Canadian businessman Jim Treliving has an estimated net worth of $640 million. Born He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of WPHL Holdings, Inc. Born W. James Treliving on May 12, 1941 in Verdin, Manitoba, he began his career as a constable with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Formerly Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft, Nathan Myhrvold has an estimated net worth of $650 million. He is the co-founder of Intellectual Ventures, a patent portfolio holding company. Usually with co-inventors, he holds 17 US patents assigned to Microsoft and has applied for more than 500 patents. They also hold 115 US patents assigned mostly to The Invention Science Fund I, LLC.
Fashion designer Vera Wang, best known for her chic bridal collections that are celebrity favorites for red carpet events and weddings–this year she dressed Chelsea Clinton, Hilary Duff and Alicia Keys for their big day–spent 16 years as an editor at “Vogue” before starting her own business. Like many designers today, Wang has expanded beyond her foundation of bridal and high-end ready-to-wear. In 2002, she dipped into the mid-priced home fashion industry, selling bath, bedding, and housewares. Since 2007, she has also produced a mass-market line, Simply Vera By Vera Wang, for chain store Kohls.
American software industry entrepreneur Ray Ozzie has an estimated net worth of $650 million. He is best known for his positions at Microsoft. He served as the Chief Technical Officer and Chief Software Architect from 2005 to 2010. He is the founder of Irish Associates which helped create the Lotus Notes. It was an application which was later bought by IBM Software Group and was sold around the world.
Beatrice Campos has an estimated net worth of $650 million. Her late husband co-founded drugmaker Unilab, which is their family’s biggest asset. She also controls Singapore-listed Del Monte Pacific, run by son Joselito. Joselito recently sold his stake in Top Frontier, which he’d bought together with Roberto Ongpin and Inigo Zobel de Ayala. He said didn’t make any profit off the shares, which were previously included in this fortune, as he used sale proceeds to square off acquisition debt.
Filipino business executive and politician, Albert del Rosario has a net worth of $657 million. He became the Philippines’ Secretary of Foreign Affairs last February 24, 2011, as a replacement for Alberto Romulo. He remained the administration’s richest Cabinet member.
Arnold Palmer was a world famous golf immortal and sportsman. He was a highly-successful business executive, skilled aviator, prominent advertising spokesman, talented consultant and golf course designer. His devotion to the family and down to earth nature made him one of the most accessible and popular public figures in history with a net worth of $675 million.
Adam D’Angelo is an engineer and developer who has an estimated net worth of $680 million. He was a graduate of California Institute of Technology (Caltech) with a degree in Computer Science. While at Caltech, he competed in the Association for Computing Machinery collegiate world programming contest. He was one of the top 24 finalists in the international Topcoder Collegiate Challenge in 2005. He also took the eighth place during the 2001 U.S.A. Computing Olympiad for high school students.