No. 9 Richard Segal, CEO, PartyGaming
Last year's position: Not placed
In this year's number nine spot is the man who proved the dot-com days are more than a distant memory.Richard Segal led PartyGaming.com to a multibillion dollar float on the London Stock Exchange earlier this year - setting off a surge of interest in the online casino sector which sees fellow online gaming site 888.com preparing for an IPO.
PartyGaming.com is valued at several billion dollars and is set to join the FTSE 100, the first online company to do so since the bad old boom days.
Segal had also earns his place for spotting an offline opportunity and developing it into a new business model that works online.
One Agenda Setters panellist describes PartyGaming as "responding to something that a large mass of human beings instinctively want and enjoy and discovering a way of creating a business model and [delivering it] over the internet".
Segal also wins plaudits for taking the company to its lucrative IPO without the backing of a bigger high-street brand and for negotiating the regulatory maze needed to allow gambling online.
Here's betting this won't be the last we hear of him.
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