Profil Financier
Otto Happel occupe actuellement le rang #1080 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur industrie & manufacturing). Fortune nette estimée : $4.0 B (-$438 sur 24h).
Otto Happel, who studied engineering, inherited his father's dust-removal business and turned it into thermal engineering firm GEA.
In 1999, he sold his 50.1% GEA stake to Germany's MG Technologies for around $775 million in cash and kept a 10% interest in the combined group.
In 2005, the company renamed itself GEA Group. Happel cashed out in 2006, selling his remaining stake to institutional investors for $700 million.
In 2015, he attended the World Economic Forum in his role as chairman of the Swiss private wealth management firm Luserve AG.
A foundation in his name supports projects in the developing world.
He has a super-yacht named Hetairos and lives in Switzerland with his wife and six children.