Julio Mario Santo Domingo

Julio Mario Santo Domingo (born 1924) is a Colombian born in Panamá, his family is originally from Barranquilla, Colombia [http://www.elpais.es/articulo/20050904elpnegemp_6/Tes/elpnegemp/] . He is a businessman, listed by Forbes magazine as one of the wealthiest men in the world, with a fortune of $5.7 billion US dollars [http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/YNZG.html] . Through his majority stake of Grupo Empresarial Bavaria and holding company Valores Bavaria, he controls more than 100 companies in a diversified portfolio of industries that most notably includes beverages Fact|date=February 2007. Lately, he made a financial transaction in which Bavaria S.A. merged with South African company SABMiller. In this merging, Santo Domingo acquired the 15.1% of SAB Miller [cite web|url= http://www.sabmiller.com/sabmiller.com/en_gb/News+and+media/News+releases/Group+news/SABMiller+and+Bavaria+announce+a+major+transaction+in+Latin+America.htm |title= SABMiller and Bavaria announce a major transaction in Latin America |last= Timmons|first=Heather |publisher=International Herald Tribune|date=2005-07-19] [cite web|url= http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/18/business/beer.php |title=SABMiller buys brewer to grow in Latin America |author= |publisher=SAB Miller|date=2005-07-19] , becoming the second shareholder of the second largest beverage company of the world.

Santo Domingo also owns Caracol TV and El Espectador newspaper.

He is the son of the late Don Mario Santo Domingo. He is married to Beatrice Dávila and has three children: Julio Mario Jr., whose daughter Tatiana Santo Domingo is the girlfriend of Andrea Casiraghi; Alejandro Santo Domingo, who is now getting into his father's business, once engaged to model Eugenia Silva, and his younger son, Andrés Santo Domingo who works in the music industry, and is married to Lauren Davis.

He has houses in Park Avenue in New York City, Paris, and in Baru island near Cartagena,Colombia [http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/YNZG.html] .

His family donated approximately 10 million dollars to Universidad de los Andes on January 16th, 2007 [https://egresados.uniandes.edu.co/documentos/Comunicado_de_Prensa_ANUNCIO_final_2.doc] .

See also

* Latin America's most important businessmen

References

External links

* [http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/10/2004/LIR.jhtml?passListId=10&passYear=2004&passListType=Person&uniqueId=YNZG&datatype=Person Forbes.com: Forbes World's Richest People]
* [http://www.latinbusinesschronicle.com/topics/billionaires.htm Latin Business Chronicle: Latin America's Billionaires]
* [http://www.forbes.com//lists/2006/10/YNZG.html Julio Mario Santo Domingo The World's Richest People: Billionaires]