The XLIV IPSOS Peru Economic Week Power Survey revealed that Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor remains the most powerful businessman in Peru. The president of the Intercorp Group leads the traditional list for the fifth consecutive year.
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#Power2024. The XLIV Survey of the Power of SEMANAeconómica and @ipsosperu revealed that Carlos Rodríguez Pastor remains the most powerful businessman in Peru. The president of Grupo Intercorp leads the traditional list for the fifth consecutive year. The president of Compañía de… pic.twitter.com/uHJCUFCekz
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Carlos Rodríguez-Pastor is a 65-year-old businessman, considered the richest man in Peru.
He has an estimated fortune (as of February 2022) of US$3.10 billion and is ranked 529th in Forbes magazine’s world ranking of billionaires.
His father, Carlos Rodríguez-Pastor Mendoza, was Minister of Economy of Peru, vice president of Wells Fargo Bank in California and financial consultant in the United States, but decided to leave a comfortable life there to buy the state shares of the International Bank of Peru (Interbanc, its name at the time) in 1994, reports El Comercio.
A year later he died and his eldest son took over the presidency of the bank. El Comercio reports that they were very similar in the way they approached their actions: “His father had a great vocation for creating business in the country and, upon his return, in addition to Interbanc he was willing to buy other financial businesses.”
The successful businessman studied at the Colegio Inmaculado Corazón until 1968, when due to the coup d’état led by General Juan Velasco Alvarado, his father, then executive director of the Central Reserve Bank, had to go into exile first in Ecuador and then in California, United States.
In the United States, Rodríguez Pastor attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he graduated in Social Studies. He then studied for a Master’s degree in Business Administration at Dartmouth College in Hanover.
At the age of 30, he moved to New York, where he worked for Citigroup and, in 1993, established a hedge fund branch of Banco Santander under the name Inversiones Nuevo Mundo. Since then he has had a successful career in the business world.
Although he likes to keep a low profile in the public eye, he is well known by all the bank officials under his command. In supermarkets, where he is not yet known, he likes to go around incognito, to find out how each customer is treated, according to a 2004 report in this newspaper.
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