Martin Møller Nielsen Net Worth

Martin Møller Nielsen has an estimated net worth of $1.3 billion, according to Forbes Real-Time Billionaires, Martin Møller Nielsen profile (figures as of October 20, 2026). That is down from a peak of $1.6 billion.

Martin Møller Nielsen is a Danish aviation entrepreneur who founded Nordic Aviation Capital, an aircraft leasing company. He was born in August 1964 and now lives in Lugano, Switzerland. He has been around planes since his teens. He was a certified pilot by the age of 18.

His business instincts showed early too. At 21 he reportedly bought a beaten up aircraft, fixed it up and sold it for a large profit. That deal hinted at the model he would later scale up: buying aircraft, keeping them in good shape and putting them to work for operators who need them.

Today Møller Nielsen runs Axiom Group, his private family office. It invests in areas such as renewable energy and real estate, spreading the money he made in aviation across a wider range of businesses.

How Martin Møller Nielsen made his money

Møller Nielsen founded Nordic Aviation Capital, or NAC, in Skive, Denmark, in 1990. At first the company leased aircraft to humanitarian aid organizations that needed to fly into remote areas. Over time it shifted to leasing regional aircraft to airlines, and it grew into one of the largest lessors in that niche. By 2016 NAC operated a fleet of 275 aircraft leased to 30 regional airlines, including Air Berlin and Etihad.

A quarter of a century after founding it, he sold a majority stake in NAC to private equity firms EQT and Kirkbi in a 2015 deal that valued the firm at $3.3 billion. He later brought in Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC as an investor. In 2022 he sold the last of his shares in NAC as part of a restructuring, leaving him with the proceeds of his exit.

Regional aircraft leasing was a small corner of aviation when he started, and he helped turn it into a serious business.

How Forbes has valued Martin Møller Nielsen

Forbes valued Møller Nielsen at $1.6 billion in 2019 and $1.5 billion in 2020. Since then his figure has been unusually steady.

Forbes has put him at $1.3 billion every year from 2021 through the 2026 World's Billionaires List, and as of October 20, 2026, the real-time billionaires tracker also showed $1.3 billion. That stability reflects the fact that he has cashed out of NAC and now holds a diversified family office portfolio rather than a single company stake.