Luis Carlos Sarmiento - 

Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo is a businessman in Colombia, or rather the biggest individual financier in Colombia. F.O.R.B.E.S. Magazine has appraised him as the most extravagant man of Colombia. His total assets of $12.2 billion, starting at 2020, get from the financial combination Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores, S.A.S.A., of which he is the dominant part investor and administrator. 

 Sarmiento is the founder and chief of the main business bunch in Colombia, which takes his name and gatherings organizations and financial backers in various economic areas: monetary, agribusiness, mining and industry, energy and gas, foundation, inn industry, development and media. 

He began his business profession in the development area, yet his attack into the monetary world made him the most extravagant man. Through the Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A.S.A., he controls 33% of Colombia's monetary market and claims B.A.C. Credomatic, the biggest monetary gathering Focal America. Another area that addresses huge incomes is that of Framework, being the recipient and agent of the fundamental street concessions in Colombia. 

In 2012, with the acquisition of 100% of the El Tiempo distributing house portions, the business visionary went into the media area. He controls 28 media of wide flow, infiltration and utilization all through the country, among which is the most broadly perused paper of general news content and public dissemination in Colombia, El Tiempo, just as the free paper with the extraordinary course and meaningfulness in its sort, A.D.N. (four neighbourhood releases). To these are added, a financial paper with the public flow and two provincial papers. Seven magazines. Ten advanced media. Two T.V. stations. 

Sarmiento is the Leader of the governing body of Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores S.A. since Walk 1999. He is likewise individual from the sheets of heads of: the Organización Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo Ltda., the El Tiempo S.A. distributing house and CEETTV S.A., the Fundación Grupo Aval and the Fundación para el Futuro de Colombia-Colfuturo.