Rank #3049
Sarah Humphreys Atkins & family
Net worth $1.2B
Residential roofing · United States
- Born
- Mar 01, 1958
- Age
- 68
- Source
- Residential roofing
- Residence
- Arlington, Virginia
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Sarah Humphreys Atkins is an heiress to the Galena, Kansas-based Tamko roofing fortune.
- Her grandfather E. L. Craig started the company in 1944 at the age of 69 in an old streetcar barn in Joplin, Missouri.
- Today, Tamko is the fourth-largest manufacturer of roofing shingles in the United States. The company recorded $1.2 billion in 2023 revenue.
- The Humphreys family sold a 25% stake in the business to the Carlyle Group, a $447 billion (assets under management) private equity firm, for an undisclosed sum in 2019.
- Sarah and her brother David, and their respective families, split the remaining 75%.
- Atkins is married to SEC commissioner Paul Atkins. Both she and Atkins are on Tamko's board of directors.
- Paul Atkins, who was nominated by Donald Trump, is serving his second stint as SEC commissioner; he previously served for six years under George W. Bush.