Tamara Gustavson
Tamara Hughes Gustavson is an American billionaire. Tamara Gustavson is the daughter of B. Wayne Hughes, the founder and chairman of Public Storage, a self-storage company. She is the largest shareholder with 11% of the company and as of 2016, an estimated net worth of $4.9 billion.
- With an 11% stake, Tamara Hughes Gustavson is Public Storage‘s largest shareholder. Her father, B. Wayne Hughes, cofounded the storage giant in 1972.
- She joined the firm in 1983 and rose to vice president before leaving in 2003 to raise her children. She returned four years later as a board member.
- She also sits on the board of another of her father’s companies, American Homes 4 Rent, a publicly-traded REIT focusing on single-family rental homes.
- She often donates to the HollyRod Foundation, which researches autism, Parkinson’s and other diseases.
- Gustavson now lives at Spendthrift Farm, the racehorse breeding farm. Among its stallions is Cloud Computing, the winner of 2017’s Preakness.
