He stopped working for the firm several years earlier. Also have a large but little known Sydney property portfolio.ĭuncan Andrews: made his name running the Australian Ratings credit assessment business in the 1980s but then made his second pile developing Victorian golf courses such as Thirteenth Beach near Barwon Heads and The Dunes on the Mornington Peninsula.īill Andrews: one of the three major shareholders who profited from the $57 million purchase of Brisbane-based plaintiff law firm Trilby Misso by Slater & Gordon for an eye-popping $57 million in 2010. Tim Anderson: founder and co-director of Madman, a DVD distribution business which was sold in 2006 for $34.5 million to Funtastic which has since struggled.Īndrews family: big players in the Sydney meat industry and now major exporters.
The BRW claimed $420 million in 2010.Ĭhris & Virginia Anderson: celebrities in their home country of New Zealand, they run property company Javica and made the BRW Young Rich list with an estimated wealth of more than $70 million. Peter Anastasiou: the executive chairman of listed bio-tech company Ummuron in 2020 reportedly paid almost $10 million for a sprawling 33ha estate on Phillip Island in Victoria.Īnderson family: owning a bicycle repair shop in the 1950s, the Brisbane-based family have since built their wealth through property and manufacturing, in particular, GWA international – makers of taps, sinks, and a range of household products. The company was sold in 2006 and while Nicholas started a haircare company, Amoroso diversified into fashion and publishing. Sonia Amoroso & Peter Nicholas: founded Cat Media, a pharmaceutical and cosmetic company using natural products. Kenneth Ambrecht : former non-executive director of Fortescue Metals who owned 750,000 shares and served for 9 years until 2012. The Australian valued at $1.02 billion in 2019. Spiros Alysandratos: arriving from Greece in 1959, at age 20 he opened his first travel agency which grew into Consolidated Travel - Australia's largest privately owned distributor of airline products. The Australian valued him at $2.851 billion in 2019, whilst The AFR valued him at $2.33 billion. Maurice Alter: migrated to Melbourne from Poland in the 1950s and is now a billionaire courtesy of a burgeoning property empire which started with two shops and a bank building in Kew and extended to shopping centres such as Forest Hill Chase (since sold) and Epping Plaza. When he died, the company, which included Softwoods Holdings and Timber Holdings Tasmania was taken over by CSR. His stake was worth about $80 million on listing, but made a wise decision to sell-down before John Brumby's Victorian pokies licence bombshell.Īlstergren family: it all began with Edvaad Alstergren who emigrated to Tasmania from Norway, married an Australian, Marjorie, had seven children and made a fortune in timber. William Adams: formerly the largest shareholder in Tattersall's and direct descendant of founder George Adams' brother who sat on the board initially after the float. Graduated in law and computer science graduate from the University of Joined Canva in July 2012 and previously worked in the Google Maps team.
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BRW has claimed he's worth more than $200 million.Ĭameron Adams: Canva's chief product officer who celebrated Graham Acton: controls the Acton Land & Cattle Company which shelled out $37 million to pick up the Carpentaria and Lyndhurst properties out of the break-up of AMP's old Stanbroke Pastoral empire in 2004. Mark Ackroyd: high school dropout who is based out of Brisbane and reportedly sold his machine hire company to Japan's Mitsui for $150 million several years ago.