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Michael Wekerle Net Worth
Michael Wekerle 's Net Worth as of 2024
$100 Million
Michael Wekerle was born in 1963 in Ontario, Canada, and is a merchant banker, financial advisor as well as a reality television personality, most famous for being one of the “dragon” investors on CBC Television’s reality show – “Dragon’s Den”. He is also widely recognized as a co-founder and the CEO of his own merchant banking company – Difference Capital Financial Inc.
Have you ever wondered how much wealth this Canadian financial rock star has accumulated so far? How rich Michael Wekerle is? According to sources, it is estimated that the total of Michael Wekerle’s net worth, as of mid-2017, exceeds the sum of $100 million, acquired through his career in the investment business which has been active since the early 1990s.
Michael Wekerle Net Worth $100 million
Michael attended York University, but abandoned studies after only two semesters, in order to pursue his career in the investment business. At the age of 18, he began working at the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) where he honed his skills. Later Michael joined First Marathon Inc., an investment dealing company in which he steadily climbed the ladder to become the firm’s head trader. Wekerle is one of those responsible for orchestrating $2.5 billion worth takeover of Maclean-Hunter by Rogers Communications Inc. in 1994. These ventures helped Michael Wekerle to establish himself in the demanding world of finance, and also provided the basis for his nowadays rather impressive net worth.
In 1995, Wekerle transferred to Griffiths McBurney and Partners, where he stayed for the next 16 years. In 2011 Wekerle left GMP in order to found his own company in 2012 – Difference Capital Financial Inc. Under Michael’s leadership as he serves as its CEO, the company focused on investing in technology start-ups, and over the years has acquired a variety of other companies spreading their area of interest on different businesses including data analytics, social media management, as well as medical technology and even movie-making. In 2014, Wekerle launched a new business incubator in Ontario’s Waterloo Region, acquiring BlackBerry Inc. It is certain that all these achievements have helped Michael Wekerle to add a significant amount of money to the total of his net worth.
Apart from all those already mentioned above, Michael Wekerle also served as GMP’s Institutional Trading’s Vice Chairman and is also involved in the real estate business – in his portfolio there are assets such as El Mocambo – Toronto’s entertainment venue as well as several high-tech properties in the Waterloo Region. Wekerle is also a partner in Wahlburgers chain of restaurants, owned by Mark Wahlberg. Doubtlessly, all these ventures made a huge impact on Michael Wekerle’s net worth.
Since March 2014 when he joined the show’s ninth season, Michael is a regular cast member of CBC Television’s financial reality TV show – “Dragon’s Den”. The show pictures the team of five Canadian aspiring entrepreneurs and businessmen investing in venture capital in order to secure project’s stable financial and business future. These appearances have helped Michael Wekerle to further increase his popularity as well as his wealth.
When it comes to his personal life, Michael has been married twice, firstly to Patricia from 1989-2000. When his second wife Lea-Anne passed away after a heart attack in 2010 at the age of 39, Wekerle began suffering from depression which resulted in heavy drinking and erratic behavior. However, he has managed to overcome his loss and returned to business. He is the father of six children.
Apart from business and making money, Michael Wekerle is heavily involved in charities and philanthropy – he is a one of the donators of Bloorview Kids, Sick Kids Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital as well as CAMH and Toronto General. He is also sponsoring Opera Atelier and Seeds of Hope.
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Ben Stein Net Worth
Benjamin Jeremy Stein is an American lawyer, speechwriter, actor, writer and commentator on economic and political issues, but he is also known for participating in many other activities. For example, Ben Stein has even tried himself as a game show host. This famous person in American economics and politics was born on November 25 in 1944 in Washington, D.C., United States during World War II. He attended Columbia College and later Yale Law School. After graduation Ben Stein started to write columns and articles for different US magazines such as Newsmax, Los Angeles Magazine, Penthouse, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s Magazine, The American Spectator and even for The New York Times.
Ben Stein Net Worth $20 Million
In his writings Stein usually speaks about the economic situation and political issues, and even gives financial advices to individual investors. However, in the mid-60s he also got the job of a poverty lawyer and later continued as a lawyer for the Federal Trade Comission. After few years of hard work, Ben Stein decided to try himself in acting too, but before starting to get roles he became a Hollywood consultant. Stein got his first comedy role and had to play a boring and monotonous economics teacher in the movie called Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which was released in 1986. As an actor Ben Stein has since appeared in many other movies, such as The Mask, No Intelligence Allowed, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, The Emperor’s New School, Full House, Casper: A Spirited Beginning, The O’Reilly Factor, Maried… with Children, Duckman, The Emperor’s New Schol, Earthworm Jim, Casper Meets Wendy, Family Guy and Richie Rich.
The famous actor and commentator is also recognized thanks to the Comedy Central channel where he was the main face of the show called “Win Ben Stein’s Money” for which he has even received an Emmy award. Ben Stein was earning $5,000 per episode, but money that contestants won was subtracted from actor’s salary. However, these earnings are just nothing if we compare them with Stein’s net worth, which reached $20 million in 2012.
Ben Stein is well known thanks to his ability to harmonize all his activities and show himself as a talented person in every job he does. But maybe one of his most successful, but not so well-known activities is writing speeches for American presidents. Ben Stein was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Until now Ben Stein has published 15 books, the first written together with Herbert Stein and released in 1978. In 2012 his last book appeared in stores – “How To Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio”.
Nowadays Ben Stein lives with his wife Alexandra Denman in Beverly Hills and Malibu, California. The couple married in 1968 and divorced after 6 years, but in 1977 they got back together again. With his wife Ben Stein adopted their son Tom in 1987. As well as his property in Beverly Hills, Ben Stein also owns a summer home in Sandpoint, Idaho and an apartment in the Watergate complex in Washingtton, D.C., which was inherited from his parents.
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Mikey Teutul Net Worth
Michael Joseph was born 26 November 1978, in Montgomery, New York State USA, and widely known as Mikey Teutul, is a reality television personality, the youngest son of Orange County Choppers founder Paul Teutul, Sr. Mikey began his working life at 14, in the family business.
So just how rich is Mikey Teutul, as of late 2017? Authoritative sources estimate that Mikey has a net worth of over $3 million dollars, largely earned by working at his father’s and older brother Paul Jr,’s company Orange County Choppers (OCC), and Orange County Iron Works, and through his TV appearances.
Mikey Teutul Net Worth $3 Million
Little is known of Mikey’s early life or education – it seems to have always revolved around the family business. Helping out his family in his teens, theoretically he worked as Assistant General Manager. but his main duties were to answer ‘phones, and clear-up and take out the trash. He was on rare occasions given the chance to build bikes, until he was competent to build his own. He also attended events for promoting OCC.
In 2002, the family was invited to take part in a reality show, Discovery Channel’s “American Chopper”, and subsequently “American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior”, in the course of which the youngest son was thrown out of the business – the middle son is Daniel, and younger sister Cristin. The reason for Mikey’s exclusion was that Mikey tried to be a mediator between his father and his brother, but his father seemed to be offended that his younger son did not take his side, and so threw him out of the business. During the filming of the show, Mikey was somethoing of a comedy relief to his father’s workers, and that comedy streak helped gain him popularity in TV shows. Mikey then joined his brother’s post-OCC venture, -Paul Jr Designs – along with most of their father’s employees; obviously the work atmosphere with Paul Teutul, Sr. was not a particularly happy one. Mikey’s eldest brother Paul Jr. was the former chief fabricator of OCC.
So actually the main source of Mikey Teutul’s wealth is not his father’s business, but the shows he eventually took part in. These have included ‘The Late Show with David Letterman”, “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”, and also “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno. The shows became very popular and Mikey’s appearances earned him a significant amount of money. To say the least, the family drama did not go without consequences – according to rumours, Mikey Teutul was suffering from an addiction problem, and consequently admitted himself to rehab, and managed to overcome the bad habits which were apparently hindering his progress in life, obviously including business.
In his life away from the businesses already referred to and the limelight of TV, Michael loves to paint, and is apparently respected for his productions, as he opened “The Wolfgang Gallery” gallery in Montgomery, New York, where he has sold or auctioned his paintings, adding somewhat to is net worth, although rumours suggest that the gallery may now be closed. Most recently, Mikey is now trying to enter the market under the moniker LLC FarQueue Products with his line of gourmet pasta sauces. Good luck, Mikey!
In his less-than-private personal life, Mikey is apparently still single – there aren’t even any rumours of romantic liaisons.
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