Rank #3049
Morris Kahn
Net worth $1.1B
Software · Israel
- Born
- Jan 01, 1930
- Age
- 96
- Source
- Software
- Residence
- Beit Yanay
- Citizenship
- Israel
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Morris Kahn cofounded Amdocs, a customer-relationship management-and-billing software firm for large telecom outfits.
- He sold nearly $1 billion worth of shares after Admocs went public in 1998.
- A South African native, he lives on the Israeli coast and spends much of his time on a 100-foot yacht.
- Through his Aurum Ventures, Morris invests in life sciences and clean-tech companies that he hopes will contribute to the wellbeing of the planet.
- He currently serves as the chairman of SpaceIL, which attempted to send the first Israeli spacecraft to the moon in 2019.
- An avid diver, Kahn started building aquariums after a diving accident that gave him a burst eardrum, forcing him to stay on land for months.