Rank #399
Robert Rowling
Net worth $8.9B
Hotels, investments · United States
- Born
- Sep 26, 1953
- Age
- 72
- Source
- Hotels, investments
- Residence
- Dallas, Texas
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Doctor of Jurisprudence, Southern Methodist University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, The University of Texas at Austin
Net worth over time
Biography
- In 1996 Robert Rowling reinvested $500 million from selling the family's oilfields into the purchase of Omni Hotels.
- The Omni chain has 60 locations and 21,000 rooms nationwide with big new hotels in Dallas, Atlanta and Boston.
- He gave $25 million to the University of Texas business school in 2013.
- In 2019 he completed the $170 million renovation of Omni Barton Creek Resort in Austin.
- The championship golf course at the new Omni resort in Frisco, Texas will be done by famed designer Gil Hansen.