Barry Zekelman
$3.4B
Born
Jan 03, 1967
Age
58
Source of Wealth
Steel
Residence
Windsor, Ontario
Citizenship
Canada
Marital Status
Children
0
Education
Drop Out, York University
- Barry Zekelman took over his family's steel business at age 19 and has since grown it into one of North America's largest steel pipe and tube makers.
- He sold the company to the Carlyle Group in 2006 for some $1.2 billion, but continued to help run it. He and his family bought it back in 2011.
- Today Barry and his two brothers, Clayton and Alan Zekelman, split 100% ownership of the $4.2 billion (revenues) firm, now named Zekelman Industries.
- He made headlines when he was captured on a secret recording of a 2018 Trump donor dinner, bending the president's ear about the steel business.
- One of Zekelman Industries' subsidiaries, Atlas Tube, produced steel for stretches of the Mexican border wall in Arizona.
- Zekelman races Ferraris and has owned a series of yachts named "Man of Steel."
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