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Joao Moreira Salles
Brazil 64 years old
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Banking, minerals
- Industry
- Diversified
- Residence
- Rio de Janeiro
- Marital Status
- Divorced
- Children
- 1
Assets
- Itau Unibanco Holdings Common9,961,336 shares @ --ITUB3-BR
- XP, Inc9,906,000 shares @ --XP-US
Biography
Joao Moreira Salles is a Brazilian documentary filmmaker and member of one of Brazil's oldest banking families.
His late father, Walther Moreira Salles, was the founder of Unibanco and a former ambassador to the United States.
In 2008 Unibanco merged with Itau, then Brazil's second-largest commercial bank, creating Itau-Unibanco, the largest bank in Latin America.
Moreira Salles and his three brothers, all billionaires, also own stakes in CBMM, the world's leading supplier of the mineral niobium.
About
Moreira Salles' 2006 documentary Santiago won the Knight Grand Jury Prize for Documentary Features at the Miami International Film Festival.