Jayme Garfinkel

Jayme Brasil Garfinkel is a Brazilian investor and Chairman of the Board of Porto Seguro Seguros, the third largest insurance company in Brazil.

  • Jayme Brasil Garfinkel is the biggest shareholder of Brazilian insurance giant Porto Seguro, with a 40% stake.
  • He was 26 when his family bought the small business in 1972.
  • Garfinkel took a prominent position in the family business after his father passed away in 1978, six years after he had acquired Porto Seguro.
  • The company, one of the leading auto insurers in Brazil, went public in 2004. Garfinkel was CEO until 2012. He is now chairman of the board.