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Saturday, July 5, 2014

Youngest Billionaires in the World 11-20

No. 11: Yvonne Bauer
Age: 34
Net Worth: $2 billion

In December 2010 German publisher Heinz Bauer, age 72, transferred 85% of the limited partnership of the family-run business to his daughter Yvonne, who is the company's CEO. She is the fifth generation of the family to run the group, which was founded in 1875.

No. 12: Yoshikazu Tanaka
Age: 35
Net Worth: $4.3 billion

Yoshikazu Tanaka is the founder and CEO of Gree, a mobile gaming service that is Japan's biggest online social network. Gree aims to outpace Japanese rivals abroad: it acquired U.S. mobile gaming company OpenFeint last year, and works with China's largest net portal, Tencent.

No. 14: Alejandro Santo Domingo Davila
Age: 35
Net Worth: $9.5 billion

Alejandro became the face of his father's company after 87-year-old Julio Mario Santo Domingo Pumarejo died in October 2011. A Harvard history grad, the Columbian is the eldest son from the jet-setting beer magnate's second marriage. The family owns a private island, Baru, off the Caribbean coast of Colombia.

No. 15: Chase Coleman
Age: 36
Net Worth: $1.1 billion

A direct descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, Coleman is a Deerfield and Williams grad and "Tiger Cub" trained at Julian Robertson's famed hedge fund shop Tiger Management. His Tiger Global outperformed just about every hedge fund in the world in 2011, finishing the year up 45%.


No. 16: Yusaku Maezawa
Age: 36
Net Worth: $1.1 billion

Yusaku founded online fashion mall Zozotown, a wildly popular website with some 1,600 brands, mostly Japanese, and 4 million members. The website is structured like an actual mall where stores are set up; items are even sold on consignment.

No. 17: Andrey Verevskiy
Age: 37
Net Worth: $1 billion

Ukranian took agribusiness conglomerate Kernel Holding public on Warsaw stock exchange in 2007. Parliamentary deputy adroitly switched parties from Yulia Tymoshenko's bloc to new president Victor Yanukovich's bloc when the political winds shifted.

No. 18: John Arnold
Age: 38
Net Worth: $3 billion

Arnold began trading oil at Enron in 1995 and is said to have earned $750 million for company in 2001. When the energy outfit famously collapsed a year later, he went into business for himself founding Centaurus, a hedge fund focusing mostly on natural gas and energy trading.

No. 19: Kostyantin Zhevago
Age: 38
Net Worth: $1.8 billion

Ukraine's second-youngest billionaire recently purchased Danube River waterway transport provider Helogistics. Graduate of Kyiv State Economic University is also a parliamentary deputy, and he owns FC Vorskla soccer club.

No. 20: Fang Wei

Age: 38
Net Wroth: $1.1 billion

Beijing-based investor targets under-performing state-owned listed companies for restructuring. Fangda Group now has more than 30,000 employees across more than 10 provinces in China.

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