Steven Paul “Steve Jobs” was an American Entrepreneur and inventor. He was the Co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Apple, Inc., Co-founder, and Chief Executive of Pixar Animation Studios, Founder and CEO of NeXT Inc. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Walt Disney Company from 2006 until his death on October 5 2011.

Steve Jobs was a Zen Buddhist who masterminded Apple’s iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac and iTunes.

He was born on February 24 1955 to a Swiss speech therapist, Joanne Carole Schieble (Joanne Simpson) and Abdulfattah “John” Jandali a Syrian professor when they were both students of Wisconsin University. Abdulfattah said he had no choice but to put the baby up for adoption because Joanne’s family objected to their relationship.[http://www.ackcity.net/steve-jobs]