Portrait of Rodney Sacks & family

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Rodney Sacks & family

Net worth $3.3B

Energy drinks · United States

Born
Dec 24, 1949
Age
76
Source
Energy drinks
Residence
Laguna Beach, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Children
0
Education
Law Degree, University of Witwatersrand

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Rodney Sacks is chairman of energy drink maker Monster Beverage Corporation. He retired as co-CEO in June 2025.
  • Sacks and Monster's co-CEO Hilton Schlosberg, are native South Africans. They bought the drink company Hansen Natural in 1992.
  • Hansen Natural launched the Monster energy drink brand in 2002, and the company changed its name to Monster Beverage in 2012.
  • In 2015, Coca-Cola bought a 16.7% stake in Monster Beverage for $2.15 billion in cash and opened its global distribution network to Monster.
  • Coca-Cola and Monster went into arbitration in 2018 after Coca-Cola decided to develop two energy drinks of its own. Coca-Cola ultimately won.
  • Before buying what became Monster, Sacks was a senior partner at Werksmans, one of the largest law firms in South Africa.
  • Sacks studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa; he later became a U.S. citizen and lives in southern California.

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