Rank #1544
Eugene Murtagh
Net worth $2.7B
Building materials · Ireland
- Born
- Jun 23, 1942
- Age
- 83
- Source
- Building materials
- Residence
- Kingscourt
- Citizenship
- Ireland
- Marital status
- Widowed
- Children
- 5
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Eugene Murtagh founded building materials manufacturer Kingspan Group in 1965.
- He owns about 15% of the Dublin- and London-listed company, which primarily sells insulation products for commercial and industrial projects.
- Kingspan has grown through acquisitions and has 212 manufacturing facilities in some 80 countries, with revenue of over $8 billion billion in 2022.
- Murtagh stepped down as chairman and non-executive director of Kingspan in 2021, succeeded by Jost Massenberg.
- The Kingscourt, Ireland resident had five children with his wife Andrea, who died in 2014.
- He started Kingspan by building agricultural trailers behind his family's bar, Murtagh's.
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