Fayez Sarofim
| Fayez Sarofim | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1929 (age 87–88) Egypt |
| Nationality | United States |
| Net worth | US$ 1.91 billion (August 2015) |
| Spouse(s) | Louisa Stude (divorced) Linda Hicks (divorced) Susan Krohn |
| Children |
with Stude: --Christopher Sarofim --Allison Sarofim with Hicks: --Andrew Sarofim --Phillip Sarofim -- Maxwell Sarofim --stepson |
Fayez Sarofim (Arabic: فايز صاروفيم) (born 1929 in Egypt) is a Coptic American heir to the Sarofim family fortune, fund manager for a number of Dreyfus family stock funds, an original and second largest shareholder of Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) and part owner of the NFL team Houston Texans; ranked 5th Most Valuable NFL team worth $1.85 billion. He is divorced with five children, and lives in Houston, Texas. With an estimated current[update] net worth of $1.91 billion, Sarofim is ranked by Forbes as the 847-richest person in the world, in 2015. His investment firms oversees over $30 billion in assets.
Fayez Shalaby Sarofim was born in 1929 in Cairo, into Egyptian nobility. As the son of an Egyptian aristocrat and agricultural magnate, Sarofim lived a life among Egypt's political and wealthy elite, in modern Heliopolis. As a Bey equivalent to European peerage title Marquess, Sarofim's father held large feudal and Egyptian cotton estates throughout North Africa. Sarofim came to the United States in 1946 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1961. After, earning degrees from the University of California Berkeley, and Harvard Business School, Sarofim took a job with cotton company Anderson, Clayton in Houston. In August 1958, he founded Fayez Sarofim & Company, a Houston investment firm. In 1997, he was inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame. Sarofim is ranked third on the most influential Egyptian Americans. The Sarofim family is recorded in Burke's Peerage and the 'Imperial and Asiatic quarterly review and oriental and colonial record'.
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