Portrait of Clayton Zekelman

Rank #1873

Clayton Zekelman

Net worth $2.2B

Steel · Canada

Born
Jan 01, 1969
Age
57
Source
Steel
Residence
Windsor, Ontario
Citizenship
Canada
Marital status
Children
0
Education

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Clayton 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.
  • Clayton and his brothers, fellow billionaires Barry Zekelman and Alan 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.