Profil Financier
Chip Wilson occupe actuellement le rang #952 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur luxe, mode & beauté). Fortune nette estimée : $4.6 B (+$352 sur 24h).
Dennis "Chip" Wilson is the founder and former CEO of Lululemon, which he started with a single store in Vancouver in 2000.
He took the athleisure company public in 2007 but resigned as chairman in 2013 and removed himself from the business completely in 2015.
Although Wilson has no management role at Lululemon, he remains its biggest individual shareholder with a 7% stake.
Wilson, his wife and five sons now operate a holding company called Hold It All, which invests in apparel, real estate and private equity.
He has stakes in Chinese activewear company Anta Sports and Amer Sports, which owns brands like Salomon, Arc'teryx and Wilson.
The son of a seamstress, Wilson's first retail venture was Westbeach Snowboard, which he started in 1979 to sell apparel for surfers, skaters and snowboarders.
While studying at the University of Calgary, Wilson took a break and worked on the Alaskan oil pipelines for 18 months.