Jose Roberto Marinho
José Roberto Marinho is a Brazilian businessman and one of the three sons of the late communications tycoon Roberto Marinho. He is the president of Roberto Marinho Foundation and vice-president of Grupo Globo.
- Jose Roberto Marinho and his two billionaire brothers, Joao Roberto and Roberto Irineu, inherited control of Globo, Brazil’s largest media group.
- Their grandfather started Globo in 1925 by launching a newspaper. He died 25 days after the first issue was published so his oldest son took over.
- Globo Group owns Brazil’s largest TV broadcaster, Rede Globo; Brazil’s largest newspaper company, and Globosat, Brazil’s largest pay TV provider.
- In 1991, Jose Roberto founded CBN, the first Brazilian radio to broadcast 24 hours of news.
- Jose Roberto leads the family’s philanthropy through Roberto Marinho Foundation, which created the world’s first museum to dedicated to Portuguese.
