Alfredo Egydio Arruda Villela Filho
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Master of Business Administration, Fundacao Getulio Vargas | Bachelor of Engineering, Instituto Maua de Tecnologia
Brazil
banking
$2,300,000,000
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#877 Billionaires 2019
Alfredo Egydio de Arruda Villela Filho is a member of one of Brazil's oldest banking families.His great-grandfather founded the bank Itau, which merged with Unibanco in 2008 to form Itau-Unibanco, Brazil's biggest private sector bank.He is the largest individual shareholder of Itausa, the bank's holding company, with a 12% stake. His grandfather founded Duratex, a publicly-traded Brazilian maker of wood paneling and bathroom fixtures; he owns a stake in the company.In 2014, he was vice chairman of the board of directors of Itau Unibanco, Latin America's largest bank.
His parents died in a plane crash in 1982, when he was 12; he was raised by his aunt, Maria de Lourdes Egydio Villela.
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