Gerard Wertheimer’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

Gerard Wertheimer is a French businessman who owns and controls the House of Chanel along with his brother, Alain, and he has an estimated net worth of $27.4 billion as of July 2019. House of Chanel S.A. is a French privately held company founded by their grandfather Pierre Wertheimer, an early business partner of Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel. Gerard and his wife Valerie are both active in child pornography charities. Valerie is the president of Action Innocence, a group that fights against online pornography.
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Li Ka-shing’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

Currently based in Hong Kong, Li Ka-Shing is a Chinese investor, philanthropist, and business magnate with an estimated net worth of $27.7 billion in August 2019. Sir Ka-shing Li is currently seated as the Chairman of the Board of Cheung Kong Holdings  and Hutchison Whampoa Limited (HWL). He is also considered as the largest operator of container chemicals in the world. In addition to that, he was named as the world’s largest retailer of health and beauty products.
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Bhumibol Adulyadej King Of Thailand’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

The King of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej, has an estimated net worth of $30 billion as of 2011 according to Forbes. He has reigned for 64 years, the longest reigning monarch in Thailand’s history and the longest serving current head of state in the world. Known as Rama IX, he was born on December 5, 1927 in Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the younger son of HRH Prince Mahidol Aduljadej and HRH Princess Srinagarindra. He was enrolled by his father in the Public Health program at Harvard University. He briefly attended Mater Dei school in Bangkok but his mother took the family to Switzerland in 1933. He continued his education at the Ecole Nouvelle de la Suisse Romande in Lausanne. He received the baccalauréat des lettres (high-school diploma with major in French literature, Latin, and Greek) from the Gymnase Classique Cantonal of Lausanne. In 1945, he begun studying science at the University of Lausanne, when the family returned to Thailand after the World War II ended.
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Hui Ka Yan’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

Property developer Hui Ka Yan is the chairman of Evergrande Real Estate Group and he has an estimated net worth of $30.2 billion in July 2019. He is also the seventh richest person in China and 209th in the world. Born in 1958 in Henan Province in China, he graduated from Wuhan University of Science and Technology with a degree in metallurgy in 1982. Since 2003, he has been a management professor at Wuhan. He earned his honorary Ph.D. from the University of West Alabama in 2008.
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