Melinda Gates was born in 1964 in Dallas, Texas. She had a successful career at Microsoft, rising to become a General Manager before leaving to start a family. In 2000, she co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with her husband Bill Gates, which focuses on global health, education, and access to information. As a philanthropist, Melinda Gates has pledged over $560 million to improve access to contraception for women in developing countries and advocates for progressive family policies.

1. BIOGRAPHY PRESENTATION
ON
MELINDA GATES
Submitted by Akash Singh
Sec. “C”
MBA 3rd

2. Melinda
Gates

3. Introduction: Melinda Gates
 Melinda Gates was born on August 15, 1964, in Dallas, Texas.
 She took a job at Microsoft Corporation in 1987 and married her boss, Bill
Gates, in 1994.
 In 2006 she restructured the organization. In 2012 she pledged $560 million
toward improving access to contraception for women in poor countries.

4.  Co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
 Successful career at Microsoft as a General Manager for
Information products
 International recognized as one of the most powerful women in the
world thanks to her work in philanthropy and global development
 A successful entrepreneur, philanthropist, and mother.

5. Biographical sketch
Early life
• Born in a family
with three siblings,
an aerospace
engineer father and
a stay-at-home
mother
• Developed early
interest in
computer
Career at
Microsoft
• Worked at
Microsoft for 9
years
• Achieved a
successful career
from a Product
Manager to
General Manager
for Information
products
Personal life
• Married Bill Gates
– her boss at
Microsoft, after 6
years of dating
• Left job at Microsoft
after marriage to
focus on starting
and raising her
family
• Mother of 3
children
Philanthropy
• Co-founded Bill &
Melinda Gates
Foundation – one
of the largest
charity foundation
in the world
• Focus on global
health, education,
and access to
digital information

6. Four-way win

7. Lessons learnt
 Understand the priorities in each stage of life and act accordingly
(e.g. Melinda left her successful career at Microsoft to focus on
starting her family)
 Know your passion and have the determination to pursue it (e.g. her
passion in charitable work)
 If you are passionate about something, get others involved and
share that passion with your family, community and at work

8. Philanthropy
 Smartly leverage the resources and expertise across different domains to achieve success
(e.g. Melinda has incorporated her unique perspective as a woman and a mother, as well as
her experience at Microsoft into her philanthropy work)
 In 2006, a friend of Bill's, wealthy investor Warren Buffett, made a landmark donation.
 In 2011, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation officially restated its mission as: "improving
equity in four areas: global health, education, access to digital information via public
libraries, and support for at-risk families in Washington State and Oregon. of $30 billion to
the foundation.

9.  In 2012 Melinda pledged $560 million toward improving access to contraception
for women in third-world countries
 In 2015, Melinda and Bill Gates also showed that they support progressive
workplace policies. They announced that the employees of their foundation would
receive up to a year's paid leave after the birth of a child or the adoption of a child.
 In 2016, Gates and her husband Bill were recognized for their philanthropic work
when they received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack
Obama.