Eike Batista

Eike Batista Fuhrken ( born November 3, 1956 in Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil ) is a German -Brazilian businessman, magnate, owner and president of the Brazilian holding EBX Group. 2012 Batista was with a fortune of U.S. $ 30 billion, the seventh- richest man in the world. July 2013 was his fortune only U.S. $ 0.2 billion, among others because of falling share prices of his companies.

Life

Batista is one of seven children of businessman Eliezer Batista, who was from 1961-1964 and 1979-1986 Mines and Energy Minister and former President of the then fully nationalized mining company Vale do Rio Doce. His mother, Jutta Fuhrken, was born in Germany. From her, tells Batista that he had learned self-confidence and discipline, qualities that he viewed as essential for his career as an entrepreneur. He spent his childhood in Brazil. As a teenager pulled Batista and his family due to the occupation of the father to Europe. The Batista lived in Geneva, Dusseldorf and Brussels. In 1974 he took the metallurgical studies at the RWTH Aachen. When he was 18, his parents moved back to Brazil. Batista remained abroad and earned his living by selling insurance policies on house doors. In interviews, he often mentions that the then stress and the accumulated experience of the utmost importance for its formation were.

Eike Batista came back at the beginning of the 1980s, to Brazil and turned his attention to the gold and diamond trade. He sat down by the seller, he produced the contact between prospectors from the Amazon region and buyers in millions of cities in Brazil and Europe. At age 23, he founded Autram Aurem, a gold trading company whose logo is the Inca sun. Eighteen months later, the company had introduced $ 6 million.

His entrepreneurial instinct and talent meant that he employed the first gold washing plant in the Amazon region, which marks the beginning of the EBX Holding. At 29 he was the general director of TVX Gold, a company listed on the Canadian stock exchange. Thus began his business to the global capital markets. From 1980 to 2000 he created with the operation of eight gold mines in Brazil, Canada and a silver mine in Chile the value of 20 billion U.S. dollars. Between 1991 and 1996 the value of his company rose more than three times.

Batista married in 1991, the model Luma de Oliveira, 2004, he was divorced from her. They have two sons, Olin and Thor. Thor Batista was indicted in May 2012 after an accident manslaughter.

Batista runs, swims and drives water. In the 1990s, he was Brazilian and American world champion of the Super Offshore Powerboat Class. In 2006, he put in 3 hours, 1 min, 47 sec 220 nautical miles between Santos and Rio de Janeiro back and turned so his boat "Spirit of Brazil" a new course record. - He also supported significantly the application of Brazil for the World Cup 2014 and the Olympic Summer Games 2016.

Eike Batista led to 2013 a modern digital life, then retired but largely out of the public gaze. His personal website with current articles, videos and news about his company is no longer accessible. Batista's most popular digital platform was Twitter, which also served as a communication tool for his personal messages. His microblog @ eikebatista reached nearly 1.4 million followers; End of May 2013 he sent his last tweet. - Batista in 2011 published the book The Heart of the Matter - The main point of the question, in which his career is represented in the business world and can be found entrepreneur tips. - Be less public attention his eccentric traits of its superstitions and the observance of lucky numbers.

As a philanthropist, he supported projects to promote social development, cultural diversity and the ecological balance. From 2006 on, he donated about 253 million BRL. In 2011 alone amounted to 91 million BRL his donations. Batista said: " I want to be not only the richest in Brazil. I want to be the most generous. "Among the initiatives supported are projects in Lençóis Maranhenses, Marinho de Fernando de Noronha, Pantanal and Mato Grosso, National Parks, as well as eight productions of Brazilian films, and cash donations to the construction of the Children's Hospital Pro Children's in Rio de Janeiro finish. - Since Batista could not continue to maintain its financial support, the children's hospital is closed and many of the works he promoted are set.

After the demise of his company Empire Batista must answer to the court in several methods.

Batista is fluent in Portuguese, English, German, French and Spanish.

National and international rankings

Internationally

Early 2012 has named as the seventh richest man in the world and the richest man in South America, the magazine Forbes magazine Batista, his fortune was estimated at U.S. $ 30 billion. Eike Batista was also featured in the magazine Bloomberg Markets is the only Brazilian on the first September 2011 published list of the 50 most influential people in the Global Financial. In March 2012, Bloomberg estimated his fortune at $ 34.5 billion. In August 2013 he had lost 99 % of it and held just a fortune of $ 200 million.

Brazil

End of 2010, Batista was according to Forbes ranked the 58 most powerful people in the world, Brazil 's President Dilma Rousseff behind the current. The newspaper Folha de S. Paulo Batista describes as a typical example of a " self-made man ", ie an entrepreneur who came to his wealth through their own efforts and not by inheritance.

Batista said in 2008, his goal was to become the richest man in the world within five years. 2008 Batista's fortune was estimated at $ 6.6 billion U.S., and he took the 142 spot on the list of the richest men in the world. In 2009 he debuted at # 61 and was considered the richest man in Brazil.

The Brazilian weekly magazines P.Temporada and ISTOÉ included Batista in 2010 among the 100 most influential men in Brazil. 2011 Batista was accepted into the 1000 Directors-General of the magazine dinheiro ranking.

EBX

The EBX holding company produces iron ore in the Brazilian states of Minas Gerais and Mato Grosso do Sul and has taken the first commercial solar plant in Brazil operational. The holding company invested about 15.5 billion U.S. $ in 2011 and Brazil in 2012 and is responsible for projects significant extent in this country, such as the Super Port Açu of LLX in São João da Barra ( State of Rio de Janeiro RJ), the Super Port Sudeste of MMX in Itaguaí (RJ ) and the thermal power stations of MPX in Itaqui ( Maranhão MA) and Pecém ( Ceará CE). These major energy and infrastructure projects are executed in parallel with the exploration drilling of OGX in the bays of Campos ( RJ), Santos ( Sao Paulo SP) and Parnaíba (MA), at which oil and gas deposits were discovered. Currently 20,000 laborers working on the construction and in other operational areas for this project, the holding company. Rio de Janeiro is the headquarters of the EBX Holding, which is also active in other nine Brazilian states. There is a branch in New York ( USA), Colombia and Chile. Apart from the infrastructure and natural resources sector invests Eike Batista's EBX Holding also in other industries such as real estate (REX ), entertainment ( IMX ) Technology ( SIX ) and catering ( NRX ). In Rio EBX supports sports, entertainment, dining, health and beauty initiatives. Since early 2000, Batista has focused its efforts primarily on the area of natural resources, energy and infrastructure.