$2 Billion | Rank #1645 Who is David Paul A mechanical engineer by training, Paul moved to the U.S. from India to get his master’s degree at Temple University. Paul worked as an engineer for medical device giant Synthes before leaving in 2003 to start Globus. Paul took Globus …
$1 Billion | Rank #2448 Who is Christian Herz He is the grandson of Tchibo co-founder Max Herz, who built a fortune based on the importation and sale of coffee. His father, Guenter, ran Tchibo for almost 35 years. The family also built a stake in skin-care company Beiersdorf, …
$2 Billion | Rank #1397 Who is Craig McCaw They sold McCaw Cellular to AT&T in 1994 for $12.6 billion in stock. McCaw, with backing from Bill Gates and Boeing, cofounded Teledesic in 1990 to provide internet access via satellite. It ceased operations in 2002. He has stayed out …
$1 Billion | Rank #2578 Who is Sefik Yilmaz Dizdar Designer Georges Amouyal and a partner founded LC Waikiki in France in 1985. Dizdar and partners including Mustafa Kucuk acquired it in 1997. LC Waikiki’s first international store opened in Romania in 2009. In 2016, it expanded into home …
$16 Billion | Rank #116 Who is Wei Jianjun & family Wei took over the debt-plagued Great Wall Automobile Industry Company — the predecessor to the current business — in 1990 when he was only 26. Wei worked at a carpet factory and a water-pump factory before joining Great …
$8 Billion | Rank #275 Who is Dmitri Bukhman The company is best known for free mobile-app games such as Homescapes and Fishdom. Born and raised in northern Russia, the brothers started selling games online while Dmitry was still in high school. Playrix now does more than $2.7 billion …
$1 Billion | Rank #2076 Who is Drorit Wertheim Before he died, Moshe Wertheim gave his children ownership over the company, as well as his shares in Mizrahi Tefahot Bank and Alony Hetz. In 2018, David purchased all of his sister’s shares in Alony Hetz, then sold them because …
$1 Billion | Rank #2076 Who is Jared Smith He cofounded the company in Provo, Utah in 2002 with his brother, Ryan, and father, Scott; Ryan was the CEO. Three days before its scheduled IPO in January 2019, Qualtrics was acquired by German software firm SAP for $8 billion …
$3 Billion | Rank #1163 Who is John Dorrance, III. His relatives are still the company’s largest shareholders, but he sold his stake in the mid-1990’s and emigrated to Ireland. His move was presumably timed to avoid capital gains taxes when he sold his Campbell’s stake. The Irish government …
