$1 Billion | Rank #2324 Who is Andrei Kosogov Kosogov cofounded international investment company LetterOne in 2013 and now sits on its board. LetterOne has invested in oil and gas firm Wintershall Dea, cellular companies Vimpelcom and Turkcell, and health food chain Holland & Barrett. Coming from an average …
$2 Billion | Rank #1929 Who is Ke Xiping & family Raised in Fujian Province, Ke Xiping started out in business in the construction materials trade. Coming from an average or middle class family, Ke Xiping & family is one those great persons who have stormed their way to …
$2 Billion | Rank #1818 Who is Theodore Leonsis Subsidiaries include the NBA’s Wizards, the NHL’s Capitals, the WNBA’s Washington Mystics and Capital One Arena. The grandson of Greek immigrants, Leonsis initially built his fortune as a senior executive at AOL, where he worked for nearly 14 years. He …
$5 Billion | Rank #552 Who is Zhang Tao Meituan went public in Hong Kong in 2018. Zhang received an MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2002, and returned to China in 2003, when he set up Dianping. Coming from an average or middle class …
$2 Billion | Rank #1445 Who is Eiichi Kuriwada Sagawa Express parent SG Holdings listed its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December 2017. Kuriwada stepped down as president of SG Holdings in 2015 but remains chairman. Shares of the company soared on the back of a jump …
$1 Billion | Rank #2578 Who is Tyler Perry Perry started out in live theater in the 1990s and became extremely popular before transitioning to film and television in the 2000s. Perry’s wealth comes both from his cut as a producer and from a library dating back to the …
$2 Billion | Rank #1929 Who is Zhen Li & family Guoxuan in 2017 signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Columbia University to form a joint lab to study power batteries. Coming from an average or middle class family, Zhen Li & family is one those great persons who …
$2 Billion | Rank #1645 Who is Nigel Austin His company has grown rapidly in the past few years, expanding to 1,450 stores in 18 countries and estimated sales of $1.5 billion in 2017. About half of these stores are in Australia, while the other half are spread across …
$4 Billion | Rank #801 Who is Anthony Pritzker The Pritzker Group owns and runs industrial firms, particularly in the packaging sector. It also has a stake in Elon Musk’s rocket firm SpaceX. Tony is one of 11 billionaire heirs to the Chicago-based Pritzker family fortune, which includes Hyatt …
