Chris Gardner

Christopher Paul "Chris" Gardner (born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, February 9, 1954, age 64) is an American entrepreneur, investor, stockbroker, motivational speaker, author and philanthropist who, in the early 1980s, raising his toddler, Christopher Gardner, Jr. Gardner, The Pursuit of Happyness, was published in May 2006. [2] The 2006 film The Pursuit of Happyness, directed by Gabriele Muccino and starring Will Smith based on the book. In 2012, he became CEO of his own stock brokerage firm, Gardner Rich & Co, based in Chicago, Illinois, where he lived when he was not living in Toronto. Gardner is known for the tenacity and "spiritual genetic" successes revealed by his mother, Bettye Jean Triplett, née Gardner, and because of his high expectations for spreading his children, a son of Chris Jr. (born 1981) and a daughter of Jacintha (born 1985).