José Eduardo Bettencourt

Who is José Eduardo Bettencourt?

José Eduardo Fragoso Tavares de Bettencourt, also known as "JEB", is a Portuguese banker, he was currently 47th President of Portuguese sports club, Sporting Clube de Portugal, the eldest of three sons of José Manuel de Barros de Bettencourt and his wife Maria Margarida Morujão Fragoso Tavares.

Licentiated in Economics from the New University of Lisbon, and that the following year ended the Postgraduate European Economics, Catholic University of Portugal.

Married in Lisbon on 29 June 1985 to Maria João de Santa Marta Granger Rodrigues, daughter of Engineer José Eugénio Rodrigues and Maria Teresa de Jesus de Santa Marta Granger, of French descent, and with five children, began his career at Citibank by the year 1991, and in 1992 becomes part of the Barclays Bank.

In 1993, was to become a Member of the Executive Board of the BCI, being mainly responsible for the retail network. In 1997, assumes the portfolio of Private Banking within the same group. In 2001 he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Group in Portugal Santader integrating, since then, several prominent places. After three years, is managing director of Sporting.SAD beyond mainstream Banco Santander Totta Management from the merger with the Human Resources Branch. In 2006, it became Vice-President of the Board of Sporting Clube de Portugal and the bank making it would be Member of the Executive Board with the Branch Network Private and Business, Corporate, Private and HR'S, position would take to become President of Sporting Clube de Portugal, the Board of Sporting.SAD and all companies that make up the so-called Group Sporting.