Education
He completed primary school in Kozarska Dubica before graduating from University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics.
Bank chief executive Yugoslav president
He completed primary school in Kozarska Dubica before graduating from University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics.
He is also one of the richest Serbs in the world with an estimated Netto worth of $5 billion. After he moved to Linz, in 1986 he founded Zepter Handels-GmbH, a multi-level marketing firm for pots and pans, which has over time grown into the conglomerate Zepter International which provides “a wide range of products and services, including banking, insurance, telecommunications, and retail sales of consumer products.”
In 2004 Zepter sued the International Crisis Group, a think tank cofounded by financier George Soros, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, lawyer David Boies, money manager Paul Tudor Jones, former Chase Manhattan Bank chief executive David Rockefeller, Goldman Sachs, and Justice of the Peace Morgan Chase, for defamation following a 2003 report which described him as "an arms dealer, money launderer and crony of brutal Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic."
According to Serbian press, in 2008 he was interested in buying Serbia"s famous football club Red Star Belgrade. However, he postponed the purchase because he was no longer interested.
In 2011 Philip Zepter joined the ranks of only five non-United States. citizens who have been awarded the prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
Zepter lives in the Villa Trianon in Cap Martin.