$2 Billion | Rank #1579 Who is Qi Jinxing Qi got his first job in a government district office before moving on to a management position at a construction firm. In 1996 he turned down a bigger government position to set up Hangzhou Binjiang. Coming from an average or …
$5 Billion | Rank #523 Who is Li Liangbin Ganfeng is headquartered in China’s Jiangxi Province. In 2000, Li bought the factory which became the predecessor business of Ganfeng. Li received a Bauhinia Cup Technology Innovation Award from Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2013. Coming from an average or …
$3 Billion | Rank #984 Who is Sudhir Mehta His younger brother Samir Mehta, also a billionaire, chairs the pharma and power companies. His son Jinal Mehta is managing director of Torrent Power. His younger son Varun is executive director in the power business. Torrent Power distributes electricity to …
$5 Billion | Rank #509 Who is Sumet Jiaravanon He is the the older brother of Thai billionaire Dhanin Chearavanont, senior chairman of CP Group. Sumet is listed separately from Dhanin based on his ownership of close to a 13% stake in the family’s vast assets. He also chairs …
$1 Billion | Rank #2190 Who is Peter Kelly Kelly, a college dropout, started out in sales at Xerox Corp. He took Softcat public in 2015 on the London Stock Exchange and owns just over 30% of the company. Kelly is known to offer his staff free breakfast and …
$8 Billion | Rank #263 Who is Carl Bennet His holdings include business group Lifco, medical supplies company Arjo and logistics company Elanders. He also controls medical products company Getinge, which Bennet and fellow investor Rune Andersson acquired from Electrolux in 1989. They ran the company together for nearly …
$3 Billion | Rank #1196 Who is Norman Braman Braman made his first fortune selling pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. Born in Philadelphia to immigrant parents, Braman was a waterboy for the Eagles, a team he bought in 1985 and sold in 1994 for a $120 million profit. An avid art …
$2 Billion | Rank #1818 Who is Martha MacMillan Her great-great-grandfather, W.W. Cargill, founded the business as a single grain warehouse on the end of an Iowa railroad line in 1865. The family still owns roughly 90% of Cargill, which did $114.6 billion in 2020 sales across food, agriculture, …
$1 Billion | Rank #2324 Who is Lorinc Meszaros Orban, who founded the Ferenc Puskas Football Academy, tapped Meszaros to be its president. Mészáros’ gas-fitting company, Mészáros & Mészáros Ltd, is now a big player in the construction market thanks to contracts from the government. Coming from an average …
