Torger Christian “Toto” Wolff is an Austrian billionaire motorsport executive, investor, and former racing driver who was born on January 12, 1972.
He owns 33% of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team and serves as Team Principal and CEO. Wolff’s career in motorsport began in the German Formula Ford Series and the Austrian Formula Ford Championship.
He participated in the FIA GT Championship and the Italian GT Championship after winning his division in the 1994 24 Hours of Nürburgring. Initially concentrating on Internet and technology companies, Wolff created Marchfifteen Investments in 1998 and Marchsixteen Investments in 2004. He focuses on making strategic investments in mid-sized industrial and publicly traded businesses, such as Williams F1 and German HWA AG.
Wolff established the investment firms Marchfifteen (1998) and Marchsixteen (2004), which at first specialized in investing in internet and technology companies. Wolff has focused on strategic investments in mid-sized industrial and publicly traded firms since 2003. Among the investments was the German HWA AG, in which Wolff acquired a 49% share in 2006 and listed the business in 2007. The business managed Mercedes-Benz’s participation in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters racing series and worked on the F3 engine and Gullwing Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 racing vehicles.
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Wolff lives in Monaco with his wife, former Venturi Racing CEO Susie Wolff. On a boat in Venice, he proposed to her. They tied the knot in October 2011. Susie announced on Twitter on April 11, 2017, that she had given birth to their first child the day before.
Wolff speaks German, English, French, Italian, and Polish fluently. He is the father of two children from a previous marriage.
