Rafael del Pino y Moreno (and family) (born 10 November 1920 in
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...
, Spain; died 14 June 2008 in Madrid) was one of the wealthiest men in Europe.
He had a net worth of approximately 8.6 billion US dollars in 2007. Del Pino founded the construction company
Ferrovial
Ferrovial, S.A. (), previously Grupo Ferrovial, is a Spanish multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of transport infrastructure and urban services. It is a publicly traded company ...
in 1952, which became one of Spain's largest builders. He stepped down as President of Ferrovial in 2000, passing on the position to his son,
Rafael del Pino Calvo-Sotelo
Rafael del Pino Calvo-Sotelo (born 1958) is a Spanish billionaire businessman, the executive chairman of Ferrovial, the company founded in 1952 by his father Rafael del Pino Moreno.
He graduated as a civil engineer from the Polytechnic Unive ...
, who now heads the business. He held an
MBA
A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...
from the
MIT Sloan School of Management
The MIT Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan or Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs, ...
. In 2000 he founded the Fundación Rafael del Pino with the mission of developing future leaders. He was also member of
IESE's International Advisory Board (IAB).
''Members of IESE's International Advisory Board''
iese.edu
See also
* List of billionaires (2007)
References
External links
Fundación Rafael del Pino
1920 births
2008 deaths
Businesspeople from Madrid
MIT Sloan School of Management alumni
Spanish billionaires
Polytechnic University of Madrid alumni
20th-century Spanish businesspeople
21st-century Spanish businesspeople
Spanish expatriates in the United States
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