Related Research Articles
Dilip Shanghvi is an Indian billionaire businessman. As the founder of Sun Pharmaceuticals, he is one of the country's richest people. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honor of the Padma Shri in 2016. India Today magazine ranked him 8th in India's most powerful people of 2017 list.
Ivan Glasenberg is a South African business executive and former chief executive officer of Glencore, one of the world's largest commodity trading and mining companies. He was the company's CEO from 2002 to 2021. Glasenberg has or had citizenship of South Africa and Australia. He became a Swiss citizen in 2011. He is also on the board of mining company Minara Resources Ltd.
Peter Löscher is an Austrian manager who was the CEO of Siemens from 2007 until 2013. As of 2017, Löscher remains as the only CEO to be hired from outside the conglomerate in the 170-year history of Siemens. Before joining Siemens, he worked as president for Global Human Health at global pharmaceutical company Merck & Co.
Helmut Brenner was an Austrian ethnomusicologist.
Randal J. Kirk is an American billionaire businessman and investor in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Kirk was the chairman and chief executive officer of Intrexon, a biotechnology company, until 2020. Kirk started as a lawyer, but is best known for his investments in pharmaceutical and biotech companies. In addition to high-profile sales of New River Pharmaceuticals, and Clinical Data, Kirk founded investment firm Third Security, and has held board seats with biotech companies, such as Scios. As of May 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$1.4 billion.
Klaus-Michael Kühne is a German billionaire businessman. In October 2021, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated Kühne's net worth to be US$36.2 billion, making him the richest person in Germany. He is the honorary chairman and majority owner (53.3%) of the international transport company Kühne + Nagel, co-founded by his grandfather, August Kühne (1855–1932).
John M. Gregory is an American businessman. He was former CEO of King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and resides in Bristol, Tennessee. In addition to founding King Pharmaceuticals in 1993, Gregory has founded several other notable business ventures including SJ Strategic Investments and Leitner Pharmaceuticals. Gregory has also made major investment outside of the pharmaceutical industry, such as his investments within the privately held United Coal Company located in southwest Virginia and Adams Golf with U.S. corporate offices in Texas. Most recently, Gregory, along with other family members, began Gregory Pharmaceutical Holdings Inc. which include pharmaceutical contract manufacturing company, UPM Pharmaceuticals, and NFI Consumer Products which includes the Blue-Emu brand of products.
Hans Wolfgang Reitzle is a German business executive.
Heinz Friedrich Ruppert Riesenhuber is a German politician (CDU) who served as Minister of Scientific Research under Chancellor Helmut Kohl from 1982 to 1993.
Andritz AG is an international technology group, offering plants, equipment, systems and services for various industries. The group's headquarters are in Graz, Austria. The group gets its name from the district of Andritz in which it is located and is listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange.
The Cargill family, also known as the Cargill-MacMillan family, refers to the multi-generational descendants of the American business executive William Wallace Cargill and his son-in-law John H. MacMillan Sr. The Cargill-MacMillan family is the fourth-wealthiest family in America. Descendants of Cargill and MacMillan have owned common equity in the "agribusiness giant" Cargill Inc, one of the largest privately owned corporations in the United States, for over 140 years. William Cargill founded the Cargill company as an Iowa grain storage business in 1865, during the post–Civil War period, and was its CEO for almost 40 years. Following the death of William Cargill in 1909, his son-in-law John MacMillan steered the company out of a debt crisis and into stability. The two branches of the family—the MacMillans and the Cargills—continue to be represented on the board of directors of Cargill Incorporated. The most recent family members appointed to the board are fifth generation.
VA Tech Wabag Ltd. is an Indian multinational company with headquarters in Chennai. Founded in Breslau in 1924, the company is focussed on desalination and water treatment for municipal and industrial users. The company has completed more than 6000 projects and is present across more than 30 countries..
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited is an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Mumbai, India.
Sándor Csányi is a Hungarian billionaire businessman and banker. He is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of OTP Bank Group, one of the largest financial groups in the CEE Region and the largest bank in Hungary. He is a shareholder and board member of the Hungarian-based multinational oil and gas company, MOL Group. He owns Bonafarm, the holding company of a Hungarian agricultural and food manufacture group. With an estimated wealth of 393,4 billion forint as of 2022, he is according to Forbes, the wealthiest person in Hungary, and the country's first billionaire.
Jeffrey Kang, or Kang Jingwei, is a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of the Shenzhen-based Cogobuy Group, the largest corporate procurement e-commerce platform for IC components in China with worldwide sales and distribution.
Xu Jingren was the chairman and president of Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group, National People's Congress delegate and honorary vice-minister in China's Ministry of Health. Xu had been an outspoken research leader in China, where he had frequently called for labor reform and business regulation. As of 2018, his estimated net worth was USD$4.6 billion, one of four family members to be listed among the world's wealthiest. He died on 12 July 2021.
Reinold Geiger is an Austrian billionaire, and the chairman and executive director of French cosmetics retailer L'Occitane en Provence. On the 2023 Forbes list, he was the 9th richest Austrian with a net worth of US$ 1.4 billion.
Anton Paar Group AG is an Austrian company based in Graz. It is owned by the charitable Santner Private Foundation with two foundation purposes: Promotion of non-profit science and research as well as measures to combat addiction problems.
Georg Stumpf is an Austrian real estate developer and investor. In 1994, he founded the Stumpf Group.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "The World's Billionaires: Wolfgang Leitner". Forbes. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- 1 2 3 "Wolfgang Leitner". munzinger.de. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
- 1 2 3 Luisa Kroll (20 November 2012). "Son Of A Machine Fitter Is New Austrian Billionaire". forbes.com. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
- 1 2 Thomas Jäkle. "Andritz – Global Player im Anlagenbau für Kraftwerke, Automobil, Zellstoff und Kläranlagen aus Graz". trend.at. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ↑ "Andritz: Leitner geht nach 27 Jahren als Chef". steiermark.orf.at. 30 July 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ↑ "Forbes Billionaires 2024". forbes.com. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ↑ Werner Bühringer (24 January 2007). "Lowe GGK für den "trend"-Mann des Jahres". derstandard.at. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ↑ Barbara Gigler (26 November 2015). "TU Graz ehrt Trio". pressearchiv.tugraz.at. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ↑ Mario Lugger (11 January 2024). "Wolfgang Leitner mit Erzherzog-Johann-Award ausgezeichnet". ots.at. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
  | This business-related Austrian biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |