Helder Antunes
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Helder Antunes speaking at the 2008 Cisco Portugal Inaugural Party
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| Born |
Hélder Manuel da Terra Fragueiro Marques Antunes 6 July 1963 Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, Portuguese Republic |
| Residence |
Morgan Hill, California, United States of America |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Citizenship |
Portuguese Republic United States of America |
| Alma mater | San Jose State University |
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| Parent(s) |
Armando Manuel Marques Antunes (father)
Carolina Bettencourt de Vasconcelos da Terra Fragueiro (mother) |
| Website | www |
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| Car Racing Career | |
| Years active | 1993-2002 |
| Teams | Ford Performance Solutions |
| Best finish | 1st in 1993-1995, 1998, 2000, 2002 |
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Ntnl. Auto Sport Association CMC (1999-2002) Rodger Ward's Pony Express 100 (1996-2002) C.A.R.S. Gamber's Run Twin 50 (1998-2000) N.A.S.A. Inaugural Season (1995) C.A.R.S. Silver State 100 BluBlocker (1993-94) Nevada Open Road Challenge (1992) Silver State Classic Challenge (1990-96) |
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| Awards | |
| Best Performance - 1998 Pony Express 100 | |
Carolina Bettencourt de Vasconcelos da Terra Fragueiro (mother)
Hélder Fragueiro Antunes (born 6 July 1963; Angra do Heroísmo, Azores) is a Portuguese-American executive, engineer, and former racecar driver. His car racing career from in the 1980s and '90s made him one of the preeminent open road racers at the time. Antunes currently serves as Cisco Systems's Senior Director of Corporate Strategic Innovation, where he leads Cisco's innovation and corporate strategy, and as a general partner at Pereira Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm.
Dubbed by PortugalGlobal Magazine as "the perfect example of Portuguese success in the global era", Antunes is actively involved in Portuguese and Azorean economic and political affairs. Tying Portuguese businesses and organizations to international funding and representation, Antunes is a counselor to the Rede Prestige Açores, a business institution operated by Autonomous Government of the Azores, and a frequent consultant to the Government of the Portuguese Republic.
As of November 2015, Antunes serves as the Chairman of the Board of the OpenFog Consortium, and, as of August 2016, as the Chairman of the Board of Star Division, S. A., a green tech company.
Hélder Manuel da Terra Fragueiro Marques Antunes was born on 6 July 1963, in Angra do Heroísmo (Nossa Senhora da Conceição), Terceira Island, Azores, to Armando Manuel Marques Antunes, an avionics and aerospace scientist from Torres Novas, and Carolina Bettencourt de Vasconcelos da Terra Fragueiro (Horta, Faial, 2 February 1937 - San Jose, California, 26 January 2014), a member of the Bettencourt family. Through his mother, Antunes is a descendant of Flemish explorers Willem van der Haegen and Josse van Huerter and related to 19th century Portuguese prime-minister, Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro.RTP journalist Pedro Bicudo described Antunes's parents as a "well-known couple in the Azores", for his mother's prominent family background and his father's prominence in aviation and as a scout for Sporting CP.
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