Raphael Geminder is an Australian businessman, most notable for being the founder of the Pact Group Holdings, which is the largest packaging company in Australia.

Career

Geminder was born and raised in South Africa. He attended the King David Linksfield High School in

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. He completed his MBA in Finance from

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. He served as the chairman of

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from 1991 to 2002. In 2002, he founded the Pact Group Holdings, and he serves as its non-executive chairman. , Geminder owned 47 percent of PACT. Geminder has served as the Honorary Consul of the Republic of South Africa, in the State of Victoria, since July 2006. In 2015 it was reported that Geminder was a board member of the Carlton Football Club.

Personal life

Geminder is married to

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, who was, in 2021, equally notable for being the third richest woman in Australia; and is a daughter of the late Richard Pratt and Jeanne Pratt . Raphael and Fiona Geminder have one daughter, Georgia Geminder, who left a career of fashion modelling to start her own herbal toothpaste company.

Net worth

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'' assessed his

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at 3.3 billion, making Geminder ranked as one of the wealthiest businessmen in Australia. Geminder has regularly appeared in '' The Australian Financial Review'' Rich List, a list of the 200 richest people in Australia:

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Geminder, Raphael Living people Australian billionaires Businesspeople from Sydney Australian chief executives Businesspeople from Melbourne Year of birth missing (living people) South African emigrants to Australia Australian Jews