BlackRock wants to take
over the world, and from her
Alpine corner of it, Mirjam
Staub-Bisang is leading
the $85 billion money
manager’s eff orts in Swit-
zerland, focused partly on
sustainable investments like
Geberit and Umicore.GERMANY
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
A new list of Central
America’s most creative
people featured artists
including Romeo Santos,
who drew 80,000 people
to MetLife Stadium in
New Jersey last year.30
FORBES.COM MARCH 20 20FRONTRUNNERAcross the planet, these 34 licensed
editions span fi ve continents,
27 languages and 24 time zones.
They all share the same mission:
to celebrate entrepreneurial
capitalism in all its guises.GEORGIA
INDONESIA
Leblon Delienne, a maker
of high-end pop-art sculp-
tures, has teamed up with
Disney to turn out a line of
Mickey Mouse fi gurines.FRANCE
Liu Erhai ranks among China’s top VCs thanks to his invest-
ment in Luckin Coff ee, which is batt ling Starbucks there.CHINA
ANGOLA BOLIVIA
CZECH REPUBLIC CYPRUS
INDIA
GREECE
Aft er selling his truck
company, Hungarian
industrialist György
Wáberer has invested
$ 10 million in a new
private clinic, Wáberer
Medical Center.HUNGARY
Moshe BenBassat, a
college professor, was an
early AI evangelist—and
has now sold his fi rm,
ClickSoft ware, to Sales-
force for $ 1 .4 billion.ISRAEL
Forbes Georgia made a
statement of support for
prominent doctor Vazha
Gaprindashvili by depicting
him on its January cover;
he was detained for 49
days in South Ossetia,
a breakaway region of
the country.ARGENTINA
WORLD
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More than 2.5 million
people a month pass
through Farmacity’s stores,
which are run by Sebastian
Miranda. The company,
founded in 1997, has
300 locations and is the
nation’s biggest employer
of pharmacists.Olive oil estate, anyone?
Greek property is becoming
an increasingly popular
investment amid govern-
ment incentives to spark
the real estate industry.Angola is trying to solve
an electricity crisis partly
by turning to a stackable
batt ery made by Swiss-
based Power-Blox.For over 30 years, Carlos
Suárez Bello has owned
and operated a popular
Italian joint, Michelangelo,
in Santa Cruz, Bolivia’s big-
gest city. Now he’s started
fast-food restaurant
TutiCapa Pasta y Pizza.A recent Forbes Czech
special issue devoted to
health care put a spot-
light on entrepreneurs
including Czech neuro-
scientist Martin Tolar,
whose Boston-based
Alzheon is working on an
Alzheimer’s treatment.To speed the Bank of
Cyprus’ stalled recovery
from the 2013 fi nancial
crisis, new CEO Panicos
Nicolaou is slicing away
bad loans from the insti-
tution’s balance sheet—
and looking into how it
might digitize.Cricket isn’t the only
game in India, where
interest in Olympic
sports like shooting,
wrestling and boxing
is on the rise—the latt erA new report from Google, Bain & Co. and the Singapore
state investment fi rm Temasek lists Indonesia as the largest
and fastest-growing digital economy in Southeast Asia,
rising fourfold since 20 15 to $ 40 billion in 2019.BRAZIL
Brazilian startup Fix It has
an innovative take on an
old medical product: It
makes light, 3D-printed,
biodegradable braces
to treat injuries such as
broken bones.