Barry Zekelman
$3.41B
as of 10/04/24
About Barry Zekelman
Barry Zekelman took over his family's steel business at age 19 and has since grown it into one of North America's largest steel pipe and tube makers.
He sold the company to the Carlyle Group in 2006 for some $1.2 billion, but continued to help run it. He and his family bought it back in 2011.
Today Barry and his two brothers, Clayton and Alan Zekelman, split 100% ownership of the $4.2 billion (revenues) firm, now named Zekelman Industries.
He made headlines when he was captured on a secret recording of a 2018 Trump donor dinner, bending the president's ear about the steel business.
One of Zekelman Industries' subsidiaries, Atlas Tube, produced steel for stretches of the Mexican border wall in Arizona.
Personal stats
Citizenship
CanadaSource of wealth
SteelResidence
Windsor, CanadaBirth date
01/03/67 (age 57)Education
Drop Out, York UniversitySelf-made
inherited and growingBarry Zekelman’s fortune is worth
57K
troy ounces of gold
53K
median U.S. household
34K
median U.S. income
0.068%
U.S. credit card volume
0.014%
GDP of the United States
0.01%
United States debt
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Zekelman races Ferraris and has owned a series of yachts named "Man of Steel."
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