Melinda Gates

Melinda Gates

Melinda gates

Melinda French Gates is an American businesswoman ,philanthropist and wife of Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates.They met in 1987 at a Microsoft press event in Manhattan, New York.Bill proposed marriage to Melinda in 1993 when he secretly diverted a chartered plane they were taking home from Palm Springs one Sunday night to land in Omaha. Warren Buffett met them there, arranged to have a jewelry store open, and helped them pick a ring, romantic, isn’t it? They married on January 1, 1994 on the Hawaiian island of Lanai in a $ 1 million wedding ceremony at Manele Bay Hotel.For wedding day Bill rented every hotel room at the hotel (250 rooms) and chartered every helicopter close by.Bill and Melinda are happy parents of three children:
After graduation Melina joined Microsoft and participated in the development of many of Microsoft’s multimedia products including Publisher,Microsoft Bob, Encarta, and Expedia.She was ranked #40 in Forbes magazine list of the 100 Most Powerful Women in 2008, #24 in 2007, and #12 in 2006. With her husband bill gates she founded the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world, called Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and in America, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology.