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Whitney MacMillan
United States 96 years old
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Cargill
- Industry
- Food & Beverage
- Residence
- Education
- Yale University (Bachelor of Arts/Science)
- Children
- 2
Biography
Whitney MacMillan was the last member of the Cargill-MacMillan family to serve as CEO of Cargill, America's largest private company, retiring in 1995.
His great-grandfather, W.W. Cargill, founded the business as a single grain warehouse at the end of an Iowa railroad line in 1865.
The family still owns roughly 90% of Cargill, which did $114 billion in May 2019 sales across food, agriculture, financial and industrial divisions.
He sold his 50,000-acre Montana ranch in May 2016 for an undisclosed sum. The ranch, which was listed for $21.5 million, once hosted Lewis and Clark.