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| Lord Ashcroft | Formerly Michael Ashcroft, made a life peer in 2000, a former treasurer and now deputy chairman of the Conservative Party in England. British, estimated to be worth $93 million, one of the 500 richest British people in the world. He made a fortune in Belize and was once its Ambassador to the United Nations. He resigned in 2002 as a director of Bermuda-based Tyco International. His many interests include owning the majority interest in the Belize telephone company and Bermuda-registered Flying Lion, private jet airline. It Flies UK opposition politicians world-wide. Owned by millionaire Lord Ashcroft. Registered at Cedar Avenue in Hamilton. A Falcon 900EX allows its MP passengers to travel in comfort and style, with features such as supple leathers, glistening veneers and deep pile carpet as standard, according to French maker, Dassault. |
| William Atkin | Annuity & Life. Once President of Mutual Risk Management Ltd. Bermudian. |
| Sir David Barclay & Sir Frederick Barclay | British twins, among Britain's 500 richest people. Worth about £1.65 billion in hotels, property and publishing. They own The European, The Scotsman and Daily Telegraph newspapers of UK - the latter bought on 22nd June 2004 for £650 million - London's Ritz Hotel, and Channel Island of Brecqhou. Business interests are controlled by Bermuda registered BI Ltd. |
| Albert Benchimol | Partner Re. |
| Silvio Berlusconi | Italian media magnate, 73 in 2009, believed to be worth more than US $ 6.5 billion in 2009. He and his family own a mansion, Blue Horizon, in Tucker's Town. His son is Piersilvio. He was the Italian Prime Minister for seven months in 1994, lost his first come-back bid in 1996, was elected Prime Minister of Italy again on May 14, 2001, was defeated in the Italian general election of April 2006 but became Italian Prime Minister for the third time in April 2008. He owns the top soccer club in Milan, Italy's top supermarket chain and Europe's largest private television network. There are various books about him. |
| Geoffrey Bible | Formerly Chairman of Philip Morris. |
| Michael Bloomberg | An American technology wizard and frequent visitor to Bermuda with a vast home overlooking the ocean in Tucker's Town, he founded a global financial company - Bloomberg - in his own name, more than 75% of which he still owns. 68 years old (in November 2009) he is the wealthiest divorced man, with 2 daughters in New York City, with an estimated US$16 billion in assets in 2009. His Bermuda home was recently extensively re-worked at a reported cost of $10.5 million. His neighbors there include billionaire Ross Perot and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. His other homes are two in New York's Westchester County, Armonk, a townhouse at 17 E. 79th Street in Manhattan, a 20-acre farm in North Salem, a London apartment in Cadogan Square and a condominium in Vail, Colorado. His financial information and news services are widely used locally. He was a 2001 Republican mayoral candidate for New York City, won the election and became Mayor after November 6, 2001 (still in office in 2009). He has a fleet of aircraft at his disposal. A licensed pilot, he owns a high-performance single-engine plane for quick jaunts. It is a Mooney Bravo M20M, seats four, flies high and goes fast. |
| Nicholas Brown, Jr. | XL Capital. |
| James Bryce | IPC Holdings. |
| Warren E. Buffett |  Billionaire,
second richest man in the world in March 2009. CEO of and the principal shareholder in Bermuda-based Berkshire Hathaway.
West End Capital Management Ltd,
at Crawford
House, 23 Church Street, Hamilton HM 11. Phone 296-8272. Fax 295-4927,
is a hedge fund company managing about US$700 billion for him. Also owns
Bermuda-registered Berkshire Hathaway Assurance and NetJets, a leading private aviation group.
In February 2008 he offered beleaguered bond insurers an $800bn (£408bn) life-line in a bid to prevent further fall-out from the US sub-prime mortgage crisis, with the opportunity to reinsure $800bn in municipal or tax-exempt bonds. He is known as the "Sage of Omaha" for his intuitive ability to make money from the markets. In April 2008 Berkshire Hathaway and the chocolate giant Mars announced plans to acquire Wm Wrigley for $22bn, in deal that would unite two of America's largest confectionary groups. |
| Michael Butt | President and chief executive of catastrophe re-insurer Mid Ocean Ltd. 53 years old, one of the highly paid Bermuda based chiefs of global commercial insurers. |
| Rory Carvill | British, worth at least $36 million, one of the 500 richest British men. His Carvill companies, including R. K. Carvill (Reinsurance Brokers) Ltd are Bermuda registered. |
| John Charman | 54 years old in 2007, Tucker's Town resident. Multi-millionaire CEO/President/Director of Bermuda-based Axis Capital Holdings Ltd and Axis Specialty Ltd. Has over 30 years of experience in the insurance industry and has been in a senior underwriting position since 1975. From 2000 to 2001, he served as deputy chairman of ACE INA Holdings and President of ACE International. Was CEO at ACE Global Markets from 1998 to 2001, before that, CEO of Tarquin plc (a joint venture company among Insurance Partners, Harvard University and the Charman Group), the parent company of the Charman Underwriting Agencies at Lloyd's. He was a deputy chairman of the Council of Lloyd's and a member of the Lloyd's Core Management Group and Lloyd's Market Board between 1995 and 1997. A permanent resident of Bermuda and with property in the UK also, he was ordered in August 2006 to pay his ex-wife £48 million ($96 million) at London’s High Court in what is believed to be the biggest-ever settlement in a contested divorce case in British legal history. |
| John Kent Cooke | He was 66 years old in October 2006 and is the former president of the Washington Redskins football team in the USA. He is the son of Jack Kent Cooke who died in April, 1997 and left an estate conservatively valued at US$ 60 million. Assets then included the Washington Redskins football team, subsequently sold for US$ 800 million. |
| Peter Cozens | IPC Holdings. |
| Michael DeGroote | Bermuda resident. Canadian billionaire. Owns Westbury (Bermuda) at Victoria Hall, 11 Victoria Street, Hamilton HM 11. Phone 292-9480. Fax 292-9485. An investment company. Was at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario in September 2005 to preside over the opening of a new medical complex, bearing his name. The new $71 million building is the Michael G. DeGroote Centre of Learning and Discovery. Housing more than 250 scientists, it brings together specialized teams to work collaboratively to speed the discovery of new medicines – to shorten the timeline between laboratory research and patient medicines and treatment. |
| David Eklund | Renaissance Re. |
| John Denholm | British, worth at least $93 million, among the 500 richest British people in the world. Denholm Ship Management is Bermuda registered. |
| Johannes Christiaan Martinus Maria (John) Deuss |  67 in
2009. Bermuda-based
owner of Bermuda-based Transworld Oil, Bermuda Commercial Bank (BCB), a bank
in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles and more. First Curaçao
International Bank (FCIB), owned by him, is the biggest shareholder in
BCB. Dutch, he lives on Shore Lane, Tucker’s Town.
The son of a humble garage owner from Nijmegen, Holland, he created a world-wide business empire from his Bermuda base. His billions of petro
dollars bought him a string of homes around the world plus two
Gulfstream jets, and a 180-foot, three-masted schooner – Fluertje. |
| Graham Dimmock | Partner Re. |
| John J. Donovan, Sr | A Tuckers Town resident worth about $100 million, owns Massachusetts company Cambridge Executive Enterprises. He owns Winsor House, near Ross Perot's house in Tucker's Town, but does not live on the Island and rents it out to people from MIT. Cambridge Executive Enterprises trains executives how to use technology in business. The New York Times once called him the "Johnny Carson of the training circuit". It is also thought he has a number of Trust fund interests based in Bermuda. Donovan was a business professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1969 to 1997. He commanded big fees as a sought-after speaker to Fortune 500 companies, started more than a dozen companies and published 11 books. He is a founder of Cambridge Technology Partners, a computer services consulting company that was once valued at more than $1 billion. He also was a clinical professor of pediatrics at Tufts University for 10 years, doing research to track birth defects. He has several children. |
| John Dowling | IPC Holdings. |
| Michael Douglas | Owns Longford House - very private - since 2001. American-born (mother, the former actress Diana Dill, is Bermudian) prominent film star, actor and producer Michael Douglas, 59 in late September 2003, and his wife, talented actress and prominent film star, Welsh-born Catherine Zeta Jones, 34 in 2003. She was brought up in a small, mostly Catholic, Welsh coastal fishing village and has a Catholic repugnance to divorce. Michael Douglas and his brother Joel in the USA are the sons of Kirk Douglas and the former Diana Dill. They are the half brothers of Eric and Peter Douglas by Kirk Douglas and his later wife, Anne Buydens. Michael had his first birthday in Bermuda. Eric is an actor and comedian and Joel and Peter are producers. Before his marriage to Catherine, Michael Douglas was married for 18 years to producer Diandra Douglas, with whom he had a son, Cameron Douglas, an actor. There are reports the divorce cost him more than $60 million. She is reportedly going to write a candid auto biography. He and wife Catherine became engaged in January 2000, had a son, Dylan, in August, 2000, got married three months later in New York and now also have a daughter, Carys Zeta, born in April, 2003. Michael Douglas is a founding member of the 20/20 Club (film stars who can command £20 million per movie and 20% of box office and merchandizing takings. The former Diana Dill, now remarried to a former US State Department executive, wrote a most interesting autobiography, including references to Kirk Douglas. (UK's Daily Express, page 40, October 2, 2003). Michael Douglas, despite Bermuda being his main address, is the official "face" for Majorca tourism - a major Bermuda competitor - from 2004 to 2008, in return for the Majorcan government bailing him out of a £3 million investment he made in Majorca's loss-making tourist enterprise, the Costa Nord theatre. He has a holiday home in Majorca. |
| Lawrence Doyle | Annuity & Life. |
| Brian Duperreault | Chairman and president of Bermuda-based ACE Ltd. Bermudian, he is one of the highest paid - earned a total of $5.1 million - among global commercial insurers and re-insurers. |
| Curt Engelhorn | From Germany, 83 in 2009, one of Bermuda's wealthiest residents, worth about $6.3 billion in 2009. A Swiss resident, he owns Five Star Island and owned a major share holding in Bermuda-registered German pharmaceutical multinational Corange Ltd which owned Boeringher Mannheim. He netted $5 million when he sold Corange to Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche in 1997 for US$11 billion. He has given large amounts of money to the Bermuda College and the Bermuda Biological Station. |
| Nick Faldo | English golfer and TV commentator. Runs his own company Bermuda registered Nick Faldo Enterprises at www.faldo.com with multinational clientele, through which he has redesigned Bermuda's St. George's Golf course and has a home in Bermuda. |
| Stephen Fallon | IPC Holdings. |
| Chuck Feeney | Founder of the Bermuda-based General Atlantic Group and Atlantic Philanthropies charitable institute, reported to be one of the wealthiest people in the world. A New Jersey native. In order to set up a foundation in Bermuda, Mr. Feeney needed to be a resident on the island for a year. So in 1978, with the help of local banker Cummings Zuill he bought a large villa and that summer moved his entire family here. Bermuda was chosen because the island imposed no direct taxes on personal or corporate income, did not levy taxes on charities or foundations and did not require public disclosure of foundations. At that stage Mr. Feeney's company, General Atlantic Group Ltd., was already registered in Bermuda with a little office on Washington Mall in Hamilton. He made his millions in shipping and later co-founded the first chain of duty-free ships in the Asia-Pacific market in the 1960s. What makes Atlantic Philanthropies different from any other charitable foundation is that it does not accept proposals, but finds its own projects. Over the last 20 years it has made grants to Aids clinics in South Africa, educated Vietnamese children on traffic safety, acted as advocates on behalf of Bronx home health workers, and helped pay for Cuban medical care. It also paid for waste-water treatment in Da Nang, Vietnam, cancer research in Australia and plastic surgery for children with facial deformities in the Philippines. |
| Friedrich Christian and Gert Rudolph Flick | Millionaires, brothers, with substantial real estate in Tucker's Town, estimated to be worth $4.5 billion. |
| Wolfgang Flottl | Austrian financier and billionaire, who owns Bermuda-based Ross Capital Markets and others, 65 Front Street, Hamilton HM 12. Phone 295-1537. His wife since the late 1980s is Anne Eisenhower, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s granddaughter. His father is a Viennese banker. In 1991 he bought Castle Point in Tucker's Town, one of Bermuda's most luxurious properties, 8 acres surrounded by water on three sides. He acquired it from American Dr. Henry Clay Frick. He also owned Sounion West, nearby. However, he left the Island to live mostly in New York in 1995. In 2006, Castle Point was sold for $20.8m to billionaire Aubrey McClendon. Mr. McClendon is co-founder of Chesapeake Energy, the third largest independent producer of US natural gas. He also owns the pro basketball side Seattle SuperSonics and is listed as the world’s 664th richest person in the latest Forbes list, which estimates his wealth at $1.5 billion. |
| Dominic Frederico | ACE. |
| John Fredriksen | 65 in 2009, Norwegian shipping magnate worth over $4 billion in 2009, owner and chairman of Bermuda-registered SeaDrill, and Frontline Ltd, world's largest oil tanker operators and drillers. |
| Michael French | Scottish Annuity. |
| Bill Gates | The Microsoft founder and CEO, one of the richest men in the world, believed to have many Bermuda financial and other connections. |
| Bruce Gordon | Australian, media mogul worth over $ 1 billion in 2007. He heads Bermuda based Paramount Television International Services Ltd and other holdings including Birketu Pty Ltd. He purchased for $7 million the former Bermuda real estate of Robert Stigwood. His WIN Television Network Ltd is Australia's largest private media company. |
| Peter Green | Wealthy investor, owner of the investment company Berco Ltd - with an office in Bermuda - part of the Mitchell empire, Bermuda resident, long-time contributor to the UK's Labour Party. His first wife was the late Mary-Jean Mitchell, who died in 1990. She was only child of Sir Harold Mitchell, then one of the world's wealthiest men, who arrived in Bermuda in 1947 with his wife Mary Pringle. He has a $ multi-million home on Marshall's Island. He married again, as a widower. He is wealthy in his own right. Born in Manchester, his father was an entrepreneur in textiles and grocery stores. The latter later became Tesco. |
| Maurice (Hank) R. Greenberg | Former Chairman & CEO of American International Group, the biggest insurance company and the first international insurance company to establish on office in Bermuda. He was believed to be worth over US$2.3 billion until the huge 2008-2009 crash in AIG's share prices and its takeover by the US government.. His son is Evan, president and CEO of Ace Ltd. |
| Christopher Greetham | XL Capital. |
| Herbert Haag | Retired recently as CEO of Partner Re. |
| Dennis Higginbottom | IPC Holdings. |
| Kristian L. Hougaard | Fritholme Main House, 12 Fritholme Gardens, Paget PG 04. Phone 296-0033. Since 1978 in Bermuda and Copenhagen, Denmark after he had accumulated a significant base of knowledge of the aircraft industry as a Boeing 707 captain. Since then his World Jet Trading has sold and purchased corporate jet aircraft on a worldwide scale to a diverse set of clients including large corporations, high net worth individuals, public institutions, and governments. It has a solid global coverage, working with clients in the Asia Pacific, Africa, Middle East, Europe, and North and South America. |
| JD Irving | The famous Canadian dynasty, the Irving family, has a major offshore corporate base here. A $6 billion empire, it controls huge business concerns in New Brunswick. The 125-year-old dynasty has a number of JD Irving Limited Bermuda-registered entities, and the Island became the final home for company patriarch Kenneth Colin Irving before he passed away in 1992. Since then it has been Mr. Irving's three sons JK, Arthur and Jack, all in their 70s, who have overseen the various elements of the business, which includes media, oil and energy, and forestry. The Irving family is the third richest in Canada. |
| Edward (Ned) Crosby Johnson III | American, Bermuda resident, founder and billionaire chief executive of FMR Corporation (Fidelity). He has a Somerset home. He's been very generous to Bermuda, including funding the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute. He is believed to be worth over US$7 billion in 2009. His daughter Abigail, also with a home in Bermuda, believed to be on Seabright Avenue, Paget, has an estimated worth of $10 billion. |
| Robin Judah | Briton resident, millionaire, supporter of the arts, in 2008 donated more than $10 million to a hospice in Blaenau, Gwent, Wales. He was born in Calcutta, and spent several years working in London as a stockbroker. Since moving to Bermuda in 1975, he has spent much time travelling, along with pursuing his interest in photography, an interest which has resulted in a book, "Organic Abstractions," which focused on pictures of plant life photographed with powerful lenses and a variety of film types. He donated all the profits from the book to PALS, a local cancer charity on which he sits on the board of directors. |
| Henry Keeling | XL Capital. |
| James Kelly | Mutual Risk Management. |
| John Kessock, Jr. | Mutual Risk Management. |
| Henry and Simon Keswick | British millionaires. They founded the formerly Hong Kong based Jardines corporate empire, five of the principal companies of which fled Hong Kong in favor of Bermuda in registration and corporate domain. |
| John Werner Kluge | American billionaire, Bermuda resident. He headed the Metromedia conglomerate. His luxury yacht Virginian was once often seen in Bermuda waters, registered at the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club. |
| Donald Kramer | ACE. |
| Ronald Lauder | 65 in 2009. Worth at least US$ 2 billion in 2009. He heads Bermuda registered Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. He and his brother Leonard are cosmetics heirs, via his mother Estee Lauder. |
| Stephen Lauder | Believed to be worth over US$3 billion. He owns Bermuda-registered companies. |
| John Lummis | Renaissance Re. |
| Robert Lusardi | XL Capital. |
| Hugh Lowenstein | A Bloomberg director who owns Bermuda-based Shore Capital Ltd. His large property, "Jungle," in Tucker's Town was sold recently to the daughters of Michael Bloomberg. |
| James Martin | Futurologist, has a home in Bermuda |
| Aubrey McClendon | In 2006, he bought Castle Point in Tucker's Town, one of Bermuda's most luxurious properties, 8 acres surrounded by water on three sides, for $20.8m. He is co-founder of Chesapeake Energy, the third largest independent producer of US natural gas. He also owns the pro basketball side Seattle SuperSonics and is listed as the world’s 664th richest person in the latest Forbes list, which estimates his wealth at $1.5 billion. |
| Betty L. McMahon | Private lady, year-round resident, very wealthy. |
| Dr. Brian Mercer | British, founder of a plastic mesh empire, he first relocated to Bermuda in 1994. He is worth at least US$ 64 million. |
| Bruno Meyenhofer | Partner Re. |
| Scott Moore | Partner Re. |
| Robert Mulderig | Until late 2002, he was President of Mutual Risk Management Ltd. Bermudian. |
| Rupert Murdoch | Based in the USA, this media magnate uses Bermuda to base some of his holding companies for his US $ 5.6 billion fortune. He is believed to have 101 British or other companies listed as subsidiaries of his main British holding company Newscorp Investments. They include his low profile News Publishers company in Bermuda - which in the seven years to 1996 made about US $3 billion in profit -and many others in the Cayman Islands, Netherlands Antilles and British Virgin Islands. The Bermuda company was more profitable during the 1990s than any other British company. It uses tax avoidance procedures legal in Bermuda to avoid paying taxes elsewhere. Murdoch also bases his family's £3.8 billion investment vehicle, Karlholt, in Bermuda and lists it on the Bermuda Sock Exchange |
| Paul Myners |  Baron
Myners, CBE (born 1 April 1948) was quoted by British Newspapers on 23
March 2009 including the Telegraph and Sunday Times as in charge of the
UK Government's clampdown on tax avoidance, tax evasion and tax havens
as having set up his own business in Bermuda, Aspen Insurance Holdings.
The newspapers intimated he earned nearly £200,000 in a year during his
time as chairman of Aspen, between 2002 and 2007. He has stated he has
always paid all his UK taxes and has no continuing interest in or from
Aspen. He is Financial Services Secretary (a
position sometimes referred to as City Minister) HM Treasury, in UK
Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government. He has held the position since
October 2008, being made a life peer in order to permit his appointment,
as he was not (and never has been) an elected Member of Parliament. He
also serves on the Prime Minister's National Economic Council. Myners
has worked in the financial sector since 1974. He has also held a number
of third sector posts, including Chairman of the Trustees of the Tate
Gallery and Chairman of the Low Pay Commission, all of which he
relinquished on his ministerial appointment. Immediately prior to his
ministerial appointment he was Chairman of the Guardian Media Group,
publisher of The Guardian and The Observer newspapers, and chairman of
Land Securities Group, the largest quoted property company in Europe at
that time. He is a former Chairman of Marks & Spencer and Deputy
Chairman of PowerGen. |
| Brian O'Hara | President of XL Capital Ltd. One of the highest paid Bermuda based chief executives among leading world commercial insurers and re-insurers. |
| Sir Christopher Ondaatje | An exhibition room at the Bermuda National Gallery is named in his honour, for the financial support he has provided. A cultural philanthropist, he helped fund an extension to London's National Portrait Gallery; and has donated thousands of British pounds to the Gulbenkian Foundation's £100,000 arts prize. Philip Christopher Ondaatje, eldest son of Philip Mervyn and Enid Doris Gratiaen, was born in Kandy, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) on February 22, 1933. As a child, he moved to England where he was educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton. In 1956, he emigrated to Canada. He married Valda Bulins in 1959. Ondaatje lived in Canada for a number of years and built a highly successful career, first in banking, finance, and then publishing. He has three children: David, Sarah, and Janet. From a family noted for its literary achievements, once Ondaatje "retired" from the corporate world, he broke new ground as a respected writer of thought-provoking books dealing with significant political, historical and geographical events. He was president of Pagurian Press Ltd in Toronto in 1967, where he combined his financial powers and love of literature. He was also a founding partner in Loewen, Ondaatje, McCutcheon & Co. Ltd., in Toronto, from 1970 to 1988. Although he re-purchased control of Loewen, Ondaatje, McCutcheon & Co. Ltd., in 1992, he officially retired from finance in 1995, when he sold control of the company. Since then, he has devoted his time to travelling, writing and administering The Ondaatje Foundation. He was a member of the Canadian Olympic Bobsled team in 1964. He has maintained his interest in sports. He is a member of the Chester Yacht Club of Nova Scotia and the Toronto Golf Club. He is a life member and Patron of the Somerset County Cricket Club, England. He has fostered the development of learning and international understanding through The Ondaatje Foundation. He is a member of the Traveller's Club, London, England and a Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society, England. He is on the Advisory Board of Pearson College, Canada; Advisory Board Member of Lakefield College School in Canada; Governor of Blundell's School in England; as well as being an Honorary Governor of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. In addition, he is Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, on the Advisory Board of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. He has written eight books. He became an Officer, Order of Canada, in 1993 and has received three LL.Ds., from Dalhouise University in 1994, University of Buckingham in 2003, and Exeter University in 2003. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, June 2000, and awarded a Knighthood in the Queen's Honours list, June 2003. |
| Don Panoz | American-born in Pittsburgh, PA, Irish tax exile, properties he owns includes Ireland's Elan Corporation with a Bermuda office; Chateau Elan group with hotels and wineries in California and Georgia; a £58 million golf and hotel complex at St. Andrew's Bay in Scotland. |
| David Palmer | 2003 Squash World champion. An Australian, he has a home in Bermuda. |
| Glenn Partridge | Mutual Risk Management. |
| Allen Paulson | Very rich, he put his Bermuda theme casino and hotel at the River Palms Resort in Laughlin, Nevada, near Las Vegas, in Bermuda shorts and filled them with Bermuda palms, plants and more. |
| Viscount Petersham | British, titled, worth US$ 160 million and has Halley Investment company in Bermuda. |
| Ross Perot | 79 in 2009. In the 1992 and 1996 US Presidential elections he won 19 percent of the popular vote. He founded the Reform Party in USA. He's worth at least US$ 4.5 billion in 2009. He and his son, Ross Jr, own lavish side by side Bermuda homes in Tucker's Town. His own property is "Vertigo. " Ross Jr. has "Caliban" on 2.86 acres overlooking Waller's Bay and Surf Bays, with various buildings. In August 2006, Ross Sr's guests included US Cabinet Secretary Jim Nicholson and America's leading wine importer John F. Mariani, Jr. Bermuda-based Parkcentral Global Hub is his family trust. Steven Blasnik, president of Parkcentral Capital Management LP and manager of the Perot family's money since 1992, and others formed Parkcentral Global in 2002 |
| Marion Macmillan Pictet | 77 in 2009, American, Bermuda resident, worth at least US$3.6 billion. She runs Cargill Inc. and once owned Perot's Island in the Great Sound. She is descended from William W Cargill, who started with one-grain elevator in post-Civil War Iowa. |
| Hasso Plattner | Formerly Chairman of SAP, owner of 1st over the line Morning Glory in a recent Newport to Bermuda Race. Lives at "Sea Crest" Shore Lane, Tucker's Town. |
| Patrick Rafter | Two-time U.S. Open Tennis Champion and Wimbledon runner-up. |
| Dennis Reding | ACE. |
| Robert Reale | Annuity & Life |
| William Riker | Renaissance Re. |
| Hans-Joerg Rudloff | A frequent visitor to Bermuda, he is chairman of Barclays Capital - the investment banking division of Barclays Bank; the director of Bermuda-based Marcuard Capital (Bermuda) Ltd; and is a board member of the enormously wealthy (about US$2.7 billion) Bermuda-based Thyssen-Bornemisza Group. It cost US$100 million to settle its grievances in Bermuda in 2001-2002. |
| Gary Scofield | Annuity & Life. |
| Hon. Christopher Sharples | He lives with his wife and mother, Baroness Sharples, at Tideway, 19 Lone Palm Drive, Point Shares, Pembroke Parish, Bermuda. It is a home that cost many millions of dollars. It received Bermuda’s residential building design award in 2001. The Hon. Christopher Sharples and mother Baroness Sharples are the son and wife respectively of Governor Sir Richard Sharples who was assassinated in Bermuda in 1974 with his aide-de-camp, Captain Hugh Sayers, Welch Guards, British Army. They are buried side by side at St. Peter's Church in the Town of St. George. Lady Sharples was made a Baroness by the British Government in London soon afterwards. |
| James Sherwood | American, worth at least US$ 80 million. He heads the Bermuda registered company Sea Containers Ltd. It has substantial real estate, hotel and ferry holdings in Europe and elsewhere. He was the major investor in the reconstituted Orient Express in the late 1970s and spent $32 million on it. |
| George Soros | Hungarian born, British, worth at least $968 million. Via two funds, he holds shares in Bermuda based IPC Holdings, a subsidiary of which is catastrophe insurer International Property Catastrophe Reinsurance Company Ltd. |
| Robert Stigwood | Former Bermuda resident, film and musical producer (Grease etc) from 1978 to 1991 and entrepreneur, now worth US$ 360 million. His Bermuda-based company is Cedarwood Ltd. |
| Ernest Stempel | Retired CEO of AIG, the largest American insurance conglomerate, having worked there since 1938. A Bermuda resident of Pembroke Parish and worth over $1.3 billion in 2009. |
| James Stanard | Bermuda-based Renaissance Re. |
| Ed Trippe | American, part time Bermuda resident, son of Juan Trippe who founded Pan American World Airways and serviced Bermuda from 1937. President of Bermuda Properties established by his father. Has a home in Tucker's Town. Also president of the Pan Am Historical Foundation, dedicated to Pan American World Airways. Operates Aegis Systems Inc. in Boston and a trustee of the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Inc. |
| Monroe Trout | Prominent Bermuda based commodities futures trader who owns and operates Hamilton Fund Ltd. His Trout Trading Management Co. Ltd. is based in Bermuda and does not come under the rules and regulations of the USA based Securities and Exchange Commission. It is now a US$ 2 billion fund. Has a brother, Timothy, who once owned part of the company. |
| Richard Tucker | Annuity & Life. |
| Richard Turner | Mutual Risk Management. |
| Bruce Wasserstein | CEO of multi-billion dollar Wall Street investment bank Lazard which is incorporated in Bermuda. He took the company public in 2005 and is estimated to be worth approximately $2 billion. |
| Charles Watts | British, former Rolling Stones group drummer, worth about US$ 96 million. |
| John Weale | IPC Holdings. |
| Sanford Weill | CEO of Citygroup Inc. He tops the list of earnings of Bermuda-based executives with an estimated $19.5 million in last reported annual earnings. |
| Scott Willkomm | formerly with Scottish Annuity. |
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