Carlos Wizard Martins Biography
Carlos Wizard Martins is a Brazilian entrepreneur and the creator of Grupo Multi, a company that provides English training franchisees. Pearson acquired Grupo Multi in 2013.
How old is Carlos Wizard Martin? – Age
He is 66 years old as of 19 September 2022. He was born in 1956 in Curitiba, State of Paraná, Brazil.
Carlos Wizard Martins Family – Education
He and his parents joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when he was thirteen. He learned English as a result of interactions with church missionaries.
Carlos Wizard Martins Wife
He is married to Vânia Pimentel. Martins and his wife, the former Vania Pimentel, have six children together. The couple has six children; Charles Pimentel Martins, Lincoln Pimentel Martins, Priscila Bertani, and Thais Martins Fernandes.
Carlos Wizard Martins Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2.5 billion.
Carlos Wizard Martin Wizard by Pearson
He later worked in Brazil as a computer systems analyst. He soon learned that teaching English to his coworkers paid more, so he founded Wizard by Pearson.
Carlos Wizard Martin Book
Martins published a self-help book titled Vencendo a Própria Crise (Overcoming Personal Crisis) in 2002. Desperte o milionário que há em você (Awaken the Millionaire Within You) was a Brazilian best-seller in 2012.
Carlos Wizard Martin Career
He learned to speak English through interactions with church missionaries. Martins moved to the United States at the age of 18, where he worked briefly in Newark, New Jersey. Martins was a bishop before becoming a missionary for the church in Portugal. He returned to the United States at the beginning of the 1980s with his wife and young family to attend Brigham Young University and earn a degree in Computer Science and Statistics.
Martins was the president of the Brazil Joo Pessoa Mission from 2001 to 2005. Martins had been president of the Campinas Brazil Castelo Stake for a number of years prior to this.
He discusses in detail how he segmented the English language teaching market by developing a customized methodology that motivated executives and other students in his recent interview for the Harvard Business School project Creating Emerging Markets.