Rank #2925
Rubens Ometto Silveira Mello
Net worth $1.3B
Sugar, ethanol · Brazil
- Born
- Jan 01, 1950
- Age
- 76
- Source
- Sugar, ethanol
- Residence
- Sao Paulo
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Bachelor of Engineering, Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo
Net worth over time
Biography
- Rubens Ometto Silveira Mello became the world's first ethanol billionaire in 2007. Cosan, his sugar giant, is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
- The company's origins date to 1936, when Ometto's grandparents established a sugarcane mill in Sao Paulo.
- After several takeovers, Cosan became one of the world's largest growers and processors of sugarcane and one of the largest producers of ethanol.
- Besides his Cosan shares, Ometto also holds a portfolio of real estate investments.
- His combativeness earned him the moniker "the tractor," in part because of the long legal fights in order to gain control of Cosan.
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