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Christine Maxwell (born 16 August 1950) is an Internet content pioneer, best known as the creator and co-founder of Magellan, one of the first professionally curated online search/reference guides to Internet content.[1][2] In 1992 she also created and then co-authored one of the first hard copy reference guides to the Internet: New Riders Official Internet Yellow Pages[3] and The McKinley Internet Yellow Pages;[4] both published by Macmillan Publishers in 1994 and 1995 respectively.
After Magellan was acquired by Excite, (a competing search engine) in 1996,[5] she went on to co-found Chiliad:[6] a software company involved in the advance of on-demand, massively scalable, intelligent mining of structured and unstructured data through the use of natural language search technologies. The firm's software was behind the data search technology used by the FBI's counterterrorism data warehouse.[7]
Christine Maxwell is the daughter of Elisabeth Maxwell and Robert Maxwell. She was born in Maisons Laffitte, France on August 16, 1950.
One of nine children, siblings include her twin sister Isabel Maxwell', brothers Kevin Maxwell and Ian Maxwell, and youngest sister Ghislaine Maxwell'''. In 1986 she married Roger Malina of Berkeley, California. Sons Xavier and Yuri were born in 1988 and 1990 respectively, and daughter Giselle was born in 1991.
Maxwell, along with her fraternal twin Christine, was born in 1950 in France to Elisabeth and Robert Maxwell. Following her graduation from Oxford in 1972,[2] she gained a Diploma in Education (French) from the University of Edinburgh before beginning her career in film and television production.
Career
In 1981, Maxwell moved to the United States[2] and began to collaborate with Dale Djerassi whom she married in 1984. They co-produced the feature film '68 (released in 1988 by New World Pictures) and the 1982 PBS documentary, Bhutan – A Strange Survival, introduced by the late Senator Charles H. Percy of Illinois and narrated by Ludovic Kennedy. Michael Aris, the late husband of Aung San Suu Kyi, served as adviser and writer. In 1982 Maxwell also wrote and directed Grays Inn - A Fountain of Justice,[3] narrated by Ludovic Kennedy as well.
Magellan
Maxwell was a co-founder, along with her husband and twin sister, of the company behind early search engine Magellan. Isabel joined sister Christine who was leading a small company called Research on Demand that was online in 1993"[1]". The company changed names to McKinley Group and became a search engine with ratings. Isabel served as a senior vice president (David Hayden "[2]", her second husband, was CEO and her sister was publisher[2]). In early 1996, the company was poised to IPO, but investment bank Robertson Stephens decided to put Excite on the market first. A few months later, IPOs became difficult and the startup company was running out of money. Magellan wanted to go public with Lehman doing the offering but was unsuccessful. Michael Wolfe's book Burn Rate also describes a failed deal to combine with Wolff New Media, which shortly later went broke itself.[4] With money running short, Isabel's husband was pushed out by investors and her sister left. Isabel resumed the responsibility to dispose of the company. After a layoff, the firm was sold for $18 million (of stock) to competitor Excite.[2]
Kevin Francis Herbert Maxwell (born 1959) is a British businessman, and the fourth son of Robert Maxwell.
Maxwell is the fourth son of Elisabeth (née Meynard) and Robert Maxwell, and brother of Ian Maxwell.[1] His father was Jewish and his mother a French Protestant.[2]
Educated at Oxford University,[1] Maxwell spent most of his working life before 1991 employed by his father, including a spell as chairman of Oxford United F.C..[3] Following the collapse of Robert Maxwell's Mirror Group media empire he became the biggest personal bankrupt in UK history with debts of £406.5 million in 1992.[4] He was later tried and acquitted of fraud arising from his role in his father's companies.[5]
The bankruptcy was lifted three years later, and he co-founded media company Telemonde,[6] which later failed. He entered into a further arrangement over debts he accrued subsequently. After his discharge from bankruptcy in 2005, Maxwell went into the property industry where he has been involved in setting up large property deals, including the sale of Earls Court Exhibition Centre and Olympia, and the purchase of Stables Market in Camden Town.[7]
On 8 July 2011, as a result of an Insolvency Service investigation into the collapse of Syncro, a Manchester-based construction company, Maxwell was disqualified from being a company director for eight years.[8][9]
Ian and Kevin Maxwell
Ian Maxwell, left, and brother Kevin say the death of their eldest brother after a car crash changed the family and led them to join their father’s firm at a young age
Ian Maxwell (born 1956) is a British businessman.
Early life and education
Ian Maxwell is the son of Elisabeth (née Meynard) and Robert Maxwell, the media mogul, and brother of Kevin Maxwell.[1] His father was Jewish and his mother a French Protestant.[2] Ian Maxwell was educated at Summer Fields School, Marlborough College and Oxford University. His first involvement in his father's business was at Pergamon Press from 1978 to 1983. After a short time at the Prince's Charitable Trust, he rejoined the Maxwell business, this time at British Printing and Communications Corporation (later renamed Maxwell Communications Corporation).[3]
Mirror Group
Ian Maxwell was appointed chairman of Mirror Group Newspapers plc (MGN) following the death of his father on 5 November 1991.[4] For the next month the group was the subject of speculation regarding its financial position. On 3 December 1991, Ian Maxwell and his brother Kevin Maxwell resigned from the board of Maxwell Communication Corporation and nine hours later resigned from MGN, following the disclosure that "many million" of pounds had been transferred from the Mirror Group pension fund to Robert Maxwell's private companies apparently without due authority.[5] MGN announced "Because of increasing conflicts of interest, Ian Maxwell, chairman and publisher of MGN, Kevin Maxwell, and Michael Stoney, who has a major management involvement in the Maxwell private companies, have today resigned from the board of MGN and its subsidiaries and have also ceased their executive duties in the MGN Group."[5]
Ian Maxwell, left, and brother Kevin say the death of their eldest brother after a car crash changed the family and led them to join their father’s firm at a young age
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>>7103508 Excellent Robert Maxwell Family Photo
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Family affair: Robert Maxwell, (back row centre) with wife Betty (centre). They are pictured with their children, back row, left to right: Ian, Isabel, Kevin, Christine. Front row left to right: Philip, Ghislaine and Anne
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/8376875/Whatever-happened-to-the-Maxwells.html