Rank #1689
Henry Davis
Net worth $2.5B
Beef processing · United States
- Born
- Feb 16, 1951
- Age
- 75
- Source
- Beef processing
- Residence
- Omaha, Nebraska
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Divorced
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Denver
Net worth over time
Biography
- Henry Davis is a third-generation beef supplier who owns $1.8 billion (est. revenues) Greater Omaha Packing.
- His beef is now eaten in 69 countries, including some of the world's top restaurants from Napa Valley's French Laundry to New York's Marea.
- Greater Omaha is the fifth-largest beef producer in the U.S., after giants Tyson, Cargill, JBS and National Beef.
- Davis' grandfather started in 1920, butchering a single steer every day and selling the beef himself. Davis inherited it in 1987 and grew it 10-fold.
- Davis inherited the company in 1987 and has grown it tenfold.
- Davis races cars on the side. He owns the first American race car to win at the legendary Le Mans course, a 1966 Ford GT40.
- The computer science major wrote Greater Omaha's first billing and operations software in 1980, which the company still uses today.