$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 …
$15 Billion | Rank #121 Who is Michael Platt Platt built BlueCrest into one of the world’s largest hedge fund firms; at its peak, it managed more than $35 billion in assets. A push into equities and poor results led to investor exits and he returned outside investors’ money …
$1 Billion | Rank #2448 Who is Sergei Kolesnikov He is a managing partner of Technonicol, which owns 53 companies and factories in six countries in Europe and Asia. Kolesnikov founded the company with his classmate Igor Rybakov in 1993. Coming from an average or middle class family, Sergei …
$5 Billion | Rank #490 Who is Tom Golisano He served as CEO until 2004 and remains chairman of the publicly-traded company. Born in Rochester, New York, to a macaroni salesman and a seamstress, Golisano ran for governor three times under the Independence Party of New York. In 2011, …
$47 Billion | Rank #28 Who is Dieter Schwarz Schwarz inherited the company from his father, Josef, who became a partner in Suedfruechte Grosshandel Lidl & Co., a fruit wholesaler, in 1930. Dieter opened the first Lidl store in 1973, became CEO in 1977 when Josef died, and built …
$3 Billion | Rank #984 Who is Alessandra Garavoglia Campari’s brands includes Skyy Vodka, Wild Turkey, Aperol and Campari. Garavoglia inherited her stake in the company from her parents. Her mother, Rosa Anna Magno Garavoglia, died in 2016. She now owns an estimated 24% of the company, which listed …
$2 Billion | Rank #1645 Who is Peter Leibinger The company traces its roots to 1923 when Christian Trumpf acquired a machine shop in Stuttgart. Peter’s father, Berthold Leibinger, joined the company in 1961 and developed the first contour “nibbling” machine tool with numerical control. Christian Trumpf, who had …
$1 Billion | Rank #2324 Who is Carsten Koerl Sportradar, based in Switzerland, helps sports leagues compile data like in-game statistics and distribute it to media companies and betting operators. He made his first entry into the sports data space in 1997 by founding Bwin (then called betandwin), later …
$7 Billion | Rank #343 Who is David Reuben In December 2016, they sold 49% of their data center business, GlobalSwitch, to a consortium of Chinese investors for nearly $3 billion. The brothers were born in Mumbai and raised in the U.K., where David started off trading metals and …
