Rubens Menin Teixeira de Souza (born 12 March 1956) is a Brazilian

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busin ...

businessman and co-founder, in 1979, of

MRV Engenharia MRV is the biggest Brazilian homebuilder and real estate company. The company was founded in 1979 by Mário Lúcio Pinheiro Menin, Rubens Menin Teixeira de Souza and Vega Engenharia Ltda and is headquartered in Belo Horizonte. The company's ma ...

, Brazil's leading home builder, which has a market capitalization of $1.4 billion. As of March 2022, his net worth is estimated at US$1.3 billion. He has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, where he graduated in 1978. In June 2018, Rubens Menin was named the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year. He has been chairman of

since May 2007. He is married with three children, and lives in

Belo Horizonte Belo Horizonte (, ; ) is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population around 2.7 million and with a metropolitan area of 6 million people. It is the 13th-largest city in South America and the 18th-largest in the Americas. The metropol ...

, Brazil.

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