Ruth Parasol

Ruth Parasol
Ruth Parasol.
Born	1967 San Francisco, California
Website	https://www.parasolfoundation.org/

Ruth Monicka Parasol founded PartyGaming, the parent company of online poker site PartyPoker.com, in 1997. The company merged with Bwin Interactive in 2010 to form Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment plc., then the world’s largest publicly traded online gaming company. Parasol is the single largest individual stakeholder of Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment. PartyGaming issued its initial public offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange in June 2005. In 2006, Parasol was ranked 197 on The Forbes List 400. In 2008, Parasol and her former husband Russ DeLeon were ranked 97 on the Sunday Times Rich List. In 2010, The Economist magazine ranked her 15th of the world's richest self-made women. In 2012, The Sunday Times List ranked her 14th among UK women.

Parasol was born in 1967 in San Francisco, California. She is the eldest daughter of Guna Parasol, who is Swedish and Richard Parasol, a Jewish Polish Holocaust survivor who served in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) in 1953. In the years that followed, Richard travel to the US to studied mechanical engineering at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly). Richard worked as an engineer for several years and then went on to become a successful real estate developer.6

Ruth grew up in Mill Valley, California, graduated from Marin Academy High School in 1984, and received a BA in Business from University of San Francisco in 1988.

After graduating from Western State University College of Law in 1992, Parasol embarked on a short career in business with her entrepreneurial father, working in his real estate management business, and in his audiotex business, which provided horoscope, tarot, trivia, chat services.

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