Patrick Drahi.
The French-Israeli businessman is the son of two maths teachers and has an estimated net worth of $9.4bn.
The 60th-richest person in the world according to Forbes, he was born into a Jewish family in Morocco and moved to France as a teenager.
He has French, Portuguese, and Israeli citizenship and now lives in Switzerland. The telecom magnate owns 60% of Altice, the company he founded which invests and controls telecoms, media and mobile operators such as France’s largest cable operator Numericable and Cablevision in the US.
