Olayan, Suliman Saleh

Olayan, Suliman Saleh
▪ 2003

      Saudi businessman (b. Nov. 5, 1918, Unayzah, [Saudi] Arabia—d. July 4, 2002, New York, N.Y.), founded the Olayan Group, one of the largest and most successful corporations in Saudi Arabia, with offices and interests around the world. After attending an American school in Bahrain, he went to work for various oil companies before founding General Contracting Co. in the late 1940s. One of its first ventures was funding the Saudi oil pipeline, Tapline. Olayan helped develop much of Saudi Arabia's infrastructure, including the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and the Saudi British Bank, while his food and consumer distribution enterprise introduced to the region goods from major American companies. In 2001 Olayan was included on Forbes magazine's list of the world's richest people, with an estimated $8 billion fortune.

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