Sir Richard Branson

Richard Branson is the founder of Virgin Group, one of the worlds most recognized and respected brands today.

Richard’s rise to billion-dollar heights of entrepreneurial excellence has its own humble roots. From struggling to make ends meet as a journalist and an editor of a late-60’s school newspaper, to starting a mail-order record business that grew into a small second-story record shop on London’s Oxford Street, which in turn became an independent record label, by the time Richard arrived in New York City this spring for the opening of his Times Square Virgin Megastore, the empire he has built over the last two-and-a-half decades as simply all things Virgin has amounted to one of the most compelling and awesome personal fortunes in recent history.