Walther Moreira Salles Junior
ACTUAL TIME TOTAL ASSETS– since 4/27/17
$ 2.8 B.
Brazilian filmmaker Walther Moreira Salles Junior ( Walter Salles) comes from among Brazil’s oldest financial family members. His late dad, Walther Moreira Salles, established Unibanco as well as was an ambassador to the USA. In 2008 Unibanco combined with Itau, after that Brazil’s second-largest business financial institution, developing Itau-Unibanco, the biggest financial institution in Latin The U.S.A. today. The Moreira Salles family members possesses a managing stake in the financial institution. Moreira Salles and also his 3 bros, all billionaires, additionally possess a bulk stake in Cia. Brasileira de Metalurgia & Mineracao (CBMM), the globe’s leading distributor of niobium, which is used to create more powerful, lighter steel for industrial pipelines as well as airplane components. Moreira Salles has actually guided greater than 20 movies, consisting of The Bike Diaries and also the Academy Award-nominated 1998 movie Central Terminal.
Moreira Salles shares a majority stake in CBMM, the miner that controls most of the world’s output of niobium. The closely held company is based in Araxa, Brazil and supplies niobium, a metal used to strengthen steel, to about 50 countries. His family also shares control of Itau Unibanco, a Sao Paulo-based bank.
Source:
1. Forbes
2. bloomberg