Portrait of Joao Moreira Salles

Rank #807

Joao Moreira Salles

Net worth $5.3B

Banking, minerals · Brazil

Born
Jan 01, 1962
Age
64
Source
Banking, minerals
Residence
Rio de Janeiro
Citizenship
Brazil
Marital status
Divorced
Children
1
Education

Net worth over time

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.
  • Moreira Salles' 2006 documentary Santiago won the Knight Grand Jury Prize for Documentary Features at the Miami International Film Festival.

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