Rank #1864
Jerry Moyes & family
Net worth $2.3B
Transportation · United States
- Born
- Jan 15, 1944
- Age
- 82
- Source
- Transportation
- Residence
- Tolleson, Arizona
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 10
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- 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 sold much of his stake in Knight-Swift prior to 2022. Now concentrates on SME Industries, a steel fabricator and construction company in Utah.
- 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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