ABOUT
Member of the prominent banking family. He launched his own billion-pound investments trusts business.He founded his own Assurance Group in 1980, which by the 2000s became RIT Capital Partners plc and was worth an estimated £2 billion.He cultivated connectons with the who's who of the banking and political worlds, including Warren Buffett and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
BEFORE FAMEHe began working for the family bank in 1963, but in 1980, owing to a dispute with the family, resigned.
PERSONAL LIFEHe married Serena Dunn Rothschild and he has a son named Nathaniel. His father was Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild.
FUN FACTSEntrepreneur Jacob Rothschild were born on Wednesday, in a leap year, birthstone is Diamond, the seaon was Spring in the Chinese year of Rat, it is 109 days until Jacob Rothschild next birthday.