A Window On My Life: From Birmingham to Brazil and back

Author:   Robert West
Publisher:   Brown Dog Books
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9781839524219


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   15 March 2022
Format:   Paperback
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A Window on My Life, from Birmingham to Brazil and back, is the story of post-war baby boomer, Robert West, born in Birmingham, moving to Dagenham, Benfleet, Poland, Hungary, India and Brazil before retiring to Brentwood. Along the way having two daughters, a second marriage with three additional children, who together have produced twenty grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.   Robert (Bob) enjoyed a much loved but poor childhood, overcoming an even poorer education, to become an international manager. After the former Soviet Bloc countries opened up, shortly after the Berlin wall fell, he moved to Poland to form one of the largest energy companies in the country at the time. Later in Hungary as managing director, he oversaw one of the first and largest IPOs on a country’s fledgling stock exchange. Later he moved to India and finally to Brazil where he was president of two of the largest energy companies there.   He retired at 51 to spend more time with his growing family, and concentrate on helping his children set up and run their own businesses. He lives in Brentwood with his wife Pauline and Otis, their once black though rapidly greying Labradoodle.

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Author:   Robert West
Publisher:   Brown Dog Books
Imprint:   Brown Dog Books
ISBN:  

9781839524219


ISBN 10:   1839524219
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   15 March 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you.

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Robert West a post-war baby boomer was born in 1948 in Aston, Birmingham. He left school without qualifications, unless you count a 25-metre swimming certificate, but through hard work and sheer determination he formed and ran one of the largest energy companies in Poland after the collapse of communism. With two daughters from his first marriage he later met Pauline and her three children. After 11 years together they married in 1991 and later moved to Hungary where he oversaw one of the first and largest IPOs on the fledgling stock exchange. They later moved to India and subsequently Brazil, where he was president of two of the country’s largest energy companies before retiring aged 51, after his father suffered a stroke, to spend more time with his growing family.

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