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Steve Jobs - Co-founder, Chairman and CEO Apple Inc.

Annual salary: $1 - since 1997
Bonus 2007: $0
Net worth: $5.7 bil
Owns: 5.5 mil shares of Apple Stock, stake worth about $9 bil - largest package Disney shares, stake worth about $4.7 bil.
Bio: born USA, 1955 - Reed College drop out - Married, 4 children.

Sources: NewYorkTimes- Wikipedia, Forbes, CNET- Update: 2008.03

Larry Page - Co-founder and President of Products of Google Inc.

  Annual Salary: $1 - since 2005
Net Worth: $12 bil
Bonus 2008: $0
Owns:
plans to sell 5M shares over the next 5 years till 2010 (worth $5.5 B), he should still own appr. 24M shares, worth about $13 bil.
Bio: born USA, 1973 - Master Stanford University - Married, no kids

Sources:  Flickr, Forbes, Wikipedia, CNN, Telegraph.co.uk: 2010-01

Arnold Schwarzenegger - Governor of California

  Annual Salary: $0 - since 2003 he donates his governor salary to charities.
Net Worth: estimated at $100 – $200 mil, but his complete fortune - including the stocks, bonds, business investments and real estate he owns - is actually estimated anywhere in between $800–$900 mil.
Bio: born Austria - B.A.University of Wisconsin-Superior - Married, 4 kids.

Sources: Wikipedia, Capitalcomments, Mindfully, Update: 2008-03

Sergey Brin - Co-founder and President Technology of Google Inc.

  Annual Salary: $1 - since 2005
Net Worth: $12 bil
Bonus 2007: $0
Owns
:
plans to sell 5M shares over the next 5 years till 2010 (worth $5.5 B), he should still own appr. 24M shares, worth about $13 bil.
Bio
: born Russia, 1973 - Master Stanford University - Married, no kids

Sources:  Flickr, Forbes, Wikipedia, CNN, Telegraph.co.uk: 2010-01

Bill Ford - Chairman of Ford Motor Company

  Annual Salary: $1 - since 2001
Owns: since 2005 an array of stock grants and options worth some $18 million as part of a bonus. In 2008 a Ford spokesman said Bill Ford had foregone compensation estimated between $25 million and $33 million during the three years of his no-pay vow. The Ford family retains 40 percent of voting power at the company through a separate class of shares.
Bio: born USA, 1957 - Princeton University - Married, 4 children

Sources: Forbes, Wikipedia - Update: 2008-03

Jerry Yang - Chairman, CEO and Chief Yahoo! of Yahoo! Inc.

 

  Annual Salary: $1 - since 2007
Net Worth: $2.3 bil
Owns: 54.1 mil shares Yahoo
Bio: born Taiwan, 1968 - B.S and M.S. Stanford University - Married, 1 kid

Sources: Wikipedia, Forbes, Alleyinsider

Jeffrey Katzenberg - Co-founder and CEO DreamWorks Animation SKG

  Annual Salary: $1 - since 2004
Net Worth: $859 mil in 2006
Owns: 36.4 million (of Class A & Class B) shares, worth an estimated $109.2 million. In addition, 618,571 shares of Class A restricted stock with performance-based vesting conditions granted to Katzenberg at the time of its October 2004 IPO will vest in the first quarter of 2009. As of January 12, 2007, these shares had a value of $18.53 million.
Bio: born USA, 1950 -  University New York drop out - Married, 2 kids - board member of a variety of institutes

Sources: Wikipedia - NNDB - SeekingAlpha - Update: 2008-03

 

Michael Bloomberg - Mayor of New York City

  Annual Salary: $1 - since 2002
Net worth: $11.5 bil
Owns: 68% stake in Bloomberg L.P.
Bio: born USA, 1942 - B.S. Johns Hopkins University, M.B.A. Harvard University - Divorced, 2 kids

Sources: Flickr - Wikipedia - Forbes

Henry Samueli - Co-founder, chairman and CTO Broadcom Co.

 Annual Salary: $1
Net Worth: $2.3 bil
Owns: NHL's Mighty Ducks of Anaheim with a value of $197 mil. - major share holder of Broadcom - received instead of salary in 2007 from Broadcom: $787,847 long-term compensation and 1,500,000 stock options Broadcom worth $12,090,000
Bio: born: USA, 1954 - B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California - Married, 3 kids

Sources: Wikipedia - Forbes - Hockey Hall of Fame - Update: 2008-04

 

John Corzine - Governor of New Jersey

  Annual salary: $1 - since 2006, his governor salary goes back to the state
Net worth: hundreds of millions dollars, shares and payment as former Goldman Sachs CEO
Bio: born USA, 1947 - M.B.A. University of Chicago - Divorced, 3 children

Sources: Wikipedia - New York Times - New York Times - Stateline

And more to come:

  Eric Schmidt - CEO Google, Richard Fairbank - CEO Capital One, Ralph Robert - Founder Comcast, Rich Kinder - CEO Kinder Morgan, David Zinberg - CEO Bidz.com, James Li  – President and CEO Syntax-Brillian Corp., Phil Bredesen – governor Tennessee, James Rogers - CEO Duke Energy

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