Neal Blue & family
$5.5B
Born
Apr 04, 1935
Age
90
Source of Wealth
Defense
Residence
San Diego, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Widowed
Children
4
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Yale University
- Neal Blue is chairman and CEO of $3.1 billion (est. sales) General Atomics, a defense company based in San Diego.
- The company is best known as the manufacturer of the Predator drone, one of the first drones to fly over Afghanistan after 9/11.
- The largest private government contractor in the U.S., GA's clients include foreign nations such as Italy, Spain, and the UAE.
- With his brother Linden, he bought the then nuclear energy company from Chevron for a reported $60 million in 1986.
- After graduating from Yale, Blue served in the U.S. Air Force as a nuclear weapons custodian.
- Linden Blue, who owns a smaller stake and is a vice president at the company, is worth $800 million.
- In 1956, Neal, then 21, and Linden, 20, raised $3,000 to fly a single-propeller plan across Central and South America. Life Magazine put them on its cover.
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