Naomi Battrick net worth: Naomi Battrick net worth: Naomi Battrick is an English actress who has a net worth of $400 thousand. She is best known for her roles in My Almost Famous Family and the Doctors. Battrick also appeared in the films, Blood, Una Noche, and Orbit Ever After. Her first television appearance was a guest role in the show The Bill, and following this role, she was cast as a band member in the children's TV comedy drama called, My Almost Famous Family, which was a show that followed a family band that was part of a chat show around and chronicled their life. The My Almost Famous Family series ended in 2009 and by 2014, she had joined the cast of the BBC One school drama, Waterloo Road. In Waterloo Road she plays a new girl named Gabriella who is from a privileged background.

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Have you ever wanted to know exactly how much money Barack Obama made in 2013? If so, you're in luck because every year both the President and Vice President are required by law to release their full tax returns to the public. 2013 was an interesting year for Barack. Despite the fact that economy is growing, Barack's 2013 income was the lowest he has earned in nine years! He was down 27% in 2013 compared to the year before! So what happened? Did he slash his salary? Did he make some bad investments? Maybe he bet big on Denver in the Super Bowl??!!

In 2013, Barack Obama's total income was $481,098. That's down 27% compared to his 2012 income of $662,076. So what caused this drop? The main reason Obama's income is down is because sales of his books are starting to slow down. Over the past decade, the vast majority of Barack's annual earnings have come from royalties earned off the sales of his books "Dreams of my Father" and "The Audacity of Hope". To this day, Barack Obama earns $3.75 for every hardcover copy and $1.12 for every paperback he sells. In 2013, Barack earned $104,000 in book royalties, compared to $258,000 in 2012. His base salary for being the President of the United States was $394,796. He earned negligible amounts from stocks, dividends and bonds. His total income before deductions was $503,183. Barack and Michelle donated a total of $59,125 to various charities last year. It should be noted that one of the perks of being President is that Barack has access to a $150,000 expense account, a $100,000 tax free travel account and $20,000 entertainment budget.

How Much Will Barack Obama Make?

Barack's income might continue to decline for the next two years, but as soon as he leaves the Oval Office it should skyrocket. Right off the bat, he is probably going to earn a $15 million+ advance for the rights to publish his memoirs. He will also earn tens of millions as a public speaker. For some perspective, between 2001 and 2013, Bill Clinton earned $106 million in speaking engagement fees alone!

Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill reported total combined income of $407,009 in 2013. Joe earned $230,000 as VP. Dr. Jill Biden earned $82,000 in salary for being a professor at Northern Virginia Community College.

The Obama Family Income History:

• 2000: $240,000
• 2001: $272,759
• 2002: $259,394
• 2003: $238,327
• 2004: $207,647
• 2005: $1,655,106
• 2006: $983,826
• 2007: $4,139,965
• 2008: $2,656,902
• 2009: $5,505,409
• 2010: $1,728,096
• 2011: $789,674
• 2012: $662,076
• 2013: $481,098

Total: $19,706,196

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Peter Rosenberg net worth and salary: Peter Rosenberg is an American DJ and television host who has a net worth of $600 thousand. Born in Chevy Chase, Maryland in 1979, Rosenberg has been active in the entertainment industry since 1997. He attended the University of Maryland and made his on-air debut on a campus-wide program, From Dusk 'Til Dawn. He is currently best known for hosting The Hot 97 Morning Show, Real Late with Rosenberg, Juan Epstein, and MTV2′s Hip Hop Squares. He received his first set of turntables when he was just fourteen years old and is now famous for hosting annual concerts and interviewing the world's most prominent hip hop and R&B celebrities. Every year, Rosenberg hosts a birthday event called Peterpalooza in which he has featured artists such as Odd Future, Fabolous, Asher Roth, and more. Rosenberg actively practices Judaism and is currently married to Alexa Datt. He currently resides in New York City and prides himself in his endless hip hop trivia knowledge.

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Despite the stereotype that most Americans are pretty sedentary, sporting goods is actually a massive business. Every year, Americans spend more than $50 billion on equipment, footwear, and apparel. And of that $50 billion, around $6 billion is spent at Dick's Sporting Goods. Since being founded in 1948, Dick's stores today frequently take up more than 80,000 square feet and are stocked with more than 25,000 items. From a day at the beach, to a youth soccer game, to a weekend hunting trip…Dick's has you covered. The company started out as a small regional family business, but today is a massive nation-wide success story. Even during one the worst recessions of all time, Dick's Sporting Goods not only managed to survive, but it thrived. In the process, company Chairman and CEO Ed Stack has earned a $1.4 billion personal fortune.

Ed Stack's father Dick, founded Dick's Sporting Goods in 1948 with a $300 loan from his grandmother (Ed's great grandmother). Dick was 18-years old at the time. He started out in a rented storefront as a small bait and tackle fishing supply store in Binghampton, New York. In the mid-1950s, Dick expanded beyond fishing gear into general sports merchandise. In the early 1960s, he moved to a larger location and renamed the store "Dick's Sporting Goods". He opened a second store in the 1970s, and moved the original into yet another larger space.

Dick Stack retired in 1984 and his then 29-year old son Ed, took over as Chairman and CEO. Ed joined the family business in 1977, shortly after graduating with an accounting degree from St. John Fisher College in Rochester New York. The younger Stack quickly worked his way up the company ladder. It took him just seven years to become CEO. Before becoming CEO, Ed spent time working as a store clerk, merchandise manager, store manager, and eventually company President.

Edward Stack

At that time, Dick's was still a regional, two-store operation. Ed Stack made it his mission to take the business to a new level. Starting in the early 1990s, Ed Stack began to aggressively expand Dick's Sporting Goods. He opened several more stores across Upstate New York and then in 1994, moved the company headquarters from Binghampton to Pittsburgh.

It's hard not to root for Stack and Dick's Sporting Goods. After all, the family has made a fortune off selling basketballs, baseball bats, mitts, soccer balls and every other kind of sporting equipment a kid could want. That's just plain, good, old fashioned fun. The fact that the chain held steady through the 2008 recession while other big box retailers failed, is a sign of Stack's business savvy. He took over a two-store operation in 1984 and turned it into an empire that today has 500 locations in 44 states, as well as 81 Dick's Sporting Goods owned Golf Galaxy stores in 30 states. Oh, and Dick's is also international with a sourcing headquarters in Hong Kong.

Dick's Sporting Goods takes a slightly different approach to business compared to most sporting goods retailers. Dick's aims to cater to both the serious sports enthusiast and the amateur. Dick's has something for everyone. Furthermore, Dick's 'stores within the store' cater to whatever sport is in season (both nationally and regionally) and compete with both specialty golf and running stores.

Store within a Store

Ed didn't always helm Dick's with such calm. There was a time when he nearly lost it all. It was a classic case of expanding too much too soon. In Ed's first 10 years as CEO, the company grew to 40 stores, moved its headquarters to Pittsburgh, and planned for a much wider national expansion. This quickly burned through the company's resources, forcing Ed to go to banks and basically beg for a bailout. Ever since, Ed adds new stores at a much slower rate.

Ed Stack played high school baseball and football and these days runs, is an expert skier, and has a golf handicap of 4.8 – making him a natural to run the business his father started. Stack's goal is to grow Dick's Sporting Goods to a place where the brand resonates with consumers and athletes the same way Nike does. So far, that goal is slowly starting to take shape. Today, the company employs more than 18,000 people, but still has the feeling of a family business. Ed Stack took the company public in 2002. After the first day of trading, the company had a market cap of $1.6 billion. Today the company has a market cap of $6.5 billion and since Ed still owns 15% of the available shares, his net worth is $1.4 billion.

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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2013 the average college-educated 31 year old with a full time job earned between $50,000 and $65,000 dollars. Did you make more or less than that last year? If you beat the national average go ahead an give yourself a big pat on the back. Woo hoo! You rock! I happen to be a 31 year old college-educated person, and I'm not afraid to admit that I beat the average last year! Woo Hoo! I rock! But before our egos get too big, we might want to pump the brakes a little bit. Especially after hearing about a 31 year old NYC Wall Street trader by the name of James Levin. James Levin is a Managing Director for a New York City-based Hedge Fund called Och-Ziff Capital Management Group. In 2013, James had a pretty good year. Ok, that might be the understatement of the century.

Och-Ziff Capital Management Group was founded in 1994 by seasoned Wall Street veteran Daniel Och (pronounced "awk"). Och started the fund using a big investment from members of the the wealthy Ziff family, hence the name Och-Ziff. As of January 2014, Och-Ziff has $40.6 billion dollars under management. It became a publicly traded company in 2007 and today has a market cap of $5.6 billion.

After earning a computer science degree from Harvard in 2005, James "Jimmy" Levin went to work on Wall Street at a firm called Dune Capital. He then spent some time at a company called Sagamore Hill Capital Management. He moved over to Och-Ziff in 2006.

Jimmy has actually been family friends with Daniel Och for years. He met Mr. Och after teaching his son how to water ski at a summer camp. Not a bad connection to make while working a minimum wage summer job.

Between 2006 and 2012, Jimmy rose the ranks of Och-Ziff at a furious pace. By the time he was 29 years old in 2012, he was managing a 14 person team and overseeing billions of dollars. After turning 30, he was promoted to the firm's executive team and took over the entire global credit investing desk. If that's not already impressive enough, keep in mind that Och-Ziff has nearly 500 employees.

Some time in 2012, Jimmy made a bold recommendation. He suggested that the firm purchase $7.5 billion worth of "structured credit instruments". A structured credit instrument can be any kind of loan that has a fixed payment schedule. That includes credit card debt, mortgage debt, government debt… It's not exactly clear what specific kind of packaged debt Jimmy purchased, but considering the massive sums of money at risk, it most likely involved mortgages. An educated guess would be that Och-Ziff purchased billions of dollars worth of pre-packaged mortgages from banks that were eager to get the loans off their books at pennies on the dollar. As the economy recovered between 2012 and 2013, not only would the investment have earned a return from mortgages that were being successfully paid on time, the overall value of the investment would have increased exponentially.

Again, we don't know exactly what went down, but we do know that the investment was fully unloaded some time in 2013. We also know that by the time the investment was fully unloaded, the firm had earned a $2 billion profit. FYI, in 2013, the entire firm earned $3.4 billion, so this one trade accounted for nearly 60% of all their profits that year.

Normally hedge funds are extremely secretive about how much they make and how much they pay their employees. But since Och-Ziff is publicly traded, they are legally required to report certain unusually high salaries and bonuses to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In this case, Jimmy's compensation definitely warranted an SEC disclosure. Take a look at the highlighted pink section in the actual SEC filing below. If you go from left to right next to " James Levin", you'll see Och-Ziff paid Jimmy zero dollars in salary and zero dollars in cash bonuses for 2013. Now move one column to the right. See where it says "All Other Compensation"? This column lists any stock grants that were given out.

As you can see, last year Och-Ziff gave James Levin $118,854,312 worth of stock. You're not reading that wrong. James Levin's bonus for 2013 was $118.8 million. I re-iterate, he's 31 years old. Please note, Och-Ziff CEO Daniel Och only made $22 million last year. To give you some more perspective, $118 million is more than the salaries and bonuses earned by the CEOs of JP Morgan, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citibank and Wells Fargo… COMBINED.  ($96.1 million vs. $118.8 million).

This is educated speculation, but one reason it would be smart to take the bonus entirely as stock, as opposed to cash, is because it could allow for a fairly large tax savings. Assuming Jimmy exercises his options now but waits more than a year to actually sell the shares, he will be able to pay the long-term capital gains tax rate (20%) instead of short term (39.9%). In terms of Federal taxes, that represents roughly $24 million in savings. That savings alone would be a massive fortune for a 31 year old. Hell, $24 million should be a massive fortune for anyone no matter your age, amiright???!!!

Simply incredible. I don't really know what else to say. What would you do if you made $118 million as a 31 year old? Would you keep working or retire to a beach in the Bahamas for the rest of your life?

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Gloria Loring net worth: Gloria Loring is an American actress and singer who has a net worth of $20 million dollars. Gloring Loring was born in New York, New York, and began her professional singing career in her early teens. She released her first album in 1968, and was a popular fixture on various variety shows and awards programs throughout the 70s. She gained additional recognition as a composer, co-writing the theme songs for such shows as "Diff'rent Strokes" and "The Facts of Life", among other projects. She is also a published author, and has written multiple books on cooking and living with diabetes. Since debuting, Gloria has released eleven more albums over the years, and scored a Top Ten Hit with her song, "Friends and Lovers" in 1986. Most recently, she published a novel called, "Coincidence Is God's Way of Remaining Anonymous", about a series of coincidences that changed her life. Gloria Loring was married to Canadian actor Alan Thicke from 1970 – 1983. She is also pop singer Robin Thicke's mother.

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Keanu Reeves has played a number of iconic roles. He was Ted in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure", Johnny Utah in "Point Break", Jack in "Speed", and Neo in "The Matrix" to name just a few. He is notoriously private, more than a little bit shy, the subject of a 4Chan meme (Sad Keanu), and a notable philanthropist. Through his generosity, Keanu has taught us all to have a "most excellent" life. His generosity has become so legendary that it reads like an urban legend. Most movie stars don't donate huge portions of their salaries to crew members because he thought they deserved the money more. As you're about to discover, it turns out Keanu Reeves is not your typical movie star.

Keanu Reeves was born in 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon to an English mother and Hawaiian-American father. Reeves's mother was working in Beirut when she met his father, a geologist who earned his GED while in prison in Hawaii for selling heroin at Hilo International Airport. Reeves's father abandoned his family when Keanu was just three years old. Keanu spent his childhood moving around the world as his costume designer mother worked and married again and again. Stability wasn't all that present in Reeves's life as a child and teenager. Reeves lived in Sydney, Australia and New York City for awhile before his family settled in Toronto. He attended four different high schools where he excelled as a hockey player. Reeves had dreams of playing professional hockey. He dropped out of high school before he graduated. A struggle with dyslexia made academics difficult and by then the call of the acting bug had already hit him.

Keanu's first major role was in the 1986 Rob Lowe ice hockey film "Youngblood" in which he played a Québécois goalie. He soon moved to Los Angeles and scored a break through role in 1986′s "River's Edge". After that, Reeves worked steadily. There was "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" and the sequel. There was "Point Break" – for which he won MTV's "Most Desirable Male" award in 1992, "My Own Private Idaho", "Speed", "A Walk in the Clouds", "The Devil's Advocate", "The Replacements", and then the pinnacle of his career so far… "The Matrix" franchise.

Keanu has proven himself to be an extremely bankable movie star. On screen, Reeves is inherently likeable. He is the affable guy next door, your brother, your high school boyfriend. He is accessible. And although he has always lived a quiet life outside of the Hollywood scene and spotlights, Keanu has proven he is a man with an incredibly generous spirit.

Over the years Keanu has given millions of dollars to charity. Reeves has supported PETA, the SickKids Foundation, Stand Up To Cancer, among others. His sister has leukemia, and he has spent more than $5 million dollars to help her in her fight against the disease. Reeves also reportedly has set up a private cancer foundation to help a handful of children's hospitals and cancer research. Reeves does not attach his name to any his gifts. He prefers to provide money where it is needed without taking any credit. Giving money to others is simply a part of this movie star's beliefs and way of life.

And lest you think that all of this charitable giving is the act of a wealthy man who needs some tax shelter, consider how Reeves acted with a homeless man one time. He once spent several hours sitting on a sidewalk, sharing his food and talking with one of the many homeless people in Los Angeles. There was no pontificating and no star struck babbling. They were simply two men taking about life over lunch. This is not your typical movie star folks.

But the real generosity of spirit that Keanu possesses became clear when he was negotiating his back-end deal for the two "Matrix" sequels. For the first film in the trilogy, Reeves made $10 million up front, which, when combined with his back-end deal, upped his salary to $35 million. Amazingly, when it came time to negotiate his back-end profit sharing deal for the second and third "Matrix" films, Keanu insisted on handing over a significant portion of his back-end points to the films' special effects and costume design teams. Reeves felt (and rightly so) that the men and women who created the effects and costumes for the franchise were the true heroes of the movie.

So how'd this work out for the FX and costume teams? The second and third Matrix movies earned more than $1.2 billion at the worldwide box office. When it was all said and done, Keanu reportedly ended up giving away an estimated $75 million dollars.  Each member of these teams received $1 million dollars per person, instantly making them all millionaires. But Keanu didn't stop at just the special effects and costume teams. He also gave the entire stunt team on the "Matrix" sequels Harley Davidson motorcycles.

Additionally, as documented in a personal account on Reddit, he helped out a Matrix crew member's family in need:

"A family friend builds movie sets, doesn't design, is one of the poor dudes that just builds. Anyways he worked on the set for the Matrix and Keanu heard about family trouble he was having and gave him a $20,000 Christmas bonus to help him out. He also was one of the only people on the set that genuinely wanted to know people's names, would say hello and mean it, and would talk to people as they were his peers and not below him just because they were practically making nothing to build a set. I've never heard anyone say Keanu is douche, seems like the nicest person in Hollywood from a second hand experience."

Reeves was quoted in a 2003 interview in Hello! Magazine as saying "Money is the last thing I think about." For many actors, this would seem like a PR move. But not with Keanu. His generosity on set and willingness to do whatever it takes to make the best film goes way back. When he was cast in 1997′s "The Devil's Advocate" Keanu took a several million dollar pay cut to make funds available to get Al Pacino's deal done. He did the same thing for 2000′s "The Replacement" in order to get Gene Hackman on board.

When Keanu says money is the last thing he thinks about, he is not lying. He turned down an $11 million role in the "Speed" sequel as well as an opportunity to star alongside Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino in 1995′s Heat (a role that went to Val Kilmer) in order to act in a small production of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in at the small Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg, Canada.

Keanu Reeves is a man with a truly generous spirit. Whether it is giving millions to charity in support of a cause, funding your sister's expensive fight against an insidious disease, spending time with those less fortunate with no agenda of his own other than to experience what that person has to offer, or ensuring that the less well paid member's of a film crew are fairly compensated—Reeves is a man who always manages to be way more interesting than any of the roles he has played.

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Roberto Hernandez Ramirez Net Worth: Roberto Hernandez Ramirez is a Mexican businessman who has a net worth of $1.8 billion. Roberto Hernandez Ramirez is best known as the former CEO of Banco Nacional de México (Banamex), the second largest bank in Mexico. Born Roberto Hernández Ramírez in 1942 in Tuxpan, Veracruz, he started to build his fortune right after he took a degree in business administration from the Ibero-American University in 1964. Before establishing himself as a business executive, he co-founded Acciones y Valores de México (Accival) in 1971, and three years later he became the youngest president ever of the Mexican stock exchange. It was in the period from 1997 to 2001 that he served as Banamex's CEO and he received some $2 billion in stock when Citigroup bought the Mexican bank in 2001. Roberto Hernandez Ramirez served on Citigroup's board until 2009 when the bank saw a dramatic fall in its shares. Nowadays, Hernandez sits on the board of Mexican broadcaster Televisa, led by Emilio Azcarraga Jean. An avid environmentalist, he is fully dedicated to preservation efforts. To date, he has formed two foundations focused on the environment and Mayan cultural heritage. He is also on the board of trustees of the World Monuments Fund, as well as on the board of the Nature Conservancy.

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Robert Ingham Net Worth: Robert Ingham is an Australian businessman who has a net worth of $1 billion. The sole shareholder of Australia's biggest poultry supplier and producer, Inghams Enterprises, Robert Ingham rose to riches after he sold the company to private equity firm TPG Capital for $900 million in 2013. Robert and his late brother, Jack, inherited the breeding business from their late father Walter Ingham right after his death in 1953. The two siblings turned the business into Australia's biggest poultry producer. Prior to the sale, the Sydney's Liverpool-based company has reached annual sales of more than $1.5 billion and had a workforce of six thousand people.

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Rishad Naoroji Net Worth: Rishad Naoroji is an Indian businessman who has a net worth of $1.9 billion. The cousin of billionaire Adi Godrej, Rishad Naoroji came into riches after he inherited a one-fifth share of the Godrej family fortune from his mother. However, he has never got involved in the family business. Instead, he followed in the footsteps of his environmentalist father and established himself as an independent researcher who specializes in raptor conservation.

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Robert Pera Net Worth: Robert Pera is an American entrepreneur who has a net worth of $2.2 billion. A former Apple hardware engineer, Robert Pera is best known as the founder and CEO of Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. It's a Silicon Valley-based multinational technology company that manufactures software and systems communications primarily meant for under-served and emerging markets. Founded in 2005, the company saw a constant grow over the years and eventually went public in October 2011. Thanks to the successful IPO, Pera became a billionaire for the very first time. But one year later, right after the stock in his company tanked, Robert Pera's net worth decreased from $1 billion to $800 million. Luckily, by the fall of 2013 he managed to re-enter the billionaires' circles on the back of the stellar performance of his Ubiquiti Networks, which nearly tripled in value in the past year. Aside from Ubiquiti Networks, he is also the principal owner of the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies as of June 2012.

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Richard Elman Net Worth: Richard Elman is a British businessman who has a net worth of $1.9 billion. Richard Elman rose to riches as the founder and former CEO of Noble Group Ltd., a multinational conglomerate that manages a range of agricultural and energy facilities, as well as metals, minerals and ores. However, Elman noticed a fall in his earnings due to the falling value of his shared in the Hong Kong-based Noble Group. In an attempt to stop the recent decline, he has come up with a new growth strategy by venturing into the natural gas market in the United States. But with the drop in the U.S. energy prices, he has recently completed oil-seed crushing plants in Ukraine, South Africa and Brazil. Thus, he enabled Noble to sell natural gas from America to Asia and Europe. Even though Yusuf Alireza took the CEO position at Noble last year, Elman still has his voice heard in the group.

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Ranjan Pai Net Worth: Ranjan Pai is an Indian businessman who has a net worth of $1.4 billion. Ranjan Pai is the CEO of Manipal Education & Medical Group (MEMG), one of the largest privately-held healthcare conglomerates in India. Founded in 1993 by Pai's grandfather, MEMG now operates 6 colleges and 15 hospitals. In 1978, his father took the control over the business following a family split. Before joining the family business, Pai acquired a medical degree and had a working stint at the US. At the age of 28, he was asked by his father to take over the delayed medical school project by his family in Malaysia. Since, he has helped Maniap turn into a global brand in education. Recently, he opened 2 universities in Kuala Lumpur and is also believed to be in talks to sell a stake in hospital arm Manipal Health Enterprises to a private equity firm.

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Ralph Dommermuth Net Worth: Ralph Dommermuth is a German entrepreneur who has a net worth of $3.8 billion. Ralph Dommermuth acquired his riches as the founder and CEO of United Internet AG, one of Germany's leading Internet access providers. Solely last year, he witnessed a $1.9 billion rise in his net worth on a 90% surge in the share price of United Internet AG. Dommermuth made his career beginnings as a computer salesman, right after he completed an apprenticeship at Deutsche Bank in 1983. Five years later, he launched United's predecessor company, 1&1 AG, with a borrowed desk and DM 500,000 in starting capital. At first, the company offered tech-savvy marketing services for small software and telecommunications suppliers, before landing big clients like IBM, Compaq and Deutsche Telekom. In March 1998, Dommermuth took the company public on Germany's then-new stock exchange for high-tech companies, the Neuer Markt. Since then, he owns over 40% of the company. A zealous sailor, Dommermuth and his company sponsored the United Internet Team Germany in the 2007 America's Cup.

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Here's a little life lesson that everyone should jot down: You do not want to mess with a man whose father is worth $60 billion dollars. Don't believe me? Well put it this way, if I was an African animal poacher, I probably wouldn't be sleeping well tonight. That's because after decades spent brutally murdering all kinds of endangered species without consequence, poachers may have finally pissed off the wrong person. This person is a hero to animal lovers all over the world. A hero who comes armed with three very important assets: #1) A lifelong passion to help any person or creature in desperate need of help. #2) Decades of successfully solving dozens of seemingly impossible world challenges. And perhaps most importantly… #3) A never ending bank account balance to f@&! these poachers up! So, who is our new hero? Yesterday, Warren Buffett's eldest son Howard G. Buffett announced he's stepping in to end poaching once and for all. And he's not taking prisoners.

Howard Buffett

Warren Buffett's middle child, Howard Graham Buffett, is named after his grandfather and his father's favorite professor from college. By all means, Howard could have grown up to become an entitled snot. He also could have become a ruthless businessman. Or more simply, he could have chosen to live a life total leisure, doing nothing but playing golf and wasting his trust fund all day, every day. Amazingly, in the face of all these highly desirable options, Howard's dream was to become a farmer. 

If you met Howard, you might notice a faint scar on his right arm. Believe it or not, that scar is from a cheetah bite. When Howard, was just 23 he cashed in stock he'd received from his grandfather to buy a bulldozer. He had decided to launch an excavating business. He really wanted to become a farmer but he didn't have the money to buy the necessary land. When his dad offered to buy him a small Nebraska farm, in typical Warren Buffett style—he charged his son the going market rate rent on the property. 

The younger Buffett spent much of his early adult years working as a soybean and corn farmer in Illinois. Eventually Howard became the chairman of a Nebraska stage agency that focused on encouraging the building of ethanol factories in the state. He then ran for and won election to the Board of Commissioners for the country in which Omaha sits. Howard's deep knowledge of both farming and farm politics (not to mention his last name) put him on the radar of mechanical giant, Archer-Daniels-Midland in Decatur, Illinois. He soon joined the board and became a corporate vice president. From this position, Howard was exposed to a much greater view of the world's global agricultural challenges. 

Howard has spent most of the last decade as a leader in the global war against hunger. Using money from his father's foundation (bequeathed to his own foundation), today Howard spends most of the year traveling around Africa experimenting with ideas designed to help poor farmers produce enough crops to feed their families. Between 2005 and 2012, The Howard G. Buffett Foundation distributed more than $400 million to a wide variety of global charity projects, the majority of which was spent in related to Africa to promote farming and sustainability.

Three Generations of Buffetts

Howard traces his interest in third-world farming to his involvement with a company called GSI Group that manufactured steel grain bins. Through this association, he was sent to South Africa to help network with the country's large grain farmers. On one of these early trips to South Africa, Howard's life goals would change forever. While photographing migrating zebras and wildebeests, he saw scars on the ground where poor farmers had used fire to clear desperately needed land. Howard came to realize that he couldn't protect Africa's environment without first fighting its food shortage. To save the environment, he had to give people a chance to feed themselves better.

In 2004, his mother Susan Buffett died. This prompted the disbursement of a large portion of the family fortune and gave him the means to dig in and make a really big difference in the world. Howard's mother's death also prompted Warren to give away most of his fortune through Bill and Melinda Gates' Giving Pledge. He also promised his three children that each of their foundations would get annual gifts of stock initially worth $50 million. For Howard, this meant that he could increase the spending of his foundation (from which he does not draw a salary) nearly ten-fold.

Howard Buffett's efforts in assisting African farmers have helped more than 1.5 million Africans to date. He personally owns 6,000 acres of farmland outside of Johannesburg that also includes a wildlife preserve. It was on this farm that he was bitten by a cheetah.

Southern Africa is home to 80% of the world's rhino population. As of April 2014, the African black rhino is considered "critically endangered", which is one step away from being "extinct in the wild" and two steps away from being fully extinct. Tragically, even under these grave circumstances, hundreds of rhinos are murdered ever year by poachers. According to the World Wildlife Foundation there has been a more than 7000% increase in rhino poaching in South Africa alone since 2007. What are these poachers after? The rhino horn.

Despite there being absolutely no scientific evidence supporting the claim, many Asian cultures believe rhino horns have many medical benefits. Asian "doctors" prescribe rhino powder in the form of tea or tablets to treat everything from nosebleeds, to fevers to strokes. In Vietnam, rhino horn is commonly believed to cure cancer. And in case you were wondering, chemically speaking, the rhino horn is  made up of the exact same compound as human hair and nails.

As a result of these 100% false beliefs, black market rhino horns have become extremely valuable. Pound for pound, today rhino horn is worth more than gold or even cocaine. The street value of a kilogram of rhino powder is said to be $75,000. And a single horn can produce 10 kilograms.

Fortunately for the planet, Howard Buffett has had enough of rhino poachers. On his most recent visit to Tanzania, the younger Buffett announced that he was launching a full-scale war on African poachers. Howard plans to use his resources to purchase helicopters, vehicles, GPS equipment, and even a cache of weapons to help protect a literal army of pilots and game rangers. The helicopter has been purchased and will arrive in Tanzania in less than six months. In the meantime, Buffett is leasing a helicopter so that patrols can begin fighting poachers as soon as humanely possible.

Through this pledge, Buffett does not only protecting elephants, hippos, Cape buffalo, and crocodiles, he is also immediately creating 450 game ranger jobs with plans to eventually expand that number by 950 more jobs over the next several years.

This is not Howard Buffett's first foray into wildlife conservation in Africa. In March, he launched a three-year initiative with his foundation and the Nature Conservation Trust to combat rhino poaching in Kruger National Park. He has pledged $23.7 million to patrol for poachers and test new anti-poaching tactics that could be used in other regions of Africa.

Kruger National Park holds more than 40 percent of the 22,000 rhinos left in the world and is the largest single population of rhinoceroses on the planet. With Buffett's funding, the park will be able to create a fortified protection zone using the most sophisticated and advanced tracking and detection equipment on the ground and in the air. The plans outline the use of elite canine units and highly-trained ranger teams used in conjunction with intelligence gathering, observation, and surveillance systems.

Through the collaboration with the Nature Conservation Trust, the Howard G. Buffett Foundation has committed a total of $175 million in funding for anti-poaching efforts. Its Africa Great Lakes Peace Initiative, as the program is named, is designed to interrupt the flow of capital from poaching to armed groups. The foundation has already spent $45 million towards conservation and agriculture development in South Africa.

And, back in 2001, Howard Buffett set up the Jubatus Cheetah Reserve in Limpopo Province. The reserve supports cheetah research and planning for conservation of the world's fastest running animal, which is currently classified as a species that is Vulnerable to extinction. I guess he doesn't hold a grudge for the bite mark!

Howard Buffett could have been content to be a corn and soybean farmer in Illinois and let his Foundation make healthy donations to the usual charities. But this remarkable man had to do more. He dug in and got involved in African farming and food supply and in South African wildlife conservation. A permanent resident of South Africa since 2007, Howard Buffett, who serves on the corporate boards of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. and The Coca Cola Company (among others) is an inspiration that is not just changing our world, but saving it. Thanks to him, from now on, poachers will be the ones facing extinction.

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