GREEN RANKING FOR 2009
Ranking: 25=
Worth: £1.8bn
Green investment: Electric cars

Canadian entrepreneur Jeff Skoll was the first president and full-time employee of the auction site eBay. Skoll produced the company’s hugely successful business plan and remained until 1998. Since then he has devoted himself to film production through Participant Pictures, which made Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and won an Oscar. Skoll backs environmental causes through the Skoll Foundation, to which he donated $250m in eBay shares. He is an investor in Tesla Motors, which is developing electric cars. Skoll sold much of his eBay stock in the bull market, collecting at least $2 billion. Canadian Business in its December 2008 list of the 100 richest Canadians, reckoned his fortune had fallen 30% in a year to £1.8 billion. We agree.