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1. John Wood

2. Introduction Of John Wood
• John Wood was born in January 1964, in Hartford, Connecticut, where he
spent his early childhood. His family later settled in Athens, Pennsylvania,
where he attended high school. He holds a bachelor's degree from
the University of Colorado, and a master's degree in business
administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at North
western University.
• From 1991-1999, John Wood worked as an executive for Microsoft. His
positions included Director of Marketing for Australia, Director of
Marketing for the Asia-Pacific region and Director of Business
Development for Greater China.

3. • John Wood, founder and board co-chair, launched Room to
Read in 1999 after a trek through Nepal where he visited
several local schools. He was amazed by the warmth and
enthusiasm of the students and teachers, but saddened by the
shocking lack of resources. Driven to help, John quit his senior
executive position with Microsoft and built a global team to
work with rural villages to build sustainable solutions to their
education challenges
John Wood, founder and board co-chair, launched Room to Read in
1999 after a trek through Nepal where he visited several local schools.
He was amazed by the warmth and enthusiasm of the students and
teachers, but saddened by the shocking lack of resources. Driven to
help, John quit his senior executive position with Microsoft and built a
global team to work with rural villages to build sustainable solutions to
their education challenges.

4. History of Room To Read
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Wood took a vacation and trek through the Himalayas. While trekking, he visited a
school in the Annapurna Circuit of Nepal, with whom he visited a primary school
that contained 450 children and only a handful of .Upon seeing Wood's reaction to
the lack of books, the school’s headmaster suggested him to donate some books
to the to the school. He got inspired and asked for donation of books from his
family and friends.
A year later, Wood returned to the school with 3,000 books—all donated in
response to his email appeal to friends and family . Soon thereafter, he left his job
at Microsoft entirely to devote himself full-time to Books for Nepal, a side project
that would eventually form the foundation for Room to Read.

5. • Leaving Microsoft was published by Harper
Collins in August 2006. It was featured on The
Oprah Winfrey Show in 2007, with "Oprah's Book
Drive" for Room to Read raising over $3
million. Leaving Microsoft has been published in
20 languages. It was named one of the Top Ten
non-fiction books of 2006 by Hudson's
Booksellers and a Top Ten business narrative
by Amazon.com. The sequel was published
by Penguin in early 2013.

6. Credits
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Soh Jun Yang Rynard
Angus Pook Yuan Shun
Chong Sheng Chao
Eyo Yi Wei
Sources of information :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_to_Read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wood_(Room_to_Read)
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