Nicky-Oppenheimer

Nicky Oppenheimer – R93.7 Billion ($6.8 Billion / €6.21 Billion)

Born Nicholas Oppenheimer is a the wealthiest man in South Africa. Born the son of wealthy mining tycoon Harry Oppenheimer, Nicky (Nicholas) Oppenheimer would go on to continue the family business with an emphasis on education and multiply his family’s billions.

Nicky Oppenheimer joined the London based Anglo American (worlds largest platinum mining coming and a company his father was Chairman of the Board of Directors) in 1968 and was quickly promoted to director in 1974. Like his grandfather and father before him Nicholas Oppenheimer would become Chairman of De Beers Group (once the worlds largest diamond producer) in 1985.

His family fortune controlled a 40% stake in the company. According to Bloomberg Oppenheimer, in what some might consider a conflict of interest, sold his 40% interest in De Beers to Anglo American (a company in which he was on the board of directors) for $5.1 billion.

Date of Birth: June 1945
Education: Oxford
Net Worth: R93.7 Billion (source: Forbes)
Companies: Anglo American / De Beers