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Carlos Slim Helu

AKA Carlos Slim Helú

Born: 28-Jan-1940
Birthplace: Mexico City, Mexico

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Middle Eastern
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Business

Nationality: Mexico
Executive summary: World's richest man, 2010

Primarily invested in telephone industry, Carlos Slim Helu is Latin America's richest man. He runs Mexico's largest cellular phone company (Am�rica Movil), as well as the virtual monopoly on landlines (Telmex). But Slim's greatest asset is diversification: his investment group Grupo Carso owns an ISP (Prodigy), an online bank, department stores, a cigarette company (Cigatam), and a restaurant chain with hundreds of locations.

Father: Yusef Salim Haddad ("Julian Slim Haddad", d. 1952)
Mother: Linda Helu
Wife: Soumaya (d.)
Son: Carlos Slim Domit
Son: Marco Antonio
Son: Patrick

    University: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1961)

    Member of the Board of Altria (1993-?)
    Member of the Board of SBC
    CompUSA Owner (2000-07)
    New York Stock Exchange President, Latin-American Committee NYSE
    The New York Times $250M loan (2009-)
    Academy of Achievement Patron
    Lebanese Ancestry
    Risk Factors: Smoking


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