Gretel Packer

Last updated

Gretel Packer
AM
BornAugust 1965 (age 58)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Occupations
Known for Packer family
Spouses
  • Nick Barham
    ​
    (div. 1999)​
    [1]
  • Shane Murray
    ​
    ​
    (m. 2005;div. 2007)​
    [2]
Children3 [1]
Parents
Relatives

Gretel Lees Packer AM (born August 1965 [3] ) is an Australian billionaire investor and philanthropist. [4]

Contents

Packer is the daughter of Kerry Packer AC , a media mogul, and his wife, Roslyn Packer AC . She is the granddaughter of Sir Frank Packer. Following the death of her father and an estimated A$1.2  billion settlement [3] in 2015 with her brother, James, she inherited investments in Crown Resorts, and other companies. [5]

Her philanthropic interests include a broad range of community activities and charities aligned to the arts, education, and environmental science. Packer is Vice-President of the Board of Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, [6] Chair of the Advisory Board of Crown Resorts Foundation, Chair of the Packer Family Foundation, Chair of The Sydney Theatre Company Foundation, and a Founding Patron of the Taronga Zoo Conservation Science Initiative and a Founding Governor of the Taronga Zoo Foundation. She has previously served as a Director of the Royal Hospital for Women Foundation and as a Council Member of the Royal Botanic Gardens Foundation. [7]

Personal life

Packer had two children to her first husband, Nick Barham, whom she divorced in 1999; [1] and one child to her second husband, Shane Murray, whom she married in late 2005 and divorced in 2007. [2]

Net worth

As of May 2023, Packer's net worth was assessed as A$2.09  billion by the Financial Review Rich List . [8] Forbes Asia magazine assessed Packer's net worth at US$1.6 billion in January 2019. [9]

Year Financial Review
Rich List 		Forbes
Australia's 50 Richest
Rank Net worth (A$)Rank Net worth (US$)
2017 [10] [11] [12]
2018 [13] 61Increase2.svg$1.26 billion Increase2.svg
2019 [14] [9] 80Decrease2.svg$1.16 billion Decrease2.svg26Decrease2.svg$1.60 billion
2020 [15] 56Increase2.svg$1.77 billion Increase2.svg
2021 [16] 50Increase2.svg$2.30 billion Increase2.svg
202256Increase2.svg$2.00 billion Increase2.svg
2023 [8] 61Decrease2.svg$2.09 billion Increase2.svg
Legend
Icon Description
Steady2.svgHas not changed from the previous year
Increase2.svgHas increased from the previous year
Decrease2.svgHas decreased from the previous year

Related Research Articles

Gerry Harvey is an Australian entrepreneur best known for being the executive chairman of Harvey Norman Holdings, a company which runs Australian retail chain Harvey Norman. He co-founded it with Ian Norman in 1982.

Lloyd J. Williams is an Australian property developer and businessperson, with significant interests in thoroughbred horse racing. He holds the record as a thoroughbred owner to have won the Melbourne Cup on the most occasions, his most recent in 2020 with Twilight Payment.

Bruce Gordon is an Australian businessman. He is the owner of the Australian television network, WIN Television through his ownership of WIN Corporation, the largest shareholder of Network 10 & the largest shareholder of the Nine Network, and holds a significant stake in Nine Entertainment Co.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Xu Rongmao</span> Chinese-Australian entrepreneur

Xu Rongmao, or Hui Wing Mau in Cantonese, is a Chinese-Australian entrepreneur and billionaire, and the founder and the chairman of Shimao Property. Xu is estimated to be one of the largest property developers in Shanghai. According to Forbes in 2021, his net worth is estimated at $10.3bn.

The Financial Review Rich List, formerly known as the BRW Rich 200, is a list of Australia's two hundred wealthiest individuals and families, ranked by personal net worth published annually in The Australian Financial Review Magazine, a supplement of The Australian Financial Review, published by Nine Publishing. The list provides a short summary on some of the known business activities of the individuals and families, together with commentary on how their ranking has changed from the previous year, if listed.

Alex Waislitz OAM is an Australian investor.

David Hains was an Australian businessman, engineer, and horse breeder. He was the founder and once CEO of Portland House Group, Australia’s largest private investments management firm and hedge fund. According to Forbes, Hains had at the time of his death a personal net-worth of around $2 billion, making him one of Australia’s richest person.

Angela Bennett is an Australian mining heiress and businesswoman.

Chris Wallin is an Australian geologist and businessman. He is the Managing Director of QCoal Group and Chairman of the QCoal Foundation.

Paul Lederer is the former CEO of Primo Group, and Chairman and co-owner of A-League club Western Sydney Wanderers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vivek Chaand Sehgal</span> Indian-Australian businessman

Vivek Chaand Sehgal is an Indian-Australian billionaire businessman and entrepreneur. Sehgal is the chairman and co-founder of Samvardhana Motherson Group, an auto parts manufacturer.

David Siang Hai Teoh is an Australian businessman. Until March 26, 2021, he was the executive chairman of TPG, a company he founded with his Taiwanese wife Vicky in 1992 after emigrating from Malaysia in 1986. He is also the founder and executive chairman of Tuas Limited, who owns Simba Telecom, a telecommunications company in Singapore.

Maurice Alter is an Australian billionaire property developer.

Brett Blundy is an Australian billionaire businessman. He is the founder and former chairman of BB Retail Capital, which owns companies such as Sanity Entertainment, Bras N Things, and Aventus Property Group. He is part-owner of BridgeClimb Sydney, one of Australia's biggest tourist attractions.

Manny Stul is an Australian billionaire, and the CEO of Moose Toys, a company he took over in 2000, with sales subsequently increased by over 7,000%.

John Van Lieshout is an Australian billionaire, the founder and former owner of the Amart Furniture store chain.

Jamuna Gurung is an Australian businesswomen of Nepalese origin, and is executive director and managing director of the Melbourne Institute of Technology, in Victoria, Australia, which she co-founded with her husband, Shesh Ghale.

Salvatore "Sam" Tarascio is an Italian-born Australian billionaire businessman. Tarascio owns a portfolio of commercial and industrial real estate across Melbourne, including a business park, two distribution sites, a large shopping mall and a market. In 1972 Tarascio founded Salta Properties, a privately owned company, after buying swampland and constructing a warehouse for Hoechst. Prior to entering the property market, Tarascio worked in pharmaceutical sales.

Leonard Hasting "Len" Ainsworth is an Australian businessman, most widely known for founding Aristocrat Leisure, one of the world's largest gambling-machine companies. He founded the company in 1953, and remained active until 1994; and later founded Ainsworth Gaming Technology, and was an executive director until 2019.

Judith Neilson is an Australian businesswoman and philanthropist with a passion for visual arts. Neilson is the co-founder of the White Rabbit Gallery in Sydney. She is a significant shareholder in Platinum Asset Management, a company co-founded by her former husband, Kerr Neilson.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Sharp, Annette (10 August 2013). "Gretel Packer steps out with her boys". Daily Telegraph . Australia. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Baby boy for Gretel Packer". The Sydney Morning Herald. AAP. 29 January 2006. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
  3. 1 2 Hornery, Andrew (5 June 2020). "Gretel Packer packs artistic punch with philanthropic ways". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  4. ↑ Albert, Jane (2 May 2019). "The 5 wealthy women who championed Sydney Modern". The Australian Financial Review . Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  5. ↑ Kitney, Damon (12 October 2018). "The ties that bind" . The Australian . Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  6. ↑ "Gretel Packer". Forbes. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  7. ↑ "Art Gallery of NSW Board of Trustees". About us. Art Gallery of New South Wales. n.d. Archived from the original on 4 December 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  8. 1 2 Bailey, Michael; Sprague, Julie-anne (26 May 2023). "The 200 richest people in Australia revealed". Australian Financial Review . Retrieved 6 June 2023.
  9. 1 2 "2019 Australia's 50 Richest". Forbes Asia. January 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  10. ↑ Stensholt, John, ed. (25 May 2017). "Financial Review Rich List 2017". The Australian Financial Review . Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  11. ↑ Mayne, Stephen (26 May 2017). "Mayne's take: The top 25 Australian billionaires, as claimed by Fairfax". Crikey . Private Media. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  12. ↑ "Australia's Richest 2017: Country's Wealthiest Continue Mining For Dollars". Forbes Asia. 1 November 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  13. ↑ Stensholt, John, ed. (25 May 2018). "2018 AFR Rich List: Who are Australia's richest people?". The Australian Financial Review . Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  14. ↑ Bailey, Michael (30 May 2019). "Australia's 200 richest people revealed". The Australian Financial Review . Nine Publishing. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  15. ↑ Bailey, Michael; Sprague, Julie-anne (30 October 2020). "The full list: Australia's wealthiest 200 revealed" . The Australian Financial Review . Nine Publishing. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  16. ↑ Bailey, Michael; Sprague, Julie-anne (27 May 2021). "The 200 richest people in Australia revealed". Australian Financial Review . Retrieved 28 May 2021.


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.