Luis Emilio Velutini

Luis Emilio Velutini (born January 8, 1953, in Caracas) is a businessman and investor of the Latin American financial and real estate market. A descendant of Vicente José María Velutini, an immigrant from Corsica who arrived in Venezuela during the 1830s and helped rebuild the Chaguaramal El Batey, a town who gave origin to Zaraza, Guárico; he is the third of five children born to son of Guillermo José Velutini and Josefina Urbina. He married Olga Del Coromoto Manzo (1953), with whom he has three children: Emiliana, born on December 4, 1978; Daniela, born on September 14, 1980; and Luis Emilio, born on June 17, 1987. He is a great-nephew of José Antonio Velutini, third cousin of Juan Liscano and half-third cousin of Leopoldo López, Thor Halvorssen (human rights activist) and Julio Herrera Velutini.