Rank #1767
Mika Anttonen
Net worth $2.4B
Oil & gas · Finland
- Born
- Dec 18, 1966
- Age
- 59
- Source
- Oil & gas
- Residence
- Helsinki
- Citizenship
- Finland
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Mika Anttonen heads and owns a majority stake in the nearly $8 billion (sales) Scandinavian fuel distributor St1 Group.
- Anttonen uses profits to finance projects he hopes will combat climate change and eventually replace oil, such as developing bioethanol from trash.
- He got his start as an oil trader working for Finland-based oil refiner and marketer, Neste Oyj, in the early 1990s.
- He founded his own company, Greenergy Baltic, in 1995. He renamed it St1 in 2005.
- Anttonen plays hockey in his spare time and is a fan of the New York Rangers.
- St1 is running a pilot program in Finland in which it drills four miles beneath the surface to extract heat, which can then be turned into energy.