Wednesday 31 October 2007

Story of a selfmade Billionaire


Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou

(born 14 February 1967 in Athens) is a Greek-Cypriot born British entrepreneur and is best known for setting up easyJet, a low-cost airline.
Stelios, who prefers to be called by his first name, is the 2nd of 3 children of Loucas and Nedi Haji-Ioannou. His father's side has its roots in Pedoulas village (a village on the mountains of Cyprus), and his mother is from the Potsos family with roots in Lania village (just outside the city of Limassol). He was educated in Athens at the Doukas High School and in 1984 continued his education at the London School of Economics. He also graduated from the Cass Business
School at City University with an MSc in Shipping, Trade and Finance. Stelios has also been awarded a total of three honorary doctorates from Liverpool John Moores University, Cass Business School City University, Newcastle Business School and the Cranfield University.
A serial entrepreneur, Stelios started his professional career in 1988 working for his father's shipping company, the Troodos Shipping Co Ltd. Aged 25, he negotiated a $30 million payout from his father and used the funds to set up his own shipping company, Stelmar shipping. Stelios floated Stelmar Shipping on the NYSE in 2001 and in 2005 it was sold to the OSG Shipping Group for approximately $1.3 Billion.
Stelios started easyJet PLC when he was 28. In 2000 easyJet PLC was partially floated on the London Stock Exchange however Stelios remains the largest single shareholder.
Nowadays, acting through his private investment vehicle, the easyGroup, which owns the easy brand and licenses it to the various easy branded ventures, including the airline. He continues to extend the brand, with mixed success, by creating new 'easy' branded ventures in the areas of travel, leisure, telecoms and personal finance.
easyJet PLC which is Europe's largest low cost airline by revenues with a fleet of 122 jets and growing, carried 33 million passengers in 2006
networth: GBP £1.29 billion

Sunday 28 October 2007

WELCOME TO THE MILLIONDOLLAR CLUB



Learn how to become a millionaire in a few steps. You will read a few interesting stories about people that became millionaire, even billionaire.

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