Hanni Toosbuy Kasprzak
{{Short description|Danish businesswoman}}
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Hanni Toosbuy Kasprzak (born 1957) is a Danish billionaire, the owner and chair of ECCO, the Danish shoe company which was founded by her father in 1963.
Early life
Hanni Toosbuy was born in 1957.{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/hanni-toosbuy-kasprzak/|title=#690 Hanni Toosbuy Kasprzak|work=Forbes|date= June 3, 2018|accessdate=September 28, 2020}} Her father, Karl Toosbuy, founded ECCO in 1963.
Career
Kasprzak joined ECCO on completing her school education. When she was only 21, she complied with her father's request to work in quality control in India. "I spent more than a year there," she explained. "Learning at the factory level is possibly the best way to understand a business."{{cite web|url=https://familybusiness.ey-vx.com/pdfs/36-41.pdf|title=Hanni Toosbuy Kasprzak and Dieter Kasprzak|publisher=EY: Global Family Business Center of Excellence|accessdate=7 September 2015|archive-date=5 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160805184304/https://familybusiness.ey-vx.com/pdfs/36-41.pdf|url-status=dead}} After India, she went to Germany but returned to Denmark in 1997 as ECCO chairman.
Since March 2014, she has also been a member of Sydbank's advisory board.{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/Research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=26361662&ticker=SYDB:DC&previousCapId=5508076&previousTitle=ECCO%20Sko%20A%2FS|title=Hanni Toosbuy Kasprzak |publisher=Bloomberg Businessweek|accessdate=7 September 2015}}
In June 2018, according to Forbes, she had a net worth of $2.6 billion.
Personal life
Toosbuy is married to Dieter Kasprzak, who has served as ECCO's president since 2004. Their son, André, is a golfer and their daughter, Anna, practices dressage.
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Category:Danish business executives
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Category:20th-century Danish businesswomen
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