Rank #226
David Reuben
Net worth $13.2B
Investments, real estate · United Kingdom
- Born
- Sep 01, 1938
- Age
- 87
- Source
- Investments, real estate
- Residence
- London
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 1
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Brothers David and Simon Reuben built a fortune in real estate and technology.
- In 2016, they sold 49% of their data center business, GlobalSwitch, to a consortium of Chinese investors for nearly $3 billion.
- They sold a further 25% of the business in 2018 to a consortium of Asian institutional and private investors for $2.7 billion.
- The brothers were born in Mumbai and raised in the U.K., where David started off trading metals and Simon imported carpets and bought real estate.
- The Reuben family owns an estimated 14% of Premier League's Newcastle United F.C. David's son Jamie serves as a director for the football club.
- Their firm Transworld, a metals trader, invested in Russia and Kazakhstan in the 1990s and was active in trading aluminum.
- David Reuben resides part time in Monaco and Florida.