The province of Liège is home to many of Belgium’s richest people, with renowned entrepreneurs and industrialists in key sectors such as brewing, biotechnology and video technology. Alexandre Van Damme, François Fornieri and Laurent Minguet are among the richest people in the region.
Bruno Venanzi, former boss of Lampiris and president of Standard de Liège, is today an emblematic figure of Liège’s success. It is part of a region that is home to some of Belgium’s greatest fortunes.
The first fortune in Liège is that of Alexandre Van Damme, a major shareholder of AB InBev, with a fortune estimated at $3.4 billion according to Forbes. Grandson of Albert Van Damme, founder of the Piedboeuf brewery, famous for Jupiler, Alexandre Van Damme has served on the brewery’s board of directors since 1994. For several years, he was even the richest Belgian. He is also known for his strict education on money management, inherited from his grandfather.
The second largest fortune in Liège is that of François Fornieri, founder of Mithra, a biotechnology company specializing in women’s health, which recently went bankrupt, with a fortune estimated at several hundred million euros.
In third position, we find Laurent Minguet, entrepreneur at the head of EVS, a company specializing in the manufacturing of professional video servers. He is also a millionaire, and his company is recognized in the field of professional image recording.
Among the greatest Belgian fortunes, the richest is Eric Wittouck, with a fortune estimated at 8.5 billion dollars, which places him 298th in the world according to Forbes. However, among Liégeois, Alexandre Van Damme is the only one to appear in the top 10 of the richest in Belgium.
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