JClaude Bastos - The man who was worth billions

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The Man who was Worth Billions
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Swiss-Angolan Entrepreneur
This Swiss-Angolan entrepreneur is the founder of
the African Innovation Foundation (AIF) created
in 2009, a foundation that supports local
entrepreneurship. Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais
also manages part of the Angolan sovereign wealth
fund.
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Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais in his fifties chic
and relaxed. As a worthy descendant of a line of
Swiss manufacturers of watchmaking and Angolan
heroes of independence, the entrepreneur born in
Friborg - where he obtained a master's degree in
business management - is as passionate about
finance as he is. through innovation, preferably
when they serve Africa's socio-economic
development.
Since 2012, he has managed part of the billions
of Fundo Soberano de Angola (FSDEA, the Angolan
sovereign wealth fund), whose friend
José Filomeno dos Santos, the son of the former
head of the Angolan State, held the presidency
before to be dismissed in early January by
the successor of his father, President João
Lourenço.
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But not enough to worry Jean-Claude Bastos de
Morais, the FSDEA weighing less than 50 of the
8 billion managed by Quantum Global Group (HQ),
which he created in 2007 in Zug (30 km south of
Zurich ) and of which he is the director general.
Quantum, which has offices in Switzerland, Angola
and six other countries on the continent, is home
to companies specializing in business financial
assistance, asset and private wealth
management, and investment and real estate
consulting. Helvetico-Angolan is also director of
Banco Kwanza Invest, the first investment bank
in Portuguese-speaking countries, which he
founded in 2008.
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Hybrid
innovation
The following year, to support even more actively
local entrepreneurship and innovative projects in
the areas of governance, access to technology and
social development, he launched the African
Innovation Foundation (AIF).
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Each year, it awards its Innovation Award for
Africa to reward "those who see in the continent
an opportunity to seize and not a challenge,"
says Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais. As he did so
well.
For two years, in a former soap factory in the
biggest working-class district of Luanda, he has
installed La Fábrica de Sabão, the first Angolan
center for hybrid innovation, halfway between the
classic model, where innovation is protected
by the intellectual property, and the "open"
model, where it is shared.
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