Portrait of Eduardo Hochschild

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Eduardo Hochschild

Net worth $4.7B

mining · Peru

Born
Dec 04, 1963
Age
62
Source
mining
Residence
Lima
Citizenship
Peru
Marital status
Married
Children
4
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Tufts University

Net worth over time

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.
  • 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.

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