Graeme Hart: From Panel Beater to Packaging King - The $12 Billion Rise of New Zealand's Most Secret

The ghost of global capitalism walks among us and his name is Graeme Hart.
He left school at 15, worked as a tow-truck driver and panel beater, yet somehow built the world's largest packaging empire from the shadows. Forbes values him at $11.6 billion, making him richer than most small nations, yet he remains virtually unknown outside New Zealand's business circles.
Hart doesn't give interviews. He doesn't attend galas. He doesn't even live in the countries where his companies dominate entire industries. Instead, this phantom billionaire operates from his Auckland fortress, orchestrating billion-dollar acquisitions through a web of shell companies and strategic silence.
His notable acquisitions include Carter Holt Harvey and Reynolds Packaging Group deals that transformed him from a local entrepreneur into a global industrial titan. But how does a high school dropout outmaneuver Harvard MBAs and Wall Street legends? How does someone build a multinational empire while remaining completely invisible?
This is the extraordinary story of capitalism's most successful ghost a man who turned anonymity into his greatest asset and packaging into his pathway to unimaginable wealth.
In a world of celebrity billionaires, meet the one who chose to disappear entirely.