Ermirio Pereira de Moraes was born on 1952 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Brazil. Ermirio Pereira de Moraes is the son of Jose Ermirio de Moraes, who founded family-owned Grupo Votorantim, one of Latin America's largest diversified industrial conglomerates. Votorantim is present in more than 20 countries through the aluminum, pulp and paper, energy, agribusiness and cement industries. The group dates back to 1918, when de Moraes' father bought a textile factory in Sao Paulo. Today the family still controls 100% of the business. Ermirio Pereira's sister, Maria Helena, is also a billionaire. Their brother Antonio Ermirio, a former billionaire, ran to become the governor of Brazil's richest state, São Paulo; he died in 2014. De Moraes earned his B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, and is a member of the Advisory Council of AACD, a Brazilian nonprofit organization that treats disabled children.
Ermirio Pereira de Moraes is a member of Diversified
Biography/Timeline
1952
Ermirio Pereira de Moraes was born in June 1952 in Brazil, one of two children of the late Antônio Ermírio de Moraes. Moraes has a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, US.
2014
According to Forbes, he has an estimated net worth of $3.2 billion in December 2014.
