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William Henry Gates III     Founder, Owner and Chairman, Corbis Corporation

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BACKGROUND*

Mr. William Henry Gates, III is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Microsoft Corp. He co-founded the firm in 1975 and was appointed as the Chairman of the firm in 1981. Mr. Gates served as its Chief Software Architect from January 2000 to June 2006 and as the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corp., from 1981 to January 2000. His foresight and his vision for personal computing have been central to the success of Microsoft corp. and the software industry and under his ... leadership; Microsoft corp.'s mission has been to continually advance and improve software technology, and to make it easier, more cost-effective and more enjoyable for people to use computers. Mr. Gates is the Founder and Chairman of Corbis Corporation. He is the Founder and Co-Chairman of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a Trustee of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, where he shapes and approves foundation strategies, review results, advocates for the foundation’s issues, and help set the overall direction of the organization. Mr. Gates has been a Member of the Board of Directors of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., since December 14, 2004. He served as Director of ICOS Corp., from July 1990 to February 2005. In 1999, Mr. Gates wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought, a book that shows how computer technology can solve business problems in fundamentally new ways and his previous book, The Road Ahead, published in 1995, held the No. 1 spot on the New York Times' bestseller list for seven weeks. While at Harvard University, he developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair.

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