Amancio Ortega

Amancio Ortega Gaona (born March 28, 1936) is a fashion entrepreneur, Spain's richest man, and the founder and chairman of the Inditex Group. He currently lives with his second wife in a discrete apartment-building in the centre of La Coruña.

Ortega was born in León and started out at age 14 as a gofer in a shirt store in La Coruña, Galicia. In 1963 he started Confecciones Goa (his initials in reverse), which made bathrobes. In 1975 he opened the first store in what would grow into the enormously popular chain of fashion stores called Zara. He is the majority shareholder of the Inditex group (Industrias de Diseño Textil Sociedad Anónima) which includes the brands Zara, Massimo Dutti, and