Youngest Billionaires in the World 11-20

No. 11: Yvonne Bauer

Age: 34
Net Worth: $2 billion

In December 2010 German publisher Heinz Bauer, age 72, transferred 85% of the limited partnership of the family-run business to his daughter Yvonne, who is the company's CEO. She is the fifth generation of the family to run the group, which was founded in 1875.

No. 12: Yoshikazu Tanaka

Age: 35
Net Worth: $4.3 billion

Yoshikazu Tanaka is the founder and CEO of Gree, a mobile gaming service that is Japan's biggest online social network. Gree aims to outpace Japanese rivals abroad: it acquired U.S. mobile gaming company OpenFeint last year, and works with China's largest net portal, Tencent.

No. 14: Alejandro Santo Domingo Davila

Age: 35
Net Worth: $9.5 billion

Alejandro became the face of his father's company after 87-year-old Julio Mario Santo Domingo Pumarejo died in October 2011. A Harvard history grad, the Columbian is the eldest son from the jet-setting beer magnate's second marriage. The family owns a private island, Baru, off the Caribbean coast of Colombia.

No. 15: Chase Coleman

Age: 36
Net Worth: $1.1 billion

A direct descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, Coleman is a Deerfield and Williams grad and "Tiger Cub" trained at Julian Robertson's famed hedge fund shop Tiger Management. His Tiger Global outperformed just about every hedge fund in the world in 2011, finishing the year up 45%.

No. 16: Yusaku Maezawa

Age: 36
Net Worth: $1.1 billion

Yusaku founded online fashion mall Zozotown, a wildly popular website with some 1,600 brands, mostly Japanese, and 4 million members. The website is structured like an actual mall where stores are set up; items are even sold on consignment.

No. 17: Andrey Verevskiy

Age: 37
Net Worth: $1 billion

Ukranian took agribusiness conglomerate Kernel Holding public on Warsaw stock exchange in 2007. Parliamentary deputy adroitly switched parties from Yulia Tymoshenko's bloc to new president Victor Yanukovich's bloc when the political winds shifted.

No. 18: John Arnold

Age: 38
Net Worth: $3 billion

Arnold began trading oil at Enron in 1995 and is said to have earned $750 million for company in 2001. When the energy outfit famously collapsed a year later, he went into business for himself founding Centaurus, a hedge fund focusing mostly on natural gas and energy trading.

No. 19: Kostyantin Zhevago

Age: 38
Net Worth: $1.8 billion

Ukraine's second-youngest billionaire recently purchased Danube River waterway transport provider Helogistics. Graduate of Kyiv State Economic University is also a parliamentary deputy, and he owns FC Vorskla soccer club.

No. 20: Fang Wei

Age: 38
Net Wroth: $1.1 billion

Beijing-based investor targets under-performing state-owned listed companies for restructuring. Fangda Group now has more than 30,000 employees across more than 10 provinces in China.

Youngest Billionaires in the World 1-10

No. 1: Dustin Moskovitz

Age: 27
Net Worth: $3.5 billion

Dustin Moskovitz was Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard roommate and Facebook's third employee. Despite his billions, he still bikes to work and flies commercial. Moskovitz has also joined Bill Gates' Givinb Pledge. He is just 8 days younger than his friend.

No. 2: Mark Zuckerberg

Age: 27
Net Worth: $17.5 billion

Don't let the hoodie and the sandals fool you, the Facebook founder controls 56.9% of firm's total pre-IPO voting power. The company's IPO is expected to hit in the next few months, possibly boosting his net worth even higher. Zuckerberg is only 8 days older than former roommate Dustin Moskovitz.

No. 3: Albert Von Thurn Und Taxis

Age: 28
Net Worth: $1.5 billion

Albert von Thurn und Taxis first joined Forbes' billionaire ranks at age 8 but officially inherited his fortune in 2001 on his 18th birthday. Eligible bachelor still lives in his family castle and races in a German auto-racing league.

No. 4: Scott Duncan

Age: 29
Net Worth: $4.1 billion

Scott Duncan is one of four children of the late energy pipeline entrepreneur Dan Duncan, the former richest man in Houston, who died in 2010 at age 77. Scott added $1 billion to his fortune in the last year as the company's share price climbed by one-fourth.

No. 5: Eduardo Saverin

Age: 30
Net Worth: $2 billion

Eduardo Saverin was immortalized in the movie,The Social Network, which portrayed him being betrayed by his onetime best friend Mark Zuckerberg. The former pals started Facebook together at Harvard, with Brazilian-born Saverin apparently providing early seed money.

No. 6: Yang Huiyan

Age: 30
Net Worth: $4.7 billion

Her low-key dad, Yeung Kwok Keung, transferred his holding of the family's main fortune, shares in family-controlled real estate developer Country Garden Holdings to her ahead of the company's Hong Kong IPO in 2007. Yang, China's richest person in 2007 (net worth then: $16.2 billion), has seen her fortune drop dramatically since, though she's wealthier than last year.

No. 7: Fahd Hariri

Age: 31
Net Worth: $1.3 billion

Fahd Hariri is the youngest son of slain Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri. He lives in Paris, where he got a degree in architecture. While still a student, he opened an interior design studio on the outskirts of the city, and sold furniture to clients in Saudi Arabia.

No. 8: Sean Parker

Age: 32
Net Worth: $2.1 billion

Facebook's first president is looking to disrupt the Web once again with Airtime, the social video site he plans to launch with his Napster co-founder, Shawn Fanning, by the end of 2012. He's also looking to fix the very music industry he helped break with Napster as an investor and board member of Swedish music platform, Spotify.

No. 9: Ayman Hariri

Age: 33
Net Worth: $1.3 billion

Ayman Hariri is the second-youngest son of slain Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who left behind a fortune now shared by his five children. On the board of Saudi Oger, he has overseen mega construction projects such as the Princess Noura Bint Abdulrahman University for Women, and the King Abdullah Financial District, both in Saudi Arabia.

No. 10: Robert Pera

Age: 34
Net Worth: $1.5 billion

Apple hardware engineer turned wireless networking entrepreneur struck out on his own in 2005 with the goal of bringing affordable internet access to the world's emerging markets. Six years later, Pera became a billionaire when his Ubiquiti Networks went public in October 2011.

Peter Hugh Pocklington

Peter Hugh Pocklington (born November 18, 1941) is a Canadian entrepreneur and vocal advocate of free-market capitalism. He is also a convicted felon, having pleaded guilty in the state of California to committing perjury during bankruptcy proceedings.

The one-time head of a business empire that spanned auto dealerships, food-processing companies, real estate, a trust companyand professional sports teams, Pocklington is perhaps best known as the owner of the National Hockey League's Edmonton Oilersand as the man who traded the rights to hockey's greatest player, Wayne Gretzky, to the Los Angeles Kings.

Pocklington's life experiences were extensively documented in the 2009 biography, I'd Trade Him Again: On Gretzky, Politics And The Pursuit Of The Perfect Deal, written by Terry McConnell and J'lyn Nye. The book's title was inspired by Pocklington's ongoing conviction the Gretzky trade was the right deal at the right time and had a positive impact on all parties concerned - the Oilers, the Kings, Gretzky and the game itself.

Pocklington was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, to Basil Pocklington, an insurance executive who had immigrated from England as a young man, and his wife, Eileen (Dempsey), and grew up in London, Ontario.

The greatest influence on young Pocklington was the legendary motivational speaker Earl Nightingale and his best-selling recording, The Strangest Secret. "It literally stated, 'You become what you think about,' " Pocklington told his biographers. He says he still has the record today.

One of his earliest business ventures was to find old cars on the farms around his maternal grandparents' home in Carberry, Manitoba, buy them for $25, then ship them toOntario by train, where he sold them for upwards of $500. Because of the West's dry, cold climate, the cars, many of them 25 to 40 years old, were in better shape than comparable vehicles that had been driven on Ontario's salted roads.

By the time Pocklington was 25, he owned his first car dealership, Westown Ford in Tilbury, Ontario. At the time, he was the youngest Ford dealer in Canada. Within a few yea

rs he had sold the Tilbury dealership and bought another in nearby Chatham. By 1971, when Pocklington was only 29, he left Ontario and moved west, where he bought Shirley Ford in Edmonton, Alberta.

Within a few years, Pocklington was running the most successful Ford dealership in Canada. He also had the cash flow to buy Edmonton's fledgling team in the World Hockey Association.

While Pocklington's business empire realized its successes, it suffered its failures, too. Prime interest rates in the early 1980s topped out at 18.5 per cent, a development that sapped the oil boom of its strength, collapsed the real estate market and sank Fidelity Trust in a sea of declining property values.

But perhaps Pocklington's most notorious setback was the result of a six-month strike that crippled Gainers, which at the time was Canada's second largest meat packer. Pocklington used non-union labour, primarily from Quebec, to keep the plant operating despite the picket lines, a decision that earned him the enmity of Canada's labour movement. Eventually, he agreed to settle the strike and rehire the striking workers at the request of the Alberta government. In return, says Pocklington in his biography, the Alberta premier of the day, Don Getty, agreed to give Gainers an interest-free loan for $50 million. Gainers would give the province 10 per cent of its operating profit every year for the next four years, and repay a conventional mortgage after that. Pocklington also insisted the province disband its pork marketing board, which fixed prices on pork at a rate higher than what the meat packers could sell it in the marketplace.

nstead, the government gave Gainers $55 million at 10.5 per cent interest, and didn't get rid of the marketing board. "They said, 'Take it or leave it,' " Pocklington told his biographers. Crippled with a debt-servicing cost it did not anticipate and handicapped by inflated production costs created by the marketing board, Gainers immediately began to drown in a sea of red ink. Loan repayments were missed and within three years, the Alberta government took over Gainers. The province lost $89 million on the venture in the four years it operated Gainers — more than double the rate of loss in Pocklington's last few years at the helm — and eventually sold the company for 1/20th of the price Pocklington paid for it 11 years earlier.

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Gustave Frohman

Gustave Frohman (c. 1854 – August 16, 1930) was a theatre producer and advance man. He was one of three Frohman brothers who entered show business and he worked for most of his career alongside his brother, Charles Frohman. These two financed a number of theatre productions, often featuring African American actors. For instance, in 1878, they starred Sam Lucas in the first serious stage production of Uncle Tom's Cabin with a black man in the lead role.

Gustave Frohman saw his greatest success in blackface minstrelsy. In 1881, he and his brother bought Callender's Consolidated Colored Minstrels, a small African-American troupe, from Charles Callender. They kept the valuable Callender's name but focused on ornamenting their sets and costumes; the troupe eventually became the most lavishly produced black troupe in the world. Their success was so great that by 1882 the Frohmans were able to buy J. H. Haverly's black troupe and merge it with theirs. The new troupe's size was so big and the Frohmans' grasp on the market so tight that Gustave and Charles Frohman split the troupe into three so as to allow them to tour more widely.

In 1915, the three Frohman brothers created The Frohman Amusement Corp. as a motion picture production company but Charles died a few months later in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. Gustave and Daniel assumed control of the theatre operations plus ran the film production company until 1920.

He died in New York City in 1930.

Siva Shankar Baba

Siva Shankar was born on January 28, 1949, to Narayana Sharma and Vijayalakshmi in the Alangayam village, near Vaniyambadi in the North Arcot (now comes under Vellore district) of Tamil Nadu. He went to University of Madras and completed his graduation in chemistry and post graduation from Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport(London), Indian Institute of Road Transport (Pune) and the Institute of Rail Transport.
In 1978, Balamurugan Swami of Ratnagiri Temple asked him to start his own business. While this had not been Siva Shankar's plan for himself, he decided to follow his Guru’s guidance to great success. Between 1978 and 1983, Siva Shankar’s businesses soared to good heights, and he achieved a large amount of material success as a transport fleet owner & contractor, stock distributor, and producer of documentary commercials. He was on the management faculty of A.M. Jain Institute of Management, and also the founder Director of Madras Institute of Transport Technology. As a highly qualified management professional, he was involved with various government committees and the program of study committee of Anna University. He participated in various symposiums and seminars and presented several commendable papers on Management. He was also the President of The Madras Goods transport association, Managing committee member of Andhra Chamber of Commerce, Chartered Secretary of Rotary Club – Anna Nagar, IRTDA (Jakarta), Institute of Transport and Traffic Engineers, and several other organizations. His worldly life was flourishing.

Siva Shankar always had a religious and spiritual side to his nature, and he spent a large portion of his personal time travelling to different religious and holy places, visiting temples, meeting known and renowned saints and religious leaders like Ratnagiri Swami Balamurugan Adimai of Vellore, Kanchi Mahaa Periavaal, Koti Swamy etc. He has been on yearly pilgimages to Sabarimala since the year 1968 (when he was 19 years old) to this day.

After establishing his businesses, Siva Shankar installed an idol of Lord Ayyappa in January 1983, in his bungalow at Chennai, and worshipped Him ever since. In May 1983, Kanchi Kamakoti Jayendra Saraswathi Swami paid a visit to his bungalow and performed pooja to the idol worshipped by Siva Shankar and said, ‘This Ayyappa idol here is very powerful. Why don’t you construct a temple for Him?’ Siva Shankar did not take it seriously then, and in November 1983, discussed with Balamurugan Swami regarding the construction of the Ayyappa temple. Balamurugan Swami advised him to construct a temple in the South-West corner of his bungalow.

With the guidance of Sambhamoorthy Sivachariar, Head Gurukkal of the Kalikambal temple at Thambu Chetty Street, Chennai, and Swami Ramdas of Thiruverkadu, a temple was constructed and the Kumbabhishekam was fixed on December 13 – 15, 1983. After the kumbabhishekam, Siva Shankar went to Sabarimala. There it is reported that he had darshan of Lord Ayyappa on January 16, 1984. Around the same period, in Agastya Ashram at Palghat, Kalasa Abhishekam was done with the chanting of Shyamala Kanaka Sankarshini Maha mantra to Siva Shankar by the priest Nochur Swami. Vidhwan Lakshmanan (popularly known as astrologist Bala), gave Ganapathi Mantra Upadesham to Siva Shankar, as per the command of his Guru Brighu Rishi.

On January 26, 1984, Siva Shankar was present when the annual Abhishekam was being performed to Lord Murugan of Ratnagiri temple. For some unknown reason, Siva Shankar kept crying continuously for more than 1 hour during the Abhishekam. On a piece of paper, Balamurugan Swami wrote a note to Siva Shankar: “within this month-end there will be a welcome turning point in your life. God’s blessings”. After reaching Chennai on that same night (in the early hours c. 3:30 am), that greatest turning point in his life occurred.

Siva Shankar reported an experience where Raghavendra Swami of Mantralaya appeared physically before him and gave Siva Shankar a vision of his own dead body, by separating the body from the soul (out-of-body experience). This was the same experience which Venkatraman had before he became Bala Ramana Maharishi. It turns out this experience is also predicted in the Sahadeva Nadi of Siva Shankar which says “The body and soul were separated and the soul saw the body.”

Following the above experience, Siva Shankar had another one in which a snake originated from Siva Shankar, stood to the left side of Lord Muruga, and then vanished to become a seer with a Golden Face who said, “For every full moon, Eight Rupees, Eleven Full Moons, Swaminatha Venkateswara, Swaminatha Venkateswara, Swaminatha Venkateswara.” This vision was to indicate that Siva Shankar was destined to receive Ashta Maha Siddhis (in the language of Siddhas, eight rupees means Ashta Maha Siddhis) within eleven full moon days, with the mantras of Sadakshara (Swaminatha) and Ashtakshara (Venkateswara).

Following this, Siva Shankar went to Thiruvannamalai regularly every full moon and experienced receiving various Siddhis as was ordained in his earlier experiences. During the Guru Purnimas in 1984, Siva Shankar was physically blessed by Yogi Ram Surat Kumar, God Child of Thiruvannamalai. Yogi Ram Surat Kumar graced Siva Shankar with mantras of Rama and Govinda and blessed Him.

Ever since then, his interest in worldly life declined and he has been focussing on spirituality as his path in life; He has undertaken numerous pilgrimages visiting almost every temple and sacred place of worship in India; featured articles of him chronicle his visits to Mount Kailash 11 times and Sabarimala more than 70 times.

His accessibility, care and compassion for those who reach out to him, love for all beings, total tolerance touch a chord in everyone. He does not harbour anger or hatred. All he has is love, only love. He does not have any disparity of religion, caste, creed, gender or age. He has summed up Bhagavad Gita in four words "Flow Along with Life" and to the seeker who may wonder how then to battle with the ups and downs, the turmoils and tribulations of life, his answer is very simple "I will take care".

Experiences that people undergo once they invest their faith in him go to prove that he always does take care.

His concept is "Aham Brahmasmi Tattavamasi" "I am God and so are you. Your so-called problems are fabrications of the mind that does not understand your innate divinity. Once you know that you are a divine spirit in a human form, you go beyond the petty fetters called 'problems'. He asserts "First be aware of the world you live in, establish yourself here through hard work without compromising on your values and that by itself becomes your worship to the Lord. Arise Awake Work Worship".

His life is his message. His Satsang talks offer simple ways by which we can deal with day to day life. In this world heavily laden with strife, his is a shoulder one can lean on and know comfort.

He is also the only spiritual leader available on email! Responds to mail in just 24 hours time. (except when he is away on pilgrimages)

Siva Shankar Baba established a [social, cultural, spiritual centre for self-realization, model for universal family] known as Samratchana in Chennai. Samratchana, Sree Ramarajya is a non-profit center which also offers classes for cartoon animation, embroidery, textile painting, typing and shorthand, tailoring, foreign languages, music, dance, journalism and screen printing. Center also offers free food from 11a.m. to 4p.m. and computer classes at nominal cost. Samratchana has adopted two villages, Vengaleri and Alathur, near Thiruporur in Tamil Nadu, and provides facilities like free education and medical care. He is the pioneer of Sree Ramarajya, a secular commune housing 400 families and also Hindu Temple, Church, Mosque, Buddha Vihar, Jain Temple. He is also the founder of Sushil Hari international residential school, which is located in Sree Ramarajya Kelambakkam and Praveena Hospitals rendering free medical service to the rural needy and nominally charged services to others and a host of free medical camps.