$4 Billion | Rank #822 Who is Julia Thiele-Schuerhoff Her father joined Knorr-Bremse’s legal department in the late 1960s and took over control in the mid-1980s. He withdrew from operational duties in 2007, chaired the supervisory board, was named honorary chairman in 2016, and took the company public in …
$1 Billion | Rank #2578 Who is Marcelo Kalim C6 says that as of 2021 it had attracted 7 million customers since it launched in 2019. Prior to C6, Kalim was a significant shareholder and longtime executive of Brazil’s BTG Pactual, Latin America’s largest investment bank. Coming from an …
$3 Billion | Rank #913 Who is Horst Paulmann & family The publicly-traded company has 140,000 employees and operations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru and Colombia; Paulmann owns a 53% stake. As a teenager, Paulmann moved from his native Germany to Chile after World War II and opened his …
$2 Billion | Rank #1513 Who is Henry Laufer He was its chief scientist and vice president of research until retiring in 2009. Laufer still has a stake in Renaissance, which now manages about $55 billion. Prior to Renaissance, Laufer was a math professor at Stony Brook University for …
$1 Billion | Rank #2324 Who is Ludwig Theodor Braun His father, Ludwig Georg Braun, took the reins in 1977, when the company had just $24 million in annual sales (now around $8 billion). A sixth-generation family member, Ludwig Theodor is the youngest son of Ludwig Georg. His sister …
$5 Billion | Rank #552 Who is Thomas Pritzker Hyatt Hotels dates back to 1957 when Tom’s father, Jay Pritzker (d. 1999), purchased the first Hyatt House motel near Los Angeles International Airport. Tom’s father Jay and uncle Robert acquired manufacturing firm Marmon in the 1950s and expanded it; …
$3 Billion | Rank #1096 Who is Bill Alfond Bill’s father, Harold Alfond, bought an old mill in Maine in 1958 and turned it into a shoemaker that sold millions of boots and casual shoes a year. In 1993 Harold sold the company to Buffett for about $420 million …
$3 Billion | Rank #1053 Who is Jeremy Jacobs, Sr. & family The business was founded in 1915 by his father, who began by selling popcorn and peanuts. Forbes estimates 2019 revenue was $3.3 billion. Delaware North lost a contract with Yosemite National Park in 2016 which resulted in …
$2 Billion | Rank #1579 Who is David Zalik The Atlanta-based company has facilitated $16 billion in loans for home improvement projects via a network of banks and 13,000 contractors. GreenSky has also begun to branch into financing for doctor, dentist and veterinary visits. Zalik took the $415 million …
