Sam Tarascio

Sam Tarascio owns a portfolio of real estate across Melbourne, including a business park, two distribution sites, a large shopping mall and a market.Tarascio, who emigrated from Italy in the 1950s, also owns several inner-city apartment developments. He started out in property development in the 1960s by building a warehouse for German pharmaceutical company Hoechst, where he had worked in sales.That led him to establish logistics and industrial-development business Salta Properties, now run by his son Sam.