Jaime Gilinski Bacal
$8.07B
as of 07/05/24
About Jaime Gilinski Bacal
Jaime Gilinski Bacal built one of the largest banking empires in Latin America through a series of mergers and acquisitions.
The Colombian is redeveloping a former U.S. Air Force base alongside the Panama Canal with British billionaire brothers Ian and Richard Livingstone.
After getting an MBA at Harvard in 1980, Gilinski worked in Morgan Stanley's mergers and acquisitions division.
His primary residence is in London, but Gilinski also has houses in New York, Panama, Miami and Colombia.
In 2022, Gilinski purchased large stakes in Colombian food conglomerate Grupo Nutresa and financial services firm Grupo Sura.
Personal stats
Citizenship
ColombiaSource of wealth
BankingResidence
London, United KingdomMarital status
MarriedBirth date
12/14/57 (age 66)Number of children
4Education
Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolSelf-made
inherited and growingJaime Gilinski Bacal’s fortune is worth
135K
troy ounces of gold
124K
median U.S. household
81K
median U.S. income
0.161%
U.S. credit card volume
0.032%
GDP of the United States
0.024%
United States debt
Net worth history
Annual ranking
Did you know?
Billionaire George Soros struck a back-of-the-napkin deal to invest $50 million in Gilinski's plan to take over the largest bank in Colombia in 1994.
Net worth over time
Real-time ranking
Financial assets
COLOMBIA | NUTRESA-CO
Grupo NutresaCOLOMBIA | GRUPOSURA-CO
Grupo SuraLONDON | MTRO-GB
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