• World Economic Forum Announces New Batch Of Young Global Leaders (Mark Zuckerberg, Chad Hurley, Kevin Rose And More)

    Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

    Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012. Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in... → Learn More

    The World Economic Forum has just published its annual list of Young Global Leaders, recognizing “between 200 and 300 outstanding young leaders from around the world for their professional accomplishments, commitment to society and potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world”.

    The list of honorees, besides celebrities like Coldplay’s Chris Martin and F1 legend Michael Schumacher, includes a good number of people from the technology and Internet industry, so here’s a quick run-down of the names you might know:

    Mark Zuckerberg – founder and CEO of Facebook
    Kevin Rose – founder of Digg
    Chad Hurley – co-founder and CEO of YouTube
    Josh Silverman – CEO of Skype
    Michael Birch – founder and CEO of Bebo
    Premal Shah – President of Kiva
    Lisa Huddleson – Corporate Foundation Executive Director at Dell
    Vinny Lingham – CEO of Synthasite
    Paul Bassat – CEO of Seek
    Suranga Chandratillake – co-founder and CEO of blinkx
    Michael Cannon-Brooks – co-founder of Atlassian
    Andrej Nabergoj – co-founder and CEO of Noovo
    Matias de Tezanos – founder of HealthCare.com
    Kamal Quadir – founder of CellBazaar
    Ashok Vemuri – Senior VP, Banking and Capital Markets at Infosys Technologies
    Habib Haddad – co-founder of Yamli
    Josh Spear – founding partner of Undercurrent

    For the full list, click here (PDF).

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    World Economic Forum Young Global Leader Honorees 2009 – Get more Business Plans

    Drawn from a pool of almost 5,000 candidates, the Young Global Leaders 2009 were chosen by a selection committee (PDF), chaired by H.M. Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, comprising 31 eminent international media leaders.

    The recently published list of active YGLs includes names like Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Google), Tony Fadell (Apple) Marc Benioff (Salesforce.com), John Battelle (Federated Media), Peter Thiel (Clarium Capital), Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia), Uday Khemka (Sun), Tariq Krim (Jolicloud), Philipp Justus (PayPal), Lila Ibrahim (Intel), Esther Duflo and Kristin Forbes (MIT), Jack Ma Yun (AliBaba), Jorge Blanco (Avaya), Bill Nguyen (LaLa), Tero Ojanpera (Nokia), and Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook).

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