$1 Billion | Rank #2578 Who is Carl DeSantis Dutch food giant Royal Numico acquired Rexall Sundown for $1.8 billion in 2000, and DeSantis then started a family office in Boca Raton, Florida. A business partner introduced him to Celsius Holdings, an energy drink producer then based in nearby …
$2 Billion | Rank #1445 Who is Elizabeth Sy She is the second child and daughter of the late SM founder, Henry Sy. She is active in the group’s tourism, leisure and hospitality operations and serves as chairperson and president of SM Hotels and Conventions. She started out as …
$6 Billion | Rank #398 Who is Cheng Xue Cheng holds a 9% stake in the company, which was restructured from a collective company to a limited company in 1995. Fellow billionaire Pang Kang chairs Haitian. Coming from an average or middle class family, Cheng Xue is one those …
$4 Billion | Rank #778 Who is Timur Kulibaev An investment in mobile service paid off in 2004, when a company he controlled sold Kar-Tel, operating in Kazakhstan, to VimpleCom for $350 million. In 2014, he sold Altynalmas Gold to Polymetal, part-owned by Russian billionaire Alexander Nesis, for cash …
$5 Billion | Rank #552 Who is Dan Kurzius Mailchimp’s email marketing software for small businesses garnered enough customers that in 2007 they committed to it full time. Wary of giving up control to outside investors, Kurzius and Chestnut bootstrapped growth from profits and took no outside money. In …
$2 Billion | Rank #1513 Who is Ji Qi Huazhu Group, whose shares trade on the Nasdaq, was known as China Lodging Group until June 2018; Ji Qi owns a 37% stake. Huazhou Group operates some 3,800 hotels in China under a variety of brands, with a focus on …
$7 Billion | Rank #336 Who is Arthur Blank Blank retired as Home Depot’s co-chairman in 2001 and bought the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons for $545 million in 2002 (his stake’s now worth $1.8 billion). He brought pro soccer to Atlanta with his Major League Soccer team Atlanta United FC, …
$2 Billion | Rank #1818 Who is Lim Wee Chai Top Glove is one of the world’s largest producers of rubber gloves. The company has 50 factories with an annual capacity of 100 billion gloves. Lim, whose parents are rubber plantation owners and traders, also holds a stake in …
$5 Billion | Rank #523 Who is Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor Pastor owns the majority of the publicly traded company Intercorp Financial Services. He also owns companies working in the retail, real estate, and education industry in Peru. Rodriguez-Pastor founded InRetail in Panama in 2011, a holding company that owns supermarkets, …
