Hélder Bataglia
portuguese-Angolan businessman
Hélder Bataglia dos Santos (Seixal, January 25, 1947) is a Portuguese-Angolan businessman. He creates, develops and manages financial projects in Africa, specifically in Angola, in both Congos, South Africa and Mozambique. Hélder Bataglia is founder and president of the Escom Group.
Biography
At the age of one year Helder Bataglia arrives in Angola, at the time a Portuguese colony. His father was a director of a German fish flour production company in the Benguela province. Hélder is raised in the municipality of Baía Farta and attends a local school. At the age of ten he leaves Baía Farta to study in Benguela and later at the Institute of Industry of Huambo, Central Plateau of Angola. He studies engineering, interrupted by the military service from 1969 to 1972 with Portuguese Armed Forces. From 1972 to 1974 he starts a profitable fish transformation company using an innovative technique for artificial drying. In 1975 he relocates to Lisbon with his first wife and daughter.
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