Russian businessman Aras Agalarov has an estimated net worth of $1.29 billion as of April 2016 according to Forbes. Most of his net worth is derived from his vast real estate business. Aras Agalarov is considered as one of the most prominent and biggest developers in Russia as well as the owner of the largest convention center in the country.
Canadian billionaire businessman Ronald Joyce is the co-founder of Tim Hortons and he has an estimated net worth of $1.29 billion as of May 2016. This year, he was added for the first time in the World Billionaires list by Forbes and is ranked 1175th overall. He is also the 25th richest the Canadian.
Polys Haji-Ioannou is a British billionaire and shipping magnate of Greek-Cypriot origin who has a net worth of $1.29 billion in May 2016 according to Forbes.
Paul Singer is the founder and CEO of hedge fund firm Elliot Management Corporation and The Paul E. Singer Foundation with an estimated net worth of $1.3 billion. Born Paul Elliot Singer on August 22, 1944 in New York, he grew up in a Jewish family in Tenafly, New Jersey. He obtained his B.S. in psychology from the University of Rochester and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He accepted a job as an attorney in the real estate division of the investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in 1974.
A well known Canadian poker, space tourist and entrepreneur, Guy Laliberte is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the world-renowned Cirque du Soleil. As of May 2016, Guy Laliberte’s net worth is estimated to be around $1.3 billion, according to Forbes. In March 2012, he was named by Forbes as the 11th wealthiest Canadian with his $2.6 billion net worth.
Louis Bacon is an American hedge fund manager, trader and founder of Moore Capital Management, he has an estimated net worth of $1.3 Billion. Born Louis Moore Bacon in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1956, his father Zachary Bacon Jr. founded real estate company Bacon & Co., and later led Prudential Financial’s and Merrill Lynch’s real estate efforts in North Carolina. He graduated from Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia and attended Middlebury College in Vermont. In 1979, he received his B.A. in American literature, cum laude. He got a job clerking at the specialist firm Walter N. Frank & Co. during the summers of his college years. In 1981, he received his MBA in finance at Columbia Business School. While at Columbia, he traded commodities using a low interest loan he had received.
American Mark Stevens is a former venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital in Silicon Valley. Mark Stevens has an estimated net worth of $1.3 Billion. He obtained his BS and master’s degree from the University of Southern California, and his MBA from Harvard University. In 1982, he joined Intel Corporation, a then mid-sized company about to specialize on the PC boom. He became a partner at Sequoia Capital in 1989 and began to concentrate on semiconductor, software, and systems-related investments. In 1999, he scored an early investment as an electrical engineer in graphics chipmaker NVIDIA, where he is still a board member.
Currently residing in Far Hills, New Jersey, Michael Price is an American fund manager and value investor with an estimated net worth of $1.3 billion as of March 2013 according to Forbes.