Iris Fontbona & family

Net worth over time

Biography

• Iris Fontbona is the widow of Andrónico Luksic, who built a fortune in mining and beverages before dying of cancer in 2005.
• He left his businesses to Fontbona and his three sons: Jean-Paul, Andrónico and Guillermo Luksic (who died of lung cancer in 2013 at age 57).
• Fontbona and her children control Antofagasta Plc, which owns copper mines in Chile and trades on the London Stock Exchange.
• Fontbona and her children also own a majority stake in Quiñenco, a publicly-traded Chilean conglomerate active in banking, beer and manufacturing.
• Jean-Paul Luksic is chairman of Antofagasta; Andrónico Luksic, who headed up Quiñenco since 2013, stepped down in December 2023.
• In 2004, her son Andrónico climbed Mount Everest, and in 2005 he completed The Seven Summits of the World, reaching the highest peaks on each continent.

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