Net Worth: $4.7 B
Source of Wealth: duty-free
Residence: Bangkok, Thailand
Citizenship: Thailand
- Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha is the son of Thailand’s late duty-free tycoon, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in a helicopter crash in October 2018.
- With estimated annual revenue of $3.2 billion, King Power, is the country’s leading operator of airport duty-free stores.
- The company is now run by Aiyawatt (Top), who’s King Power’s chairman and CEO and shares his fortune with his mother and three siblings.
- Aiyawatt also chairs Leicester City, the English football club his family bought and turned into one of the best performing clubs in the league.
- They also own a major chunk of MahaNakhon, a Bangkok development that has Thailand’s tallest skyscraper.