Jerry Moyes & family
$1.8B
Born
Jan 15, 1944
Age
81
Source of Wealth
Transportation
Residence
Tolleson, Arizona
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Married
Children
10
Education
- Jerry Moyes and his father founded Swift Transportation in 1966 with one truck, moving cotton and imported steel between Arizona and California
- Swift grew to nearly 20,000 trucks and some $4 billion in annual revenue before it merged with Knight Transportation in 2017.
- Moyes owns nearly a quarter of the merged company, called Knight-Swift Transportation.
- He stepped down as chairman of Swift in 2016, after 50 years in the business.
- Moyes owned the Phoenix Coyotes hockey team, with minority partner Wayne Gretzky, until the team filed for bankruptcy in 2009 and was sold to the NHL.
- Moyes resigned as Swift CEO in 2005 after an insider-trading case (he did not admit to wrongdoing). Two years later, he took Swift private in a leveraged buyout.
- Moyes took Swift public once again in 2010, listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
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