$5 Billion | Rank #552 Who is Shari Arison Israel’s richest woman, Arison created The Doing Good Model – guidelines for incorporating social good into running a business. She has invested in various real estate projects, including a desalination plant and a thermo-solar power plant. She also owns 16% …
$4 Billion | Rank #764 Who is Don Vultaggio & family He got his start in the 1970s selling beer and soda from the back of an old van in Brooklyn’s toughest neighborhoods, where others refused to go. In 1992 he went into iced tea, launching Arizona from a …
$3 Billion | Rank #1012 Who is Heidi Horten She met the much older Horten in a bar in Austria in 1959, when she was 19. When he died in 1987, he left Horten a $1 billion fortune that has since grown. She sits on the board of Helmut …
$1 Billion | Rank #2324 Who is Radik Shaimiev He and his cofounders bought up most of TAIF’s assets during Russia’s privatization era in the mid 1990s. In 2021, TAIF merged with petrochemical company Sibur. He and other TAIF shareholders got 15% of Sibur in exchange. His father, Mintimer …
$2 Billion | Rank #1645 Who is Liying Chen Yunda Express went public through a reverse merger on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in December 2016. Chen owns roughly 21% of the listed company Yunda Holding, and serves as vice chairman. Husband Nie Tengyun is a fellow billionaire and chairman …
$3 Billion | Rank #1096 Who is Tung Chee Hwa After running Orient Overseas for 14 years, Chee Hwa handed over the reins to younger brother Chee Chen in order to serve as Hong Kong’s first chief executive. In 2018 the two brothers sold their entire 68.7% stake to …
$2 Billion | Rank #1397 Who is Jonathan Kwok Walter died on Oct. 20, 2018 at age 68. He had been ousted as company chairman in 2008 in a feud with his two brothers, Thomas and Raymond. After his death, Jonathan and his brother, Geoffrey, took over Empire Group …
$2 Billion | Rank #1929 Who is Pedro Franceschi He met cofounder Henrique Dubugras in a Twitter argument in 2012, when they were both high school seniors living in their home country of Brazil. In 2013, the pair launched a payments startup, Pagar.me, for small business in Brazil and …
$2 Billion | Rank #1579 Who is Qi Jinxing Qi got his first job in a government district office before moving on to a management position at a construction firm. In 1996 he turned down a bigger government position to set up Hangzhou Binjiang. Coming from an average or …
