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Julio Herrera Velutini

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Occupation
  
Banker

Name
  
Julio Velutini

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Full Name
  
Julio Martin Herrera Velutini

Born
  
December 15, 1971 (age 52) (
1971-12-15
)

Julio Martin Herrera Velutini, (born December 15, 1971) is an international banker.

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Beginnings and Education

Educated and trained at The American School in England (UK), La Scuola Americana in Svizzera (Switzerland) and at the Central University of Venezuela (graduated in 1990). With over 16 years of banking experience, Julio Herrera Velutini is part of a generation of bankers who were formed in the circle of the Caracas Stock Exchange at the Central Bank of Venezuela in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Ancestry

The Velutini family has had a great influence on Venezuelan Banking since the late 20th century with the founding of Banco Caracas in 1980. His great-grandfather Julio Cesar Velutini Couturier, chaired Banco Caracas until 1930. Later generations were all Chairman and Senior Managers of Banco Caracas for over 100 years, until its sale in 1998.

Banking career

In the early 90s he started working at the Caracas Stock Exchange in Multinvest Casa de Bolsa (a brokerage firm), of which he was a member of the board until 1998. In that same year he becomes Chairman of the Board at Inversiones Transbanca (holding that results from the sale of Banco Caracas), becoming one of its major shareholders and senior director of companies such as Kia Motors of Venezuela, BMW of Venezuela, BBO Financial Services, Transporte de Valores Bancarios de Venezuela (Securities Transport firm), Bolivar Banco Universal, Banco Activo Banco Comercial, and Banco Desarrollo del Microempresario.

In 2006, along with the board of directors of Inversiones Transbanca and his partners, Jose Herrera Velutini and Belen Clarisa Velutini, Julio Herrera Velutini acquires companies such as Caracas Caja de Bolsa, IBG Trading, Banco Real and Banreal International Bank, recovering what once was the holding of the Velutini family.

Since the beginning of 2007 until February 2009 he serves as Chairman of the Board of Banco Real, and Banreal Holding, which was later sold in February 2009. That same year he purchases Banco Nacional de Credito (BNC)

In late 2008, he founded Bancredito International Bank, Corporation, Bancredito Foundation and Bancredito Financial Services, financial institutions in which he presides as a member of the board.

References

Julio Herrera Velutini Wikipedia