International Entrepreneur- Steve Case

Born- August 21, 1958. CompanyAOL (American Online) Steves entrepreneurial career began in 1985 when he co-founded America Online (AOL). Under Steves leadership, AOL became the worlds largest and most valuable Internet Company, driving the worldwide adoption of a medium that has transformed business and society. AOL was the first Internet Company to go public and among the best performing stocks of the 1990s, delivering an 11,616% return to shareholders. At its peak, nearly half of Internet users in the United States used AOL. In 2000, Steve negotiated the largest merger in business history, bringing together AOL and Time Warner in a transaction that gave AOL shareholders a majority stake in the combined company.

BackgroundAmerican Steve Case has an estimated net worth of $1.4 billion as of March 2013 according to Forbes. He is #1031 in Forbes Billionaires List, #344 in the United States and #285 in Forbes 400 List as of 2012. Born Stephen McConnell Case on August 21, 1958 in Honolulu, Hawaii. After college, he had worked for Procter & Gamble, Pizza Hut, Control Video Corporation, and Quantum Computer Services that he later changed to America Online. He chose to focus in creating community-based applications and his strategy paid-of. By 2002, the company has 26.7 million subscribers. He was selected by President Barrack Obama to serve as chairman of the Startup America Partnership and named to the Presidents Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

FamilyIn 1985, Case married Joanne Barker, The couple had three children and divorced in 1996 Two years later, in 1998, he married former AOL executive Jean Villanueva in a ceremony officiated by the Rev.