Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen has an estimated net worth of $12.9 billion as of January 2018. LEGO is a family business which was passed through generations from Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen’s grandfather Ole Kirk Kristiansen, then to his father Godtfred Kirk Kristiansen. From 1979 to 2004, Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of the LEGO Group. In 2004, he stepped down as the CEO and President of the company to focus on his duty as the owner as well as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors.
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Mikhail Fridman’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

Russian business oligarch Mikhail Fridman has an estimated net worth of $13.1 billion in April 2019. His massive net worth is derived from banking, oil and telecom businesses. Currently, he sits as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Alfa Group Consortium, a company he founded in 1989. Today, Alfa Group Consortium is considered as one of the largest private investment groups in Russia.
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Donald Newhouse’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

American media mogul, Donald Newhouse, has a net worth of $13.3 billion as of April 2019. The Syracuse University drop-out is one co-owner of Advance Publications and oversees the newspaper portion of Advance Publications, which runs local papers in more than 25 cities in America. His brother Samuel Irving takes care of magazines under the Condé Nast banner. The media company include magazines like The New Yorker, Vogue, and GQ, Florida cable and internet company Bright House Networks, and the hugely popular website Reddit.
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Alejandro Santo Domingo Davila’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

Colombian-American financier, Alejandro Santo Domingo Davila has an estimated net worth of $13.5 billion in April 2019. He is the son of Julio Mario Santo Domingo and Beatriz Dávila, and the half-brother of Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Jr. Alejandro Santo Domingo Davila is the richest new billionaire in the world at age 35, who became the face of his father’s Santo Domingo Group after tthe 87-year-old Julio Mario Santo Domingo Pumarejo died in October 2011. It is a role for which Alejandro, a managing director at Quadrant Capital Advisors, a New York-based investment advisory firm, has been groomed for many years.
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Andrey Melnichenko’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

Russian businessman, Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko has a net worth of $13.7 billion in April 2019. The son of a respected Soviet physicist, Melnichenko excelled in his studies and entered the prestigious Mathematics & Physics Institute of Moscow State University. In 1991 communism fell and Melnichenko dropped out. Together with some schoolmates he started a tourism business, sold computers, established a chain of currency exchange booths; in 1993 he founded MDM Bank, which handled the accounts of oil tycoon Roman Abramovich and other businessmen. With fellow billionaire Sergei Popov, he began buying up assets, creating TMK, Russia’s largest pipe exporter; as well as Eurochem and SUEK. In 2006 the partners started splitting their business empire; Melnichenko kept Eurochem and a stake in SUEK. He is the owner of the $300-million megayacht “A”, which resembles a submarine.
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