Two of the biggest investors and business man of Latin America

Two of the biggest investors and business man of Latin America: Gustavo Cisneros and Lorenzo Mendoza

Gustavo Cisneros was born in November 20, 1945 in Caracas. He is a Venezuelan entrepreneur and investor, chairman and majority shareholder of the business empire, Cisneros, one of the groups of companies and larger private investments in Venezuela and Latin America, holding companies under his control such as the channel of country's most successful television currently Venevision, Venevision Continental, Venevision Plus, Venevision Productions, Venevision International, Directv, Miss Venezuela, SBP (Business Service Provider), Horn, FISA, the baseball team Leones del Caracas, among others.

Gustavo Cisneros is the fourth son of businessman Diego Cisneros, who consolidated a modest fortune in the transportation business. Eventually, Gustavo took over the business but changed his approach, diversifying business activities, acquiring other, getting investment for several companies in different branches and forming numerous branches, thus giving way to the current structure of the Cisneros Group. Lately Cisneros Group became a holding of private entities media, entertainment, telecommunications and consumer products with greater presence in Latin America and even in places like Australia, United States, several countries in Asia and Europe. Similarly actions on the media conglomerate, Univision, Caracol TV Colombia, Caribbean Communications Network, the license to distribute Coca Cola in Venezuela, as well as a partnership with AOL, are also assets held by the tycoon.

Currently he is ranked as the #286 richest business man by Forbes with an estimate of US$4.4 B.

Lorenzo Alejandro Mendoza Giménez was born in Caracas in 1965 , is an industrial engineer , graduated from Fordham University in New York , earned a master's degree in 1993 from the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Mr. Mendoza is married to Maria Alexandra Pulido and has six children: Maria Alexandra , Lorenzo , Ana Mercedes, Cristobal, Santiago and Sofia.

Lorenzo Alejandro Mendoza Giménez leads as CEO of Empresas Polar. Empresas Polar is a holding of several companies and it holds the largest food and beverage consortium in Venezuela, Colombia and Panama. As a chief executive, presides over an empire composed of 40 companies with about 31,600 employees producing a huge list of food products ( many of which are leaders in their field ) , such as pasta , rice, oil corn, ice cream, wine, mineral water , soft drinks, sweets and snacks of all kinds. The conglomerate produces 4 percent of gross domestic product Venezuelan excluding oil. And its beer division is the fourteenth worldwide brewery.  Currently he is ranked as the #329 richest business man by Fortune 500 with an estimate of US$ 4 B.

http://www.forbes.com/profile/lorenzo-mendoza/

http://www.forbes.com/profile/gustavo-cisneros/
http://www.gustavocisneros.com/es/a-global-entrepreneur/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/14/lorenzo-mendoza-empresas-polar_n_3272995.html