South Australian couple make mark with $46 million bikini fortune
SOUTH Australian social media sensation Kayla Itsines and partner Tobi Pearce are the state’s only inclusion in the 2016 BRW Young Rich list, coming in at number 51 with a combined $46 million fortune.
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SOUTH Australian social media sensation Kayla Itsines and partner Tobi Pearce are the state’s only inclusion in the 2016 BRW Young Rich list, coming in at number 51 with a combined $46 million fortune.
Ms Itsines, 25, one of eight women in the top 100, and Mr Pearce, 24, are the youngest debutants on the list.
Their millions have been amassed via a Bikini Body empire, which sees them hold fitness classes across the world, as well as smartphone app Sweat With Kayla.
Ms Itsines has a whopping 5.8 million Instagram followers.
Atlassian co-founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar topped the list for the fifth year in a row, with combined wealth of $4.6 billion after the float of their software company on the US NASDAQ exchange last year.
Ranked three and four were Campaign Monitor founders Dave Greiner and Ben Richardson.
The list includes Australians aged 40 and under who have not inherited their wealth.
Envato co-founder Cyan Ta’eed was the top ranked woman with a combined $184 million fortune with husband Collis.
The average wealth of list members was $123 million, up from $106 million last year, while the combined wealth of all entrants was $12.3 billion.
Technology was the dominant sector with 27 people on the list, followed by financial services and retail with 11 people each.
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