Time Magazine's Most Influential Builders and Titans

Time Magazine has formulated their 2007 list of Most Influential People. The People Who Form Our World includes: Artists and entertainers, Leaders and Revolutionaries, Heroes and Pioneers, Scientists and Thinkers and Builders and Titans.

The people on this list have power and visions that help to shape the world. The list of Builders and Titans include leaders of industry that shape the world though business, finance and innovations.

Following are the Builders and Titans on Time's list. The Tim magazine website (time.com) has an essay about each person on this list with much more information.

Richard Branson, 56. Visionary business man who has created Virgin Galactic, the world's first spaceline. The spaceline will own and operate it's privately built spaceships, giving non-astronauts the opportunity to travel into space.

Cyril Ramaphosa, 54. African businessman, former politician. committed to showing the way to a generation of black South Africans. Many hop that he will become Africa's next president.

Erik Lie, 38. Midwestern college professor who questioned patterns in stock-price behavior. His finding were delivered to the SEC.

Pony Ma, 35. Visionary behind Tencent a website that is a community for serving single child households in China.

Chad Hurley & Steve Chen. Internet innovators.

Katsuaki Watanabe, 62. Head of Toyota, who is planning to made the Japanese car company part of the American fabric. Toyota is a newcomer to the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series.

Bernard Arnault, 58. Chairman of Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, or LVMH. A Renaissance man who unites art and commerce in fashion giants such as Marc Jacobs, John Galliano, and the Louis Vuitton Foundation fro creation in Paris.

Clara Furse, 49. First female CEO of the London Stock Exchange.

Ken Lewis, 60. CEO of Bank of America, which is a banking institution that holds more of the money of Americans than any other bank.

Lakshimi Mittal, 56. The CSO of Arcelor Mittal, the world's largest steel company. Called ""the Indian Reincarnation of Andrew Carnegie", Mittal is the world's fifth richest man.

Shigeru Miyamoto, 54. head of Nintendo.

Rhonda Byrne, 50. Created a movie called The Secret, which has sold more than 2 millions DVD's and four millions books. Her intention was to uplift as much of humanity as she could reach with the message of the Law of Attraction.

Steven Cohen, 50. His hedge fund has 700 employees and $13 billions under management and is one of the most talked about forces on Wall Street. Last year his net worth was estimated at $3 billion.

Steve Jobs, 54. Innovated businessman who has been a founder of Apple, Pixar and most recently the iPhone.

Philip Rosedale, 38. Created an online community called Second LIfe.

Ho Ching, CEO of Temasek, a Hong Kong investment arm of the government of Singapore. Shareholder equity has doubled to about $90 billion, under her watch.

Indra Nooyi, 51. CEO of Pepsi, originally from India, now an American citizen. AS Pepsi's strategist, Nooyi has positioned PepsiCo for growth in China. She thinks globally, with a vision of performance with purpose.

Stephen Schwarzman, 60. Co-founder and CEO of the Blackstone Group. Blackstone controls over 50 companies, including Vlasic pickle Pinnacle Foods, Extended Stay Motels. In March Blackstone filed of an initial public offering , selling a small slice of the firm and making him a multi-billionaire.

Michael Moritz, 52. Global innovator who has help to launch firms such as Apple, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo! and Google.

Resources:
Time Magazine (time.com)