$2 Billion | Rank #1397 Who is Cen Junda He holds degrees from Zhejiang University and the China State Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry. Coming from an average or middle class family, Cen Junda is one those great persons who have stormed their way to the billionaires list on their …
$4 Billion | Rank #665 Who is Pyotr Aven He grew up in Moscow, graduated from Moscow State University, and worked at the Institute for Systems Studies at the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1989 he went to work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; two years later he …
$3 Billion | Rank #1163 Who is Brad Kelley He built Commonwealth Brands, maker of USA Gold and Malibu cigarettes, and sold it for $1 billion in 2001. Kelley has since used that cash to become one of the largest landowners in the U.S., with 1.5 million acres from …
$10 Billion | Rank #206 Who is Kirsten Rausing Kirsten’s grandfather founded Tetra Pak, which invented aseptic packaging technology. The new packaging made it possible to store beverages like milk and orange juice in carton instead of glass bottles. Her late father, Gad, bought out Kirsten’s uncle Hans in …
$5 Billion | Rank #552 Who is Tobi Lutke He owns about 6% of Shopify, which went public in 2015. Shopify had $4.6 billion in 2021 sales; it is used by some two million businesses, including Kylie Cosmetics, Allbirds and Rothy’s. Lutke grew up in Germany, where he learned …
$1 Billion | Rank #2076 Who is Ayman Hariri He inherited a stake in his father’s Saudi-based construction company Saudi Oger, and sold it to his brother Saad in 2014. In 2017, he sold his 42% stake in family holding company GroupeMed, which has interests in banking and real …
$2 Billion | Rank #1445 Who is Fang Xiaoliang & family Zhejiang Oriental Gene went public on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2020. Coming from an average or middle class family, Fang Xiaoliang & family is one those great persons who have stormed their way to the billionaires list …
$4 Billion | Rank #637 Who is Gustav Magnar Witzoe His stake was gifted to him in 2013 by his father, Gustav Witzoe, who founded the company in 1991. Salmar has led the industrialization of fish farming in Norway, refining the product into more sophisticated cuts with higher margins. …
$1 Billion | Rank #2190 Who is Paul Sciarra Sciarra held onto a roughly 7% slice of Pinterest, which went public on the New York Stock Exchange in April 2019, making him a billionaire. Since 2014, he has served as executive chairman of electric air taxi maker Joby Aviation. …
