Roger Wang Net Worth - Pulptastic
Michael King Roger Wang: Chinese-American entrepreneur with a net worth of $3.3 billion
Roger Wang is a Chinese-American entrepreneur who made his fortune in the real estate industry. After moving to the United States in the early 70s, he attended Southeastern Louisiana University and earned a Masters in Business Administration. He quickly established himself in California, adding insurance and hotel work to his successful real estate ventures.
In 1995, he founded Golden Eagle International Group and Golden Eagle Retail Group, which specialize in real estate development and clothing sales, respectively. Golden Eagle has retail locations all over China and went public in 2006. Today, Wang is still the primary shareholder, and the company has nearly 5000 employees. Golden Eagle is traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the ticker number 3308, with a market cap of $2.7 billion US dollars as of February 2014.
Aside from his business ventures, Wang is also a very active philanthropist, regularly giving money to initiatives and non-profit groups in the US and abroad. His daughter, Dorothy Wang, is set to appear in the reality show “Rich Kids of Instagram” and hopes to someday join her father in the real estate business.