Helena Revoredo

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Helena Revoredo
Born1947 (age 7576)
Rosario, Argentina
NationalitySpanish
Education Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina
IESE Business School
TitleChairman, Prosegur
Term2004-
Board member of Banco Popular Español
Spouse Herberto Gut (d. 1997)
Children4

Helena Revoredo Delvecchio (born 1947) [1] is an Argentine-Spanish billionaire, and the chairman of Prosegur since 2004. [1] She controls half of Prosegur's shares through her holding Gubel SL. [2]

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As of April 2022, Forbes estimated her fortune to be worth $1.2 billion. [3]

Early life

Helena Revoredo was born in Rosario, Argentina. [4] She is the daughter of the businessman Juan Federico Revoredo. [5] She has a bachelor's degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, and an MBA from IESE Business School. [3]

Career

Revoredo's late husband, Herberto Gut, founded Prosegur in 1976, but died in a car accident on 31 May 1997 with her Mercedes. [3] [5]

Revoredo was a director of Banco Popular Español, which was Spain's sixth-largest lender. [4] She is member of IESE's International Advisory Board (IAB). [6] In 2013, she held a 0.3% stake in Banco Popular. [2] From November 2014 to January 2020, she was sitting on the board of Endesa [7] (the first woman to sit on the board of the company [8] ). In September 2019, Telefonica bought Prosegur's security alarm subsidiary for $300 million, partly with shares of Telefónica, making Revoredo a new shareholder in Telefónica. [9] In January 2020, her shares in Prosegur's controlling holding Gubel dropped below 50%, but she retained a majority on the voting rights. [10]

Personal life

Revoredo married Herberto Gut [4] and the couple moved to Spain in 1975 where her husband was in charge of setting up the Spanish subsidiary of his boss' security company, thus giving birth to Prosegur. [5] Their son, Christian Gut, is CEO of Prosegur, and her daughter Chantal Gut sits on the board. [11]

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