Laurene Powell Jobs
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China.org.cn, June 28, 2011
Laurene Powell Jobs is co-founder and President of the Board of College Track and wife of Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
Powell Jobs received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Economics (B.S.E.) from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1985. She received her M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
She married Steve Jobs on March 18, 1991, in a ceremony at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park. Presiding over the wedding was Kobun Chino Otogawa, a Zen Buddhist monk. Their son, Reed, was born September 1991, followed by daughters Erin in August 1995 and Eve in 1998. Powell Jobs lives in Palo Alto with her husband and their children.
Powell Jobs co-founded Terravera, a natural foods company that sells to retailers throughout Northern California. She also served on the board of directors of Achieva, which made online tools to help students study and take tests better. Before business school, Powell Jobs worked for Merrill Lynch Asset Management and spent three years at Goldman Sachs as a fixed-income trading strategist.
Powell Jobs turned her attention to non-profit entrepreneurship, focusing on education, women’s human rights, and the arts. As of 2011, she sits on the boards of directors of Teach for America; Global Fund for Women; KQED (PBS); EdVoice; New America Foundation; Stanford Schools Corporation; New Schools Venture Fund. She also sits on the advisory board of Stanford Graduate School of Business.
(From wikipedia)
