Liu Chuanzhi (柳傳志)

 Company: Lenovo Group (聯想控股有限公司)

Industry: Computer

Position: President

Age: 67

Liu Chuanzhi is a benchmark figure among the first generation entrepreneurs of China. Founded in 1984, Lenovo was a small computer sales company located in a shack near the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. After over 25 years of development, the group has now become the world's second largest PC maker and a multinational personal technology company that develops, manufactures and markets desktop and notebook computers, workstations, servers, storage devices, IT management software, and other related products and services. Recently, Liu is aiming to take public his investment hub Legend Holdings, known as the biggest shareholder of Lenovo.