Graduated in engineering in the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon. He was
Chairman of the Board of Lusalite, factory of fibro-cement with offices in
Portugal, Angola and Mozambique, after his brother left the post in 1985.
He married in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1965 with Lívia González de Azevedo,
who was born in 1945 in Rio de Janeiro. She is daughter Maércio Lemos de Azevedo,
born in 1911 in Brazil, and Iracema González, born in 1939 in Argentina. She is
grand daughter, from her father side, of Edgard Azevedo, born in 1878 in Brazil,
and Alyria Lemos, born in 1880 in Brazil. She is grand daughter, from her mother
side, of Juan Annibal González Milberg, born in 1887, and Odette Toledo Bernardi,
born in 1897 in Brazil.