$2 Billion | Rank #1579 Who is Larry Robbins Robbins is known for his hot and cold streaks, with his returns swinging wildly from one year to the next. Through his Robbins Family Foundation, he is an active supporter of education reform both in New York City and on …
$3 Billion | Rank #1096 Who is Otto Philipp Braun His father, Ludwig Georg Braun, took the reins in 1977, when the company had just $24 million in annual sales. Revenues have grown to around $8 billion. Today, with more than 64,000 employees globally, B. Braun manufactures products ranging …
$8 Billion | Rank #275 Who is Zhong Huijuan Zhong’s husband, Sun Piaoyang, is also a pharmaceuticals billionaire and leads Shanghai-listed Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine. Zhong owns over three quarters of Hansoh Pharmaceutical with their daughter, Sun Yuan. Headquartered in the Chinese coastal city of Lianyungang, Hansoh went public on …
$1 Billion | Rank #2190 Who is Heikki Kyostila Kyostila founded Planmeca in 1971 in Helsinki as a small dental-stools and -cabinets manufacturer. The company has expanded to making 2D and 3D imaging X-ray devices and software for dentists. Coming from an average or middle class family, Heikki Kyostila …
$7 Billion | Rank #321 Who is Vicky Safra Joseph Safra was Brazil’s richest man, with banks on three continents and the Gherkin tower in London. Joseph and Vicky’s four adult children inherited a portion of Joseph’s assets and share an estimated $7.1 billion fortune. A citizen of Greece, …
$11 Billion | Rank #180 Who is Philip Anschutz He owns the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings and a third of the Los Angeles Lakers, plus the arena in which they play, the Staples Center. His Anschutz Entertainment Group operates more than 100 arenas and concert venues worldwide. On 300,000 …
$2 Billion | Rank #1818 Who is Wei Ing-Chou Tingyi is now one of the largest suppliers of ready-to-drink tea and bottled water in China and supplies half of the country’s instant-noodle market. As of 2019, Ing-Chou is no longer a director of Tingyi (Cayman Islands) Holding, but he …
$2 Billion | Rank #1929 Who is Andreas Pohl His brother Reinfried and he inherited the DVAG empire from their father, Reinfried Pohl Sr., who died in 2014. The DVAG founder supported a range of schools and organizations in his home city of Marburg, which has led some to …
$2 Billion | Rank #1729 Who is Mingtong Cai The predecessor of Fujian Torch Electron Technology was a collective owned electronic component factory founded in Quanzhou in 1989. Cai taught high school teacher and worked as a factory technician before he joined the predecessor of Torch. Coming from an …
