Sir Richard Charles Nicholas BransonΒ is an EnglishΒ business magnateΒ and investor, best known as the founder ofΒ Virgin Group, which comprises more than 400 companies.Β Β At the age of sixteen his first business venture was a magazine calledΒ Student.Β Β In 1970, he set up a mail-order record business. In 1972, he opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records, later known asΒ Virgin Megastores. Β Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he set upΒ Virgin AtlanticΒ and expanded theΒ Virgin RecordsΒ music label. According to theΒ ForbesΒ 2012Β list of billionaires, Branson is theΒ sixth richest citizen of the United Kingdom, with an estimated net worth of US$4.6 billion. /Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Branson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia./