$2 Billion | Rank #1579 Who is John Bloor He reportedly left school at age 15 and began an apprenticeship as a plasterer, then built his first house before turning 20. Now the privately-held Bloor Homes puts up more than 3,500 homes every year. In 1983 he bought the …
$2 Billion | Rank #1579 Who is Gretel Packer She became a billionaire after James split their family estate 10 years after the 2005 death of their father, media mogul Kerry Packer. Famously low-profile, she was the driving force behind the establishment of the $160 million National Philanthropic Fund …
$6 Billion | Rank #480 Who is Viktor Vekselberg He later bought several medium-size aluminum smelters and bauxite mines and united them into Sual Holding in 1996. Eleven years later, he merged it with billionaire Oleg Deripaska’s Russian Aluminum to form UC Rusal. Both were sanctioned by the U.S. …
$1 Billion | Rank #2448 Who is Franziska Wuerbser Rational has more than a 50% share of the global market for food preparation appliances used in large-scale and commercial kitchens. The company, which went public in 2000, has grown without acquisitions, and prides itself on innovative, energy-efficient technology. More …
$10 Billion | Rank #206 Who is Jorge Moll Filho & family Moll started with a health diagnostics imaging laboratory in 1977. Rede D’Or owns more than 30 hospitals. In 2010 Moll sold subsidiary Labs D’Or to publicly-traded Fleury SA for over $750 million. In 2015, private equity firm …
$2 Billion | Rank #1645 Who is Chen Gang Aiko Solar, founded in 2009, sells solar cells globally. The company manufacturers cells in Foshan, Yiwu and Tianjin. Coming from an average or middle class family, Chen Gang is one those great persons who have stormed their way to the …
$1 Billion | Rank #2448 Who is Robert Knauf Based in Iphofen, Germany, the company employs more than 35,000 people around the world and has annual revenue of over $11 billion. Its product line includes plasterboards, cement boards and insulating materials. Knauf Gips dates to 1932, when brothers and …
$2 Billion | Rank #1929 Who is Sergio Fogel Founded in Montevideo in 2016, dLocal went public on the NASDAQ in June 2021, just nine months after becoming Uruguay’s first unicorn in September 2020. dLocal operates in emerging markets such as Brazil and India and its clients include Amazon, …
$1 Billion | Rank #2578 Who is Eugene Kaspersky Kaspersky became interested in computer security in 1989 when his computer was infected with the ‘Cascade’ virus. The young engineer founded Kaspersky Lab in 1997, with Eugene heading the company’s antivirus research. Over 400 million users now use Kaspersky Lab …
