Business

Jim Ratcliffe

Jim Ratcliffe

Ratcliffe is a British chemical engineer turned financier and industrialist. He chairs the Ineos chemical group. Ratcliffe likes to keep a low profile and has been described by the Times as “Publicity Shy”. He is worth £21.5 Billion

  • CEO of Ineos
  • 1952
  • United Kingdom

Ken Bates

Ken Bates

Bates is a businessman, football executive and hotelier. He was involved in creating the Premier League as well as in the development of Wembley Stadium. He is the former owner of Chelsea and Leeds United, which, in 1982, he purchased […]

  • British Businessman
  • 1931

Lily Safra

Lily Safra

The widow of Jewish banker Edmond Safra, Lily lives in Monaco and has been actively engaged in charity for many years. Safra is a Brazilian-born philanthropist and billionaire who resides between London, Monaco and Rio de Janeiro. Through her four […]

  • Philantropist
  • 1934
  • Brazil

Louisette Levy-Soussan

Louisette Levy-Soussan

Levy-Soussan was the secretary of Princess Grace of Monaco for 19 years. After the Princess’ death, she assisted the sovereign Prince Albert II. She is now the founder of the Foreign Residents Club of Monaco (CREM), which welcomes and guides […]

  • Grace Kelly's former secretary

Maria Franca Fissolo

Maria Franca Fissolo

Fissolo is the widow of Michele Ferrero, former CEO of the Ferrero Group, one of the world’s leading confectionary companies. Ferrero was the creator of Nutella spread, Kinder chocolates and Tic Tacs. Following his death in 2015, she became the […]

  • Ferrero heiress
  • 1939

Michel Dotta

Michel Dotta

Michel Dotta founded Dotta Immobilier, a Monaco-based real estate company. He is also Chairman of Chambre Immobilière Monégasque and Chairman and CEO of the Thermes Marins Monte-Carlo, as well as being on the board of Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de […]

  • Real estate developer

Michele Ferrero

Michele Ferrero

The famous Italian entrepreneur originally from Dogliani – Michele Ferrero – known for his sweet empire Ferrero, also couldn’t resist that particular charm of the Principality and moved here. He is the son of Pietro Ferrero, the founder of the […]

  • Entrepreneur
  • 26 April 1925
  • Italy

Mohamed Al-Fayed

Mohamed Al-Fayed

Al-Fayed has lived in Monaco for decades, being a part of Hollywood stars’ glamour days and the marriage of Prince Rainier III to Grace Kelly. An Egyptian businessman, Mohamed Al-Fayed once owned Harrods department store, which he sold for £1.5 […]

  • Egyptian Businessman
  • 27 January 1929
  • Egypt

Monica Agusta

Monica Agusta

Monica Agusta is the Vice-President of Net Jets Europe.The Italian businesswoman has been living in Monaco for more than twenty-five years, and is responsible for the company’s activity in the Mediterranean. She holds one of the most important positions in […]

  • Entrepreneur
  • Italy

Monika Bacardi

Monika Bacardi

She is considered one of the most influential businesswomen in the arts field. Ms. Bacardi has lived in Monaco for over twenty years. Bacardi is the widow of Luis Adalbert Facundo Gomez del Campo Bacardi, who was a descendant of […]

  • Businesswoman
  • 20 August 1968
  • Italy

Nicholas and Christian Candy

Nicholas and Christian Candy

The Candy brothers specialise in luxury property development. They first started renovating apartments, which they then sold for profit, subsequently moving into the developing business. Their development projects include One Hyde Park in Knightsbridge, London (2004), Noho Square (2006) as […]

  • Property developpers
  • 1973, 1974
  • United Kingdom

Olga Taran

Olga Taran

Olga Taran is a founder and editor-in-chief of “HelloMonaco”, mother of three children and Ambassadorof “Change One Life” charitable foundation. Always help when you can! Olga Taran is a journalist by profession. At the beginning of her career she worked […]

  • Publisher
  • Russia

Patricia Husson

Patricia Husson

Since 2015, Patricia Husson has been an Honorary President of ASCOMA Group, the leading insurance broker in the Principality and a pioneer in insurance brokerage in Africa. In addition to its locations in Monaco, France and Luxembourg, the company currently […]

  • Entrepreneur
  • Sweden

Sabrina Monteleone-Oeino

Sabrina Monteleone-Oeino

Sabrina Monteleone-Oeino is a Monegasque designer of Italiano origin and Founder of Sabrina Monte-Carlo, an interior design company. Prior to launching her business, Sabrina had worked in the fashion industry for about ten years, managing a boutique in Monaco. From […]

  • Entrepreneur
  • Monaco

Safia El Malqui

Safia El Malqui

Safia El Malqui was the director of SEM Art, a young Artcompany focusing on promotion of independent artists. Since establishing the collection she has more recently found the time to pursue an active role in the promotion of Art Geneva […]

  • Entrepreneur
  • Belgium

Sergey Dyadechko

Sergey Dyadechko

Sergei Dyadechko is a Ukrainian businessman, financier and president of AS Monaco Basket. Following its purchase of AS Monaco Basket, the Roca team moved from the French 4th division to the Premier League basketball league, even reaching 3rd place in […]

  • Ukrainian businessman
  • 18 November 1971
  • Ukraine

Sir Philip Green

Sir Philip Green

Born in London, Green is the owner of the Arcadia Group, the parent company of Topshop and Miss Selfridge.His contribution to the British retail industry, spanning over four decades, earned him a knighthood in 2006. He is not simply a […]

  • British Businessman
  • 15 March 1952
  • United Kingdom

Sonia Irvine

Sonia Irvine

Known as the woman who throws the best party in the world, Sonia Irvine created and runs Amber Lounge and Amber Summer. Aside from being the ultimate VIP event of Formula 1, the Amber Lounge has a list of celebrities […]

  • Businesswoman
  • United Kingdom

Stefano Pessina

Stefano Pessina

Italian pharmaceutical magnate and chairman of Walgreens Boots Alliance. He moved to Monaco decades ago and has relinquished his Italian citizenship for Monégasque. Stefano Pessina is an Italian-Monegasque billionaire businessman and the largest shareholder of Walgreen Boots Alliance. He is […]

  • CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance
  • 4 June 1941
  • Monaco

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Stelios is the son of a Cypriot shipping magnate, who loaned him £5 million to start the airline venture in 1995. Today easyGroup, headquartered in London, includes easyCar, easyHotel, easyBus and more. He was born in Athens in 1967, his […]

  • Greek-Cypriot entrepreneur
  • 14 February 1967
  • Greece, Cyprus