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Juan Carlos Escotet
Spanish-Venezuelan banker
Juan Carlos Escotet Rodríguez (born 23 July 1959) is a Spanish-Venezuelan billionaire banker and the founder of Banesco, the largest private financial institution in Venezuela. He is also CEO and shareholder of Spanish bank Abanca, as well as president of Spanish football club Deportivo de A Coruña.2
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Born Jul 23, 1959.1
About
As of July 2025, his reported net worth is estimated at US$7.8 billion.
From Wikipedia’s article on Juan Carlos Escotet, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2
Companies
- BanescoChair17
- Banesco PanamaFounder18
Early life and education
- Date not recordedUniversity of Miami School of Business Administration3
- Date not recordedAndrés Bello Catholic University3
- Date not recordedUniversity of Miami3
Escotet was born in Madrid, Spain in 1959 as one of eight immigrant children from Spain. He began his work life performing errands for Banco Union in Venezuela in 1976 during which he also attended night school.
He later earned a master's degree in professional management science from the University of Miami School of Business at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.
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Career
Occupation: economist, banker.9
- Since 2024President of Deportivo de A Coruña6
- Date not recordedWorked at Andrés Bello Catholic University4
- Date not recordedFounded Banesco Panama5
- Date not recordedPresident6
- Date not recordedChairperson6
- Date not recordedChair, Banesco Holding7
- Date not recordedChair, Banesco8
After earning his MBA, Escotet worked as an executive for Sociedad Financiera Latinoamericana and then creating his own financial group. In the 1990s, Escotet bought out Venezuelan financial institutions that were then going through a financial and banking crisis. He also set up his own establishment in Panama. Escotet founded Banesco, which is now the largest private financial institution in Venezuela. In 2000, Banco Union was absorbed into Banesco in a merger agreement. He owns other branches in Miami, Panama, Colombia, Curaçao, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
In 2015, Escotet acquired Spain-based NCG Banco, which was later renamed Abanca.
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Personal life
Escotet is married, with three children, and lives in A Coruña, Spain.
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Planes and yachts
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Positions, trips and icons: CelebYachts, from public AIS broadcasts. Maps: Esri.
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- 1WikidataJuan Carlos Escotet on Wikidata
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