Candido Pinheiro Koren de Lima
- Pinheiro Koren de Lima, an oncologist, used money he saved from his medical practice to launch a hospital in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza in 1986.
- Over the years, he added more hospitals, then health clinics and eventually health insurance, creating what’s now Grupo Hapvida.
- He took Hapvida public in April 2018 on the Sao Paulo stock exchange.
- He is Hapvida’s chairman, while his sons Jorge and Candido Junior, also billionaires, sit on the board of directors.
- The company has 25 hospitals in at least 11 different Brazilian states.
