Patrizio Bertelli serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Prada S.p.A. and has a net worth of $5.2 billion. Patrizio Bertelli earned his net worth in business setting-up a small factory in Arezzo to produce belts and bags and signed a contract to produce a leather accessories collection for the Prada label. He is the mastermind behind a label.

Most people associate with his wife, Miuccia Prada, the avant-garde designer who over the years has created global sensations out of industrial nylon black backpacks, wallpaper-motif pleated skirts, tiedyed dresses and thick high-heeled wedge shoes, to name just a few. When the couple first met at a trade fair in Milan, Bertelli has encouraged his wife to take risks that have transformed the company into a global fashion conglomerate with $2.4 billion in sales, four labels. The partnership him and his wife is the heart of a firm that has thrived for the past quarter century as a distinctly family-run enterprise