Top 10 Business Personalities of 2012

5. Oh-Hyun Kwon
CEO of Samsung Electronics
Dr. Kwon has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Dr. Kwon joined Samsung Electronics' Semiconductor Business in 1985. In 1998, Dr. Kwon was appointed Senior Vice President and head of System LSI Division's ASIC business. In 2000, he became Executive Vice President and head of LSI Technology.

Dr. Oh-Hyun Kwon was promoted to Vice Chairman of Samsung Electronics and got appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Samsung Electronics Co. by the company's Board of Directors on June 8, 2012. Under him, Samsung became the world's second-largest chip-maker in the world; Intel is No. 1.

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4. John Donahoe
President and CEO of eBay
John Donahoe (born 1960) is an American businessman and the President and CEO of eBay Inc. Prior to eBay, Donahoe spent more than 20 years at Bain & Company, a worldwide consulting firm based in Boston.

As President and CEO, Donahoe has global responsibility for growing each of the company's business units, which include eBay Marketplaces, and PayPal.

Donahoe came to eBay in February 2005 as President of eBay Marketplaces, responsible for all elements of eBay's global ecommerce businesses. In this role, he focused on expanding eBay's core business, which accounts for a large percentage of the company's revenues.

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