Profil Financier
Dietmar Hopp & family occupe actuellement le rang #660 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur technologie). Fortune nette estimée : $6.3 B (-$355 sur 24h).
Dietmar Hopp left IBM with four colleagues in 1972 to launch German enterprise software company SAP (Systems, Applications, Products).
He served as co-CEO from 1988, the year SAP went public, to 1998 and then as chairman of the supervisory board until 2003.
In 1996, he transferred most of his SAP shares to a charitable foundation.
That entity, Dietmar Hopp Stiftung, supports sports, medicine, education and social programs, and has distributed around $1 billion since its start.
Hopp and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are investors in CureVac, a German developer of vaccines for a range of diseases including Covid-19.
Hopp is the main financial backer of TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, a soccer club that plays in the First Bundesliga, the top division of Germany's league system.
The Hopp family owns Domaine de Terre Blanche, a luxury golf resort and residential community in Provence, France, purchased from the actor Sean Connery.