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Patrick Ryan

AGE: 74
OCCUPATION: CEO, Ryan Specialty Group

In January the insurance company this billionaire founded—Aon—decided to move its headquarters to London, potentially sticking him with a mammoth capital gains tax bill. But how many people can say they created from scratch a company with a $15.6 billion market cap?

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