Cameron Mackintosh

Scottish producer and owner of seven West End theaters, responsible for many of the major productions to be staged in London over the last two decades. Mackintosh is known to be intensely loyal to friends and family, and personally very frugal ("I compare prices when I go shopping in the supermarket") - in spite of the £10 million a year salary he affords himself.

The son of a Scottish timber-merchant and jazz trumpeter and a Maltese mother, Mackintosh decided at age eight to join the theater, later training at London's famous Central School of Speech and Drama. After work as a stage-hand, he began producing low-budget touring shows of West End and Broadway musicals. The Lloyd Webber musicals of the early 1980s turned the tide in his favor. He now invests his vast fortune (an estimated £350 million) in property.