Biography

Rubens Ometto Silveira Mello was born in Piracicaba, Brazil. He attended the University of São Paulo and interned with Unibanco. After college, he became a financial director for the Votorantim Group, thanks to his mentor Antônio Ermírio de Moraes. He sued his family for a decade to own Cosan.

Brazilian businessman Rubens Ometto Silveira Mello is the Chairman of Cozan who has an estimated net worth of $1.04 billion as of April 2016 according to Forbes. Considered as the world’s first ethanol billionaire, he is the 19th richest person in Brazil and 554th in the list of World Billionaires.

Also known as the “tractor,” Rubens got his nickname from the fact that his companies harvest sugarcane which built his estimated net worth of $1.04 billion. Another thing is that, he also had a ten-year court fight with his family members over the control of his company, Cosan, which was publicly listed in 2005.

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