Vincent Bollore net worth
Vincent Bollore Net Worth: Vincent Bollore is a French industrialist, corporate raider and businessman with a net worth of $8.8 billion. He has built a fortune as chairman and CEO of Bollore, the family-controlled paper energy plantation logistics group. He was born on April 1, 1952 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, and holds a Master of Laws degree from Paris X Nanterre University.
After graduation, Bollore started his career as an investment banking intern at Edmond de Rothschild. As for his personal investment career, it began when he took over control of Bollore. In 1822, Bollore’s ancestor Gwenn-Aël Bollore founded a paper manufacturer that has grown into a diverse empire that includes an extensive product portfolio. In 1981, Vincent Bollore took over as Chairman and CEO of Bollore, making it one of the world’s 500 largest companies. Today, it is involved in African shipping, Asian palm oil plantations, plastics, media, construction, logistics and more. In addition to this, the group is also responsible for the Paris-based electric car-sharing service Autolib. Encouraged by Autolib’s success, Bollore began selling its electric car, called the Bluecar, to the public. In addition to his day job at Bollore, he is an avid comic book collector with over 1,000 different editions of comic books. Vincent Bollore, married with four children, has been a close friend of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
