Marcel Herrmann Telles (born 23 February 1950) is a Brazilian investor and businessman. Telles is a board member of

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Telles shares control of

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, the world's largest beer company, with his longtime billionaire partners

Jorge Paulo Lemann Jorge Paulo Lemann (born August 26, 1939) is a Brazilian billionaire investment banker, businessman, and former tennis player with dual Brazilian and Swiss citizenship. Lemann co-founded investment firm 3G Capital, which owns brands such as Bur ...

and

Carlos Alberto Sicupira Carlos Alberto Sicupira (born 1948) is a Brazilian billionaire businessman, a partner in 3G Capital, which owns or has major stakes in Burger King, H.J. Heinz Company, Anheuser-Busch InBev and Lojas Americanas. He lives in Switzerland. Early lif ...

. Their investment firm

3G Capital 3G Capital is a private equity investment firm. Founded in 2004, 3G Capital evolved from the Brazilian investment office of Jorge Paulo Lemann, Carlos Alberto Sicupira, and Marcel Herrmann Telles. 3G Capital is led by Alex Behring, Co-Founder ...

bought Hamburger chain

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in 2010. The trio also controls Brazilian retailer

Lojas Americanas Lojas Americanas is a Brazilian retail chain founded in 1929 in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, by the Austrian-Brazilian Max Landesmann and Americans John Lee, Glen Matson, James Marshall and Batson Borger. Currently, the company has 1, ...

. He is co-founder and board member of 3G Capital since late 2004, controlling shareholder, former chairman and CEO of AmBev and board member of Anheuser-Busch InBev. Telles was hired by Banco Garantia in 1972. He was a partner of Garantia Merchant Bank from 1974 until it was sold to

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in July 1998. Telles was Head Trader from 1974 to 1989, Board Member of Burger King, Board Member of

, Partner of

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(Brazilian private equity firm) until 2004. He has a BA from

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, and completed the OPM program at

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. He served as CEO of

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from 1989 to 1999.

Personal life

Telles is married and has two children.

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1950 births Living people Businesspeople from Rio de Janeiro (city) Brazilian billionaires Brazilian chief executives Brazilian expatriates in Monaco {{Brazil-business-bio-stub

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