NAME: Fredy Bush
POSITION: CEO and founder, Xinhua Finance Media Limited; executive vice chairman, Xinhua Finance Limited
EDUCATION: No college education
IN HER HANDBAG: Prada purse, BlackBerry, sunglasses, passport, Prada keyring, make-up, glasses, headphones

Thirty years ago Fredy Bush was a teenage single mother on welfare in Utah. Now, she’s the CEO of a multi-million-dollar listed company. Bush is CEO and founder of Xinhua Finance Media Limited (新华财经媒体), a NASDAQ-listed media content and distribution company, as well as executive vice-chairman of Tokyo-listed Xinhua Finance Limited (新华财经有限公司), the leading provider of China-based financial news and indices, which ......ok them. I always wanted to seize the moment. And in an emerging market, there are so many opportunities.

Any regrets?
Just one: no college education. It still haunts me, even now. I can’t tick that box next to college education on my Chinese work visa application, so I cannot get a work visa, which is one of the reasons I have to work six months [of the year] outside of China. I did the health check-up, everything, but I couldn’t check that box, so no work visa.