Hasso Plattner’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

German businessman Hasso Plattner has an estimated net worth of $14.2 billion in April 2019. He is the former CEO of software company SAP AG that he co-founded with four of his former IBM collegues in 1972. Three of them – Dietmar Hopp, Klaus Tschira, and Hans-Werner Hector – were also billionaires. He has also served as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SAP AG since May 2003. In 1998, he founded Hasso Plattner Institute for IT Systems Engineering at the University of Potsdam where he served as a professor of enterprise software systems. Hasso Plattner Ventures invests in promising technology companies. In 2008, Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa began its operation in Cape Town, South Africa with a $50 million fund. Its fortune has climbed by $1.7 billion since March 2012 because of the rise in the stock price of German software company SAP.
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Viktor Vekselberg’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

Russian businessman, Viktor Vekselberg, has a net worth of $14.2 billion as of April 2019. Viktor Vekselberg is the founder and president of Renova Group, one of Russia’s largest conglomerate with interests in aluminum, oil, energy, telecoms and a variety of other sectors. Born Viktor Felixovich Vekselberg in the Drohobych, Ukraine on April 14, 1956. Vekselberg started building his fortune through the selling of scrap copper from worn-out cables.
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Eric Schmidt’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

American software engineer and businessman, Eric Schmidt has an estimated net worth of $14.7 billion as of April 2019. He accumulated his wealth from his ownership stake in search giant Google. Schmidt is best known as chief executive of Google from 2001 to 2011, he is the current executive chairman of Google. Attended Yorktown High School, earned his B.S. in electrical engineering from Princeton University and MS/PhD from University of California, Berkeley. Schmidt started his career working for several IT companies like Byzromotti Design, Bell Labs, Zilog and Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center. He also served as a member on the board of directors for Apple Inc.
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John Menard Jr’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

John Menard Jr. has an estimated net worth of $15 billion as of April 2019. John Menard Jr. is the owner and founder of a large Midwestern home improvement chain Menard’s. His first hardware store opened in 1972 and it continues to grow today with over 262 branches. This hardware mogul actually owns the third largest home improvement retailing company in the country. Menard is also owning an engine shop in the UK which specializes in producing engines for Robby Gordon Motorsports and Team Menard.
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Roman Abramovich’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

Russian business tycoon, Roman Abramovich has a net worth of $15.1 billion as of May 2019. Abramovich was orphaned as a child and dropped out of college, then made his fortune in a series of controversial oil export deals in the early 1990s. He moved into the oil industry and teamed up with Boris Berezovsky in the 1990s. They bought the Sibneft oil operation in 1995, when Berezovsky went into exile sold his shares to Abramovich. He took over oil giant Sibneft at a fraction of its market value.
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