Clive Calder

Born: 1946 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Co-founder of the Zomba Group of Companies (including [l=Jive]) with Ralph Simon in 1975. Calder bought out Simon's stake in 1990, and then sold the company to Bertelsmann AG (owners of [l=BMG]) for $2.74 billion in December 2002.

Calder kept his company very private and did not have a very public life, though he is largely responsible for organizing the success of [a=Backstreet Boys] and [a=Britney Spears], among countless others.