$2 Billion | Rank #1929 Who is Egon Durban Durban joined Silver Lake in 1999 as a founding principal; prior to that he worked in Morgan Stanley’s investment banking division. Durban, who owns an estimated 17% of Silver Lake, is known for orchestrating the firm’s wildly successful investments in …
$3 Billion | Rank #1096 Who is Lai Jianping Lai left the company before it went public in China in 2014. Coming from an average or middle class family, Lai Jianping is one those great persons who have stormed their way to the billionaires list on their own. And …
$2 Billion | Rank #1445 Who is Sukanto Tanoto His Bracell is one of the world’s largest producers of specialty cellulose, used in everything from baby wipes to ice cream. Roots of the business date back more than 50 years ago when Tanoto opened up a humble spare parts …
$2 Billion | Rank #1513 Who is Guilherme Benchimol XP Inc. has grown popular by focusing its products and services on clients with little investing experience. Benchimol founded XP in 2001, with initial capital of less than US$2,000 and after being fired from a brokerage firm in southern Brazil. …
$2 Billion | Rank #1397 Who is Alexander Svetakov Svetakov got his start importing electronics from Asia. He sold one of his earlier businesses, Absolut bank, in 2007 for $1.4 billion, then a record for Russia’s banking sector. Today his investment group Absolut has businesses in everything from real …
$91 Billion | Rank #10 Who is Mukesh Ambani Reliance was founded by his late father Dhirubhai Ambani, a yarn trader, in 1966 as a small textile manufacturer. After his father’s death in 2002, Ambani and his younger sibling Anil divvied up the family empire. Reliance sparked a telecom …
$2 Billion | Rank #1397 Who is Devin Finzer He cofounded New York-based OpenSea in 2018 with Chief Technology Officer Alex Atallah; each of them own an estimated 18% stake. Finzer and Atallah became the first NFT billionaires in January 2021, after private investors valued their company at $13.3 …
$2 Billion | Rank #1818 Who is Kagemasa Kozuki The Tokyo-listed company has had success with free-to-play smartphone soccer games. His company also produces gaming machines for casinos in the U.S. and elsewhere. His son Takuya is a director of Konami Holdings. Despite Konami’s games becoming even more popular …
$8 Billion | Rank #254 Who is Joseph Tsai In 2018, he bought 49% of the Brooklyn Nets National Basketball Association team; the following year he purchased the remaining 51%. He holds two degrees from Yale University–an undergraduate degree in economics and East Asian studies and a law degree. …
