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Nationality
  
French

Books
  
Badawi

Role
  
Businessman

Name
  
Mohed Altrad

Net worth
  
$1.12 billion


Mohed Altrad Scaffolding tycoon Mohed Altrad wins EY39s coveted

Born
  
March 9, 1948 (age 76) (
1948-03-09
)

Occupation
  
Businessman, rugby chairman

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Mohed Altrad, President of Altrad Group and 2015 EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year


Mohed Altrad is a Syrian-born French billionaire businessman, rugby chairman and writer, born in March 1948 in the desert of Syria. His mother died on the day he was born and his Bedouin father gave him away to his grandparents at age 4. He was destined to be a shepherd. In 2015, he was named World Entrepreneur of the Year by EY.

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Mohed Altrad Entrepreneur of the year a Bedouin turned businessman

Mohed altrad named ey world entrepreneur of the year 2015


Youth

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Mohed Altrad spent part of his youth in Raqqa, Syria. He did his A levels at 17, he earned an allocation of scholarship and came up with 200 francs in Montpellier, France.

Career

Mohed Altrad Mohed Altrad of Altrad Group from France named EY World

After earning a PhD in computer science at the University of Montpellier, he began working for the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, from which he left to buy a scaffolding company in France in 1985. This acquisition morphed into the present-day Groupe Altrad, employer of over 7,000 people, and involved in the scaffolding and cement-mixing industries. Altrad remains chairman of his namesake company, as well as the rugby club Montpellier Hérault Rugby. He has also penned three acclaimed novels. He is unsure of his day of birth, so he recently "picked a date from a hat" in order to celebrate one.


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References

Mohed Altrad Wikipedia