Eduardo Eurnekian
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Eduardo Eurnekian

Argentina 93 years old Self-Made

Overview

Source of Wealth
Airports, investments
Industry
Diversified
Residence
Buenos Aires
Marital Status
Single

Assets

  • Corporacion America
    131,450,000 shares @ -
    -
    CAAP-US

Biography

Eduardo Eurnekian, the son of Armenian immigrants to Argentina, first operated in the textile industry.

He delved into the cable TV business in the 1980s. In the 1990s, he netted $750 million in the sale of Argentine TV firm Cablevision.

Under his Corporacion America, Eurnekian and partners own 52 airports around the world, with reported revenues of more than $1.4 billion.

In February 2018, Corporacion America Airports went public on the New York Stock Exchange; Eurnekian's nephew, Martin, is CEO.

Compañía General de Combustibles, another of his ventures, is an oil and gas producer in Argentina operating hydrocarbon fields and pipelines.

About

In 2011, he sold 21 duty free shops in Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador and Armenia to Switzerland's Dufry AG for $975 million.

He's never married and has no children.