10 Things you should know about Mark Shuttleworth

Mark Shuttleworth is widely known as the founder of Canonical. Here are 10 Things you should know about Mark Shuttleworth.

1. Mark Richard Shuttleworth was born on 18 September 1973.
2. He is a South African-British entrepreneur.
3. In 2002 he became the first South African to travel to space as a space tourist and the first African from an independent country to travel to space.
4. He lives on the Isle of Man and holds dual citizenship from South Africa and the United Kingdom.
5. According to the Sunday Times Rich List in 2020 he is worth an estimated £500 million.
6. He was born in Welkom in South Africa’s Orange Free State to a surgeon and a nursery-school teacher.
7. He also attended school at Western Province Preparatory School, where he eventually became Head Boy in 1986.
8. Mark obtained a Bachelor of Business Science degree in Finance and Information Systems at the University of Cape Town.
9. In 1995 he founded Thawte Consulting, a company which specialized in digital certificates and Internet security.
10. In September 2000 he formed HBD Venture Capital which was a business incubator and venture capital provider now managed by Knife Capital.