Nathan Kirsh is a Swazi-South African businessman. Nathan Krish heads the Kirsh Group, which holds a majority stake in New York cash and convey operation Jetro Holdings, proprietor of Restaurant Depot and Jetro Cash & Carry. The Group additionally holds equity and investments in Australia, Eswatini, the UK, the US, and Israel.
Forbes anticipated his wealth at $5.2 billion in October 2019, making him the 386th richest person withinside the world. He was listed at the UK’s Sunday Times Rich List 2018 and was named as the wealthiest man in Swaziland by Forbes.
Nathan Kirsh was born in South Africa on 6 January 1932 and grew up in a Jewish family in Potchefstroom, in which he matriculated from Potchefstroom Boys High in 1949. Kirsh got a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1952. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Swaziland.
In 1952, Kirsh started out assisting his mom with the operation of his father's authentic malt factory in Potchefstroom, then, in 1958, launched his personal first venture, founding a corn milling and malt business enterprise in Eswatini.
After having back to South Africa in 1968, in 1970, Kirsh obtained Moshal Gevisser, a South African wholesale food distributor, with pilot cash and delivered the program. At the time, the South African apartheid authorities prevented white business enterprise-owners from operating in black townships, and Kirsh started out using Moshal Gevisser to deliver goods to black shopkeepers. As a cash and carry business enterprise, Moshal Gevisser has become a dominant food retailer in South Africa.
Kirsh is married to Frances Herr, and that they have 3 children, one son, Philip Kirsh, and daughters. They are living in Ezulwini, Swaziland, and he holds citizenship withinside the United States, South Africa and Swaziland.
He set up the Kirsh Foundation, a worldwide charitable organization. Its projects consist of a microfinance mission in collaboration with Swazi chiefs to provide "affordable loans and economic literacy training to Swazi women."
As of 2010, Kirsh's seed fund, Inhlanyelo, had financed "5500 successful small business companies." By 2015, around 20,000 people were hired through small-scale companies that began out through the fund.
