Howard Schultz

Howard Schultz is the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Starbucks Corporation. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Howard is one of three children in a poor family headed by a father with unrealized potential and a loving mother who lives day-to-day yet maintains high hopes for her children. Howard possesses amazing internal strength and drive coupled with a magnetic personality which propel him out of the limiting circumstances of his youth into an international sales career. Howard's interest and intrigue in many issues introduces him to a small coffee shop in Seattle called Starbucks and Howard is caught up in the passion and enthusiasm of the company. Howard works for Starbucks for a short time but leaves to pursue a more authentic concept of an Italian espresso café and opens up his own shops called Il Giornale. Eventually Howard purchases the original Starbucks Company and...