A lfredo Egydio Arruda Villela Filho is a Brazilian billionaire investor and a member of one of the country's oldest and most powerful banking families. He is the great-grandson of the founder of Itaú, which, through a merger, became Itaú Unibanco, the largest private sector bank in Latin America. His family is one of the largest shareholders in the bank through their holding company, Itaúsa.

He serves as the president and CEO of Itaúsa, a massive publicly traded Brazilian conglomerate that holds the family's controlling stake in Itaú Unibanco. Beyond the bank, Itaúsa has a diversified portfolio of major investments in other leading Brazilian companies, including Alpargatas (owner of the Havaianas flip-flop brand), Duratex (a building materials company), and NTS (a natural gas pipeline operator). As the head of the family holding company, he is the steward of one of Brazil's most significant industrial and financial fortunes, overseeing a vast and influential business empire.