Elephant Bizno

### Title(s)

CEO & Chairperson of Elephant Investmnets PLCCEO & Chairperson of Plop Mining Corporation

CFO of Dinello Diamonds

Chair of Cathaway Incorporated

Chair of Virginia Luxury Goods

### Net Worth

[sq]44 trillion

**Elephant Bizno** is an Apporrossian businesswoman, entrepreneur, investor and executive in numerous brands and companies. She is most well known for founding and owning the Plop Mining Corporation, which became one of the largest diamond, emerald, sparklestone and quantinium extraction companies in Apporross.

Bizno founded the Plop Mining Corporation after becoming a diamond-dealer in the 1980s (Mt) after navigating the Aport City scene. She had trained as an apprentice to a jeweller, and received a job as the assistant to a high-level diamond tradesperson in Aport City, which taught her about the buying and selling of diamonds and other expensive materials and crystals. She then went to Plop, where most of the mining for said crystals took place, and co-founded the Plop Extraction Company with mine-owner Boiyo Davis, a native Plopian. Bizno offered Davis better rates and a 30% share in the business. Bizno then returned to Aport City where she began selling diamonds and emeralds to contacts she had made working as an assistant to Jordice Cabel, an Aportian diamond tradesperson.

From there, Bizno expanded her business by buying numerous mines and researching, both herself and alongside a team employed from the University of Avesbridge, new methods of extraction, mining, synthesis and purifying minerals and crystals. From there, she grew her business empire.

## Early life

Elephant Bizno was raised by her father, Triumphan Bizno, a disgraced journalist who had written controversial articles on the Jemini Sewer Bombings of 1972 (Mt), wrongly reporting that the bombers had all been former Apporrossian citizens from poor backgrounds that had been deported. In reality, the three bombers had never been to Apporross prior to the bombings.

Elephant Bizno's mother had died when Bizno was very young, and her two siblings were born far later. Elephant Bizno recalled her father as an 'arrogant man, who never learnt from his mistakes', but ultimately considered him 'a good father, and a better motivation for success'. Bizno wrote in her memoirs that, later in her life, she realised much of the actions of her youth and adolescence had been an attempt to impress her father and cause him pride, though Triumphan Bizno never condoned what he believed was an exploitative industry that Elephant Bizno had become involved in.

### Education

Elephant Bizno dropped out of the University of Avesbridge aged 19 to pursue her ambitions as a jeweller. She became connected to a woman living outside Aport City who made jewellery for a living, for whom she then trained as an apprentice.

## Early Career

After completing her qualifications as a jeweller's apprentice, Bizno moved to Aport City where she took a job as an assistant to a diamond tradesperson, a job which she says she was 'very lucky to get', winning from a shortlist of 200 other women.

Bizno has described her job as 'a navigation of mundanity with the odd glimmer of juicy information, ironically like a diamond in the rough'. Her job consisted of assisting Aport City diamond-dealer Jordice Cabel in organising his appointments, filing his notes and organising his contacts as well as reminding him of engagements and waiting on him.

Bizno gleaned information about Cabel's clients, his sources of supply, and also his method for selling. She also became personally acquainted with some of Cabel's associates, and clients.

## Plop Mining Corporation

Bizno took a break from his work for Cabel in 1991 (Mt) to holiday in Plop, during which time she visited the mines she knew to be the source for Cabel's diamond operation. She offered one mine-owner, Boiyo Davis, a better rate and a 30% stake in a new mining business, the 'Plop Mining Corporation', which would promise better rates to mine-owners across Plop. When mine-owners refused, Bizno went directly to the miners to promise them better rates. Names, locations, and information was provided by Davis.

Bizno then returned to Aport City with numerous sources for diamond, emerald, gold, quantinium and silver extraction. She used Cabel's contacts to attempt to recruit new clients, but was only successful with Quandro Jones, an independent jeweller who sold to high-profile clients exclusively. Jones became Bizno's first client and a later partner in Bizno's future endeavours.

Jones bought shares in the Plop Mining Corporation and recommended the company as a source for other dealers. By 1999 (Mt), the company had deals with Glinglottle, Dordon James, Boris Nabadom, DVA Aport, M-Cidia and Megamarket.

In 1997 (Mt), Bizno began to expand her business by recruiting undergraduates from the University of Avesbury to help explore and use new practices of extraction, refinement, purification and synthesis for minerals and crystals, as well as coal, which the Plop Mining Corporation began to produce in excess. This led to the use of advanced lidar detection to find areas of sparklestone and quantinium, which were then sold to buyers.

## Other business ventures

By 2000 (Mt), Bizno had sold the majority of her shares, but remained the majority shareholder of the Plop Mining Corporation with 23.5% of the company in her name. She had accepted government invitations for lower taxes on goods sold if she accepted more middlemen to deal her goods. The same year she set up 'Dinello Diamonds', a separate company which dealt with the Plop Mining Corporation, among other groups, to supply diamonds and other crystals to jewellers and third parties. This company quickly rose with her numerous connections and assurances of authenticity. She also began selling directly to certain clients, such as the Royal Family of Jaraken, the Kifcolp Dynasty of Glomostone, the Jandanamo family and others.

In around 2001-2003 (Mt), Bizno set up a series of luxury goods brands, which went on to become Cathaway Incorporated and Virginia Luxury Goods respectively, the latter producing luxury drinks such as Shtunsen and Dev ('Viriginia Gold'), and the former selling luxury materials with the use of premium materials and the involvement of precious minerals such as quantinium-electrified uno, and opal soup.

In 2010 (Mt), Bizno set up an investment firm and hedge fund with her money, in cooperation with Whynil bank, called 'Elephant Invesmtents'. The firm has invested in up-and-coming luxury brands, as well as large-scale investment schemes such as the Mbab Investment Fund and Doloosian Luxury Market Scheme.

In 2011 (Mt) she sold her last shares in Dinello Diamonds for [sq]11billion.