Bernard Arnault & family

    Bernard Arnault & family
  • Chairman and CEO, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton
  • Age: 64
  • Source of Wealth: LVMH, inherited and growing
  • Residence: Paris, France
  • Country of Citizenship: France
  • Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Ecole Polytechnique de Paris
  • Marital Status: Married
  • Children: 5
 Profile
 Arnault oversees a luxury empire whose brands include Dom Perignon, Bulgari, Louis Vuitton, Thomas Pink and De Beers.
This fall the billionaire taste-maker to the world appointed his daughter to executive vice president of Louis Vuitton, the second of his children to take a leadership role in the company -- his son Antoine runs the shoemaker Berluti. Arnault hopes to open his new Frank Gehry-designed museum, Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation, in Paris by 2014.