Alfredo Egydio Arruda Villela Filho

  • Alfredo Egydio de Arruda Villela Filho is a member of one of Brazil’s oldest banking families.
  • His great-grandfather founded the bank Itau, which merged with Unibanco in 2008 to form Itau-Unibanco, Brazil’s biggest private sector bank.
  • He is the largest individual shareholder of Itausa, the bank’s holding company, with a 12% stake.
  • His grandfather founded Duratex, a publicly-traded Brazilian maker of wood paneling and bathroom fixtures; he owns a stake in the company.
  • In 2014, he was vice chairman of the board of directors of Itau Unibanco, Latin America’s largest bank.