Eike Batista
CEO, EBX Group - Net Worth $30 B .
Eike Batista, Chairman and CEO, EBX Group gestures.
Biography
A native of the city of Governador Valadares in the state of Minas Gerais, entrepreneur Eike Fuhrken Batista was born on November 3, 1956. He is one of seven children of Jutta Fuhrken and Eliezer Batista. From a very young age, he developed a global view of business, mostly taken from his own life experiences.
After spending his infancy in Brazil, at the beginning of his teenage years Batista lived in cities such as Geneva (Switzerland), Düsseldorf (Germany) and Brussels (Belgium), accompanying his family, which had moved to Europe because of his father’s professional career. In 1974, he entered a Metallurgical Engineering course at the University of Aachen, Germany.
Eike Batista, Chairman and CEO, EBX Group gestures.
Biography
A native of the city of Governador Valadares in the state of Minas Gerais, entrepreneur Eike Fuhrken Batista was born on November 3, 1956. He is one of seven children of Jutta Fuhrken and Eliezer Batista. From a very young age, he developed a global view of business, mostly taken from his own life experiences.
After spending his infancy in Brazil, at the beginning of his teenage years Batista lived in cities such as Geneva (Switzerland), Düsseldorf (Germany) and Brussels (Belgium), accompanying his family, which had moved to Europe because of his father’s professional career. In 1974, he entered a Metallurgical Engineering course at the University of Aachen, Germany.
A native of the city of Governador Valadares in the state of Minas Gerais, entrepreneur Eike Fuhrken Batista was born on November 3, 1956. He is one of seven children of Jutta Fuhrken and Eliezer Batista. From a very young age, he developed a global view of business, mostly taken from his own life experiences.
After spending his infancy in Brazil, at the beginning of
his teenage years Batista lived in cities such as Geneva (Switzerland),
Düsseldorf (Germany) and Brussels (Belgium), accompanying his family,
which had moved to Europe because of his father’s professional career.
In 1974, he entered a Metallurgical Engineering course at the University
of Aachen, Germany. When his parents returned to Brazil, he began to
sell insurance policies door-to-door in the city to ensure a personal
income that allowed him to remain financially independent while
overseas. According to him, the “stress” and knowledge that he acquired
through this experience were of decisive importance for his training to
become a businessman.
Back in Brazil at the start of the 1980s, he began his entrepreneurial career in the mineral sector. Fluent in five languages – Portuguese, German, English, French and Spanish — he was the middleman between producers in the Amazon region and buyers in large Brazilian and European centers. He established Autram Aurem, a company that bought and sold gold and, within a year and half, had made US$ 6 million.
In the same decade he started up Novo Planeta, the first mechanized alluvial gold mining operation in the Amazon, which was the origin of the group. At 29, he became the chief executive of TVX Gold of Canada – a company listed on the Canadian Stock Exchange, kicking off his relationship with the global capital markets.
Back in Brazil at the start of the 1980s, he began his entrepreneurial career in the mineral sector. Fluent in five languages – Portuguese, German, English, French and Spanish — he was the middleman between producers in the Amazon region and buyers in large Brazilian and European centers. He established Autram Aurem, a company that bought and sold gold and, within a year and half, had made US$ 6 million.
In the same decade he started up Novo Planeta, the first mechanized alluvial gold mining operation in the Amazon, which was the origin of the group. At 29, he became the chief executive of TVX Gold of Canada – a company listed on the Canadian Stock Exchange, kicking off his relationship with the global capital markets.
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