Ana Lucia de Mattos Barretto Villela
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Banking
- Industry
- Finance & Investments
- Residence
- Sao Paulo
- Marital Status
- Married
Assets
- Duratex SA6,732,320 shares @ --DXCO3-BR
- Itausa Investimentos Itau SA Pfd267,479,046 shares @ --ITSA4-BR
- Itausa Investimentos Itau SA-Common490,718,855 shares @ --ITSA3-BR
Biography
Ana Lucia de Mattos Barretto Villela is a member of one of Brazil's oldest banking families.
Her great-grandfather founded the bank Itau, which merged with Unibanco in 2008 to form Itau-Unibanco, Latin America's biggest private sector bank.
She is one of the largest individual shareholders of Itausa, the bank's holding company, and is vice chairwoman of their board of directors.
Her grandfather founded Duratex, a publicly-traded Brazilian maker of wood paneling and bathroom fixtures; she is a shareholder.
She became a shareholder of the bank when she was 8 years old as her parents died in a plane crash in 1982.
About
Villela was named the first female board member of Itau Unibanco, Latin America's largest bank by market value, when she was 44.
She and her husband co-founded the nonprofit Alana, which focuses on promoting the welfare of children.