$6 Billion | Rank #471 Who is John Tu With longtime partner David Sun, Tu launched a computer memory business out of a garage and sold it to now defunct PC maker AST a few years later. After losing a fortune in the stock market in 1987, the pair …
$12 Billion | Rank #163 Who is Lei Jun Xiaomi went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on July 9, 2018. Lei’s first success was selling online retailer Joyo.com to Amazon in 2004 for $75 million. Lei listed Kingsoft, an antivirus software firm, on the Hong Kong Stock …
$21 Billion | Rank #77 Who is Stefan Quandt Their late mother, Johanna, was the third wife of legendary industrialist Herbert Quandt, who guided BMW to preeminence in the luxury market. Both siblings serve on BMW’s supervisory board; Quandt is deputy chairman. His holdings also include Heel (homeopathic medicine), …
$2 Billion | Rank #1445 Who is Dennis Gillings Gillings, a former biostatistics professor, launched Quintiles in 1982 with the goal of making clinical trials for drugs faster and more efficient. Gillings retired from the board of IQVIA in April 2018. He still serves as a partner of healthcare-focused …
$4 Billion | Rank #778 Who is Yitzhak Tshuva His private El Ad Group, a real estate firm, has developments in Manhattan, Florida, Louisiana, Montreal and Israel. His is also the controlling shareholder of Delek Group, a publicly-traded conglomerate with interests in automotives, oil and gas. His family immigrated …
$15 Billion | Rank #123 Who is Pavel Durov Telegram, which is free to use, competes with messaging apps like Facebook’s WhatsApp. Durov left Russia after he refused to cooperate with the Russian secret service and provide encrypted data of his first social network’s users. Durov, who became a …
$4 Billion | Rank #665 Who is W. Herbert Hunt He owns a refinery in Louisiana and oil company Petro-Hunt, which operates in six states including Oklahoma and North Dakota. In 2013, Hunt sold his Bakken oilfield acreage to publicly traded Halcon Resources for $1.5 billion in cash and …
$2 Billion | Rank #1513 Who is Joe Rogers, Jr. There are now 2,100 locations in 25 states and estimated annual revenue of over $1 billion. He was 26 in 1973 when he took the helm of the chain, which had two family ownership groups, mounting debt and control …
$3 Billion | Rank #1096 Who is Urs Wietlisbach Wietlisbach started Partners Group in 1996 with Marcel Erni and Alfred Gantner, both of whom he met while working at Goldman Sach’s Zurich office. The trio took their firm public a decade later; Wietlisbach currently owns roughly 5% of the …
