Hans Snook Hans Snook Hans Roger Snook (born 26 May 1948) is a businessman, best known for his time as the founder, with Graham Howe and Chief Executive of UK mobile phone company Orange. He was born to a German mother and a British father, and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where he went to the University of British Columbia. He then began a career in hotel management, which led him to Calgary for six years. In 1983, he set off on a round the world trip, which was cut short when he arrived in Hong Kong and became Chief
Hans Knoll Hans Knoll Hans G. Knoll (1914–1955) was a German American who, together with his wife, Florence Knoll, founded Knoll, the well-known design company and furniture manufacturer. Hans Knoll was born in Germany in 1914. His father was a modern furniture manufacturer, who supported the National Socialist regime. Perhaps because of his father's views, or perhaps because he wanted to follow many other German modernists who had emigrated, Knoll left Germany in 1936, and first moved to England. In 1938, he moved to New York City to found a furniture manufacturing company of his own. In 1941, he paired with furniture