Ebbers biography
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High School basketball coach. Hotel owner. Car salesman. Milkman. Bouncer. Are the aforementioned positions ones that you would likely associate with a man ranked Time Magazine's eleventh CyberElite for 19981, with an estimated net worth of $1.4 billion US? How about Forbes 174th richest American? If they weren't before, they should be now. These are just a few of the titles that president and CEO of MCIWorldcom Bernard (Bernie) Ebbers has assumed over the years.
Born in Edmonton in 1941, Ebbers attended Victoria Composite High School downtown. He was driving a milk-delivery truck by day, employed as a bouncer by night1. Ebbers hardly seemed destined for a leading role in the world of high finance telecommunications. At that point, Mississippi College approached, offering the 6-foot-4 Ebbers a basketball scholarship. It was a small liberal-arts Baptist school. He accepted, and began his college basketball career.
Ebbers graduated with a degree in physical education and a re
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Hans Ebbers
Hans Ebbers has been a police officer since 1980 and was a member of the special forces SEK from 1989 to 2017. Between 1992 and 2017, Hans Ebbers was also a trainer for self-defence and tactics in the special forces.
Hans Ebbers was an active dog handler for special forces from 2000 to2017 and has been a trainer for special forces service dogs in the field of protection work, hard surface tracking dogs and explosives detection dogs since 2007.
From 2008 to 2018, he was a judge for police dogs and responsible for training and further education of all service dogs of the special forces in North Rhine-Westphalia.
From 2013 to 2017, Hans Ebbers trained dogs for the covert search and display on persons for explosives in the field of counter-terrorism.
Hans Ebbers gives seminars, further education and training for police, customs and military in various countries. These include Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, China, Finland, Italy and the US
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Bernard Ebbers
Canadian-American businessman and fraudster (1941–2020)
Bernard John Ebbers (August 27, 1941 – February 2, 2020) was a Canadian-American businessman and the co-founder and CEO of WorldCom. Under his management, WorldCom grew rapidly but collapsed in 2002 amid revelations of accounting irregularities, making it at the time one of the largest accounting scandals in the United States. Ebbers blamed his subordinates but was convicted of fraud and conspiracy.[1] In December 2019, Ebbers was released from Federal Medical Center, Fort Worth, due to declining health, having served 13 years of his 25-year sentence, and he died just over a month later.
In 2009, Condé Nast Portfolio and Time named Ebbers among the worst CEOs in business history.[2][3]
Dubbed the "Telecom Cowboy," Ebbers often wore boots and blue jeans instead of the typical corporate uniform of a suit and tie. He also lived on a farm and loved to drive a tractor.[4