Masayoshi Son

Masayoshi Son was born in August 11, 1957 in Tosu, Saga Prefecture, Japan. He is a Korean Japanese, whose grandfather came from Korea to Japan, and the founder and current chief executive officer of Softbank Capital, and the chief executive officer of SoftBank Mobile (the renamed, effective October 1, 2006, Vodafone K. K. ). According to the Forbes magazine, his net worth is 7 billion dollars and he the richest man in Japan.

Chief executive of Softbank, Japan's leading Internet and telecom-services company. Thanks in part to several years of aggressive promotion, his IP phone/ADSL service now has more than 5 million subscribers. In March the company posted its first annual profit in 5 years. Stock doubled in past 12 months. Recently bought Vodafone's Japan unit for $17 billion.