Bidzina Ivanishvili (ბიძინა ივანიშვილი, AKA “Boris Ivanishvili”)Said to be worth £3.3 billion, businessman and politician Bidzina Ivanishvili counts two albino sons amongst his four children. Prime Minister of Georgia between October 2012 and November 2013, Ivaishvili named his Georgian Dreams political party after a song by his Los Angeles based rapper and bodybuilder son Bera and has a collection of zebras, sharks and penguins at his £30 million James Bond-esque summer house in the hills above Tiblisi. His art collection numbers works by Damien Hirst, Henry Moore and Pablo Picasso.

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Business titan Denise Coates CBE (AKA ‘The Patron of the Potteries’) – The richest self-made woman in the UK paid herself £217 million in 2016 and is said to have a personal fortune of circa £3.17 billion. She founded Bet365.com, one of the world’s largest online gambling companies, in 2000.
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Denise Coates

The richest self-made woman in the UK paid herself £217 million in 2016 and is said to have a personal fortune of circa £3.17 billion. A former betting shop cashier, Denise Coates purchased the domain Bet365.com in 2000 and has since grown the operation into one of the world’s largest online gambling companies. A Sheffield […]

Nick Bell – Entreprenuer and Snapchat vice president of content
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Nick Bell

Born in 1983 in Alnwick, Northumberland, Nick Bell is amongst the few youngsters who genuinely deserve the accolade “entrepreneur”. A former pupil of The Royal Grammar School, Newcastle, Bell sold his first company, Tennfront.com, for £1 million at the age of 16 and has been vice president of content at Snapchat since 2013. Meeting him […]