Marco Antonio Slim Domit Biography

(Son of Carlos Slim)

Birthday: April 30, 1968 (Taurus)

Born In: Mexico City

Marco Antonio Slim Domit is a businessman and the second eldest son of Carlos Slim Helú, a Mexican business mogul, investor and philanthropist. Carlos Slim was listed as the richest person in the world between 2010 and 2013 by Forbes. Marco Antonio primarily manages the financial side of their family’s business empire. He currently serves as the chairman of Seguros Inbursa, IDEAL (Impulsora del Desarrollo y el Empleo en América Latina), and Instituto Carlos Slim de la Salud. He is also the director of Grupo Carso, Carso Global Telecom and Inversora Carso. He is an independent director at BlackRock, Inc. in addition to being a member of its board of directors. He previously served as the chief executive officer and director at Grupo Financiero Inbursa and as the chairman of one of its subsidiaries, Inversora Bursátil. He supports his father's philanthropist initiatives, and during an appearance at the inaugural event of the Inbursa Foundation in September 2009, he reiterated his belief that "the financial sector activity, due to its impact on the development of countries, involves a strong social responsibility."
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Quick Facts

Nick Name: Tony

Age: 56 Years, 56 Year Old Males

Family:

father: Carlos Slim

mother: Soumaya Domit Gemayel

siblings: Carlos Slim Domit, Johanna Slim Domit, Patrick Slim Domit, Soumaya Slim Domit, Vanessa Slim Domit

CEOs Mexican Men

City: Mexico City, Mexico

More Facts

education: Instituto Irlandés, Universidad Anáhuac

Career
In 1992, Marco Antonio Slim Domit became the general director of Seguros Inbursa, which operates as a subsidiary of Grupo Financiero Inbursa and provides casualty, life, and home insurance to Mexican people. The following year, Banco Inbursa was founded to provide banking services to individuals as well as small and medium enterprises, and Antonio became its general director in 1996. A year later, he became the general director of Grupo Financiero Inbursa, which was founded by his father in 1957 to provide banking and related services in Mexico through its subsidiaries.
In 1998, he became the chairman of the board of Grupo Financiero Inbursa. During an interview with theworldfolio.com in 2011, he mentioned how Grupo Inbursa had "doubled the size of our bank portfolio, tripled the number of branches and financed more than 30,000 SMEs" despite the 1995 crisis. Marco Antonio, who has been taking care of his responsibilities of managing the financial arm of the Slim empire consistently and effectively, went on to become the president of the Carlos Slim Health Institute in 2007 and the president of the board of IDEAL in 2012. According to Grupo Carso’s 2012 report, Marco Antonio and each of his brothers and sisters owns more than 10% shares of the company directly or indirectly. Marco Antonio also has shares in companies like América Móvil, AMEA MOVI and BlackRock.
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Family & Personal Life
Marco Antonio Slim Domit, also known by the nickname Tony, was born on April 30, 1968, in Mexico City, Mexico, to Carlos Slim Helú and Soumaya Domit Gemayel. His father is a business magnet who holds shares in numerous Mexican companies and serves as the CEO of Telmex, América Móvil and Grupo Carso. His mother who was a philanthropist suffered from kidney problems and died in 1999. He has two brothers named, Carlos and Patrick, and three sisters named, Vanessa, Soumaya and Johanna. He studied at Instituto Irlandés, a highly selective private school, in Greater Mexico City, where he was the class of 1986. He later went to Universidad Anáhuac like his elder brother Carlos and earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with specialization in Finance. He is currently married, but the details about his wife and children are not available. He was in news in 2017 when it was revealed in a May 2003 deed carrying his signature that he and his relatives had inherited 43.295 acres of land outside Houston, Texas. The land originally belonged to his grandmother Lily Gemayel Domit who then sold it to Westhill Ltd., a Cayman Islands company.

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