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.

1. The Man who was Worth Billions
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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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