$2 Billion | Rank #1929 Who is Ilona Herlin After her father’s death in 2003, Ilona and her siblings discovered the will had been rewritten leaving most of the ownership in Kone to brother Antti Angered that they had never been informed, the siblings battled for control. The dispute …
$16 Billion | Rank #106 Who is Kumar Birla The group’s interests span cement and aluminium to telecom and financial services. Birla inherited the family empire at age 28 when his father Aditya Birla died in 1995. In October 2019, the European Commission approved the $2.6 billion acquisition by …
$1 Billion | Rank #2578 Who is Udo Mueller The company dates back to 1963, when it began setting up billboards in Germany. In 1990, Mueller joined forces with competitor Heinz W. Stroeer to create one of Germany’s biggest out-of-home media providers. Headquartered in Cologne, Stroeer SE went public …
$2 Billion | Rank #1729 Who is Radha Vembu The company was cofounded by her older brother Sridhar Vembu, who started the business initially as AdventNet in 1996. A graduate in industrial management from the elite IIT Madras, Vembu is a product manager for email service, Zoho Mail. In …
$1 Billion | Rank #2578 Who is Liu Baolin Liu was born in a village in Yingcheng in 1953. After finishing middle school during China’s chaotic Cultural Revolution, he became a “barefoot doctor,” minimally trained to work in rural areas. Coming from an average or middle class family, Liu …
$2 Billion | Rank #1929 Who is Wilma Tisch Wilma’s son James is the president and CEO of publicly traded Loews, which now has interests in drilling, natural gas pipelines and insurance. Her sister-in law Joan Tisch, also a billionaire, died in 2017; Wilma’s son Andrew co-chairs Loews’ board …
$3 Billion | Rank #1163 Who is Hailiang Feng Feng started a trading company in 1985, followed by a copper products factory in 1989; the latter was the predecessor to Hailiang Group. Feng’s son Feng Luming is an executive director of Hong Kong-listed Hailiang International Holding. Liming holds undergraduate …
$2 Billion | Rank #1929 Who is Manfredi Lefebvre d’Ovidio & family Lefebvre spent two decades running Silversea Cruises, which his father Antonio started in 1994 with two ships in Italy. Lefebvre took over the company in 2001 and turned it into a luxury cruise line that travels to …
$3 Billion | Rank #951 Who is Gail Miller Gail serves as owner and chairman of the board of the Larry H. Miller Management Corporation. The Millers purchased the Utah Jazz NBA team in 1986 for $22 million; on Oct. 28, 2020, the family agreed to sell it for …
