7. Eike Batista: Eike Fuhrken Batista da Silva is a Brazilian Businessman and is the president of EBX Group. He is the 8^th richest man in the world predicted by Forbes in 2011. He is the richest man in South America with an estimated wealth of $30 billion.

He was also featured in Bloomberg Markets Magazines as the only Brazilian on the list of the 50 most influential people in Global Finance. The magazine mainly focused on people, ‘whose comments move markets; whose deals set the value of companies or securities; whose ideas and policies shape corporations, governments and economies’. He was ranked as the 58^th most powerful person in the world in 2010. The newspaper Folha De S. Paulo has rewarded him with the tag of ‘self made man’.