$47 Billion | Rank #27 Who is Phil Knight & family Knight ran track at the University of Oregon and created Nike shoes with his former track coach, Bill Bowerman. In 1964, they each put up $500 to start what would become Nike, then called Blue Ribbon Sports. Today …
$2 Billion | Rank #1397 Who is Jeffrey Gundlach The bond-trader extraordinaire is known for his bold calls and correctly predicted the housing crash in 2007. He previously helped build the fixed-income business at TCW, before he was fired in 2009. He is an avid modern art collector and …
$2 Billion | Rank #1645 Who is David Hindawi Tanium has raised $800 million from investors who valued it at $6.5 billion in October 2018. In February 2016, Orion took over as CEO from his father. David is executive chairman. David, now a U.S. citizen, was born in Baghdad, …
$4 Billion | Rank #654 Who is Andrej Babis His fortune comes from Agrofert, which operates more than 210 companies in everything from agriculture to renewable energy to media. The leader of the political party ANO (which means “Yes”), he gave up daily management of Agrofert in 2013. Prior …
$2 Billion | Rank #1579 Who is Shi Yifeng Shi holds a MBA from elite Tsinghua University. Coming from an average or middle class family, Shi Yifeng is one those great persons who have stormed their way to the billionaires list on their own. And currently ranks at 1579 …
$2 Billion | Rank #1292 Who is Lottie Tham & family The company was founded by her late father Erling Persson in 1947, and her nephew Karl-Johan Persson is the current CEO. Her brother, Sweden’s richest person Stefan Persson, is H&M’s former CEO and chairman. Her nephew Tom Persson …
$2 Billion | Rank #1292 Who is Alberto Roemmers The firm was founded in 1921 by his father, Alberto J. Roemmers, a German immigrant to Argentina. Laboratorios Roemmers, which is privately held, also has operations in Brazil, Uruguay and Mexico. It produces a variety of drugs, including antibiotics and …
$6 Billion | Rank #424 Who is Alexei Kuzmichev He and his partners sold their 25% in joint venture TNK-BP for $14 billion in 2013. Fridman, Khan and Kuzmichev were all sanctioned by the EU and U.K. in February and March 2022. Alfa Bank was sanctioned by US in …
$1 Billion | Rank #2578 Who is Alan Rydge He inherited the Greater Union cinema chain after his father died in 1980. He’s also chairman and the major shareholder of equities investment company Carlton Investments. Coming from an average or middle class family, Alan Rydge is one those great …
