Eyal Ofer's interests, which are mainly in shipping and real estate, are controlled through Monaco-based Ofer Global. He's chairman of Monaco-based shipping business, Zodiac Group, which has a fleet of more than 190 vessels. Through Global Holdings Group, he owns over 120 properties and more than 1,500 hotel rooms.
Eyal Ofer's fortune originates from the shipping business his father founded in the 1960s, which he has expanded and diversified into new sectors. At the time of his father's death in 2011, assets were divided between the billionaire and his brother, Idan.
Ofer owns Monaco-based Ofer Global, a group of international businesses focused on shipping, real estate, oil and gas, technology, banking and investments. It has an international shipping enterprise whose vessels are operated by Zodiac Maritime and Zodiac Tankers, part of Zodiac Group. Zodiac has more than 190 vessels that are valued using data from ship valuation service VesselsValue.com as of Nov. 19, 2025. It includes active ships and vessels under construction. Leverage is calculated at 35%.
Ofer also controls Global Holdings, which has more than 120 properties and 1,500 hotel rooms, according to its website. He also has a controlling stake in Miller Global Properties, a real estate investment fund. Valuations for the properties are based on income capitalization, less calculated debt. Miller Global's valuation is based on the average price-to-book multiple of two peers.
Ofer has interests in oil and gas exploration and production. His assets include a 72% stake in publicly-traded Echelon Resources, Omni Offshore Terminals, a provider of floating oil-storage facilities, a 40% stake in the Victorian Otway gas project in Australia and a 12% stake in the K2 oilfield in the Gulf of Mexico. The closely-held assets are valued based on either independent valuations from bankers or acquisition cost, and adjusted in-line with moves in benchmark oil and gas prices since the time of valuation or purchase.
Eyal Ofer was born June 2, 1950, in Haifa, Israel, the older of two sons born to Sammy and Aviva Ofer. His father, a Romanian immigrant, founded a shipping company with his brother in the 1950s, after serving in the Israeli Navy. By the 1970s, Sammy Ofer had branched out on his own in Europe and established a shipping company that grew over the years into an international business and became known as the Sammy Ofer Group Monaco.
Ofer joined the family business in the 1970s, after graduating from secondary school, Atlantic College in the UK. Upon joining, he helped expand the business beyond shipping and into industries such as real estate and banking. In the early 1980s, he turned his focus to the US market, especially Manhattan. One of his most successful investments to date was 15 Central Park West, a luxury condominium building which he developed with the late William and Arthur Zeckendorf in 2008. In March 2012, the building set a record for the most expensive single apartment sale ever recorded in New York, at $88 million. The record was broken two months later.
In June 2011, Sammy Ofer died at the age 89, leaving Eyal and his younger brother, Idan, at the helm of the Ofer family empire. According to the family's spokespeople, Sammy had spent years planning for the generational transfer to ensure an orderly transition. They said the assets were divided equitably between the two brothers, with Eyal Ofer inheriting the real-estate businesses as well as stakes in Mizrahi Tefahot Bank, cruise-line operator Royal Caribbean, and real-estate developer Melisron, which was later sold.
Ofer, who is married and has four children who all work in various parts of the family's businesses, is based in Monte Carlo, Monaco. He also has homes in London and New York. His charitable group, the Eyal & Marilyn Ofer Family Foundation, supports the arts as well as education and cultural causes.