Johann Rupert

Owns publicly traded Swiss luxury group Richemont, which owns Cartier, Dunhill, makes Chloe bags and MontBlanc pens. Company has been doing better than analyst expectations on the back of accelerating sales in Asia-Pacific. Big on acquisitions: Richemont bought out online fashion portal Net-a-Porter 350 million pounds in April 2010 while his South African holding company, Remgro, bought out private South African investment outfit, VenFin, earlier. Appointed as Chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch,in South Africa where he has an office. With family relatives, owns two of South Africa's best-known vineyards, Rupert & Rothschild and L'Ormarins; owns one of the country's most exclusive golf clubs. Launched L'Ormarins 1200 car rally;has been pushed back from October 2010 to end-2011. Recently, he vowed to take on oil multinational Shell, opposing shale gas development in SA.