Businesspersons
Li Hejun Net Worth
Li Hejun was born in 1967, in Heyuan, Guangdong China. He is best known for being the chairman of the energy company Hanergy. Li is rated by Forbes magazine in 2015 as the 31st richest person in the world, and one of the top three richest people in China, argued depending on the variable share prices of the interests of the respective competitors.
Li Hejun Net Worth $21 Billion
So just how rich is Li Hejun? Forbes estimates that Li’s current net worth exceeds $21 billion, the majority of his wealth having been generated through his investment in the Hanergy company.
Li Hejun was educated at Beijing Jiaotong University-Baige Training Center, and then began his career in business by earning considerable money in the electronics trade in Beijing area. Li utilised these funds to eventually rise to prominence in the power industry. His rise to billionaire status is also the story of Hanergy, a company he founded in 1994 and which is still privately run, and which is now a multinational but headquartered in Beijing. The company has always concentrated on renewable energy sources, being initially involved in hydro-power. Subsequently the company took on the development of solar power on a large scale, beginning in the early years of the 21st century. It is now the world’s largest thin-film solar power company. Of course, Li Hejun’s net worth grew consistently with the success of his company.
At this point, Li Hejun was ready to expand internationally. In 2012, Hanergy bought Miasole in the USA for $30 million, and then acquired the German company Solibro, a subsidiary of Q-Cells. The conglomerate continued to grow with the purchase of Global Solar Energy in the USA, and in 2014 another US company, Alta Devices.
Hanergy’s latest expansion has been into India, where a subsidiary was established in late 2014, but meantime Li Hejun’s home country has not been forgotten, and Hanergy now runs one of the world’s largest privately owned hydropower plants, in western China’s Yunnan Province.
A significant appreciation of Li Hejun’s and Hanergy’s success is that the company has been listed in the MIT Technology Review at number 23 of the top 50 smartest companies in the world, which measures not only the commercial success of a company, but also the innovativeness and integrity of its operations. The Review stated that “the Chinese energy company is snapping up advanced solar technologies at fire-sale prices.
Li Hejun has also recently become an author, publishing a book in 2014 entitled “China’s New Energy Revolution.” Overall, there seems no reason to suppose that Li Hejun’s net worth will stop growing any time soon, given his apparent golden touch in Hanergy’s continued expansion and innovation in the renewable power industry around the world, particularly in respect of China and the problem of smog in the cities, and the fact that Li Hejun is still only 48 years old.
In his private life, Li Hejun is married and has one son.
Businesspersons
Charles Saatchi Net Worth
Charles Saatchi is one of the richest and best known businessmen in the world and one of many millionaires. Saatchi’s overall net worth has been stated to be $100 million for 2014. Charles Saatchi was born in Baghdad, Iraq, but later had to move together with his family to London, UK to avoid the persecution of Jews in his home country. He was the second son in the family of four kids. As a teenager Charles was really interested in American pop culture and studied at the London College of Communication. After graduation he began his professional career as a copywriter working for “Benton & Bowles” and later started to work in tandem with an art director, Ross Cramer, and together they formed their own company called “CramerSaatchi”.
Charles Saatchi Net Worth $100 Million
They were successful and took-on employees John Hegarty and Heremy Sinclair, but true success came to Charles later. In 1970 Charles Saatchi started his business together with brother Maurice: they established “Saatchi & Saatchi” agency which had become the largest advertising agency in the world by the mid-80’s with just a huge number of high-profile clients like UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and British Airways. However, Charles and Maurice left the agency and together founded another one called “M&C Saatchi”. They took many of their important clients with them, and one of these was British Airways. Nowadays, thanks to his prosperous business, Charles Saatchi has a net worth of $100 million dollars.
To the rest of the world Saatchi is also known as one of the most famous modern art collectors. He purchased his first art work in 1969 – by Sol LeWitt, a minimalist from New York. His passion for paintings only grew, and in 2009 he even published the book “My Name Is Charles Saatchi And I Am An Artoholic” wherein the author answered many questions and even gave some advice about collectibles. But the book didn’t become as popular as Saatchi expected, so the author asked his personal assistant to buy a huge number of books to help his work hit some positions in bestseller charts. Later in 2009 Saatchi appeared on the BBC program “School of Saatchi” and gave many young artists a perfect opportunity to show their talent and showcase artworks: some artists even painted portraits of Saatchi himself. In July 2010 Charles Saatchi donated his Saatchi Gallery to the British public together with 200 works of art.
Saatchi’s personal life has never been very public, but he married his first wife in 1973. He had met Doris Lockhart Dibley in 1965 while working for “Benton & Bowes”. The couple lived together for the six years before marrying, but divorced in 1990. Saatchi’s second wife was Kay Hartenstein to whom he was married from 1990-2001, and they even had a daughter together. Then Saatchi married for the third time in 2003, to English journalist, food writer, gourmet and television personality Nigella Lawson, but after public disagreements, were divorced 2013.
Businesspersons
Alexis Ohanian Net Worth
Alexis Ohanian was born on 24 April 1983 in New York City USA, of Armenian and German heritage. He is perhaps best known as a co-founder of the social news and networking website Reddit. He has also helped in launching the online travel company Hipmunk and created Breadpig, a company which sells “geeky” merchandise and gives a lot of its profit to charities.
So how rich is Alexis Ohanian? Sources estimate his current net worth to be $4 million. Most of his wealth has been accumulated by working on Reddit and Breadpig.
Alexis Ohanian Net Worth $4 Million
Alex Ohanian studied at the University of Virginia and after graduating in 2005 he, together with Aaron Swartz and Steve Huffman created Reddit. The company was bought by Conde Nast Publications, but Ohanian still had great influence as one of the people in Reddit’s Board of Directors. Of course, Alexis’ net worth rose significantly.
Alexis created another company, with the strange name Breadpig in 2007. This company mostly concentrates on selling “geeky” merchandise and has an unusual approach to business, claiming to be an “uncorporation”, which means that they try to use the earned money to support charities and other projects. Alexis decided to leave the Reddit’s team in 2009. A year later Ohanian became an advisor to the Hipmunk website and helped to launch it.
Apart from being known as a businessman leading great internet websites which have built most of his net worth, Ohanian is also known as a social activist. Between 2010 and 2012, the Internet users were threatened by the SOPA (Stop Internet Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act). Ohanian was an outspoken activist against these acts and was one of the key people who helped to vote down these bills. After these events, Ohanian was chosen as the first on The Daily Dot’s list of “Most influential activists of 2012”. While these social acts did not necessarily help to directly raise his net worth, they certainly helped to raise Ohanian’s popularity and earned him a lot of fans on the Internet.
In 2013, Ohanian published his first book, entitled “Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed” which made it to #5 on the Hardcover Business best sellers list in the Wall Street Journal. In the same year, Ohanian started his own web series, called “Small Empires with Alexis Ohanian”.
Ohanian has also been a part of two radio podcast shows: NYRD Radio in 2014 and Upvoted which started in 2015, and is strongly related to Reddit as it examines some of the stories found on that website. All of these endeavors have helped to increase Ohanian’s net worth.
In his personal life, Alexis Ohanian is not married yet. During the time-off from his businesses and projects, Alexis speaks at lectures and conferences in various universities, also on some of the most influential companies such as Google, Kraft, Johnson & Johnson and others.
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