Rank #243
Hasso Plattner & family
Net worth $12.7B
Software · Germany
- Born
- Jan 21, 1944
- Age
- 82
- Source
- Software
- Residence
- Heidelberg
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Master of Science, University of Karlsruhe
Net worth over time
Biography
- Hasso Plattner and four colleagues left IBM in 1972 to launch German enterprise software company SAP, which went public in 1988.
- He has served as chairman of the SAP supervisory board since May 2003, when he stepped down as CEO.
- His nonprofit Hasso Plattner Institute focuses on research and teaching in IT systems engineering, offering degree programs and free online courses.
- The institute has established Design Thinking schools at the University of Potsdam, Stanford University and the University of Cape Town.
- A signee of the Giving Pledge, Plattner has supported HIV/AIDS and TB prevention, youth care and education, and conservation research in Africa.
- The Plattner-funded Museum Barberini in Potsdam, which opened in 2017, features his extensive collection of impressionist and modernist works.
- In the U.S., Plattner is majority owner of the San Jose Sharks ice hockey team.
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