Full Name : Yang Yuanqing
Born : 12th - Nov - 1964
Zodiac Sign : Scorpio
Birth Place : Hefei, Anhui
Country : China
Education : Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of science and technology China
Occupation : CEO
Industry : Manufacturing
Net worth : $1.2 Billion
In an era when a laptop or a PC is a quintessential for every individual, organization and home, it is not an easy task to compete with all the big computer manufacturers of the world and become one of the best. But for the CEO of Lenovo, Yang Yuanqing, that wasn’t a difficult task. Today, Lenovo, based in China, is the world’s largest personal computer vendor. Born to a couple of surgeons, Yang lived a life of poverty as his parents were heavily underpaid in the cultural revolution-era of the 60’s.
Early Life:
They still wanted him to study medicine and become a surgeon. Qing however, took a different path and decided that he will be studying computer science when a close family friend suggested it. He then went on to finish his undergraduate and graduate studies with computer science as his major.
Early Career:
Yang then joined Lenovo, which was known as a Legend in those days. He took up the position of a sales man for a very meagre salary giving up another job as a professor in a university. For a 25 year old Yang, it was a very quick climb up the ladder after that. He was promoted very soon and was known for his outstanding sales record in the company. He then wanted to leave to the United States and study business for the exposure to world businesses.
But the chairman of Lenovo, Liu Chuanzhi did not let him go away as he thought that the company really needed him. So he stayed. Shortly after that, he was appointed by Liu to head the personal computers business at Lenovo only when 29 years old.
Yang then leaped to the position of a CEO in the year 2001 when Liu Chanzhi retired. Lenovo wasn’t as big as it is today, but thanks to his excellent managerial and sales skills, the brand went on to become huge and began to compete with companies like Microsoft by the year 2005. By 2013, Lenovo was the world’s largest producer of personal computers still under the chairman ship of Yan Yuan Qing. The ambitious Yang Yuanqing however has bigger dreams. He wants Lenovo to grow in PC plus, mobile phones and tablets as well, which is what the team is focusing on at the moment.
Achievements:
YuanQing’s inspiring journey from a salesman to the CEO has a lot of lessons for all the younger entrepreneurs and businessmen. He had been aggressive and smart at work in every field that he took up, be it sales or heading the PC department or later as the CEO. It is this that led the then CEO to trust in Yang’s abilities to take the company several notches higher. And under Yang’s leadership, Lenovo can only get bigger with each passing day.
Awards:
2014 - Edison Achievement
Yochanan Vollach ( born May 14, 1945) is a former Israeli footballer. He was a member of the Israeli national team that competed at the 1970 FIFA World Cup. Vollach is president of the Maccabi Haifa sport organization as well as being the CEO of The Chamber of Shipping of Israel.
Playing career:
Early Years:
Born in Kiryat Bialik, Vollach began his career with his local club, Maccabi Kiryat Bialik. In 1963, he was drafted to the IDF's Nahal as an infantry soldier. One of only a handful of professional footballers to serve in active combat in the Nahal, Vollach actually missed an entire season of football while serving his country. During his service, he won the IDF football championship in 1965 . Still quite anonymous, Vollach yearned for a move to a bigger club. By 1965, at age 19, his rights were sold for 5,000 Israeli lira to Hapoel Haifa, the place where he would kick start his career and become a role model and a symbol for thousands of supporters until this very day.
Originally a striker, because of his height advantage and large build, he was dubbed "The Tank". He was unable to reach his full potential so he was moved to the defender position where he excelled and played til the end of his career. He subsequently won the Israeli State Cup competition twice in 1966 and 1974, and was close several times to winning Liga Leumit (then the top division). His most major achievement though, was helping the Israel national team qualify for their first World Cup in Mexico in 1970. At the 1970 world cup, Vollach played against Uruguay. At the following match, Vollach broke his leg in the second half in a tough and brutal match from the Swedish (1–1) side, and so the dream of man marking Gigi Riva and Gianni Rivera, in the last match against Italy was over. Because of his performances on the national stage, Vollach was twice loaned out to other Israeli clubs to strengthen their rosters for the sole purpose of UI Cup games. The first time was in 1976 with Hapoel Be'er Sheva and the second in 1977 with Maccabi Tel Aviv, both Israeli title holders. Over the years, Vollach managed to keep his position as one of the biggest sports stars in Israel.
He began working at Zim in 1970 after returning from the 1970 FIFA World Cup. At his first week he was assigned to go over employee’s attendance tickets. In 1977, Vollach transferred from Hapoel Haifa, along with former international player and club captain Yitzhak Englander, to local city rivals Maccabi Haifa.
Maccabi Haifa:
As a seasoned veteran, Vollach served as a role model for young and inexperienced players at Maccabi. He was looked up to for having been a part of the national side that took part in the World Cup finals. His time though at Maccabi was short, playing only two seasons and, in 1979, he retired from professional football and began, fully voluntarily, to act as general manager of Maccabi Haifa. Vollach's unique managing skills and leadership was the major reason that Maccabi went from being a mediocre football club to a successful empire in the top flight, winning their first championship in 1984 and retaining it in 1985, which Maccabi Haifa also finished at the head of the house in the Intertoto home stage.
During this time, he began to be known as "the brains of Maccabi Haifa".
During the years, Vollach concisely insisted of combining Maccabi's youth players in the senior Squad and also prevented the release of many key players as well as bringing the youth side to its zenith.
Hong Kong F.C.:
In 1985, Vollach was promoted in his job at Zim, and was sent oversees to become the branch manager and representative of the company's operations in Hong Kong. It was then that he made a return to football, starring at Hong Kong FC.
Back to administrative Career:
After 5 years in Hong Kong, at 1990, Vollach returned to Israel, where former teammate and club captain, Yitzhak Englander was president of Hapoel Haifa. Englander offered him the position of president of Hapoel, but city rivals, Maccabi, were not eager to see Vollach go, so they appointed him as CFO and chief executive of the team. Over the span of three years (1990–1993), the club won the "double" (league and cup) during the 1990/91 season and the State Cup at 1993 . Between 1990–1994, he was volunteering in the management division of the Israeli Football Association as well as acting as Maccabi Haifa's representative at the IFA.
After the football department was privatized, Vollach joined the Maccabi Haifa union's management, filling major positions such as CFO and second to the chairman of board. In 1999, he was voted in unanimously as chairman of the board of the Maccabi Haifa union as well as president of the basketball division of Maccabi Haifa and as a member of the management of the Israeli Basketball Association. Aside from his administrative and work roles, Vollach participated for many years as a sports commentator on the popular Israeli sports radio show, Shirim uSha'arim (Hebrew: שירים ושערים, lit. Songs and Goals) and was a local journalist.
Vollach owns a Bachelor's degree in History & Political science from the University of Haifa, and a Master's degree in business administration from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also a retired Major in the IDF. Among the positions that Vollach filled during his time working for Zim, he has been the global services manager, chairman of the directorate of all Zim's ownership companies and vice president of Zim, and Zim's M.Dizengoff president & CEO. Since 2005, he has been the president & CEO of Newlog, which is a subsidiary of the Zim group, and handles logistic service relating to marine and overland transportation. He still plays football today for Hapoel Haifa's veteran side, which he also trains. Vollach is a member of the Education and Publicity Committee of the IFA and a management member of Maccbi.
In recognition of his extensive volunteering to the sporting community as well as business success, he was bestowed with honorary citizenship by the city of Haifa, in 1993.
Yogesh Chander Deveshwar was born on 4 February 1947 in Lahore, British India. He received his Bachelor of Technology Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1968. Y C Deveshwar joined ITC Limited in 1968. He was appointed as a director on the board of the company in 1984 and became the Chief Executive and Chairman of the Board in 1996.
Deveshwar was due to step down as head of ITC in 2010. There has been some speculation in the media about Deveshwar's successor. In March 2010, Kurush N Grant was appointed to the ITC Board. In January 2011, two new Executive Directors, Nakul Anand and P V Dhobale were inducted to the Board. Elevated from their earlier responsibilities as Chief Executives of ITC's core business divisions of FMCG, Hotels and Paper, they are homegrown managers and signal the next generation of leadership in the organization.
Deveshwar is India's longest-serving CEO and he earns nearly triple the second-highest salary in his company;[9] in 2011, it was said his salary was 26 lakh (2.6 million) rupees per month. In 2013, he was listed as the Best Performing CEO in India by Harvard Business Review and seventh in the world. In 2011, Deveshwar received the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian award
Yang Yuanqing was born in 12 November 1964 to parents both educated as surgeons. He is a Chinese business chief and humanitarian he is the current executive and CEO of Lenovo. Yang was granted awarded the May Fourth Youth Medal, by the All-China Youth Federation in 1999. In 1999 and 2001, the magazine BusinessWeek named him one of the "Stars of Asia." In 2004, he was recorded among "Asia's 25 Most Influential Business Leaders" by Fortune Asia. Yang was named "2007 Chinese Business Leader" by Fortune China. In 2008, Forbes Asia named Yang "Money manager of the Year." In 2011, Finance Asia named Yang the "Best CEO in China."
They were born to they parents was both educated as doctors and surgeons. He spent his youth in Hefei in Anhui territory. He grew up poor, as his folks were paid similar pay rates as unskilled workers. Yang's folks persevered through rehashed mistreatment during the Cultural Revolution. Yang's dad, Yang Furong, was a focused man with severe principles. Yang said of his dad, "In the event that he set an objective, regardless of what occurred, he needed to arrive at it." While his folks needed him to seek after a career in medication, and he had a maturing interest in writing, Yang chose to consider software engineering on the exhortation of a family companion who was a college teacher. Yang acquired a college degree in software engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1986 and graduated with a graduate degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1988.
Yang recognized a paper promotion for occupations at Lenovo while in Beijing performing research for his graduate degree. Yang had at first moved toward turning into a college teacher however faced a challenge and acknowledged a situation with Lenovo in deals. He was paid what could be compared to US$30 each month. In 1989, Yang joined Legend, as Lenovo was then known, at 25 years old. He was immediately advanced. Yang made a trip to meet wholesalers all through China and utilized his specialized information to accomplish a solid deals record. Yang additionally stood apart at Lenovo for being a peaceful, profound scholar. Yang's first significant undertaking task at Lenovo was to compose an offered to turn into an IBM affiliate. In the wake of presenting his bid, Yang found that he had provided double the cost estimate of his rivals. In April 2015, Yang required all individuals from Lenovo's media group to be dynamic on no less than one online media outlet. Yang is a functioning client of Twitter, LinkedIn, and Sina Weibo. Yang urges his group to discuss their own lives via web-based media. He said, "I can't simply advance a Lenovo item consistently. I need to get individuals intrigued first and afterward discover the chance to advance it once in for a little while." Yang is regularly alluded to as "YY" by his partners at Lenovo.