275= £ 450 m £ 50 m ▲
WILLIAM BOLLINGER
Hedge fundBollinger, 61, a former Goldman Sachs analyst, co-founded
London-based Egerton Capital hedge fund with John Armitage
(qv). Although now retired, the Irishman has a 50% stake in its
parent. Profits rose to £135.8m in 2015-16. 2016: £400m, 280=275= £ 450 m £ 18 m ▲
MARTIN FRANKLIN
Finance and foodFranklin’s father, Sir Roland, worked on takeovers with Sir James
Goldsmith, and Franklin, 52, plied a similar trade at Rothschilds.
His stake was valued at £352m when he sold the consumer
goods group Jarden in December 2015. 2016: £432m, 264=275= £ 450 m No change ■
FELIX GROVIT
Foreign exchange 2016: £450m, 255=275= £ 450 m £ 50 m▼
TIM AND KIT KEMP
Hotels 2016: £500m, 228=Relative values, page 88275= £ 450 m No change ■
AMIT AND MEETA PATEL
PharmaceuticalsPatel, 42, and his sister Meeta, 43, founded Ruislip-based Auden
Mckenzie, which holds more than 70 pharmaceutical product
licences sold in the UK and across Europe, and was acquired by
Dublin rival Actavis in 2015 for £306m. 2016: £450m, 255=275= £ 450 m No change ■
GAUTAM THAPAR AND FAMILY
Industry 2016: £450m, 255=282 £ 440 m £ 25 m ▲
SIMON FULLER
EntertainmentDavid Beckham (qv) and Sir Andy Murray are helping make a
fortune for Pop Idol creator Fuller. Profits at the Cyprus-born
entrepreneur’s management firm, XIX Entertainment, soared
sevenfold to £10.9m in 2015. Last year Hastings-raised Fuller, 57,
sold a Beverly Hills mansion for $14.6m. 2016: £415m, 275283 £ 436 m £ 36 m ▲
VERNON AND SHIRLEY HILL
FinanceUS-born Hill, 71, and his wife, Shirley, set up Metro Bank. Hill
started the similar Commerce Bancorp business in America
aged 27 and made £285m when it was sold. Metro Bank floated
in March 2016 and is valued at £2.92bn. 2016: £400m, 280=284 £ 432 m £ 232 m ▲
PETER STEPHENSON AND FAMILY
Marine servicesStephenson, 70 on Thursday, is investing in a £450m marine
energy park on the south bank of the Humber estuary. H is
Teesside-based Able UK decommissions ships, operates ports
and develops land. Its parent made a £14.3m profit in 2015. We
value it on its net assets of £432m. 2016: £200m, 515=285 £ 427 m £ 27 m ▲
NICK WHEELER AND CHRISSIE RUCKER
Retailing See In numbers, rightRich List 2017 251-500
Dennis’s 35-year love affair with the McLaren Formula
One racing team ended in acrimony last November. The
former chairman and chief executive wanted to sell the
motor sport business to a Chinese consortium for £1.6bn
but other shareholders blocked the move and he was
forced to step down.
Dennis, 69, joined F1 as an apprentice mechanic and
took the reins at McLaren in 1981, mentoring world
champions Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, Mika
Hakkinen and Lewis Hamilton (qv).
He would still have been licking his wounds from the
McLaren spat when he and David Beckham (qv) had a
run-in over seating at a New Year’s Eve show in the
exclusive Maldives holiday resort of Amilla Fushi. The
former England football captain and guests were there
to watch his wife, Victoria, and then 11-year-old son Cruz
sing. Dennis and an entourage of 30 reportedly spilt over
from their own table allocation into the area that
Beckham had reserved for his family and that of chef
Gordon Ramsay. When asked by Beckham’s staff to
move, Dennis is said to have declared: “I’ve paid the most
money on the island, I deserve to sit here.” Peace was
declared the next day when Dennis apologised.
His stake in Woking-based McLaren is worth £400m
on the back of the abortive £1.6bn Chinese valuation. He
is chairman of McLaren Automotive, which makes
high-performance sports cars such as the £866,000
McLaren P1 and showed sharply higher net assets of
£335m in 2015. We add £50m for his holding there and
he also has other interests. 2016: £300m, 350=275= £ 450 m £ 150 m ▲
RON DENNIS
Motor racing“Making money is a
peripheral goal for me
— always has been,
always will be”
SCREEN TIME:
JOHN COULTER AND
ANN JONES
Entry 286=, £425mSIMON FULLER
Entry 282, £440m“Building
a great
business
is about
building a
great brand.
We’re out
to disrupt
the big-fi ve
banking
system”
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