Laurene Powell Jobs

 Laurene Powell Jobs
Steve Jobs’ 51-year-old widow, co-founder and former CEO of Apple Inc. has a net worth of $17.4 billion. She is also the largest individual shareholder of The Walt Disney Company – she holds around 130 million shares.
She is the founder and chair of the Emerson Collective, an organization that focuses on advancing social reforms and helping under-resourced students. She also founded, with Carlos Watson, College Track, a non-profit college completion program in East Palo Alto. Since 2013, Powell Jobs sits on the board of directors of College Track, Conservation International, The Foundation for Excellence in Education, NewSchools Venture Fund and Stanford University.

Powell Jobs is also involved in politics – she is one of the biggest donors to Ready for Hillary, which supports Hillary Clinton’s presidential run. She is also a big fighter for the rights of immigrants, which is the cause of her many visits to Capitol Hall.
She has three children with Steve Jobs – son Reed and daughters Erin and Eve. In 2014, Laurene Powell Jobs was ranked the 29^th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes, which is 10 places up from last year’s 39^th place.