Jerry Yang

Yahoo co-founder and former CEO
Born: 1968, Taiwan
Now lives in U.S.

Following the death of his father, Yang and his family moved to the U.S. and settled in the Bay Area of California. Yang, who co-founded Yahoo (YHOO) with Stanford classmate David Filo in 1995, is married to a fellow immigrant: Wife Akiko Yamazaki grew up in Costa Rica. He endured a rocky term as CEO from June 2007 to January 2009, when he stepped down and was replaced by Carol Bartz.