$3 Billion | Rank #1012 Who is Arvind Poddar Poddar is chairman and managing director of the company while his son Rajiv is the joint managing director. With roots in the textile business going back to 1951, Balkrishna Industries started making bicycle tires in 1963. Poddar entered the off-highway …
$3 Billion | Rank #913 Who is Zhang Shilong & family Zhang worked as an engineer under China’s Ministry of Railways and at Texas Instruments earlier in his career. Coming from an average or middle class family, Zhang Shilong & family is one those great persons who have stormed …
$37 Billion | Rank #34 Who is Ma Huateng Tencent’s popular social messaging app WeChat has more than 1 billion users. The group listed its music-streaming subsidiary, Tencent Music, on the New York Stock Exchange in December 2018. In contrast to former Alibaba CEO Jack Ma, Ma Huateng has …
$2 Billion | Rank #1513 Who is Michael Ying He has kept a low profile and sold most of his stake in the company after stepping down in 2006. In 2017 Ying transferred the rest of his Esprit shares to his two daughters. Ying joined Esprit in the 1970s …
$4 Billion | Rank #687 Who is Jaime Gilinski Bacal The Colombian is redeveloping a former U.S. Air Force base alongside the Panama Canal with British billionaire brothers Ian and Richard Livingstone. After getting an MBA at Harvard in 1980, Gilinski worked in Morgan Stanley’s mergers and acquisitions division. …
$1 Billion | Rank #2448 Who is Karl Scheufele, III. & family A goldsmith and watchmaker by training, the German-born Scheufele bought the Geneva-based company in 1963 and transformed it into a global brand. More than 50 years later, Scheufele remains active in the company, though his children Karl-Friedrich …
$17 Billion | Rank #104 Who is John Menard, Jr. His stores, which compete with Home Depot and Lowe’s, are concentrated in the middle of the U.S., from Wyoming to Ohio. Menard first started a construction business in 1958, 20 years before Home Depot launched. Menard has developed a …
$6 Billion | Rank #480 Who is John Reece Formerly a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he specialized in working with chemicals firms, Reece still sits on Ineos’ board. The London-based conglomerate produces everything from synthetic oils and plastics to solvents used to make insulin and antibiotics. It’s become one …
$2 Billion | Rank #1929 Who is Tang Binsen Tang is the founding partner at Challenjers Capital, whose investments include online game company Moonton, acquired by ByteDance for $4 billion in 2021. Coming from an average or middle class family, Tang Binsen is one those great persons who have …
