Chip Wilson

Chairman, Lululemon
$5.03B
as of 10/04/24

About Chip Wilson

Dennis "Chip" Wilson is the founder and former CEO of Lululemon, which he started with a single store in Vancouver in 2000.

He took the athleisure company public in 2007 but resigned as chairman in 2013 and removed himself from the business completely in 2015.

Although Wilson has no management role at Lululemon, he remains its biggest individual shareholder with an 8% stake.

Wilson, his wife and five sons now operate a holding company called Hold It All, which invests in apparel, real estate and private equity.

He has stakes in Chinese activewear company Anta Sports and Amer Sports, which owns brands like Salomon, Arc'teryx and Wilson.

Personal stats

Citizenship

Canada

Source of wealth

Lululemon

Residence

Vancouver, Canada

Marital status

Married

Birth date

01/01/57 (age 67)

Number of children

5

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Calgary

Self-made

self-made

Chip Wilson’s fortune is worth

84K

troy ounces of gold

77K

median U.S. household

50K

median U.S. income

0.101%

U.S. credit card volume

0.02%

GDP of the United States

0.015%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

The son of a seamstress, Wilson's first retail venture was Westbeach Snowboard, which he started in 1979 to sell apparel for surfers, skaters and snowboarders.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

HONG KONG | 2020-HK

ANTA Sports Products Ltd.

NASDAQ | LULU-US

Lululemon

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