Rank #323
Jimmy Haslam
Net worth $10.3B
Gas stations, retail · United States
- Born
- Mar 09, 1954
- Age
- 72
- Source
- Gas stations, retail
- Residence
- Knoxville, Tennessee
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Tennessee Knoxville
Net worth over time
Biography
- Jimmy Haslam served as chairman of truck stop chain Pilot Flying J from 2021 until 2023.
- His father, James A. Haslam II, started the company after paying $6,000 for a gas station in Virginia.
- Haslam joined the board in 1975, when he was 20 and a senior at the University of Tennessee; Pilot's annual revenues were about $50 million at the time.
- The Haslams sold Pilot to Berkshire Hathaway for a total of $13.6 billion across three purchases in 2017, 2023 and 2024.
- In 2012, Haslam became the majority owner of the NFL's Cleveland Browns. He bought a minority stake in the Milwaukee Bucks NBA team in 2023.
- Haslam's brother Bill Haslam, also a billionaire, served as governor of Tennessee from 2011 to 2019.
- Haslam's wife Dee is founder and executive producer of RIVR Media, the production company behind World Series of Poker and Animal Planet show Whale Wars.