Rank #2429
Phil Shawe
Net worth $1.7B
Translation services · United States
- Born
- Aug 18, 1969
- Age
- 56
- Source
- Translation services
- Residence
- San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Phil Shawe is cofounder and co-CEO of translation, language services and AI company TransPerfect.
- Shawe owns 99% of the firm, which generated $1.3 billion in 2025 revenue and counts Microsoft and various U.S. governmental entities as customers.
- He and his one-time fiancee started the company out of an NYU dorm room in 1992; they initially split the company 50-50.
- After a messy court battle, a judge ordered a public auction of the company and in 2018 approved Shawe buying her out for $770 million.
- Shawe wants to reform the Delaware Court of Chancery, where the TransPerfect case happened; he's funded campaign ads and written op-eds.