Nathan Kirsh

Nathan “Natie” Kirsh is a Swazi-South African billionaire businessman. He heads the Kirsh Group, which holds a majority stake in New York cash and carry operation Jetro Holdings, owner of Restaurant Depot and Jetro Cash & Carry.

• The bulk of Nathan “Natie” Kirsh’s fortune comes from Jetro Holdings, which owns restaurant supply stores Jetro Cash and Carry and Restaurant Depot.
• Kirsh owns 70% of the company, which supplies wholesale goods to bodegas, small stores and restaurants.
• Kirsh made his first fortune in his native Swaziland, where he launched a corn milling business in 1958.
• He expanded into wholesale food distribution in apartheid South Africa, and then into supermarkets and commercial property development.