Amancio Ortega Biography

Amancio Ortega Gaona (born on 28 March 1936) is a Spanish fashion executive and founding chairman of the Inditex fashion group.. He moved to A Coruña at the age of 14, due to the job of his father, a railway worker. Barely in his teens, Ortega found a job as a shop hand for a local shirtmaker called Gala. He found a group called Inditex & he was the CEO of the Inditex unitll 2011. He first marriage to Rosalía Mera(she is th co-founder of Inditex) now they are divorced. He resides with his second wife in an apartment building in Galicia, Spain.Ortega keeps a very low profile and until 1999 no photograph of Ortega had ever been published. He goes to the same coffee shop everyday and eats lunch with his employees in the company cafeteria. He refuses to wear a tie and typically wears a simple uniform of a blue blazer, white shirt and gray pants none of which are Zara products.In early 2013, he was ranked as the third richest person in the world by Forbes with a net worth of $57 billion