The wife of Joseph C. Wilson tried to raise enough money to buy a controlling interest of what major tech company?
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Joseph C. Wilson Joseph Charles "Joe" Wilson IV (born November 6, 1949) is a former United States diplomat best known for his 2002 trip to Niger to investigate allegations that Saddam Hussein was attempting to purchase yellowcake uranium; his "New York Times" op-ed piece, "What I Didn't Find in Africa"; and the subsequent leaking of information pertaining to his wife Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA agent. He is the CEO of a consulting firm he founded, JC Wilson International Ventures. In January 2007, Wilson joined Jarch Capital, LLC, as vice chairman.
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Valerie Plame Valerie Elise Plame Wilson (née Plame; born August 13, 1963), known as Valerie Plame, Valerie E. Wilson, and Valerie Plame Wilson, is an American writer, spy novelist and former operations officer working at the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). As the subject of the 2003 Plame affair, also known as the "CIA leak scandal", Plame had her identity as covert officer of the CIA leaked to the press by members of the George W. Bush administration and subsequently made public. In collaboration with a ghostwriter, Plame wrote a memoir detailing her career and the events leading up to her resignation from the CIA, and subsequently wrote and published two spy novels. After a number of years out of the limelight, she later made the news for leading a campaign to raise enough money to buy a controlling interest of Twitter stock, in order to remove Donald Trump from the platform, as well as controversy surrounding antisemitic activity on social media, for which she subsequently apologized.
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Mary Lou Song Mary Lou Song is a Korean-American entrepreneur and was eBay employee number three. She joined the company, formerly AuctionWeb, in 1996 after being recruited by its founder Pierre Omidyar and Jeffrey Skoll. Song is credited with concocting the myth behind eBay's origins, which involved a conversation between Omidyar and his now wife, Pam Omidyar, who sought to find a way to collect more PEZ dispensers.
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Debra L. Lee Debra L. Lee, Esq. (born August 8, 1955) is an American businesswoman. She is currently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BET, the parent company for Black Entertainment Television. She is a mother of two. Lee has sat on the board of directors for a number of companies/organizations, including the National Cable & Telecommunications Association the Ad Council, and the National Cable Television Association. Debra Lee is named one of the "100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment" by The Hollywood Reporter due to her many achievements in her 25-plus year career at BET.
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Ping Fu Ping Fu (born 1958) is a Chinese-American entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of 3D software development company Geomagic, and was its chief executive officer until February 2013 when the company was acquired by 3D Systems Inc. s of 2014 , she is the Vice President and Chief Entrepreneur Officer at 3D Systems. Fu grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution and moved to the United States in 1984. She co-founded Geomagic in 1997 with her then-husband Herbert Edelsbrunner, and has been recognized for her achievements with the company through a number of awards, including being named "Inc." magazine's 2005 "Entrepreneur of the Year". In 2013, she published her memoir, "Bend, Not Break", co-authored with MeiMei Fox.
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Inteco Inteco (Интеко in Russian, "Inteko") is a Russian construction company, 99% of which is owned by Yelena Baturina, Russia's richest woman and wife of former Moscow city mayor, Yuriy Luzhkov.
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Gopa Periyadan Gopa Periyadan (born Gopakumar Kadinjipalli Periyadan) is an engineer turned successful entrepreneur and business leader in Silicon valley living in California. He is currently Chief Operating Officer of Mobiveil, Inc. a Milpitas Calif. start-up specializing in development of Silicon Intellectual Properties (SIP), platforms and solutions for the Data Center, Networking and IoT markets. Gopa Periyadan was one of co-founders of GDA Technologies Inc, one of the pioneering companies in Electronic Design Services(EDS) companies which was subsequently acquired by L & T Infotech Ltd in March 2007. GDA is listed as one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in US by Inc Magazine its annual INC500 list in 2002 with a ranking of 283. Gopa is also a contributing author of several articles on technology trends, business analysis and current affairs.
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Christine Liang Christine Liang is an Asian American businesswoman. She is the President and Founder of ASI Corp., a Fremont, California-based wholesale distributor of computer software, hardware, and accessories. A native of Taiwan, she immigrated to the United States in the mid-1980s and founded ASI in 1987. She has received recognition for running the largest family-owned business in the Silicon Valley and one of the largest women-owned businesses in the United States.
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Frank Pritt Frank Wilson Pritt III was a salesperson and product manager for Harris Corporation in the 1970s, then founder of Attachmate Corporation in 1982. Attachmate went on to become Washington's largest privately held software firm. He was listed on Forbes' list of 400 richest Americans in October 1995. He announced his retirement from Attachmate, where he had held the office of president, in 2005.
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Maggie Wei Wu Wu Wei () known professionally as Maggie Wu, is a Chinese business executive who is the Chief Financial Officer of Alibaba Group, a family of Internet-based businesses. She was responsible for instituting Alibaba.com's financial systems and organization leading up to its initial public offering in Hong Kong in November 2007, as well as co-leading the privatization of Alibaba.com in 2012.
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Plame affair timeline Between 2003 and 2007, Patrick Fitzgerald led a criminal investigation into allegations that the Bush administration had leaked Plame's identity as retribution against her husband, Joseph C. Wilson, who had publicly questioned the rationale for the Iraq War. In August 2006, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage revealed that he had been Novak's primary source for the leak.
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Fremont General Corporation Fremont General Corporation was a Santa Monica, California based holding company for Fremont Investment & Loan, an industrial bank that was one of the largest subprime mortgage lenders in the country during the early and mid 2000s.
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TechForward TechForward is an electronics recycling startup business founded in 2006 and backed by venture capital, which insures electronics against upgrade. Based in California, it sells "upgrade policies" that guarantee it will buy back working electronics within two years of purchase. It offers policies on computers, TVs, DVD players, and satellite navigation systems. It then resells or recycles the electronics.
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Theresia Gouw Theresia Gouw is an entrepreneur and venture capital investor in the technology sector. She worked at Bain & Company, Release Software and Accel Partners before co-founding Aspect Ventures, a female-led VC firm, in 2014. Gouw was named one of the 40 most influential minds in tech by TIME Magazine. and has been recognized six times on the Forbes Midas List as one of the "world's smartest tech investors".
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Joseph R. Anderson Joseph Reid Anderson (February 16, 1813 – September 7, 1892) was an American civil engineer, industrialist, and soldier. During the American Civil War he served as a Confederate general, and his Tredegar Iron Company was a major source of munitions and ordnance for the Confederate States Army. Starting with a small forge and rolling mill in the mid-1830s, It was a flourishing operation by 1843 when he leased it. He eventually bought the company outright in 1848 and forcefully and aggressively built Tredegar Iron Works into the South's largest and most significant iron works. When the Civil War broke out he entered the Army as a Brigadier General in 1861. Shortly after he was wounded and then resigned from the Army returning to the iron works. It was the Confederacy's major (and for much of the war only) source of cannons and munitions, employing some 900 workers, most of whom slaves. His plant was confiscated by the United States In 1865, but returned to him in 1867 and he remained president until his death. Anderson was very active in local civic and political affairs.
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Sophie Wilson Sophie Wilson FRS FREng (born Roger Wilson in Leeds, England, in 1957) is a British computer scientist and software engineer. Wilson designed the Acorn Micro-Computer, the first of a long line of computers sold by Acorn Computers Ltd, including its programming language BBC BASIC. Wilson later designed the instruction set of the ARM processor, which became the "de facto" model used in 21st-century smartphones.
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James Wilson (businessman) James Wilson (3 June 1805 – 11 August 1860) was a Scottish businessman, economist, and Liberal politician who founded "The Economist" weekly and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, which merged with Standard Bank in 1969 to form Standard Chartered.
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Anna M. Peterson Anna M. Peterson (née Chadwick ; born May 30, 1947) is an American politician who served as Mayor of Salem, the state capital of Oregon, from 2011 until 2016. She is married to Edwin J. Peterson, who was Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court from 1983 until 1991. A Republican, and the third woman to hold the non-partisan office, Peterson has served as mayor since January 11, 2011, when she succeeded Janet Taylor.
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Dan Pickett Daniel T. Pickett III (born July 27, 1968) is an American technology entrepreneur, private equity investor and philanthropist. He is the chairman, chief executive and co-founder of nfrastructure, a privately held networking and IT services firm. He is also President of Hudson River Capital Holdings, a private investment company in New York.
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Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation is an American conservative non-profit organization and grant-making body formed in 1970. Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the organization was founded by Richard DeVos Sr., co-founder of the multi-level marketing company Amway and former finance chair of the Republican National Committee, and his wife Helen. As of 2014, the foundation had $54.9 million in assets. It is one of five non-profit organizations established and operated by the DeVos family; the others, all founded by siblings of Richard DeVos Jr., include the Dick and Betsy DeVos Foundation; the Daniel and Pamella DeVos Foundation; Cheri DeVos’ CDV5 Foundation; and the Douglas and Maria DeVos Foundation. The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation provides funding to various organizations across three broad categories: political, religious, and educational.The founders, Richard and Helen, were awarded the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership in 2006.
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Carol Espy-Wilson Dr. Carol Espy-Wilson is an electrical engineer and a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland (UMD) at College Park. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987, becoming the first African-American woman to earn this degree from MIT.
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Tech Global Tech Global, Inc. is an American display manufacturing company founded by Jim Rocheford in 2004. Headquartered in Elgin, Illinois, Tech Global specializes in 24/7 touch screen and LCD displays to government, healthcare, oil and gas, transportation, telecommunication, and mission critical industries.