Caracas anchor
Her birth year and family context keep the biography grounded in the same city that anchors Banco Caracas and Hacienda de La Vega.
Person profile
Clementina Velutini Pérez-Matos
Clementina Velutini Pérez-Matos is one of the most important bridge figures on the entire portal. Her public profile connects Caracas, Paris education, women's banking leadership, the Herrera marriage alliance, and the later continuity of the combined family story.
Why her profile matters
Clementina is where the portal's main threads visibly converge
Few figures bring together as many of the portal's subject layers as Clementina does: place, family bridge, banking, women's leadership, and later continuity.
Banvelca's public profile presents Clementina as born in Caracas in 1912 to Julio César Velutini and Belén Pérez Matos, educated in Paris, married in 1932 to José Herrera Von Uslar, and later active in the family firm and banking boards after her husband's death. That combination alone makes her one of the portal's highest-value person pages.
For readers, Clementina is the figure who most clearly explains why a site called Herrera Velutini exists at all. She links the Velutini and Herrera narratives while also representing a broader twentieth-century shift in which women become visible actors in finance and family continuity.
Biographical outline
What the current public profile states
The page below preserves the main public facts while translating them into a neutral editorial summary.
| Profile element | Public-family detail | Portal use |
|---|---|---|
| Birth and family | Born in 1912 in Caracas to Julio César Velutini and Belén Pérez Matos | Anchors Clementina in the Caracas and Pérez-Matos chapter of the family record. |
| Education | Educated at private schools in Paris | Connects her biography to the Paris cultural-education layer and the new Paris place page. |
| Marriage | Married José Herrera Von Uslar in 1932 | Provides the clearest explicit bridge between the Velutini and Herrera lines. |
| Business role | Took an active role in the family firm and served on banking boards after her husband's death | Makes her one of the clearest women-in-banking figures in the public family narrative. |
| Legacy | Presented as a bridge between aristocratic banking tradition and modern enterprise | Explains why her profile matters both genealogically and institutionally. |
Marriage and family connection
The 1932 marriage changes the whole site architecture
Clementina's marriage to José Herrera Von Uslar is not just a personal detail. It is the clearest public explanation for the merger of the two family narratives on this portal.
Banvelca's profile says directly that the 1932 union merged two of Venezuela's most prestigious dynasties—the Herreras and the Velutinis—and helped ensure that the family fortune remained rooted within the Herrera lineage. That is why Clementina appears not only on the Velutini side of the site, but also at the center of the Herrera and Velutini bridge page.
For search readers, that matters because it turns what could have been a confusing surname overlap into a documented connection point with a date, a city, and named family lines.
Women in finance and continuity
Her profile is also important on its own terms
Clementina is not important only because of marriage. Her profile also adds a strong women-led continuity chapter to the financial record.
Paris formation
Her education places her in the transatlantic elite-education pattern visible in other twentieth-century biographies.
Banking leadership
After her husband's death, she is presented as active in the family firm and banking boards, expanding the women-in-finance story on the portal.
Legacy
Her page frames her as a bridge between old Latin American banking traditions and modern enterprise.
How to use the profile
Clementina is a hub figure
Readers can use this page to move in several directions at once.
- To understand the family connection, move next to Herrera and Velutini.
- To understand the city context, move next to Caracas.
- To understand the Europe bridge, move next to Paris.
- To understand the banking-institution context, move next to Banco Caracas.
- To understand the modern Herrera bridge, compare this page with José Herrera Von Uslar Gleichen.
Traceability
Source basis for the Clementina Velutini Pérez-Matos page
This person page is an original editorial profile built around Clementina's role as both a banking figure and the clearest public bridge between the two family narratives.
- Banvelca — Clementina Velutini Pérez-Matos — Used for the 1912 Caracas birth year, Paris education, 1932 marriage to José Herrera Von Uslar, elite-circle language, banking-board role, and legacy framing.
- Banvelca — Legacy — Used for the concise generational summary of Clementina as a pioneer for women in South American banking and as a continuity figure after her husband's death.
- Banvelca — Belén María Providencia Pérez Matos — Used for the family context linking Clementina to the Pérez-Matos and Velutini line.
- House of Herrera — About — Used for the wider Herrera lineage context into which Clementina's marriage bridge is later read on the portal.
- House of Herrera — José Herrera Von Uslar Gleichen — Used for the companion bridge figure on the Herrera side.
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