Roland Duchâtelet

businessman, football manager

Roland Duchâtelet built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.

The record lists Roland Duchâtelet as businessman, football manager.

Roland Duchâtelet was born at Merksem in 1946. His recorded nationality is Belgium. He was educated at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.

He worked as politician, entrepreneur and engineer.

His recorded holdings include AD Alcorcón and Charlton Athletic F.C..

Enterprises outlive their founders or they do not, and that is the whole test.

That the business was built from Belgium shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

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