Simon Reuben

About Simon Reuben

Simon Reuben shares a real estate, technology and investment fortune with his brother David Reuben.

In 2016, they sold 49% of their data center business, GlobalSwitch, to a consortium of Chinese investors for nearly $3 billion.

They sold a further 25% of the business in 2018 for $2.7 billion to a consortium of Asian institutional and private investors for $2.7 billion.

The brothers were born in Mumbai and raised in the U.K., where David started off trading metals and Simon imported carpets and bought real estate.

Their firm Transworld, a metals trader, invested in Russia and Kazakhstan in the 1990s and was active in trading aluminum.

The Reuben family owns an estimated 14% of Premier League's Newcastle United F.C.