Erik Paulsson is a Swedish

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busin ...

businessman, the chairman of Skistar since 1977. In 1957, aged 17, Paulsson and his younger brother Mats founded

PEAB Peab AB is a construction and civil engineering company headquartered in Förslöv, Scania, listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm. It is the third largest construction company in Sweden and the Nordic region, with annual revenues exceeding SEK 50 billio ...

, initially waste management, before expanding into construction in 1970. PEAB had 2014 revenue of over $5 billion, and employed more than 14,000 people. He is married with four children, and lives in

Båstad Båstad () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Båstad Municipality, Scania County, Sweden, with approximately 5,000 permanent residents. It is however one of Sweden's most typical summer resorts. The population is presumably more ...

, Sweden.

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