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163. NICK CAPORELLA 163. ROBERT SMITH has given more than $1 billion to char- deal that put Sutton on the map. He
ity. One of his most recent pledges:
now owns or co-owns at least 90 retail
$4.4 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: * $4.4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: * $20 million to Success Academy Char- properties in New York City.
SOURCE: BEVERAGES SOURCE: PRIVATE EQUITY ter Schools. He is also a big donor to
AGE: 82 RESIDENCE: PLANTATION, FL AGE: 55 RESIDENCE: AUSTIN, TX
the Environmental Defense Fund and
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A. PHILANTHROPY SCORE: sits on its board. His Robertson Lodg- 172. JEREMY JACOBS
The National Beverage founder, Smith’s private equity firm Vista Equi- es owns 3 luxury resorts in New Zea- $4.2 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: %
who grew his little-known company ty Partners focuses exclusively on soft- land and plans to purchase 84 more SOURCE: FOOD SERVICE
into a $5.4 billion (market cap) firm ware deals, an area that not too long acres on which to build a new lodge. AGE: 78
RESIDENCE: EAST AURORA, NY
on the back of LaCroix sparkling ago was shunned by private equity.
water drinks, was sued for sexu- Vista has acquired more than 200 soft- PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
al harassment by 2 former employ- ware companies in the last 8 years and 168. JEFF SUTTON Jacobs owns $3 billion (revenue) food-
ees. Caporella has denied the alle- now manages $31 billion. Its funds $4.3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: * service giant Delaware North, found-
gations, and both cases were settled have posted annualized returns of 22% SOURCE: REAL ESTATE ed by his father in 1915. It serves half
in 2018. Caporella worked as a con- since he launched the firm 18 years AGE: 58 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY a billion guests a year at such places
tractor after high school and was ago. The nation’s wealthiest African- PHILANTHROPY SCORE: as the Grand Canyon and London’s
the CEO of telecom and cable firm American, he is chairman of Carnegie Landlord to such luxury brands as Heathrow airport. He owns the Bos-
Burnup & Sims before starting Na- Hall and the Robert F. Kennedy Hu- Armani and Dolce & Gabbana, Sut- ton Bruins hockey team. He has do-
tional Beverage in 1985. man Rights organization. ton recently made news with deals nated $50 million to his alma mater,
with sportswear brands. First he lured the University of Buffalo, including
163. RANDALL ROLLINS 168. STEPHEN BISCIOTTI Nike town from a Donald Trump (No. $30 million for the school of medicine.
259) building to his own space in mid-
$4.4 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: # $4.3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: * town Manhattan in late 2016. Then in
SOURCE: PEST CONTROL SOURCE: STAFFING, BALTIMORE May Sutton signed on Puma to a mid- 172. RUPERT
AGE: 86 RESIDENCE: ATLANTA RAVENS town location where the famed Amer- JOHNSON JR.
AGE: 58 RESIDENCE: MILLERSVILLE, MD
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: ican Girl store had been for nearly 15
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: $4.2 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: $
Rollins is chairman of pest-control years. Indeed, securing the doll retail- SOURCE: MONEY MANAGEMENT
conglomerate Rollins Inc., where his Bisciotti cofounded $12.3 billion er to a lease in 2002 is considered the AGE: 78 RESIDENCE: BURLINGAME, CA
brother Gary (No.153) is CEO. This (sales) Allegis Group, one of the PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
year the $1.7 billion (revenues) com- world’s largest private staffing firms, in The second-largest shareholder of
pany acquired 3 pest-control compa- 1983 with his cousin Jim Davis (No. Franklin Resources, after his half-
nies in the U.K. and one in Singapore 280). Revenues were up 12% in 2017. brother Charles (No. 134), Rupert
for a total of $55 million. He invested in the Baltimore Ravens remains vice-chair of the firm. He
in 2000 and bought the rest in 2004;
the team has since won 2 Super Bowls. pledged $100 million in 2008 to his
163. JOHN SALL He sits on the board of trustees for alma mater, Washington and Lee Uni-
$4.4 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: * Catholic Charities of Baltimore. versity.
SOURCE: SOFTWARE
AGE: 70 RESIDENCE: CARY, NC 172. ROSS PEROT
168. ISAAC PERLMUTTER
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
$4.2 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: )
Sall cofounded business- analytics $4.3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ) SOURCE: COMPUTER SERVICES, REAL
company SAS with James Good- SOURCE: MARVEL COMICS ESTATE
AGE: 75 RESIDENCE: PALM BEACH, FL
night in 1976. The 2 met in the sta- AGE: 88 RESIDENCE: DALLAS
tistics department at North Caro- PHILANTHROPY SCORE: PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
lina State University while Sall was The famously private chairman of Dis- His greatest payday—selling Electron-
in graduate school. Their company’s ney subsidiary Marvel Entertainment ic Data Systems to GM for $1.5 bil-
software is used by 83,000 compa- has fallen under the spotlight, but the lion in cash—was 30-plus years ago.
nies, governments and universities attention has nothing to do with Spi- He scored another $800 million when
in 146 countries. der-Man or Captain America. A re- Dell bought Perot Systems in 2009.
cent report by ProPublica dubbed 172. FRANK “The world wants things done, not ex-
Perlmutter, a veteran of the Israeli VANDERSLOOT cuses. One thing done well is worth a
163. RICHARD SCHULZE army, a “shadow ruler” of the Depart-
$4.2 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ) million good excuses.”
$4.4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: * ment of Veterans Affairs, an unoffi- SOURCE: NUTRITION & WELLNESS
SOURCE: BEST BUY cial role he got through his Mar-a-La- PRODUCTS
AGE: 77 go buddy President Trump. It alleges AGE: 70 RESIDENCE: IDAHO FALLS, ID 172. THOMAS PRITZKER
RESIDENCE: BONITA SPRINGS, FL
that Perlmutter and 2 others have been PHILANTHROPY SCORE: $4.2 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: $
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: shaping VA policy behind the scenes, Sales of VanderSloot’s wellness jugger- SOURCE: HOTELS, INVESTMENTS
Best Buy has figured out a way to despite having no official role. Perl- naut, Melaleuca, hit $2 billion in 2017, AGE: 68 RESIDENCE: CHICAGO
compete against Amazon. In the crit- mutter, in a response, says he gained up 14% from the prior year. Now the PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
ical holiday season in 2017, its same- no financial benefit through helping. richest man in Idaho, VanderSloot The Hyatt Hotels chairman is the
store sales jumped 9%, thanks in started saving for college at age 12, only one of the 11 Pritzker billion-
part to its in-home consultants. The the same year he took over his family aires with an executive role at the
stock is up 45% in the past year and 168. JULIAN farm while his father toiled as a rail- company his late father, Jay, built. He
founder Schulze’s fortune by $1 bil- ROBERTSON road laborer. He ultimately graduated is vice president of the family’s Pritz-
lion. He hasn’t had a day-to-day role from Brigham Young University, ker Foundation, which focuses on
at the company in 6 years but is still a $4.3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: * where he has contributed to 3 build- Chicago-based causes and has given
SOURCE: HEDGE FUNDS
large shareholder. In 2013 Schulze an- AGE: 86 ing projects and, in conjunction with at least $50 million to the Universi-
nounced plans to expand his fami- RESIDENCE: LOCUST VALLEY, NY BYU Athletics, has funded hospitali- ty of Chicago. The $413 million (net
ly foundation from $100 million to $1 PHILANTHROPY SCORE: ty kits for opposing football and bas- assets) foundation also distributes
billion. As of December 2016 its assets The founder of Tiger Management, ketball teams. tens of millions to the family’s indi-
were $226 million. who closed his hedge fund in 2000, vidual foundations.
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