$4 Billion | Rank #709 Who is Weiguo Li Li worked for a provincial statistics bureau in China before he founded the predecessor of Yuhong in 1995. Coming from an average or middle class family, Weiguo Li is one those great persons who have stormed their way to the …
$7 Billion | Rank #336 Who is Jude Reyes The company got its start when the two brothers and their father bought a small Schlitz beer distributor in South Carolina for $740,000 in 1976. Reyes is already the largest beer distributor in the U.S. and also owns two Coca-Cola …
$2 Billion | Rank #1513 Who is Todd Wagner The $5.7 billion sale didn’t just benefit Wagner and Cuban: their 300 employees became millionaires. Wagner safeguarded his shares against the dot-com bubble’s epic burst with put options. Since then, Wagner and Cuban have continued to invest together in ventures …
$8 Billion | Rank #275 Who is Georg Schaeffler In 2009, he joined his mother. She’d been running Schaeffler after the death of her husband, Wilhelm, who founded the firm with his brother in 1946. A year before, the company took over tire and auto parts giant Continental AG …
$1 Billion | Rank #2190 Who is Sehat Sutardja He was CEO of the company until he and Dai were forced out in 2016 amid an internal accounting investigation. No evidence of fraud was found in the Marvell accounting investigation. The couple moved to Las Vegas in 2017 and …
$5 Billion | Rank #622 Who is Dan Cathy He grew up doing odd jobs in his father’s restaurants, including scraping chewing gum from table bottoms with a butter knife. Cathy became CEO in 2012, sparking nationwide protests when he made anti-same sex marriage remarks. He spends much of …
$1 Billion | Rank #2324 Who is Ashok Boob The Pune company made a stellar debut on the stock market in July 2021, listing at a 98% premium. The bulk of the company’s $70 million revenue comes from specialty chemicals that are used in everything from infant food formulas …
$1 Billion | Rank #2324 Who is Stefan Pierer Pierer founded Cross holding group (now Pierer Industrie) in 1987 and is still its majority shareholder. He is also a member of the Supervisory Board of auto parts company SHW AG. He began his career as a sales assistant at …
$9 Billion | Rank #223 Who is Liu Yonghao & family His daughter Liu Chang replaced him as chairman of the group’s animal feed arm New Hope Liuhe, one of China’s largest agribusiness firms, in 2013. In the U.S., New Hope owns stakes in Lansing Trade Group, a feed …
