Rubens Menin Teixeira de Souza (born 12 March 1956) is a Brazilian

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least 1,000,000,000, one billion units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. It is a sub-category of the concept of the ultr ...

businessman and co-founder, in 1979, of

MRV Engenharia MRV is the biggest Brazilian homebuilder and real estate company. The company was founded in 1979 by Mário Lúcio Pinheiro Menin, Rubens Menin Teixeira de Souza and Vega Engenharia Ltda and is headquartered in Belo Horizonte Belo Horizo ...

, Brazil's leading home builder and real estate developer, which has a market capitalization of $1.4 billion. As of March 2022, his net worth is estimated at US$1.3 billion. He has a bachelor's degree in

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from the

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, where he graduated in 1978. In June 2018, Menin was named the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur of the Year. He has been chairman of

since May 2007. In May 2021, Menin said that he bought 100% of the broadcasting company Rádio Itatiaia. He is married, with three children, and lives in

Belo Horizonte Belo Horizonte is the List of largest cities in Brazil, sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population of around 2.3 million, and the third largest metropolitan area, containing a population of 6 million. It is the List of cities in Sout ...

, Brazil.

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