James Leininger
$1.35 B
Former emergency room doctor James Leininger is now a Texas GOP heavyweight. A champion of school reform, Leininger favors school choice, home schooling and vouchers. He founded the Texas Public Policy Foundation in 1989 to support free-market policies and research. Leininger, also known simply as “Doctor Jim,” made his fortune founding medical devices company Kinetic Concepts (KCI), which focuses on wound care. Leininger started KCI in a one-bedroom apartment in 1976. In November 2012 a consortium of private equity firms led by Apax Partners closed a $6.3 billion acquisition of the company. Leininger was the largest individual shareholder and sold his stake when Apax took the company private. Since then he has mostly invested through his Medcare Investment Funds, which manage $1 billion in assets. In addition to funneling money toward school reform, he is a longtime donor to Texas Gov. Rick Perry. He enjoys fishing, bow hunting, scuba diving and hiking, and he has a small stake in the San Antonio Spurs.
James Pritzker net worth: James Pritzker, today known as Jennifer Pritzker, is an American business woman who has a net worth of $2 billion. James Pritzker is the richest transgender person on the planet. In the fall of 2013, she completed her transition, and is now known as Jennifer Natalya Pritzker. Pritzker graduated from Loyola University in Illinois, and served in the Army, achieving the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. She then went on to found the Pritzker Military Library in Chicago. She is currently the CEO of Tawani Enterprises, a wealth management firm for individuals. A member of the large and very wealthy Pritzker family, in 2007 she was part of the group of family members who sold their majority stake in Marmon Holdings to Warren Buffett for $4.5 billion. A.N. Pritzker, Jennifer Pritzker’s grandfather, built an impressive real estate portfolio during the 1930s depression. The next generation founded Marmon Holdings and the Hyatt Hotel chain. Today the family is worth a combined $33 billion+.
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