There are 5 types of wealthy people, and they are heirs, company founders, owners, executives, and those connected to politics, resources, and financial sectors.

Undoubtedly, executive managers are the most prominent and famous success stories in the world, because it is not possible to manage any company or institution without a manager, as he is the supreme authority in the work system, as he follows all the course of administrative matters within the company and has the powers to intervene in everything related to the workflow. .

In the following report, we review the 5 richest billionaires who have accumulated their wealth due to their work as executive directors in the most important international companies.

Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft (Reuters)

1. Steve Ballmer

Company: Microsoft

Net worth: $75 billion

Nationality: American

Steve Ballmer was born on March 24, 1956 in Detroit, in the United States of America, into a well-to-do family.

Steve studied at Harvard University and graduated with honors in Applied Mathematics and Economics in 1977. During his studies, he met Bill Gates and they became friends.

After completing his studies, Steve Ballmer joined Procter & Gamble as Assistant Production Manager for two years, before joining the MBA program at Stanford University.

Ballmer joined Microsoft in June 1980, and one of his first tasks was to start selecting and hiring new employees for the growing company. Ballmer rose in the company until he reached the position of CEO in 2000, and he remained until 2014 before announcing his retirement.

Shortly after that, Microsoft took over the task of programming an operating system for a new production line of IBM computers, and while Bill Gates and his partner Paul Allen took over the technical and software tasks, Steve Ballmer took over the administrative and commercial responsibility.

Ballmer reorganized the company to be a joint stock company in 1981, with Bill Gates owning 53% of the shares, Allen 35%, and Palmer 8%. Ballmer also developed a plan that allows employees to also own shares in the company.

Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft, ranks 11th among the world's richest people.

After his retirement in 2014, he bought the Los Angeles Clippers, a basketball team, for $2 billion.

In 2018, he invested $59 million in Social Solutions, a company that develops software for nonprofit organizations and government agencies.

Eric Schmidt, American businessman and software engineer (Reuters)

2. Eric Schmidt

Company: Google

Net worth: $17.1 billion

Nationality: American

He is an American businessman and software engineer, born on April 27, 1955. He is best known for being the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, CEO from 2011 to 2015, CEO of Alphabet, the parent company of Google from 2015 to 2017, and a technical advisor. Its from 2017 to 2020.

Eric Schmidt worked as an intern at Bill Laboratories, and in 1975 Schmidt co-authored Lux, a program for generating lexical parsing for the Unix computer operating system.

From 1997 to 2001, he was the CEO of Novel.

He has held various positions in academia and industry, most notably Princeton University and the Mayo Clinic.

In 2010, he co-founded the investment firm Innovation Endeavors, which has invested in both Uber and SoFi.

Schmidt is also the recipient of an Innovation Fellowship from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Schmidt is the 54th richest person in the world.

Sun Piaoyang worked as an executive in the field of biopharmaceuticals with a fortune of $ 17.1 billion (Chinese press)

3. Sun Biaoyang

Company: Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine

Net worth: $17.1 billion

Nationality: China

Biaoyang, a biopharmaceutical executive, has worked to transform (formerly state-run) Jiangsu Hengru Medicine into one of the largest producers of anti-infective and oncology drugs in China.

He took over the leadership of the company in 1990 when he was 32 years old, and a decade later, the company was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Piaoyang resigned as chairman in 2020, while his wife, Zhong Huijuan, chairs the board of Hansoh Pharmaceutical, which listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in June 2019.

Huang Shilin, 55, has an estimated net worth of $15.7 billion (Chinese press)

4. Huang Shilin

Company: CATL

Net worth: $15.7 billion

Nationality: China

Shilin, 55, was the former vice president of the fast-growing electric battery manufacturer Catel, and is the second richest person in it, before he resigned from the board of directors last August.

The Chinese electric car battery maker has 9 billionaires, more than Facebook and Google, with 8 each.

Cattell's customers include BMW, Volkswagen and Geely.

In 2018, the company went public on China's Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

Zhang Zhidong's net worth is estimated at $8.7 billion (Getty Images)

5. Zhang Zhidong

Company: Tencent

Net worth: $8.7 billion

Nationality: China

Qidong, also known as Tony Zhang, has joined the ranks of the wealthy thanks to a career in electronic media. The 50-year-old reclusive billionaire held the position of chief technology officer at Tencent Group for 16 years until his retirement in September 2014.

The company offers a range of services, including electronic games and Chinese social media.

Her portfolio includes messaging app WeChat and video game developer Riot Games, and she owns minority stakes in music streaming company Spotify and social media company Snap.