Ivan Glasenberg

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Ivan Glasenberg (2013)

Ivan Glasenberg (born January 7, 1957 in Johannesburg ) is a South African - Australian - Swiss entrepreneur and manager . At the end of 2014, he was the richest South African with a fortune equivalent to five billion euros .

Life

Glasenberg studied finance at Witwatersrand University and the University of Southern California . He has been with Glencore since 1984 and has been its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) since 2002. He worked for the company in Australia and Hong Kong, among others . In 2012/2013 the largest shareholder in Glencore succeeded in merging with Xstrata to form Glencore Xstrata . The group thus became the fourth largest producer of raw materials.

Glasenberg is married and has a daughter (* 1989) and a son (* 1994). He is a native of South Africa . His father, Samuel, was a Lithuanian-Jewish baggage manufacturer and importer who later emigrated.

He took Australian citizenship in the late 1980s, when he lived in Australia for two years, and Swiss citizenship in 2011.

Since 1994 he has lived in Rüschlikon in the canton of Zurich , where he is also entitled to live .

capital

In 2014, the Swiss business magazine Bilanz estimated his fortune at 5.5 billion Swiss francs .

On the Forbes list in 2018 his assets with about 7 billion US dollars specified. This puts Ivan Glasenberg in 5th place in Switzerland and 315th on Forbes' list of the richest people in the world.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Stefan Lüscher: The richest trader in the world. In: Bilanz 8/2011 from May 1, 2011
  2. a b Helen Pidd, Dan Glaister, David Smith, Ian Cobain: The rise of Glencore, the biggest company you've never heard of . The Guardian . May 19, 2011. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
  3. bilanz.ch: The big bluff
  4. Danny Fortsoo: Business person of the year: King of deals takes the crown. thesundaytimes.co.uk, December 23, 2012, accessed December 27, 2012
  5. Stefan Kaiser: Ivan Glasenberg becomes the most powerful dealer. spiegel.de from October 1, 2012, accessed on December 27, 2012
  6. ^ Andrew Heathcote: Passport power. ( Memento from July 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: BRW from 24./25. May 2011, accessed on May 7, 2013
  7. Martin Spieler : "Ultimately it makes no difference whether your wealth is one billion or six" Interview in: SonntagsZeitung on May 5, 2013.
  8. Tagesanzeiger: Glasenberg is the second richest in the canton
  9. The 300 richest 2014: 24th place Ivan Glasenberg. In: Bilanz , accessed on September 4, 2015
  10. ^ Profiles: Ivan Glasenberg . Forbes . Retrieved January 23, 2018.