Rank #197
Jaime Gilinski Bacal
Net worth $15.2B
Banking · Colombia
- Born
- Dec 14, 1957
- Age
- 68
- Source
- Banking
- Residence
- Panama City
- Citizenship
- Colombia
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 4
- Education
- Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Net worth over time
Biography
- Jaime Gilinski Bacal built one of the largest banking empires in Latin America through a series of mergers and acquisitions.
- The Colombian is redeveloping a former U.S. Air Force base alongside the Panama Canal with British billionaire brothers Ian and Richard Livingstone.
- After getting an MBA at Harvard in 1980, Gilinski worked in Morgan Stanley's mergers and acquisitions division.
- His primary residence is in Panama, but Gilinski also has houses in London, New York, Miami and Colombia.
- In 2022, Gilinski purchased large stakes in Colombian food conglomerate Grupo Nutresa and financial services firm Grupo Sura.
- Billionaire George Soros struck a back-of-the-napkin deal to invest $50 million in Gilinski's plan to take over the largest bank in Colombia in 1994.
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