POWER COUPLES WHO MET AT WORK

1. Bill and Melinda Gates Melinda was hired by Microsoft in 1987 and met Bill four months later, when they were seated next to each other at a company press event in New York City. 2. Barack and Michelle Obama

The pair met in 1989 while working at Sidley Austin, a Chicago law firm. Michelle was mentor to Barack, then a summer associate. 3. Tina Brown and Harold Evans

In the 1970s, Brown worked as a freelancer for

The Sunday Times, where Evans was editor. Brown resigned and took a job at The Sunday

Telegraph after a relationship formed between the two. They married in 1981. 4. Steve and Jean Case

After working in marketing, Jean became vice president of corporate communications at AOL before she married founder Steve in 1998. He now runs a venture capital firm, Revolution. Jean is CEO of their charitable foundation. 5. Wendy Kopp and Richard Barth

Barth, head of the school network KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program), met Teach for America founder Kopp when he came for a job interview in the early 1990s.