$1 Billion | Rank #2190 Who is Lee Ho-jin He rose to chairman after his oldest brother, Lee Sik-jin, died. He has now stepped down and is reportedly struggling against liver cancer. In 2011, he was sentenced to 54 months in prison for embezzling $128 million from the company …
$2 Billion | Rank #1238 Who is Suh Kyung-bae He’s capitalized on the Hallyu wave, a keen interest in Korean pop culture that has swept Asia and the U.S. The only one out of six children interested in the business, Suh joined the company in the 1980s and became …
$1 Billion | Rank #2190 Who is Koon Poh Ming They started Press Metal with their three brothers–Poh Tat, Poh Weng and Poh Kong–in the mid-1980s. The brothers pooled $50,000 to start the aluminum-extruding company, at a time when Malaysia was in a recession. Press Metal is Southeast Asia’s …
$2 Billion | Rank #1341 Who is David Murdock He stepped down from Dole’s board in 2021 ahead of the company’s IPO after over 35 years in charge. After a stint in the army during World War II, he made a small profit buying and selling a diner; later, …
$4 Billion | Rank #822 Who is J.B. Pritzker An heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune, Pritzker ran private equity firm Pritzker Group with his brother Anthony until March 2017. His charitable foundation supports nonprofits primarily in Chicago, including the Ounce of Prevention Fund, which provides early-childhood education. His …
$1 Billion | Rank #2448 Who is Lun Ruixiang & family Huijing entered the real estate industry in 2002 using financial resources he accumulated in the car business in the Dongguan. Huijing is a residential and commercial property developer, with a focus on China’s southern Guangdong and Hunan provinces. …
$2 Billion | Rank #1238 Who is Lachhman Das Mittal Today his Sonalika Group is India’s third-largest tractor maker by market share. Japanese firm Yanmar has a 30% stake in his tractor outfit International Tractors. Mittal has handed over operations to his sons Amrit Sagar and Deepak and grandsons …
$1 Billion | Rank #2076 Who is Maggie Hardy Knox Knox’s father, Joe Hardy, founded the now $3.86 billion (2018 sales) company in 1956 in the rural town of Eighty Four, Pennsylvania. Hardy turned over the company to Knox, one of his four kids, in 1992 when she was …
$9 Billion | Rank #235 Who is Hui Ka Yan Evergrande, which Hui took public in 2009, has over 800 projects in more than 280 cities but is battling to repay $300 billion in liabilities. Hui worked as a technician in a steel factory for 10 years after graduating …
