Rank #2966
Gina Vecchiarelli
Net worth $1.3B
Mozzarella cheese · United States
- Born
- Sep 01, 1961
- Age
- 64
- Source
- Mozzarella cheese
- Residence
- Indian Hills, Colorado
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Gina Vecchiarelli and her sister Terry Leprino inherited a 90% stake in $3.6 billion (estimated annual revenue) Leprino Foods after the death of their father James Leprino in June 2025.
- James Leprino built the company his father founded in 1950 into the world's largest mozzarella cheese maker, after pioneering the technology for manufacturing pizza cheese at scale.
- Leprino manufactures and sells more than 1 billion pounds of cheese annually and supplies cheese to Domino's, Pizza Hut, Papa John's and other pizza brands.
- Vecchiarelli's husband Dan Vecchiarelli took over as chairman and CEO of Leprino Foods around 2023.
- Gina Vecchiarelli has kept a low profile, but her father told Forbes in 2016 that she was "running a program for Make-A-Wish" and that she was focused on mothering her two daughters, who were about to graduate from college.