Ralph Sonnenberg (born May 1934), is a Dutch

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least 1,000,000,000, one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The ...

, and former CEO of the Netherlands-based

Hunter Douglas Hunter Douglas N.V. is a Dutch multinational corporation. Its principal business is making window blinds and coverings. The company is publicly listed. The head office is in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and a management office in Lucerne, Switze ...

Group. Hunter Douglas was founded by his father, who was Jewish and fled Germany in the early 1930s, in 1919. He owned at least 80% of Hunter Douglas. Sonnenberg is married with three children, and lives in

Meggen Meggen is a municipality in the district of Lucerne in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. History Meggen is first mentioned in 1226 as ''Meken'', though a 14th Century copy of an older document mentions ''in Acta Murensia'' around 1160. Geog ...

, Switzerland. His sons David and Marko work for the company, both holding the role of Executive Chairman and Senior Advisor, respectively.

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1934 births Living people Dutch billionaires Dutch businesspeople Dutch expatriates in Switzerland People from Lucerne-Land District Dutch people of German-Jewish descent {{Netherlands-business-bio-stub