$10 Billion | Rank #214 Who is Wang Laichun Wang worked for Taiwanese billionaire Terry Gou’s Hon Hai Precision Industry (also known as Foxconn) for 10 years. She left in 1999 and teamed up with her brother Wang Laisheng in 2004 to buy Luxshare; he is now the vice …
$3 Billion | Rank #913 Who is Zhong Ruonong & family Zhuzhou Hongda Electronics makes electronic components including capacitors, inductors and resistors. Coming from an average or middle class family, Zhong Ruonong & family is one those great persons who have stormed their way to the billionaires list on …
$2 Billion | Rank #1579 Who is Martin Viessmann He is the grandson of founder Johann Viessmann. The private company has 12,000 employees and 23 production divisions in 12 countries. Martin envisions a world where CO2 emissions are reduced by 80% and the consumption of fossil energy by two-thirds. …
$2 Billion | Rank #1729 Who is Josef Boquoi & family He joined his father’s small coffee- and grain-roasting firm in 1953, after receiving a business degree and completing an apprenticeship in Hamburg. He founded bofrost in 1966, and its first refrigerated vans hit the streets of Germany in …
$4 Billion | Rank #687 Who is Daniel Loeb Loeb is known for launching activist campaigns against corporate boards, shaking up companies in various industries and countries. Despite briefly enlisting a co-chief investment officer in 2019, Loeb, who also serves as Third Point’s CEO, reassumed the role of sole …
$8 Billion | Rank #254 Who is Marie-Hélène Habert-Dassault Habert was the president of the supervisory board of family-controlled aerospace and software conglomerate Dassault Groupe, but stepped down in 2019. She now serves as the conglomerate’s Communication and Partnership director. Marcel, Habert’s grandfather, founded Dassault Aviation, a French aerospace …
$1 Billion | Rank #2448 Who is Steven Schuurman Schuurman, who has an 18.9% stake in Elastic, first became a billionaire in December 2018. He served as Elastic’s CEO from 2012 to 2017, and now sits on the board of directors. He cofounded another software company, SpringSource, which was …
$5 Billion | Rank #509 Who is Ugur Sahin Şahin led BioNTech to start on a vaccine for the coronavirus in early 2020; it partnered with Pfizer in March 2020 and got approval in December. Şahin, who was born in Turkey and grew up in Germany, owns about 17% …
$41 Billion | Rank #31 Who is Rodolphe Saadé & family Jacques founded CMA CGM, now one of the world’s largest shipping companies, in Marseille, France in 1978. Rodolphe jointly controls the company with his siblings, Tanya Saadé Zeenny and Jacques Saadé Jr., as well as his mother Naila. …
