Patrick Drahi

$6.67B
as of 07/05/24

About Patrick Drahi

Telecoms magnate Patrick Drahi is the founder and owner of multinational Altice NV, which he took private in January 2021 at a $7.3 billion valuation.

Drahi built Altice with more than 20 acquisitions of lagging cable and mobile operators and has expanded further with highly leveraged deals.

In 2021, he spent approximately $4.2 billion to purchase an 18% stake in British telecom giant BT Group.

He stormed the U.S. in 2015 by buying a 70% stake in cable operator Suddenlink for $9 billion and snapping up Cablevision for $17.7 billion.

Those U.S. entities were spun off into Altice USA, which went public in June 2017.

Personal stats

Citizenship

France

Source of wealth

Telecom

Residence

Zermatt, Switzerland

Marital status

Married

Birth date

08/20/63 (age 60)

Number of children

4

Self-made

self-made

Patrick Drahi’s fortune is worth

111K

troy ounces of gold

103K

median U.S. household

67K

median U.S. income

0.133%

U.S. credit card volume

0.027%

GDP of the United States

0.02%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Drahi was born in Casablanca, Morocco and emigrated to France as a teenager.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

NYSE | ATUS-US

Altice USA

LONDON | BT.A-GB

BT Group

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