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Georg Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza
Georg Heinrich, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza (19 March 1950 - 30 September 2022) was the chairman of the private venture capital firm TBG AG, which operates as the investment arm of the Thyssen family, Thyssen-Bornemisza family. Early life Georg Heinrich was the eldest son of noted industrialist and art collector Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1921 – 2002) from his first wife, Princess Teresa Amalia Franziska Elisabeth Maria of Lippe-Weissenfeld (1925-2008), second child and the only daughter of Prince Alfred of House of Lippe, Lippe-Weissenfeld (1896-1970) and Franziska, Countess of Schönborn family, Schönborn-Buchheim (1902-1987). Career Under his chairmanship, TBG has undertaken several large acquisitions, including the $900M purchase in 2017 of US-based weather and data analytics company DTN (company), DTN, and the 2018 purchase of European weather firm MeteoGroup for an undisclosed sum. He was among the wealthiest individuals in Switzerland. He had been chairman of the Zur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lugano
Lugano (, , ; lmo, label=Ticinese dialect, Ticinese, Lugan ) is a city and municipality in Switzerland, part of the Lugano District in the canton of Ticino. It is the largest city of both Ticino and the Italian-speaking southern Switzerland. Lugano has a population () of , and an urban agglomeration of over 150,000. It is the List of cities in Switzerland, ninth largest Swiss city. The city lies on Lake Lugano, at its largest width, and, together with the adjacent town of Paradiso, Switzerland, Paradiso, occupies the entire bay of Lugano. The territory of the municipality encompasses a much larger region on both sides of the lake, with numerous isolated villages. The region of Lugano is surrounded by the Lugano Prealps, the latter extending on most of the Sottoceneri region, the southernmost part of Ticino and Switzerland. Both western and eastern parts of the municipality share an international border with Italy. Described as a market town since 984, Lugano was the object of con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
