Ananda Krishnan

Ananda Krishnan, $7 billion, 71, married, 3 children.
He Runs Maxis Communications,Malaysia’s largest cell phone service provider, with more than 10 million subscribers. In June 2007 in $12 billion deal, then sold 25% to Saudi Telecom the same month. Last year sold Excel, the exhibition venue in London’s Docklands, for reported $230 million and bought 20% stake in British regional newspaper chain Johnston Press, luckily a small holding, as stock has dropped more than 80% since as it struggles with debt. Modern art collector, has homes in Kuala Lumpur, London and south of France, has a son who is a monk living in the forest.