William Henry Gates III Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Microsoft Corporatio William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation, the leading provider, worldwide, of software for the personal computer. Microsoft had revenues of $8.6 billion for the fiscal year ending June 1996, and employs more than 20,000 people in 48 countries. Background on Bill Born on October 28, 1955, Gates and his two sisters grew up in Seattle. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a …showed first 75 words of 2204 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2204 total…men in our recent history, to be compared to Hitler, Rockefeller, Martin Luther King, and many other influential people. He has influenced me personally, just with the use of computers in our everyday lives, (more in mine that others), and the majority of our U.S. population. His presence in our economy, society, and life cannot be ignored, and I believe that this will become even more evident, as we move into the 21st century.