John Ilhan

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John Ilhan (Turkish: Mustafa İlhan [1]) is the founder of Crazy John's mobile phone retail chain and the richest Australian under 40 years of age (2003). He is an Australian Muslim [2] of Turkish descent.

Ilhan was born in 1965 in Yozgat, Turkey and moved to Australia with his family when he was three. He grew up in working-class Broadmeadows in Melbourne's north-west. After one year at university and a stint as a salesman at Ford, Ilhan took a sales job at the phone and electrical retailer Strathfield Car Radios. He left in 1991 to set up his own mobile-phone shop, right across the road from Strathfield's store in inner-city Brunswick. After expanding the business into Australia's biggest Telstra mobile dealership, with 18 stores in Victoria, Ilhan opened a handful of stores in Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide.

He was ranked 1st in Business Review Weekly's Australia's Young Rich List 2003, with a fortune of $200 million.