Beny Steinmetz is an Israeli businessman. His portfolio is in diamond-mining and real estate.[1][2]
He inherited the Geneva-based Steinmetz Diamond Group from his father.[3] He is the CEO of the Beny Steinmetz Resource Group, also based in Geneva.[4][5][6]
He is also CEO of Simfer S.A., an Israel-based company that has done business in Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[4] Together with DiamondWorks, a subsidiary of Branch Energy Ltd., he co-owns Koidu Holdings.[7] In 1997, he founded STI Ventures NV, venture capital firm that invests in start-up companies in Israel.[8] In 1999, he was the owner of Tucows.[9] As of 2010, he also owned Cunico, and publicly traded Katanga Mining.[3] With his company called Scorpio, he owns real estate in Kazakhstan, Russia, and eastern Europe.[2][3]
According to the March 2011 issue of Forbes, he is worth US$6 billion.[1] As of March 2011, he was the second richest person in Israel, before Sammy Ofer died in June 2011.[10]
He lives in Netanya, Israel.[1] He is married with four children.[3] With his wife, he oversees the Beny & Agnes Steinmetz Foundation, which donates to schools, hospitals, army units and the arts.[3]