Person in history
Roger Agnelli
Roger Agnelli, Brazilian banker and businessman (born 1959)
Life at a glance
- Died
- 2016 · March 19
Their story
Who they were
Roger Agnelli was a Brazilian investment banker and entrepreneur. He ran one of the largest mining companies in the world, Vale SA, and in 2013 was voted by Harvard Business Review as the world's fourth best-performing chief executive officer behind Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com and Yun Jong-Yong of Samsung. His clashes with Brazil's ruling Workers Party leadership, that began with the 2008 financial crisis and his firing of 2,000 workers,
Early life
Early life, education and family Agnelli was born May 3, 1959, in São Paulo , Brazil, hailing from a lower-middle-class family of Italian origin [ 1 ] (unrelated to the Agnellis who founded and ran Fiat ) and in 1981 graduated with a degree in economics from Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (commonly referred to as FAAP). He was married to Andréia and they had two children, daughter Ana Carolina and son João. ^ Moss, Brian (March 14, 2008). "PROFILE-Vale's Agnelli, from prodigy banker to mining king" .
Path and career
Death Agnelli, along with his wife and two children, were among seven killed when their Comp Air 9 plane crashed into two homes on March 19, 2016, minutes after taking off from Campo de Marte Airport in northern São Paulo while traveling to a wedding in Rio de Janeiro . [ 1 ] ^ Cite error: The named reference FW was invoked but never defined (see the help page ).
Why this date
Roger Agnelli appears on our March 19 calendar for 2016 as a death entry.
Sources
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Questions about Roger Agnelli
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March 19 2016.
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