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Cho Jung-ho
Korea 67 years old
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Finance
- Industry
- Finance & Investments
- Residence
- Seoul
- Organization
- Meritz Financial Group
- Education
- IMD (Master of Business Administration)University of Southern California (Bachelor of Arts/Science)
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 3
Assets
- Meritz Financial Group97,747,000 shares @ --138040-KR
- Meritz Securities0 shares @ --008560-KR
Biography
Cho Jung-ho is the chairman of Meritz Financial Group.
He is the youngest of the four sons of Cho Choong-hoon, the late founder of Hanjin Group, the parent company of Korean Air.
He worked for Korean Airlines in Europe and returned home in 1989 as a director with Hanjin Investment & Securities, as Meritz was then named.
About
Cho's father started out with a single truck and went on to build an empire based mostly on transportation.
He has outstripped his brothers in wealth and success; Meritz's value has multiplied since it broke away from the Hanjin Group in 2005.