General Manager (VABI)

Could you tell us about the history of VABI?

The company was established by my father 78 years ago, when he was 50 years old. I had been working for VABI since I was 20 years old and eventually took over when my father died at the age of 83.

VABI started as a concrete company. After the independency of Suriname, we saw that the country was very dependent on foreign exchange we didn’t generate ourselves. S ...