$3 Billion | Rank #1096 Who is Isabella Seràgnoli Coesia started out as a motorcycle production firm named G.D. in 1923 and was taken over by her father, Enzo, in the late 1930s. The firm moved into packaging in the 1950s, initially for confectionery and soap, when Enzo’s brother …
$8 Billion | Rank #267 Who is Jean-Michel Besnier His grandfather founded the company in 1933, and his older brother Emmanuel now runs the firm as CEO and majority shareholder. Lactalis sells $20 billion of products including President brie, Milkmaid yogurts and Valbreso Feta. The family also own stakes …
$3 Billion | Rank #1096 Who is Garrett Camp The Uber mobile phone app lets users request a ride and a driver-contractor is routed to pick them up — with Uber getting a cut of the fare. Camp owns about 4% of Uber, which listed its shares on the …
$4 Billion | Rank #822 Who is Julio Ponce Lerou He resigned as chairman of SQM in April 2015, citing personal reasons. SQM is one of the world’s largest miners of lithium, which is used in batteries for electric cars. For almost 40 years Ponce headed SQM, which also …
$1 Billion | Rank #2324 Who is Robert Fisher He chairs Gap’s board and is managing director of the Fisher family’s investment firm, Pisces Inc. Like his two billionaire brothers, he attended Princeton, where he played tennis and majored in English, before heading to Stanford’s business school. A philanthropist, …
$2 Billion | Rank #1729 Who is Bruce Mathieson Mathieson is now a minority shareholder in the listed Endeavour Group, which holds both the Australian Liquor assets and Woolworth’s extensive liquor retailing business. He has a fondness for racehorses and part-owned a horse that ran in the Melbourne Cup. …
$7 Billion | Rank #350 Who is Vinod Khosla His firm, Khosla Ventures, invests in experimental technologies such as biomedicine and robotics. The firm scored exits in 2020 and early 2021 with IPOs of Affirm and DoorDash and SPAC listings of QuantumScape and Opendoor. Khosla cofounded computer hardware firm …
$3 Billion | Rank #883 Who is Jim Kavanaugh With David Steward, he started the St. Louis-based company in 1990 by selling computers and printers to telecom companies like AT&T. Kavanaugh personally fulfilled one of the company’s first orders by renting a truck and driving 500 PCs to Omaha. …
$4 Billion | Rank #709 Who is E. Joe Shoen His parents L.S. and Anna Mary Shoen cofounded the truck and trailer rental company back in 1945. Worried that his father was wrecking the company, Joe led a coup in 1986, forcing his dad into retirement and alienating most …
