Marcel Telles
{{short description|Brazilian investor and businessman (born 1950)}}
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Marcel Herrmann Telles (born 23 February 1950){{cite news|title=Today's ranking of the world's richest people of brazil|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/2013-11-05/cya/aaada/|publisher=Bloomberg|accessdate=6 November 2013|date=6 November 2013}} is a Brazilian investor and businessman. Telles is a board member of AB InBev.{{cite web|url=http://www.ab-inbev.com/go/corporate_governance/board_committees |title=Corporate Governance |website=Ab-inbev.com |date= |accessdate=2016-03-31}}
Career
Telles shares control of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest beer company, with his longtime billionaire partners Jorge Paulo Lemann and Carlos Alberto Sicupira. Their investment firm 3G Capital bought Hamburger chain Burger King in 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.3g-capital.com/principals.php?person%3DMHT |title=3G Capital :: Principals |accessdate=December 2, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214102637/http://www.3g-capital.com/principals.php?person=MHT |archivedate=February 14, 2012 }}{{cite web|url=http://economia.ig.com.br/empresas/comercioservicos/conheca-os-brasileiros-que-compraram-o-burger-king/n1237768252822.html |title=Conheça os brasileiros que compraram o Burger King - Comércio e Serviços - iG |website=Economia.ig.com.br |date= |accessdate=2016-03-31}} The trio also controls Brazilian retailer Lojas Americanas. 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.{{cite web|url=http://docslide.us/documents/abi-lemann-telles-article.html |title=ABI Lemann Telles Article - Documents |website=Docslide.us |date=2015-04-08 |accessdate=2016-03-31}} He was a partner of Garantia Merchant Bank from 1974 until it was sold to Credit Suisse First Boston in July 1998. Telles was Head Trader from 1974 to 1989, Board Member of Burger King, Board Member of Lojas Americanas, Partner of GP Investimentos (Brazilian private equity firm) until 2004. He has a BA from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro,{{cite web|url=http://www.trabalhosfeitos.com/ensaios/Marcell-Hermann-Telles/223705.html |title=Marcell hermann telles - Trabalhos de Conclusão de Cursos (TCC) - Renanperetta |website=Trabalhosfeitos.com |date=2012-05-15 |accessdate=2016-03-31}} and completed the OPM program at Harvard University.{{cite web|url= http://www.3g-capital.com/foundingpartners.html# |title=3M Founding Partners |website=3g-capital.com| date=2012-05-15 |accessdate=2017-03-31}} He served as CEO of Brahma from 1989 to 1999.
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