VITAL SIGNS: Avedia Energy CEO Atose Aguele is a true citizen of the world
CAPE Town businessman Atose Aguele was born in Bath, England, raised in Lagos, Nigeria, went back to the UK for high school, and to the US to university. He fell in love with the Mother City on his first visit. He tells Marika Sboros about the stress and magic in creating and running gas businesses.What was your earliest ambition?Funnily enough, I always saw myself in business, as an entrepreneur.How come, from such a young age?Well, we went back to Nigeria from the UK when I was three. My early childhood was in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub. My father started a gas business when I was three years old in 1967 so I was immersed in business from a very young age.Your first degree in the US was in agriculture (animal sciences) and the second in economics from the University of Delaware. What made you choose agriculture?Other than the gas business, which we owned, my family was also involved in agriculture. We had a large poultry farm outside Lagos and the idea was for me to go back t...
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