Sheldon Lavin

$3.13B

as of 07/14/23

About Sheldon Lavin

Sheldon Lavin owns OSI Group, a $6 billion (revenues) global meat processor that started out as the original fresh hamburger supplier to McDonald's.

OSI still supplies most of McDonald's meat products worldwide, and produces plant-based burgers for Impossible Foods.

Lavin joined OSI as a consultant in 1970 to figure out how to finance the company's first modern meat plant as McDonald's franchising took off.

He became a fulltime employee and took over the business in the 1980s, acquiring an estimated 90% stake over time.

OSI now has 65 plants in 17 countries on five continents.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Meat processing

Birth date

06/17/32

Number of children

Self-made

self-made

Sheldon Lavin’s fortune is worth

52K

troy ounces of gold

48K

median U.S. household

31K

median U.S. income

0.063%

U.S. credit card volume

0.013%

GDP of the United States

0.009%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

German immigrant Otto Kolschowsky started a butcher shop in the Chicago suburbs in 1909 which eventually became OSI.