Graham Howe (businessman) Graham Howe (businessman) Graham Edward Howe (born 23 May 1961) is a British entrepreneur and businessman who founded Orange UK, with Hans Snook. He was born in St Albans. He went to St Albans Grammar School for Boys (now known since 1975 as the comprehensive Verulam School), and later attended the University of Birmingham where he obtained a Bachelor of Commerce. Hans Snook had the ideas for Orange in the UK, when it was originally owned by Hutchison Whampoa, who would later found Three. It was Graham Howe who would get the company off the ground. They met in 1992.
Sergei Popov (businessman) Sergei Popov (businessman) Sergei Viktorovich Popov (; born 1971) is a Russian entrepreneur, businessman and investor who promotes business education and the support of young entrepreneurs in Russia. After studying at the Ural Polytechnic Institute with a specialization in Industrial Heat Power Engineering in 1993, Popov became a partner in the Ural-Siberian Commercial and Industrial Company. In 1994, he co-founded Prodcontract, supplying scrap metal to Russia's biggest metallurgical plants. In 1996 he co-founded MDM Business Concern. From 1997 to 1999 he was a partner and business manager of the company. In 2000 he became co-founder and Chairman of the Board