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Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken Wiki Biography
Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on 30 June 1954, Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken is well known as the owner of shares that give her a majority interest in Heineken NV.
Forbes magazine ranks her in 2015 as the richest Dutch person, and the 107th richest person in the world, and the 12th richest woman.
Charlene is reported by Forbes to have a net worth of nearly $12 billion, partially inherited but advanced by her business capacity to run Heineken, still the third-largest brewer in the world.
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken is the daughter of Freddy Heineken, a Dutch industrialist, and American Lucille Cummins, whose family were Kentucky bourbon whiskey distillers.
Alcohol was obviously in her blood from a very early age.
At the University of Leiden, which she hated, Charlene studied law, then studied French in Geneva and photography in New York City.
In London, she worked for an ad agency.
She was interned at Heineken in Paris, where she followed the local boss around to get a taste of the family business, but it wasn’t on her or her father’s agenda to become permanently involved.
The fortune of Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken was originally attributed to her father’s inheritance of a 25 percent controlling interest in the Dutch brewer Heineken following his death in 2002.
Her subsequent business efforts, however, saw her net worth increase from an estimated $3 billion at that time to over $12 billion now, so she was definitely active, even though she had no business experience at the time of her inheritance, and did not really enjoy the fame brought by being the head of a large, famous brewing company, especially since her father had been kidnapped several years earlier.
(“I didn’t like the fact that my name was on every café,” she is quoted as saying.)
In fact, Charlene had only a single share of the stock of Heineken, then worth $32, given to her by her father: she inherited about 100 million shares, an immediate significant contribution to her net worth.
So the first, and most important, decision by Carlene was to find a new Heineken CEO.
Jean-François van Boxmeer was appointed by her to the position.
He has spent almost $30 billion on nearly 50 acquisitions over the years to keep pace with world rivals SABMiller and Anheuser-Busch InBev.
Her husband, Michel, a Heineken director and investment banker in his own right, and son Alexander, who joined the Heineken board in 2013, are to join Charlene in managing Heineken.
Charlene was also astute in her private life, perhaps unknowingly, when she married Michel de Carvalho, a Harvard University graduate, in 1983, and subsequently, a financier involved with NM Rothschild and Citi companies, who is now also her business partner.
He is actually quoted as calling Charlene ‘my boss’!
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