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Gerald Ford has been buying distressed banks and turning them around since 1975 when he bought his first bank. His first big success was in 2002 when he and his billionaire friend Ronald Perelman sold Golden State Bancorp to Citigroup for $6 billion in stock. Ford has a 17% stake in publicly traded banking firm … Read more

Otto Happel who studied engineering inherited his father’s dust-removal business and turned it into thermal engineering firm GEA. In 1999 he sold his 50.1% GEA stake to Germany’s MG Technologies for around $775 million in cash and kept a 10% interest in the combined group. In 2005 the company renamed itself GEA Group. Happel cashed … Read more

Ronald Clarke is the CEO and chairman of Fleetcor Technologies a $2.4 billion (sales) digital payments company. The Atlanta-based company offers businesses credit cards geared to travel expenses like gas tolls and lodging. Clarke joined the company in 2000. Ten years later he took it public on the New York Stock Exchange. Fleetcor has 800000 … Read more

Rufino Vigil Gonzalez is a Mexican steel baron and chairman of specialty steel firm Industrias CH. In 2001 Industrias CHi bought just under 83% of Grupo Simec a steel smelter with factories in Guadalajara and Mexicali. He owns about 67% of Industrias CH which has operations in Mexico Canada and the U.S. Want to more … Read more

Vladimir Vdovichenkov is a Russian theater actor who was born in Gusev Kaliningrad Oblast Russian SFSR Soviet Union. He studied at the Moscow Art Theater School and made his stage debut in 1994. He has appeared in numerous stage productions and has also starred in several Russian films. Want to more about Him? In this … Read more

Masateru Uno is the founder chairman and CEO of Cosmos Pharmaceutical which has more than 1100 drugstores in Japan and China. The company sells medicines and cosmetics as well as food and beverages. Masateru’s son Yukitaka is an executive at the company. Cosmos Pharmaceutical trades on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Want to more about Him? … Read more

Late Indonesian billionaire Eka Tjipta Widjaja’s son Oei Hong Leong is a Singapore citizen and long-time resident of the island-state. The bulk of his wealth is derived from a corporate bond portfolio and real estate assets. In September 2017 he announced a $5 billion investment in One Belt One Net his new company that will … Read more

An accountant by training Farhad Moshiri once worked for such firms as Ernst & Young and Deloitte Touche. After meeting Russian billionaire Usmanov in the early 90’s he became his minority partner in several projects. Alongside Usmanov he has stakes in Russian mining and steel manufacturing giant Metalloinvest and Russian wireless operator Megafon. He sold … Read more

Mu Rongjun is a cofounder an executive director and a senior vice president at Yelp-like Meituan Dianping. Mu debuted on the China Rich List in 2018 after the company went public in Hong Kong that year with of valuation of more than $50 billion. Mu holds degrees from China’s prestigious Tsinghua University. You might be … Read more

Wendo Kolosoy was born in 1925 in the Belgian Congo. He is a musician who is known for his work in traditional Congolese music. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of Soukous music and is a master of the Lingala language. You might be interested to know more about Wendo Kolosoy. So … Read more