Portrait of Alan Zekelman

Rank #2246

Alan Zekelman

Net worth $1.9B

Steel · Canada

Born
Oct 01, 1962
Age
63
Source
Steel
Residence
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Citizenship
Canada
Marital status
Children
0
Education
Master of Science, University of Rochester; Bachelor of Commerce, University of Toronto

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Alan Zekelman owns a stake in his family's steel business, Zekelman Industries.
  • The $3.3 billion (revenues) company is one of North America's largest steel pipe and tube makers.
  • The company has also pumped more than $1 billion into Z Modular, a division that is developing modular apartment complexes in places such as Texas, Arizona and Canada.
  • Alan and his brothers, fellow billionaires Barry Zekelman and Clayton Zekelman, split 100% ownership of Zekelman Industries.
  • They sold the company to the Carlyle Group in 2006 for some $1.2 billion, but bought the business back in 2011.
  • One of Zekelman Industries' subsidiaries, Atlas Tube, produced steel for stretches of the Mexican border wall in Arizona.