Rihanna and Michael Lee-Chin: The richest Caribbean individuals on the planet
In 2022, two Caribbean natives made the celebrated listing of world billionaires (US
forex). Jamaican investor Michael Lee-Chin and Bajan Songstress Rihanna. The
two, together with different luminaries together with Oprah Winfrey, Jay-Z, Tyler Perry, and
Lebron James, make up a restricted pool of billionaires of African descent.
Michael Lee-Chin
Michael Lee-Chin is thought all through the island of Jamaica as a businessman with out
friends. He’s the chairman of the regional banking conglomerate Nationwide Business
Financial institution (NCB) and head of Portland Holdings Inc., a pirate funding firm in
Ontario, Canada, the place he’s at the moment based mostly. He’s estimated to be price round 1.4
billion US {dollars}.
Mr. Lee-Chin was born to Jamaican-Chinese language mother and father in 1951. His mom labored as a
bookkeeper and his father ran an area grocery. He was appointed chairman of
Jamaica’s Financial Progress Council in 2016 and awarded the Order of Ontario in 2017
for excellent achievement in his area and contribution to his Canadian neighborhood.
Mr. Lee-Chin has made a large donation to the Royal Ontario Museum, the Rotman
Faculty of Administration on the College of Toronto McMaster College, and the
Joseph Brant Hospital Basis.
Rihanna
Newly minted nationwide hero of Barbados Rihanna (born Robyn Rihanna Fenty) has
been producing hit music for nearly 20 years now. The multiple-time Grammy
winner, occasional actress, businesswoman, and now mom, has excelled at each
alternative.
With over 250 million data offered, she is the second highest-selling feminine artist of all
time forward of contemporaries corresponding to Taylor Swift and Beyonce, and solely behind
Madonna, which makes her one of the vital profitable musical acts of all time.
Nonetheless, the key to her wealth is the speedy success of her Fenty Magnificence model. The
make-up model focuses on inclusivity, catering to each pores and skin tone and hue, and
pioneered a radical advertising technique of focusing on influencers of all sizes, not simply the
accounts commanding hundreds of thousands of followers, to indicate off their high-quality product. Within the
first month alone, the make-up model introduced in an unbelievable $72 million beating
established gamers within the area corresponding to Loreal and Kosas.
Earlier than Rihanna’s emphatic return to the stage on the latest Tremendous Bowl HalfTime Present,
it will not be a stretch to contemplate her extra of a enterprise mogul than an entertainer,
regardless of conquering each fields.