Entrepreneurs to Watch

Sebastián Piñera Echenique is an accomplished entrepreneur and politician in Chile. His track-record in business is outstanding after paving the way for the proliferation of credit cards in Chile by…

Carlos Slim Helú is an exceptional Mexican baron that has accomplished unprecedented business success in Latin America. He is the first Latin American billionaire as well as the first tycoon…

David Vélez is an audacious and shrewd Colombian who is disrupting the banking industry in Latin America with his idea. The latter consists of his invention of offering suitable commercial…

Eduardo Eurnekian is a prominent entrepreneur in Argentina owning in its entirety a conglomerate of various businesses known as Corporación América Internacional S.A. including control of the single largest operator…

Juan Carlos Escotet is a tenacious and self-made Spanish-Venezuelan billionaire banker who knew how to hedge his exposure to the humanitarian crisis unfolding today in his home country. Born in…

Born in Colombia to a Palestinian-Chilean father and Lebanese-Colombian mother, both of them Christian, Álvaro Saieh Bendeck is today a prominent, self-made and high-profile billionaire in Chile. In fact, back…

Jaime Gilinski Bacal is a prominent Jewish Colombian billionaire who got his start in business after obtaining his MBA from Harvard University and then entering the M&A department at Morgan…

Peruvian entrepreneur Carlos Rodríguez-Pastor led an amazing and aggressive expansion in Peru of a conglomerate he controls constituting a diverse holding of a sizable number of companies. In fact, with…

This is the story of a formidable and self-made entrepreneur born in Bolivia to a family of holocaust survivors from Poland whose name is Germán Efromovich. From modest beginnings having…

The following is a list of prominent entrepreneurs who found niche markets to exploit in Latin America and where they happen to be leaders in their respective industries:    …