Robert West Books

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.