Meet Jose Manuel Rodrigues, a Portuguese businessman, investor, and art collector
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Jose Manuel Rodrigues is a Portuguese businessman, investor, and art collector. According to Portuguese magazine Exame, he had an expected net worth of €598 million in 2010, making him as one of the richest men in Portugal at the time. In current years he has been concerned in several controversies and legal problems that have led to the arrestment of his and his companies' property because of ongoing legal investigations.
Berardo was born at Santa Luzia, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, the son of Manuel Berardo Gomes and Ana Rodrigues. Berardo left school while he was thirteen years old and were given a low-ranked job withinside the winery area of Madeira wine. At the age of 18, he shifted to South Africa, wherein he worked in horticulture distribution and ultimately set up huge business ventures, turning into, at the end of the 20th century, one of the most famed and wealthiest Portuguese entrepreneurs.
In South Africa, he created Egoli Consolidated Mines Ltd, a gold extraction business company. Initially, the gold extraction was achieved using low-cost wastelands that have been seemingly being ignored. Later, the mining business company began out to deal with diamond mining as well. Berardo back to Portugal in 1986.
As a very rich and active stock trader, Berardo was a central personality at the Portuguese inventory exchange, Euronext Lisbon, wherein he traded huge amounts of inventory for the duration of the year, often having immediate capital gain as his best-perceived goal.
His businesses include hotels, tabacco, telecommunications, animal food, banking, and wines. Berardo's predicted overall wealth, which includes inventory in huge Portuguese banking and telecommunications companies, is over €1.9 billion.
National Honour
- Commander of the Order of Prince Henry, Portugal (13 March 1985)
- Grand-Cross of the Order of Prince Henry, Portugal (4 October 2004)
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