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Peter Buck is an American top restauratuer, physicist and philantropist. He co-founded the Subway fast food restaurant chain. Buck was born in South Portland, Maine, in 1930. He was graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, in 1952. He then earned master’s and doctoral degrees in physics at Columbia University. While working as a nuclear physicist for several companies from 1957 to 1978, Buck loaned partner and family friend Fred DeLuca $1,000 in 1965. Buck advised him to open a sandwich shop to help him pay for college at the Univeristu of Bridgeport in Bridgeport, Connecticut. They named the restaurant after Buck , calling it “Pete’s Super Submarines”. Together Buck and De Luca formed Doctor’s Associates to oversee operations of the restaurants as the franchise expanded. Though neither the first nor the second restaurants were financial successes, they continued to expand their operations. By 1973, they had 16 locations throughout Connecticut and, in 1974, they began fra

Nicole Junkermann is a business leader, entrepreneur and investor. She is focused primarily on the crossover between the media and technology sectors. German born and London-based, Junkermann is the founder of NJF Holdings , which includes NJF Capital, NJF Private Equity, NJF Real Estate and The JJ Collection. Nicole Junkermann is among a new group of well-connected, successful entrepreneurs. She believes that digital innovation and experimental technology will create breakthroughs in areas from medicine to education, and from retailing to premium content consumption. Nicole Junkermann career Nicole Junkermann began her business career as a co-founder of football gaming portal Winamax. Following its sale in 2001, she i nvested in newly-founded Infront Sports and Media , a sports media rights agency. Three of her early investments, Songza, Dollar Shave Club and RelatelQ, were acquired by Google, Unilever and Salesforce, respectively. Nicole Junkermann’s holdings and activities