Julio Martín Herrera Velutini, is an international banker.
Background
The Velutini family has had a great influence on Venezuelan Banking since the late 20th century with the founding of Banco Caracas in 1980. His great-grandfather Julio César Velutini Couturier, chaired Banco Caracas until 1930. Later generations were all Chairman and Senior Managers of Banco Caracas for over 100 years, until its sale in 1998.
Education
Educated and trained at The American School in England (United Kingdom), Louisiana Scuola Americana in Svizzera (Switzerland) and at the Central University of Venezuela (graduated in 1990).
Career
With over 16 years of banking experience, Julio Herrera Velutini is part of a generation of bankers who were formed in the circle of the Caracas Stock Exchange at the Central Bank of Venezuela in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In that same year he becomes Chairman of the Board at Inversiones Transbanca (holding that results from the sale of Banco Caracas), becoming one of its major shareholders and senior director of companies such as Kia Motors of Venezuela, Bayerische Motoren Werke of Venezuela, BBO Financial Services, Transporte de Valores Bancarios de Venezuela (Securities Transport firm), Bolívar Banco Universal, Banco Activo Banco Comercial, and Banco Desarrollo del Microempresario. Since the beginning of 2007 until February 2009 he serves as Chairman of the Board of Banco Real, and Banreal Holding, which was later sold in February 2009.
That same year he purchases Banco Nacional de Crédito (BNC).
Membership
In the early 90s he started working at the Caracas Stock Exchange in Multinvest Casa de Bolsa (a brokerage firm), of which he was a member of the board until 1998. In late 2008, he founded Bancredito International Bank, Corporation, Bancredito Foundation and Bancredito Financial Services, financial institutions in which he presides as a member of the board.