Profil Financier
Luis Carlos Sarmiento occupe actuellement le rang #315 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur finance & investissement). Fortune nette estimée : $11.2 B (-$323 sur 24h).
Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo took a fortune amassed in the construction industry and invested it in banks.
His Grupo Aval now controls one third of all banks in Colombia; his son Luis Carlos Sarmiento Gutierrez is chairman.
After graduating with a degree in engineering, Sarmiento briefly worked at a construction company, but took a 10,000 pesos payout and started his own firm.
He bought Colombia's largest newspaper El Tiempo in 2012 for an estimated $250 million.
His construction firm built the Grand Hyatt in Bogota, which opened in August 2018.
At age 14 he worked part time at Colombia's national radio network making programs for children.
He is the second youngest in a family of 9 children.