Fayez Sarofim
Fayez Sarofim (, ‎; 1929 – 27 May 2022) was an Egyptian Coptic-American heir to the Sarofim family fortune, fund manager for a number of Dreyfus family stock funds, largest shareholder of Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI) and part owner of the NFL team Houston Texans. Sarofim had an estimated net worth of $1.6 billion in May 2022. His investment firm oversaw over $30 billion in assets. Early life Fayez Shalaby Sarofim was born in 1929 in Cairo. His family belonged to the old nobility of Egypt. As the son of an Egyptian aristocrat and agricultural magnate, Sarofim spent his early life as a member of Egypt's political and wealthy elite in modern Heliopolis. Holding the title of a Bey (or Chieftain), Sarofim's father also held large, feudal cotton estates throughout North Africa. Upon his death, Sarofim inherited a portion of his fortune. Sarofim came to the United States in 1946 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1961. After earning degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Business School, Sarofim took a job with cotton company Anderson, Clayton and Company in Houston. Career In August 1958, he founded Fayez Sarofim & Company, a Houston investment firm. In 1997,