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Matte Group

The Matte Group is a Chilean family business group active in forestry, energy, banking, and insurance, formed when Eliodoro Matte Ossa took control of CMPC in 1961.

MB Holding

MB Holding, formally Mohammed Al Barwani LLC, is an Omani family-owned multinational founded in 1982, active in oil and gas, drilling, and mining across more than 20 countries.

Mbekani Group

The Mbekani Group is a Johannesburg-based diversified South African group founded in 1996 by Dr Judy Dlamini, operating in health, property, and facilities management and 100% African women-owned.

Megawide Construction Corporation

Megawide Construction Corporation is a Philippine construction and infrastructure company founded by Edgar B. Saavedra, incorporated in 2004 and listed on the PSE in 2011.

Menardo R. Jimenez

Menardo R. Jimenez, born 1932 in Manila, is a Filipino broadcast executive who served as president and CEO of GMA Network from the 1970s until 2000.

Merck family

The Merck family is a Darmstadt business family that has owned the pharmaceutical company Merck for over 350 years, holding about 70% of Merck KGaA.

MH Hasham Premji

MH Hasham Premji, born Mohamed Hasham Premji, was an Indian businessman who founded Western India Vegetable Products in 1945, the company that became Wipro, and died in 1966.

Michael Bambang Hartono (Djarum)

Michael Bambang Hartono, also known as Michael Hartono, was an Indonesian billionaire who co-owned Djarum, Indonesia's clove-cigarette maker turned conglomerate, and Bank Central Asia with his brother Budi.

Michał Sołowow

Michał Sołowow is a Polish industrialist and investor, born 1962 in Kielce, who owns the chemical company Synthos, the ceramics producer Cersanit, and the flooring maker Barlinek.

Micky Jagtiani

Micky Jagtiani, born Mukesh Jagtiani, was an Indian retail entrepreneur who founded Landmark Group in Bahrain in 1973 with $6,000 and built it into a Dubai-headquartered retailer worth $5.2 billion at his death in 2023.

Miguel Facusse

Miguel Facusse, full name Miguel Facussé Barjum, was a Honduran businessman who founded consumer-products and palm-oil company Corporación Dinant in 1960 and died in 2015.

Miguel Gellert Krigsner

Miguel Gellert Krigsner, born 1950 in La Paz, Bolivia, is a Brazilian pharmacist-entrepreneur who founded the cosmetics company O Boticário in Curitiba in 1977 and built it into a global beauty franchise network.

Ming Z. Mei

Ming Z. Mei (梅志明), also written Zhiming Mei, is a Singapore-based business executive who co-founded GLP in 2009, is its CEO, and built it into a manager of roughly US$80 billion in assets.

Miquel Fluxà Rosselló

Miquel Fluxà Rosselló, also written Miguel Fluxá Rosselló, is a Spanish hotelier from Mallorca, executive chairman and controlling owner of Grupo Iberostar, ranked ninth among Spain's wealthiest people in 2025.

Mirtha Añaños

Mirtha Añaños, also printed as Mirtha Jerí, is a Peruvian businesswoman who co-founded the family venture that became Grupo AJE, maker of Kola Real and Big Cola.

Moath Aldajan

Moath Aldajan is a Saudi business executive who has served as Head of Shared Services at Al Hatab Bakery, now Al Hatab Foods, since July 2022.

Mochtar Riady

Mochtar Riady, Chinese name Lie Mo Tie, is an Indonesian banker born in 1929 who founded the Lippo Group and built some of Indonesia's largest private banks.

Modupe Alakija

Modupe Folarin Alakija is a Nigerian businessman who co-founded Famfa Oil Limited with his wife Folorunso Alakija in 1991, chairs its board, and holds 50 percent of the company.

Mohamed El-Etreby

Mohamed El-Etreby is an Egyptian banker who has been chief executive officer of the National Bank of Egypt since September 2024, after chairing Banque Misr from 2015.

Mohamed Juma Al Shamisi

Mohamed Juma Al Shamisi is an Emirati maritime executive who has served as Managing Director and Group CEO of Abu Dhabi's AD Ports Group since 2019.

Mohamed Mansour (Egyptian businessman)

Mohamed Mansour (محمد منصور), born in 1948, is an Egyptian billionaire businessman who chairs the Mansour Group, served as Egypt's transport minister, and owns San Diego FC.

Mohammad Hasan Amin al-Zarb

Mohammad Hasan Amin al-Zarb (حاج محمدحسن امین‌الضرب) was an Iranian merchant and banker who held the state mint under Naser al-Din Shah and built Iran's first railway.

Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel

Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel is a Saudi businessman who chairs Abdul Latif Jameel, a family business founded in Jeddah in 1945, and founded Community Jameel.

Mohammed Abdulmohsin Al Kharafi

Mohammed Abdulmohsin Al Kharafi (محمد عبد المحسن الخرافي) was a Kuwaiti merchant and politician who founded the Kharafi Group in 1956 and died in 1993.

Mohammed Al Barwani

Mohammed Al Barwani (محمد البرواني) is an Omani businessman and petroleum engineer who founded MB Holding in 1982, a Muscat group operating in oil and gas, drilling, and mining in more than 20 countries.

Mohammed Dadabhai

Mohammed Dadabhai, also written Mohamed Dadabhai, is a Bahraini businessman who chairs the Dadabhai Group, a family-owned Manama conglomerate with about 15 subsidiaries in construction, real estate, and hospitality.

Mohammed Indimi

Mohammed Indimi, born Muhammadu Indimi in 1947, is a Nigerian businessman who founded Oriental Energy Resources in 1990, an offshore oil and gas producer ranked by Forbes among Africa's richest.

Mohammed Saud Bahwan

Mohammed Saud Bahwan is an Omani businessman and chairman of the Saud Bahwan Group, which holds Toyota's exclusive distributorship in Oman; Forbes estimates his net worth at $1 billion.

Mohn family

The Mohn family is the founding family and controlling shareholder of Bertelsmann, the German media group in Gütersloh, founded as a publishing house by Carl Bertelsmann in 1835.

Mona Al-Haddad

Mona Al-Haddad is a Saudi fashion entrepreneur who co-founded the Jeddah fashion label Lomar with her husband Loai Naseem in 2002, redesigning the traditional Saudi thobe.