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Nicole Junkermann is a business leader, entrepreneur and investor. She is focused primarily on the crossover between the media and technology sectors. German born and London-based, Junkermann is the founder of NJF Holdings , which includes NJF Capital, NJF Private Equity, NJF Real Estate and The JJ Collection. Nicole Junkermann is among a new group of well-connected, successful entrepreneurs. She believes that digital innovation and experimental technology will create breakthroughs in areas from medicine to education, and from retailing to premium content consumption. Nicole Junkermann career Nicole Junkermann began her business career as a co-founder of football gaming portal Winamax. Following its sale in 2001, she invested in newly-founded Infront Sports and Media, a sports media rights agency. Three of her early investments, Songza, Dollar Shave Club and RelatelQ, were acquired by Google, Unilever and Salesforce, respectively. Nicole Junkermann’s holdings and activities ha...

Tencent Holdings chairman and CEO Ma Huateng, also known as Pony Ma, was named among the world’s best CEOs for the second consecutive year. He was named by Barron’s, a financial weekly published by Dow Jones & Company, China Daily reported. This is the 15th year Barron’s has released a World’s Best CEOs list, and the uniqueness of this appellation is the selected 30 chief executives aren’t ranked, and instead separated into three groups: visionary founders, growth leaders and change agents. In another repeat of last year, Chinese tech chair Jack Ma was categorized as a visionary founder, along with Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett, Amazon.com CEO Jeffrey Bezos and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su is a Chinese face among the 11 new arrivals on this year’s list, the report said. Facebook’s Zuckerberg and Alphabet’s (Google) Larry Page remain on the list despite widespread criticism for their market dominance and handling of user data, mainly...