Jorge Paulo Lemann is a Brazilian billionaire businessman and investment banker with a net worth of $20 billion. He is the richest individual in Brazil and one of the world’s top 100.
Jorge Paulo Lemann made his fortune in the 1970s as a co-founder of Banco Garantia, which grew to become one of Brazil’s most famous investment banks. Lemann then co-founded GP Investments, Ambev, and 3G Capital, which owns Burger King, Kraft Heinz, and other food companies.
Who is Jorge Paulo Lemann married to?
Jorge Paulo Lemann initially married Maria Quental in 1966. Before divorcing in 1986, they had three children together. A squad of gunmen attempted to kidnap Lemann’s children on their way to school in 1999, forcing him to flee to Switzerland. Susanna Mally, his second wife, and he had three children. Lemann spends much of his time in So Paulo, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland, and St. Louis. He is an extremely private individual who rarely gives interviews or appears in public.
Meanwhile, Lemann was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on August 26, 1939, to Anna, a Brazilian of Swiss origin, and Paul, a Swiss immigrant who founded the dairy business Leco. Lemann attended the American School in Rio de Janeiro. His father was killed in a bus accident when he was 14 years old.
He was an excellent tennis player as a child, winning the Brazilian national tennis championship five times. He also competed in the Davis Cup twice. Lemann continued his schooling at Harvard University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1960. He later admitted that he disliked his stay at Harvard since it was excessively cold in comparison to his own Brazil. Several years after graduating, Lemann played at Wimbledon.
From 1961 to 1962, Lemann worked as a trainee at Credit Suisse in Geneva, Switzerland. He also purchased an equity stake in Invesco, a lending company that went bankrupt in 1966. In 1971, Lemann co-founded his first company, Banco Garantia, with Carlos Alberto Sicupira and Marcel Herrmann Telles. Despite a market meltdown just weeks after the company’s inception, Lemann was able to establish Banco Garantia into one of Brazil’s most prestigious investment banks, which Forbes hailed as “a Brazilian version of Goldman Sachs.” In 1998, Banco Garantia was sold to Credit Suisse First Boston.
