Shaul Shani
Shaul Shani is a global businessman and investor in the high tech industry.
- Israeli investor Shaul Shani sold his Brazilian firm Global Village Telecom to Vivendi for $4.5 billion in 2009; his take was $1.4 billion.
- He has since increased his fortune via mezzanine lending and investments in emerging economies.
- Starting in the 1980s, he cofounded three companies; two of them, Oshap Technologies and Tecnomatix, were acquired for $210 million and $228 million.
- In January 2014, Shani assumed $200 million in liabilities to control 100% of Israeli communications equipment maker ECI Telecom.
