Terry Snow

Canberra native Terry Snow is the executive chairman of Capital Airport Group, which operates Canberra Airport.He became a billionaire in 2017, thanks to a bumper increase in the value of his property around the capital city's main airport.He's invested more than $2 billion developing the airport and building office and industrial parks on the 1,062 acres of surrounding land.Snow trained as an accountant but worked as a property developer in the 1980s with his father, Bob, and brother George. After the family business was sold he used his share of the proceeds to buy the 99-year lease on the airport, paying just $40 million in 1998.