Rank #1650
Bent Jensen & Family
Net worth $2.6B
electric systems · Denmark
- Born
- Dec 15, 1951
- Age
- 74
- Source
- electric systems
- Residence
- Nordborg
- Citizenship
- Denmark
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Southern Denmark
Net worth over time
Biography
- Bent Jensen is the owner and CEO of Linak, a $680 million (revenue) Danish company that manufactures and sells linear actuators.
- Linear actuators are devices that convert power into linear motion and are used in industrial equipment, furniture and hospital beds.
- Jensen's grandfather founded the company in 1907; it originally made pulleys, grinding mills and forges.
- Jensen, who received a mechanical engineering degree, joined the firm in 1976 -- with an idea for a new product: the linear actuator.
- Today the company has factories in Denmark, the U.S., China and Slovakia.
- Jensen came up with the idea for linear actuators while talking with a friend from school, who had a disability, about ways to improve his wheelchair.