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The 28th list of Forbes magazine has once again put the crown of the world's richest person on the head of Microsoft owner 'Bill Gates'. He has been 15 times lucky out of 20 who beat other millionaires. He jumped a step to land on the top in the ranking having improved his net worth, i.e. $76 billion, which was $67 billion in 2013.

Scarlett Johansson has been named the Highest -grossing movie big name of 2016 by means of Forbes magazine after acting in films that accrued $1.2 Billion in worldwide price tag sales.

While the zeitgeist appears to be class warfare and attacks on the super rich, here are some CEOs who are donating a big chunk of their wealth to charity.

In 2003 Rana Kapoor grabbed the opportunity to display his financial foresight and founded Yes Bank. His magnetism captured the public eye for a long time. Known for his meteoric rise and entrepreneurial success, let us get to know the man behind this enterprise who singlehandedly turned this brand new bank into the 4th largest private sector bank in India in a matter of a little over a decade. Birth of A Passion Born to a middle class family in Delhi, Kapoor had big dreams as a child. He often shared his dreams of starting his own company with his grandfather, who had immense trust in the young grandson's dreams. After graduating from Shri Ram College of Commerce in New Delhi in 1977, he went off to USA to fulfill his dreams. He enrolled for MBA at Rutgers University in New Jersey. It was this stint that got him deeply inspired to pursue a banking career. He wanted to create something big, in this model, back in India. But before that he needed some more experience. Thus, upon the completion of MBA, he began his banking career as a management trainee in the Bank of America (BoA). With a deep passion for banking, Rana Kapoor's career flourished in 1980 at Bank of America (BoA), as he rose the ranks. His stance of taking intuitive risks, which brought him success every time, was highly commended by his employers. In 1990, he was awarded the coveted Eagle Pin by the chairman of the bank. With such a promising career trajectory, soon he became the head of their wholesale banking business as well as several high stakes assignments in various countries of Asia. However, all that success was not enough for him, as he had bigger dreams, of starting his own venture. After nearly a two-decade-long flourishing corporate career, Kapoor was resolved to embark on his own venture. He wanted to create something that he could call his own. He kept yearning for creative independence and even came up with an interesting business plan to create a non-banking finance company with f