Eduardo Hochschild
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- mining
- Industry
- Metals & Mining
- Residence
- Lima
- Organization
- Chairman at Hochschild Mining PLC
- Education
- Tufts University (Bachelor of Arts/Science)
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 4
Assets
- Aclara Resources80,340,000 shares @ --ARA-CA
- Cementos Pacasmayo SAA-CMN211,985,000 shares @ --CPACASC1-PE
- Hochschild Mining PLC196,900,000 shares @ --HOC-GB
Biography
Eduardo Hochschild is chairman of the Hochschild Group, a Peru-based mining and industrial group.
Eduardo joined the business, which his great uncle had started, as a mine safety assistant in 1987; he was appointed head of the mining group in 1998.
Hochschild also chairs Hochschild Mining, a silver and gold mining business operating three underground mines, two located in Peru and one in Argentina.
Based in Lima, Hochschild Mining went public on the London Stock Exchange in 2006.
The Hochschild Group also owns Cementos Pacasmayo, a concrete business that trades on the Peruvian stock exchange and on the New York Stock Exchange, where it listed its shares in February 2012.
About
His great uncle, Moritz Hochschild, who started the company in 1911, is called the 'Bolivian Oskar Schindler' for helping 9,000 European Jews come to S. America.
In 1998, Hochschild survived an attack by a gunman that claimed the life of his father Luis. Hochschild was kidnapped by the attackers, but released six days later.