Rank #1087
Neal Aronson
Net worth $4.0B
Private equity · United States
- Born
- Feb 01, 1965
- Age
- 61
- Source
- Private equity
- Residence
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Neal Aronson is the founder and principal investor behind Roark Capital, which owns 30,000 sandwich shops of Subway, Jimmy John's, Arby's and Sonic.
- Aronson has led Roark, named after the ruthlessly competitive architect in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, since he founded it two decades ago.
- He remains the firm's majority owner.
- Aronson is responsible for most of the restaurant industry's biggest deals of the past decade, among them Roark scooping up Carl's Jr. and Hardee's for $1.75 billion in 2013.
- In December 2020, Roark spent $11.3 billion to acquire Dunkin? and Baskin-Robbins.