Mark Shuttleworth
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Shuttleworth at the Ubuntu Party in Paris, France in November 2009
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Mark Richard Shuttleworth 18 September 1973 Welkom, Free State, South Africa |
| Nationality | South African / British |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Net worth | £160 million (2015) |
| Website | www |
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Time in space
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9d 21h 25m |
| Missions | Soyuz TM-34/TM-33 |
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Mission insignia
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Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African entrepreneur and space tourist who became the first citizen of an independent African country to travel to space. Shuttleworth funded and founded Canonical Ltd. in 2004 and as of 2013, provides leadership for the Ubuntu operating system. He currently lives on the Isle of Man and holds dual citizenship of South Africa and the United Kingdom.
Born in Welkom in South Africa's Orange Free State to a surgeon and a nursery-school teacher, Shuttleworth attended school at Western Province Preparatory School (where he eventually became Head Boy in 1986), followed by one term at Rondebosch Boys' High School, and then at Bishops/Diocesan College, where he was Head Boy in 1991.
Shuttleworth obtained a Bachelor of Business Science degree in Finance and Information Systems at the University of Cape Town, where he lived in Smuts Hall. As a student, he became involved in the installation of the first residential Internet connections at the university.
Shuttleworth founded Thawte Consulting in 1995, a currently running company which specialized in digital certificates and Internet security. In December 1999, Thawte was acquired by VeriSign, earning Shuttleworth R3.5 billion (about US$575 (equivalent to $826.66 in 2016) million).
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