Jorge Paulo Lemann (born August 26, 1939) is a Brazilian-Swiss investor. He is ranked as the 26th richest person in the world by Forbes, with an estimated net worth of US$32.7 billion as of September 2016 He is the richest person in Brazil. As of 2015, Forbes Brazil listed Lemann as the top entry for the Richest Brazilians list.
Early life
In 1939, Lemann was born in Rio de Janeiro to Paul Lemann, a Swiss immigrant, who founded the dairy manufacturer, Leco, and Anna Yvette Truebner, a Brazilian of Swiss origin. Lemann attended the American School of Rio de Janeiro.
His father died in a bus accident in 1953, when Lemann was 14. In 1961, he received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University. He won the Brazilian national tennis championship five times. He played for both the Swiss and Brazil Davis Cup teams, and played at Wimbledon.
Family
Lemann married twice and has a total of six children. He usually spends his time between São Paulo, Rapperswil-Jona on Lake Zurich, where his family lives, and St. Louis. His first wife was Maria de Santiago Dantas Quental, a psychoanalyst who died in April 2005 aged 60. His second wife is Susanna Lemann, who has given birth to three of his children.
Jorge Paulo Lemann Net Worth: Jorge Paulo Lemann is a Swiss-Brazilian banker who has a net worth of $30 billion. Jorge Paulo Lemann was born August 26, 1939. Jorge Paulo Lemann is believed to be Brazil’s richest man, thanks to his shares in Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer, though in 2013 it was another business deal that put him in the headlines. His private equity firm, 3G Capital, acquired H.J. Heinz Company together with Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway in July for $23 billion. This was Lemann’s second acquisition of an American name brand. In 2010, 3G Capital bought Burger King in a leveraged buyout, gunning profit margins by slashing approximately 4,000 jobs. Lemann is also a former Brazilian tennis champion who even played Wimbledon. He is a board member of Lojas Americanas S.A. and was a former board member of the Gillette Company, Chairman of the Latin American Advisory Committee of the New York Stock Exchange, founder and board member of Fundação Estudar (which provides scholarships for Brazilian students) and a member of the International Advisory Boards of the Credit Suisse Group and DaimlerChrysler. Lemann also made headlines in 1999 when criminals reportedly attempted to kidnap his three young children. A driver was taking the children to school when two cars blocked the street. The would-be kidnappers opened fire. Although the driver was wounded, he managed to get the children to safety. The day of the foiled kidnapping, Lemann himself reportedly did not miss any meetings, nor did his children miss that day of school. In fact, to his business partners, the only sign that something was amiss with Lemann was that he arrived late. Lemann would subsequently move his family to Switzerland.
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