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5 Billionaire Wives

January 7, 2012 People

Laurene Powell Jobs

Laurene Powell Jobs is widow of Steve Jobs, co-founder and former CEO of Apple Inc.They met at Stanford University in 1990, where Jobs was lecturing and she was finishing an MBA. They exchanged phone numbers, during a casual meeting. Later, in the parking lot,Jobs thought, If this was his last day on earth, would he rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman?He ran across the parking lot and asked her to dinner. On March 18, 1991, in a budist ceremony at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park.

She has a son and two daughter and lives in Palo Alto, California.Mrs. Job is a non profit entrepreneur and sits on the boards of directors of Teach for America; Global Fund for Women; KQED (PBS); EdVoice; New America Foundation;Stanford Schools Corporation; New Schools Venture Fund. She also sits on the advisory board of Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is also co founder of College Track , a nonprofit with a focus on high school graduation, college enrollment and college graduation rates for less privileged communities.Powell Jobs was appointed by President Obama as a Member of the White House Council for Community Solutions.

Melinda Gates

Melinda French Gates is an American businesswoman ,philanthropist and wife of Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates.They met in 1987 at a Microsoft press event in Manhattan, New York.Bill proposed marriage to Melinda in 1993 when he secretly diverted a chartered plane they were taking home from Palm Springs one Sunday night to land in Omaha. Warren Buffett met them there, arranged to have a jewelry store open, and helped them pick a ring, romantic, isn’t it? They married on January 1, 1994 on the Hawaiian island of Lanai in a $ 1 million wedding ceremony at Manele Bay Hotel.For wedding day Bill rented every hotel room at the hotel (250 rooms) and chartered every helicopter close by.Bill and Melinda are happy parents of three children:

After graduation Melina joined Microsoft and participated in the development of many of Microsoft’s multimedia products including Publisher,Microsoft Bob, Encarta, and Expedia.She was ranked #40 in Forbes magazine list of the 100 Most Powerful Women in 2008, #24 in 2007, and #12 in 2006. With her husband bill gates she founded the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world, called Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and in America, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology.

Nita Ambani

Nita Ambani is wife of industrialist Mukesh Ambani one of the richest man in the world. After meeting just seven times Amabni decided to propose her.As Anita recalls “We were driving on Peddar Road [Mumbai] in his green Fiat and there’s a signal at Peddar Road and he stops the car there and this is at 7.30, peak time traffic, and I said, ‘What’s happening’ and he says, ‘Will you marry me?’ I said, ‘Mukesh! I really don’t know…there was this huge traffic at the back… so he says, ‘Tell me, otherwise I am not going to start the car…’ I said, ‘Yes, I will… I will’”.Nita has three children.Family live in a private 27-story building in Mumbai named Antilia The value of the home is approximately US$1 billion and it is claimed to be the most expensive home in history.

She is chairperson of Dhirubhai Ambani International School,the school is counted as one of the premium schools of Mumbai and is one of the 37 in India that offer the International Baccalaureate Program.Nita Ambani has been working as part of the Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation, she is also Co-Owner of the Mumbai Indians cricket team.

Lucy Page

LucY Page SouthWorth is wife of Google’s co founder Lary page. She received her doctorate in biomedical informatics at Stanford University. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001 and holds a master’s of science from Oxford University.Page married Lucinda Southworth at Richard Branson’s Caribbean island, Necker Island in 2007. When asked what was the reason of choosing Lucy, Lary replied her super smart brain and her simple look.Southworth is a research scientist and doesn’t seem to be very social. .

Anne E. Wojcicki

Anne is an American bio tech analyst, biologist and wife of google’s co founder Sergey Brin.Anne is sister of Google executive Susan Wojcicki, who owned the garage where Google got started. They got married in 2007 and marriage ceremony was quite private according to guests Brin flew the smallish wedding party down to the Bahamas islands and that the ceremony itself was held on a sandbar to which guests either had to swim or take a boat. They have a son, Benji, born in December 2008.

Mrs. Brin is co-founder of 23andMe, a biotechnology company based in Mountain View, California that is developing new methods and technologies that will enable consumers to understand their own genetic information.

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