Antti Herlin

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Antti Herlin (born 14 November 1956) is a Finnish billionaire and the chairman of KONE, the Finnish elevator company. He is the richest person in Finland; Forbes listed his net worth at $4.1 billion in January 2025, ranking him 819th in the world.

He used to be chairman of EK, the Confederation of Finnish Industries. He is the son of Pekka Herlin, who also chaired KONE; his grandfather was Heikki H. Herlin and his brother is Ilkka Herlin.

Herlin owns a farm in Kirkkonummi where he raises Hereford and Aberdeen Angus cattle.

There was an investigation in 2001–2002 about whether he used inside information in KONE and Partek stock trades. He was found innocent. In 2005 he began his own inquiry into who made the case public; those accused could not be proven to have provided information.

In 2005 the Herlin family invested in the construction companies YIT and Lemminkäinen. In 2012 he received agricultural subsidies of €275,792; the state’s total agricultural support was €2.1 billion.