[LCM Articles] Habib Haddad co-founder of Yamli.com named Young Global Leaders by World Economic Forum among others

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World Economic Forum Announces New Batch Of Young Global Leaders (Mark
Zuckerberg, Chad Hurley, Kevin Rose And More)
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by Robin Wauters <http://www.techcrunch.com/author/robin/>  on February 25,
2009 
 The World Economic Forum <http://www.weforum.org>   has just published its
annual list of Young Global Leaders, recognizing "between 200 and 300
outstanding young leaders from around the world for their professional
accomplishments, commitment to society and potential to contribute to
shaping the future of the world". 
The list of honorees, besides celebrities like Coldplay's Chris Martin and
F1 legend Michael Schumacher, includes a good number of people from the
technology and Internet industry, so here's a quick run-down of the names
you might know:
Mark Zuckerberg <http://www.crunchbase.com/person/mark-zuckerberg>   -
founder and CEO of Facebook <http://www.crunchbase.com/company/facebook>  
Kevin Rose <http://www.crunchbase.com/person/kevin-rose>   - founder of Digg
<http://www.crunchbase.com/company/digg>  
Chad Hurley <http://www.crunchbase.com/person/chad-hurley>   - co-founder
and CEO of YouTube <http://www.crunchbase.com/company/youtube>  
Josh Silverman <http://www.crunchbase.com/person/josh-silverman>   - CEO of
Skype <http://www.crunchbase.com/company/skype>  
Michael Birch <http://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-birch>   - founder
and CEO of Bebo <http://www.crunchbase.com/company/bebo>  
Premal Shah <http://www.crunchbase.com/person/premal-shah>   - President of
Kiva <http://www.crunchbase.com/company/kiva>  
Lisa Huddleson - Corporate Foundation Executive Director at Dell
<http://www.crunchbase.com/company/dell>  
Vinny Lingham <http://www.crunchbase.com/person/vinny-lingham>   - CEO of
Synthasite <http://www.crunchbase.com/company/synthasite>  
Paul Bassat - CEO of Seek
Suranga Chandratillake
<http://www.crunchbase.com/person/suranga-chandratillake>   - co-founder and
CEO of blinkx <http://www.crunchbase.com/company/blinkx>  
Michael Cannon-Brooks <http://www.crunchbase.com/person/mike-cannon-brookes>
- co-founder of Atlassian <http://www.crunchbase.com/company/atlassian>  
Andrej Nabergoj <http://www.crunchbase.com/person/andrej-nabergoj>   -
co-founder and CEO of Noovo <http://www.crunchbase.com/company/noovo>  
Matias de Tezanos <http://www.crunchbase.com/person/matias-de-tezanos>   -
founder of HealthCare.com
<http://www.crunchbase.com/company/healthcare-com-inc>  
Kamal Quadir - founder of CellBazaar
Ashok Vemuri - Senior VP, Banking and Capital Markets at Infosys
Technologies <http://www.crunchbase.com/company/infosys-technologies>  
Habib Haddad <http://www.crunchbase.com/person/habib-haddad>   - co-founder
of Yamli <http://www.crunchbase.com/company/yamli>  
Josh Spear - founding partner of Undercurrent
For the full list, click here
<http://www.weforum.org/docs/ygl/YGL_Honorees_2009.pdf>   (PDF).
Drawn from a pool of almost 5,000 candidates, the Young Global Leaders 2009
were chosen by a selection committee
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The recently published list of active YGLs includes names like Sergey Brin
and Larry Page (Google), Tony Fadell (Apple) Marc Benioff (Salesforce.com),
John Battelle (Federated Media), Peter Thiel (Clarium Capital), Jimmy Wales
(Wikipedia), Uday Khemka (Sun), Tariq Krim (Jolicloud), Philipp Justus
(PayPal), Lila Ibrahim (Intel), Esther Duflo and Kristin Forbes (MIT), Jack
Ma Yun (AliBaba), Jorge Blanco (Avaya), Bill Nguyen (LaLa), Tero Ojanpera
(Nokia), and Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook).

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