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Hugo Daems
HUGO DAEMS was exposed to Congolese culture from a very early age. His parents went to the Belgian Congo in 1921, shortly after WWI. His father was the harbor master of Matatdi and helped establish...view moreHUGO DAEMS was exposed to Congolese culture from a very early age. His parents went to the Belgian Congo in 1921, shortly after WWI. His father was the harbor master of Matatdi and helped establish MANU-CONGO, (later called OTRACO), a railroad system between Matatdi and Antwerp. They visited his parents in Antwerp regularly and soon Hugo learned to speak Kikongo, one
of the principal languages in Congo.
His father died a short time after Hugo graduated from High School. The author
worked his way through college as a dock worker in Antwerp. After graduating from both the Business and Political Science programs at the Colonial University of Antwerp, he was drafted in the Belgian Air Force, where he became a Lieutenent. As soon as he was discharged, he married and left for the Congo where he served in the Administration for the Belgian Government.
In 1961, after Congo had become independent, he emigrated to the USA with his
wife and daughter. He worked at first as an assembly line worker for Hewlett-Packard,
graduated from UC Berkeley in 1965 with an MBA degree, and found employment in international finance department with several major US companies. In 1980, he started his own management consulting company and obtained important assignments for projects in every continent.
Besides articles, in professional magazines, he also published a book entitled
Business Planning and Financing to help bridge the education gap between engineering
and accounting curricula.view less