Bent Jensen & Family
$2.18B
as of 12/21/24
About Bent Jensen & Family
Bent Jensen is the owner and CEO of Linak, a $680 million (revenue) Danish company that manufactures and sells linear actuators.
Linear actuators are devices that convert power into linear motion and are used in industrial equipment, furniture and hospital beds.
Jensen's grandfather founded the company in 1907; it originally made pulleys, grinding mills and forges.
Jensen, who received a mechanical engineering degree, joined the firm in 1976 -- with an idea for a new product: the linear actuator.
Today the company has factories in Denmark, the U.S., China and Slovakia.
Personal stats
Citizenship
DenmarkSource of wealth
electric systemsResidence
Nordborg, DenmarkBirth date
12/15/51 (age 73)Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Southern DenmarkSelf-made
inheritedBent Jensen & Family’s fortune is worth
36K
troy ounces of gold
33K
median U.S. household
22K
median U.S. income
0.044%
U.S. credit card volume
0.009%
GDP of the United States
0.006%
United States debt
Did you know?
Jensen came up with the idea for linear actuators while talking with a friend from school, who had a disability, about ways to improve his wheelchair.
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