6Spiro Latsis – Net worth: $2.4 billion
Spiro J. Latsis, a Greek tycoon with a fortune of $2.4 billion, is the only Greek billionaire that still holds an important skate in the shipping industry.
After his father, John S. Latsis, passed away in 2003, the businessman has been managing the family fortune ever since.
The family’s largest position is in one of Greece’s major oil refining companies, called Hellenic Petroleum.
Spiro Latsis also holds an important stake in EFG International, a global private banking group headquartered in Zurich, and is also involved in Lamda Development, a publicly traded real estate company in Greece and South Eastern Europe; a company responsible for building The Mall Athens, one of the largest shopping malls in the region.
And if that wasn’t enough, the billionaire also owns Consolidated Marine management, which runs a 15-vessel fleet of product tankers and liquefied petroleum gas carriers.
