Eike Batista

Eike Batista
BiographyBorn in Brazil, Batista spent most of his childhood in Europe. He lived in Germany from 1969 to 1980, and began studying engineering there at Aachen University but dropped out of college without completing his degree. In 1980, he moved back to Brazil to begin a gold and trading company in the Amazon. Shortly after he joined Canadian mining firm TVX Gold, making and then losing a fortune, before finally selling his stake in the company for $1 billion in 2000. Afterward he reinvested in several businesses, including mining.[3] A large portion of his wealth was made from OGX, an oil and gas exploration company founded in 2007.[2] In 2010, he became the wealthiest person in Brazil, with an estimated fortune of US$27.0 billion, making him the fourth richest person living in the Americas and the eighth richest person in the world according to Forbes Magazine.[1]




[edit] Personal lifeHe married the famous Brazilian actress, Playboy cover girl, and carnival queen Luma de Oliveira in 1991 and had two children with her, Thor and Olin, before divorcing in 2004.[4]



Batista is known for maintaining a high profile. He is outspoken about his target of becoming the richest person in the world.[5] His donations often make headlines, as when he bid R$ 500,000 on a suit used by President Lula on inauguration day, with proceeds going to charity.[6] Batista pledged to donate R$ 20 million yearly, for five years, to the Pacifying Police Unit program in Rio de Janeiro.[7]



Batista is superstitious, with a particular fondness for the number 63, the Sun, and the letter X, that is featured in all his companies' names for its supposed money-attracting quality.[5]



Batista's oil company OGX will start oil production next year. The company was created in 2007. The first time a company has started oil production in such a short time.



He and his older son Thor Batista love speed boats. Batista owns a 48 foot kevlar/carbon fiber made Catamaran with two 1600 horsepower twin-supercharged V8 engines. The boat is capable of reaching speeds of over 160 miles per hour.



[edit] EnterprisesMajor companies founded by Eike Batista:



EBX

MMX

OGX

MPX

LLX

Mr Lam (Chinese restaurant)

Porto de Peruíbe

OSX

[edit] References^ a b Forbes Eike Batista-Profile

^ a b [1] Forbes Magazine

^ [2] European CEO Magazine

^ Billionaire Eike Batista keeps SLR McLaren in living room Independent

^ a b Eike Batista, o brasileiro que quer ser o mais rico do mundo

^ Eike arremata terno de Lula por R$500 mil em leilão

^ Eike anuncia doação de R$ 20 mi para UPPs no Rio

Persondata

Name Batista, Eike Fuhrken

Alternative names

Short description Brazilian businessman

Date of birth November 3, 1957

Place of birth Governador Valadares, Brazil

Date of death

Place of death



Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eike_Batista"

Categories: 1957 births
Living people
Brazilian billionaires
Brazilian people of German descent
People from Minas Gerais

Hidden categories: BLP articles lacking sources from March 2010
Articles lacking reliable references from March 2010
All articles needing additional references
Articles with hCards
Articles containing potentially dated statements from March 2011
All articles containing potentially dated statements

Personal toolsLog in / create account NamespacesArticle Discussion VariantsViewsRead Edit View history ActionsSearch NavigationMain page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Donate to Wikipedia InteractionHelp About Wikipedia Community portal Recent changes Contact Wikipedia ToolboxWhat links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Cite this page Print/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesDeutsch Français Italiano မြန်မာဘာသာ Nederlands Português 中文 This page was last modified on 10 March 2011 at 14:44.



Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details.

Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.

Leading Brazilian enterpreneur Eike Batista on Charlie Rose


Posted on February 9, 2010 by Brazil Institute



Brazilian businessman Eike Batista on Charlie Rose on PBS, Feb. 8, 2010.

In a wide-ranging interview with Charlie Rose aired Feb. 8 on PBS, Eike Batista, president and CEO of EBX, talked about Brazil’s booming oil business. He also presented his views on the reasons behind Brazil’s current success and discussed politics in South America, as well as major trends in international economy.



Last year, Batista was co-chairman, along with ExxonMobil’s Rex Tillerson, of a dinner held at the Waldorf Astoria in New York in honor of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. At the occasion, President Lula was presented with the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service. The ceremony was hosted by the Brazil Institute of the Wilson Center.



To watch the interview, visit http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/6827 or to read the full transcript, click here.



Batista was born in November 1956 in the state of Minas Gerais. He lived part of his childhood in England. In his early teens, Batista moved to Geneva, Düsseldorf and Brussels with his family. His father, Eliezer Batista, built CVRD and is a legend in Brazil. In 1974, Batista entered the Metallurgical Engineering course at the University of Aachen. While still a student, he sold door-to-door insurance policies to earn his own living.



After graduating, he returned to Brazil in the eighties and went into business in the diamond and gold sector. A speaker of five languages – Portuguese, German, English, French and Spanish – he worked as an intermediary between producers in Amazonia and buyers in the large centers in Brazil in Europe. During the same decade, he set up the first mechanized alluvial gold plant in Amazonia and became the top executive of Canadian company TVX Gold – a company that is listed on the Canadian stock market and which led to the start of his relation with the global capital markets. The nineties were marked by the diversification of business interests and the move into other continents.



From 2000 onwards, Batista focused his attention on Brazil’s demand for natural resources and infrastructure. Between 2004 and 2008, he set up, structured and opened the capital of corporations MMX (mining), MPX (energy), OGX (oil) and LLX (logistics), raising the record amount of US$ 7.1 billion from both Brazilian and foreign investors.



Batista chairs the EBX Investimentos and the council of each of the four publicly traded company in the group. In parallel to these activities, the group has projects in other areas, such as real estate, entertainment and social, and search new opportunities to generate wealth and value for its shareholders, society and country. Capacity of creation, implementation and development of new projects of ventures are the trademarks of the actions of the EBX Group, based in Rio.






http://www.xfm.com.br/
http://www.radioxfm.com.br/
http://www.imgx.net.br/
http://www.imgworld.com.br/
http://www.disneyfm.com.br/
http://www.disneyfm.com/
http://www.iolhost.com.br/
http://www.989fmradioterra.com.br/


script type="text/javascript">