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Gary Michelson is a retired orthopedic & spinal surgeon who holds over 340 U.S. patents for orthopedic and spinal surgery instruments. He became a billionaire in 2005 when he reached a $1.35 billion settlement with medical device giant Medtronic after years of litigation. Michelson who signed the Giving Pledge in June 2016 has founded several … Read more

Zlatan Stipisic Gibonni (born on November 1 1967 in Split SR Croatia Yugoslavia) is a Croatian singer and songwriter. He started his music career in the early 1990s as the vocalist of the rock band “Prljavo Kazalište”. In 1996 he released his first solo album “Zlatan”. Gibonni is one of the most popular Croatian singers … Read more

John Middleton made his fortune selling his family’s storied tobacco business to Philip Morris’ parent Altria in 2007 for $2.9 billion in cash. The original business John Middleton Inc. was founded as a small retail tobacco shop in Philadelphia in 1856 by his great-great-grandfather. The company began manufacturing cigarettes in the 1950s and launched the … Read more

Riaz Valani was a general partner at Global Asset Capital LLC and the first person to invest in electronic cigarette manufacturer Juul. Valani invested a few million dollars in Juul during its early years giving him an estimated 20% stake in the company. When tobacco giant Altria bought a 35% stake in Juul in 2018 … Read more

Nie Tengyun is the chairman and president of Yunda Holding one of China’s largest express delivery companies. The company finished a backdoor listing in China in December 2016 and changed the listed company’s name from Ningbo Xinhai Electric to Yunda Holding. Nie established the company in 1999 with only 17 employees; today it employs more … Read more

Tobi Lutke is the cofounder and CEO of Shopify a Canadian e-commerce firm that helps companies set up and run online stores. 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 … Read more

Li Li chairs Shenzhen Hepalink Pharmaceutical a supplier of heparin sodium (a blood thinner) to pharmaceutical firms such as Novartis. Early on Li worked in a meat-processing plant; his first pharmaceutical industry job was at heparin producer Chongqing Tongda. Want to more about Him? In this article we covered Li Li’s net worth wiki bio … Read more

A native of New Zealand Richard Chandler relocated to Singapore in 2006 where he now runs Clermont Group his personal investment outfit. Clermont’s portfolio includes interests in healthcare financial services and aerospace. Chandler previously cofounded investment firm Sovereign Global with his brother Christopher who now runs his own Legatum Group in Dubai. Clermont has stakes … Read more

Cheng is the cofounder of Kuaishou a short video platform headquartered in Beijing. The company went public in an IPO at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in Feb. 2021. Pre-IPO strategic investors included funds managed by Fidelity and BlackRock. Kuaishou cofounder Su Hua is also a billionaire. You might be interested to know more about … Read more

Hope Welker is the third child of Australian mining billionaire Gina Rinehart. Together with her three siblings she is the beneficiary of a trust that owns a large stake in mining giant Hancock Prospecting. She joined then withdrew from a court battle waged by her siblings to remove their mother as trustee. Want to more … Read more