Georg Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza


Georg Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza is the chairman of the private venture capital firm TBG AG, which operates as the investment arm of the Thyssen-Bornemisza family. Under his chairmanship, TBG has undertaken several large acquisitions, including the $900M purchase in 2017 of US-based weather and data analytics company DTN, and the 2018 purchase of European weather firm MeteoGroup for an undisclosed sum.
Thyssen-Bornemisza is the son of noted industrialist and art collector Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza and is among the wealthiest individuals in Switzerland. He has been chairman of the Zurich-based NOMIS Foundation since its founding in 2008.