Rank #226
Simon Reuben
Net worth $13.2B
Real estate, investments · United Kingdom
- Born
- May 01, 1941
- Age
- 85
- Source
- Real estate, investments
- Residence
- Monaco
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 1
- Education
- Drop Out, Sir John Cass College, London
Net worth over time
Biography
- Simon Reuben shares a real estate, technology and investment fortune with his brother David Reuben.
- In 2016, they sold 49% of their data center business, GlobalSwitch, to a consortium of Chinese investors for nearly $3 billion.
- They sold a further 25% of the business in 2018 for $2.7 billion to a consortium of Asian institutional and private investors for $2.7 billion.
- The brothers were born in Mumbai and raised in the U.K., where David started off trading metals and Simon imported carpets and bought real estate.
- Their firm Transworld, a metals trader, invested in Russia and Kazakhstan in the 1990s and was active in trading aluminum.
- The Reuben family owns an estimated 14% of Premier League's Newcastle United F.C.