Alicia Koplowitz
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Construction, investments
- Industry
- Finance & Investments
- Residence
- Madrid
- Marital Status
- Divorced
- Children
- 3
Assets
- Acerinox S.A.7,977,000 shares @ --ACX-ES
- Iberdrola S.A.11,700,000 shares @ --IBE-ES
Biography
In the early 1960s, Alicia Koplowitz inherited a stake in Spanish construction company Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas after her father died.
She sold her stake to sister Esther for $800 million in 1997 and put the money into diverse investments.
Over the years she's invested in steelmaker Acerinox, electric utility Iberdrola, and Banco Sabadell.
Koplowitz owns hotels in Italy and Miami, real estate in Washington, D.C. and Chicago, as well as a stake in Hospes, a Spanish luxury hotel chain.
Her charitable foundation sends Spanish fellows to study child psychiatry in England and the U.S. at Columbia University, Stanford and others.
About
In 1969 when she was a teenager she married Alberto Cortina, six months after her sister Esther married Cortina's cousin, Alberto Alcocer.
Koplowitz owns property in Madrid with Amancio Ortega, the Spanish billionaire known for fashion giant Zara.