Billionaire O’Brien Finds Linger-Free Zone in Davos Meets

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Denis O’Brien, the second-richest man in Ireland, was late and a little out of breath when he rushed into the lobby of the Steigenberger Grandhotel Belvedere at 9:12 a.m. yesterday.

The 54-year-old chairman of Kingston, Jamaica-based Digicel Group Ltd., the largest telecommunications company in the Caribbean, had flown on his Gulfstream 550 jet plane to Zurich from Boston the night before, and been driven by an Austrian named Gary for more than two hours before landing in Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum is holding its annual meeting.