28. Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is the CEO of Apple Computer and one of the leading figures in the computer industry. As co-founder (with Steve Wozniak) of Apple in 1976, he helped popularize the concept of the home computer with the Apple II. Later, he was one of the first to see the commercial potential of the GUI (which he saw at PARC) and mouse, and saw that these technologies were incorporated into the Apple Macintosh. He also led Apple Computer through its recent iPod-powered resurgence.

Jobs also was Chairman and CEO of Pixar Animation Studios, an independent film production company that has produced acclaimed animated shorts and features such as The Incredibles and Toy Story. The Walt Disney Company has agreed to buy Pixar for around $7.4 billion in an all-stock deal, expected to close by the summer of 2006. The transaction will make Steve Jobs, who was the majority shareholder of Pixar, Disney's largest individual shareholder and will give him a seat on the company's board of directors