Klatten, 43, inherited 50.1% of Altana AG, one of Europe's most profitable pharmaceutical and chemical companies, from her father, Herbert Quandt. A trained economist with an M.B.A. from the IMD business school in Lausanne, Switzerland, Klatten is credited with helping transform the company into a world-class corporation, with $4 billion in revenue in 2004. Her father, who was famous for rescuing BMW, one of the last independent luxury-car makers from bankruptcy, also left her a 12.5% share in that car company, where Klatten now exerts her influence through a seat on the supervisory board. Married with three children, Klatten shares her Quandt family penchant for privacy and is seldom in the public eye.
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