Charlotte Colket Weber – Billionaire

Charlotte Colket Weber is a Campbell Soup Company heir. She served on the business’ board from 1990 until November 2014, when she stepped down due to age limits. Her billionaire cousins, Bennett Dorrance and Mary Alice Dorrance Malone, are still directors. Their grandfather, John T. Dorrance, invented the condensed soup formula that turned the company into a global soup empire. Weber is a devoted equestrian lover and owns the Live Oak Stud Farm, a 4,500-acre horse farm and commercial cattle operation just west of Ocala, Florida. She has also been an avid collector of Chinese art, a passion that reportedly began when her uncle gave her a rare porcelain K’ang-hsi frog in the 1970s. In 1988 she donated a collection worth $20 million to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she’s an honorary trustee.

harlotte Colket Weber is the Independent Director at Campbell Soup Co. with an estimated net worth of $1.3 billion as of March 2013. She was the 360th richest person in the “Forbes 400” list and the 1107th in the list of World Billionaires.

Weber is the granddaughter of John T. Dorrance, a condensed soup inventor and the founder of Campbell Soup. She has been on the board of the company since 1990 along with her cousins Bennett Dorrance and Mary Alice Dorrance Malone.

As a devoted equestrian, Charlotte Colket Weber is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Live Oak Properties. She owns and manages the Live Oak Stud, a 4,500-acre thoroughbred farm and commercial e-cattle operation based in Ocala, Florida.

Born on November 19, 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Weber received her undergraduate degree in art and design at l’Ecole du Louvre in Paris and is considered a patron of art. She is one of the chairpersons on the council of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She also donated a collection of Chinese art worth $20 million to the museum in 1998. She is a known supporter of women’s and children’s initiatives such as the New York Women’s Foundation and Work to Ride in Philadelphia through her Live Oak Foundation.

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