Candido Pinheiro Koren de Lima

Pinheiro Koren de Lima, an oncologist, used money he saved from his medical practice to launch a hospital in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza in 1986.Over the years, he added more hospitals, then health clinics and eventually health insurance, creating what's now Grupo Hapvida. He took Hapvida public in April 2018 on the Sao Paulo stock exchange.He is Hapvida's chairman, while his sons Jorge and Candido Junior, also billionaires, sit on the board of directors.The company has 25 hospitals in at least 11 different Brazilian states.