Rank #1723
Mike Repole
Net worth $2.5B
Sports drink · United States
- Born
- Jan 21, 1968
- Age
- 58
- Source
- Sports drink
- Residence
- Windermere, Florida
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Bachelor of Science, St. John's University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Mike Repole cofounded sports drink BodyArmor in 2011.
- Coca-Cola bought 15% of BodyArmor in 2018, then purchased the rest in 2021 for $5.6 billion, the company's largest acquisition of a brand.
- BodyArmor's investors included tennis star Naomi Osaka and the late Kobe Bryant, who discovered the brand while rehabbing from a torn Achilles tendon.
- The son of a waiter and a seamstress, Repole studied sports management at St. John's before working in sales for a small company, Mistic Beverage.
- Repole also cofounded Glaceau, maker of the popular brands Vitaminwater and Smartwater, which he also sold to Coca-Cola, in 2007.