Andrónico Luksic Craig

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Luksic and the second or maternal family name is Craig.
Andrónico Luksic Craig
Born (1954-04-16) April 16, 1954
Chile
Residence Santiago, Chile
Nationality Chilean
Alma mater Babson College
Occupation Chairman
Net worth $14.600 millions[1]
Religion Roman Catholic
Spouse(s) Patricia Inés Lederer Tcherniak
Children Five
Parent(s) Ena Craig
Andrónico Luksic

Andrónico Luksic Craig (Antofagasta (Chile) on April 16 of 1954) is a businessman and chairman of Quiñenco, a holding of the Luksic Group, one of Chile's largest conglomerates.[2][3]

Biography

Andrónico Luksic Craig is the eldest son of Andrónico Luksic and Ena Craig. He spent his early childhood years, along with his younger brother Guillermo, in the mineral deserts of northern Chile. When Andrónico was only around four years old, his mother died during a heart operation. Fourteen years after this unfortunate death, his father would marry Iris Fontbona, giving birth to three new children: María Paola, María Gabriela and Jean-Paul.

In 1960, Andrónico and his family moved to Santiago, where they lived in a house at Alcántara street. In Santiago, he first attended the The Grange School. Then, at the age of 16, Andrónico went to the United States to attend high school at the Dublin School for Boys (in New Hampshire). Upon graduating, he moved to Boston to pursue a degree in business at Babson College. His tenure at Babson was cut short when he returned to South America to work in the family's Ford dealerships.

There, he married the Argentine Patricia Lederer Tcherniak, with whom he had five children: Andrónico, Davor, Dax, Maximiliano and Fernanda.[2]

At the age of fifty, without prior mountaineering experience, Andrónico managed to reach the summit of Mount Everest in May 2004. Soon after, in 2005, he completed the "Seven Summits of the World" (reaching the summit of the highest peak on each of the seven continents of the world).[4]

Business career

When his brother Guillermo died in 2013, Andrónico stepped into the role of Chairman of the Luksic Group and several of its related companies, notably Quinenco S.A., the holding company for the family’s non-mining investments. He decided to concentrate on consolidation of the group and on building strong positions for the new acquisitions.[2][3]

Craig is chairman of Quiñenco but also of Compañía Cervecerías Unidas S.A. (CCU) and its subsidiary companies CCU Chile, CCU Argentina and ECUSA, vice chairman of Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores S.A. (CSAV), of Banco de Chile and a member of the board of directors of Madeco S.A. (renamed Invexans), and Sociedad de Fomento Fabril (SOFOFA). He is member of the International Advisory Council of Barrick Gold, the Brookings Institution, the Panama Canal Authority and the Chairman's International Council of the Council of the Americas, the International Advisory Council of the President, board member of the Chilean Pacific Foundation and member of the Latin American Council of Nature Conservacy.[5]

Awards and distinctions

In 2007 he graduates as officer of reserve of the Army in Chile, together with other 16 professionals and businessmen.[6]

In 2010, Andrónico Luksic was reelected as one of the three representatives of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC).[7]

In 2011, Andrónico was awarded with Gold Medal of the Americas Society for his involvement in the education field (promotion of education, debate and dialogue in the whole America). Luksic is the first and only Chilean businessman who has received this high distinction.[8]

In 2013, Andrónico Luksic Craig was awarded business leader with best reputation in the "Merco Chile 2013", a corporate reputation rating published by El Mercurio, for his role as Vice-Chairman of Banco de Chile.[9]

He is a member of the International Advisory Board at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Iris Fontbona & family". Forbes.com. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 Mendoza, Luis (3 January 2014). "Andrónico Luksic prepara sucesión y capitaliza la matriz de Quiñenco". La Segunda. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  3. 1 2 "El año sin Guillermo". Que Pasa. 13 March 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  4. ↑ "Andrónico Luksic hace cima en el Everest". El Mercurio (in Spanish). 15 May 2004. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  5. ↑ "Andronico Craig profile". Forbes. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
  6. ↑ "17 Empresarios, profesionales y el ministro Vidal se graduaron como oficiales de reserva del Ejército". El Mercurio. 12 December 2007. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  7. ↑ "ABAC Members". Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  8. ↑ "Americas Society Awards Margarita Zavala with the Gold Medal". Council of the Americas. 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  9. ↑ "Top ten of the most reputable leaders in Chile". El Mercurio. 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  10. ↑ "Andrónico Luksic | Blavatnik School of Government". www.bsg.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
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