Soon after Steve Jobs was appointed CEO Apple introduced the IMac in 1998. The IMac was a success and sold over 1.8 million units in the 1999 fiscal year. In 2001 that's when business was going to really start to take off for Steve Jobs, when the ipod was introduced, following the iPod Nano, the video iPod in 2005 and the iPod touch in 2008. In 2007, the iPhone was introduced which sold over 11.6 million iPhones in the 2008 fiscal year. IPhones accounted for 43% of net sales in the 2011 fiscal year. Steve Jobs then introduced the iPad in 2010 and Apple has been revolutionizing the wa...
In 1985, the board members of Apple Inc stripped Steve Jobs from all his duties making him responsible for being unable to bridge the gap between Apple and IBM/Microsoft. Steve Jobs resigned from Apple. Aftermath, Apple stock dropped and it lost millions of dollars. IBM on the other hand became more successful day after day as Apple languished in competition failure after failure.