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Chris Gardner
Christopher Paul Gardner, Sr. is an American businessman and motivational speaker. He became a stockbroker in the mid-1970s and eventually founded his own brokerage firm, Gardner Rich & Co, in 1987. In 2006, Gardner sold his minority stake in the firm and published a memoir. The book was later made into the motion picture The Pursuit of Happyness.
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business · American businessman and motivational speaker (born 1954) · stockbroker · motivational speaker · writer · financier · businessperson · also Chris Gardner, Chris Paul Gardner, Christopher Paul Gardener, Gardner
Born 9 February 1954 · Q381471
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2008· 1 entry
Spoke at his daughter's graduation from Hampton University
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2006· 3 entries
Before becoming an associate producer of the major motion picture The Pursuit of Happyness, directed by Gabriele Muccino and released by Columbia Pictures on December 15, 2006
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Gardner sold his minority stake in the firm and published a memoir
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Became CEO and founder of Christopher Gardner International Holdings, with offices in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco
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2002· 1 entry
Gardner received the Father of the Year Award from the NFI
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1987· 1 entry
Gardner established the brokerage firm, Gardner Rich & Co, in Chicago, Illinois, an "institutional brokerage firm specializing in the execution of debt, equity, and derivative products transactions for some of the nation
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1982· 1 entry
Gardner passed his Series 7 Exam on the first try and became a full employee of the firm
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1977· 1 entry
Chris Gardner married Sherry Dyson, a Virginia native and an educational expert in mathematics
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1954· 2 entries
Born 1954-02-09.
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To Bettye Jean Gardner and Thomas Turner
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