Rank #2943
Martin Moller Nielsen
Net worth $1.3B
Aircraft leasing · Denmark
- Born
- Aug 01, 1964
- Age
- 61
- Source
- Aircraft leasing
- Residence
- Lugano
- Citizenship
- Denmark
- Marital status
- Single
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Martin Moller Nielsen is a Danish aviation entrepreneur who founded aircraft leasing firm Nordic Aviation Capital in 1990.
- A quarter of a century later, he sold a 66% stake in it to private equity firms EQT and Krikbi in a deal that valued the firm at $3.3 billion.
- He later brought on Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC as an investor and, in 2022, sold the last of his shares in NAC.
- Moller Nielsen now runs Axiom Group, his private family office that invests in areas such as renewable energy and real estate.
- Moller Nielsen, a certified pilot by the age of 18, reportedly bought a beaten up aircraft at 21, renovated it, and sold it for a large profit.
- NAC initially leased aircraft for humanitarian aid organizations looking to fly into remote areas.