Radovan Vitek

Radovan Vitek continues to expand his real estate empire. He completed a hostile takeover of Orco Germany and joined the holdings with his Czech Property Investments to create the listed CPI Property Group, where he is the majority shareholder. He got his start during Slovakia's voucher privatization in the 1990s, then moved to the Czech Republic in 1997, taking over a bee cooperative and turning the headquarters into a luxury hotel. In 2015 he bought ex-Beatle Ringo Starr's 260-acre Surrey manor house for $25 million so that his children could be educated in the U.K.