Salvador Arena

Career Light In 1937 he started at Light, being influenced by the engineer Billings where he got involved in the Cubatão Hydroelectric Power Plant project. His time at Light also influenced his choice of employees and the development of his didactics, by liking to help others to progress.

Termomecanica After several years in Light, without a dazzle of evolution Arena was also accurate in paying taxes and trained his own staff to ascend to management positions. Its wage policy, which aimed at improving the living conditions of its workers, went against the dictatorship's policy of accumulating capital.

Personal life Arena was a sportsman who neither smoked nor drank and although he got married, he didn't have children, because he didn't want to see them fighting for their inheritance. In soccer, he cheered for the Palestra for his lifetime.

Death & legacy Salvador Arena died on January 28, 1998, due to a heart attack, in his home. In his will, he placed the Salvador Arena Foundation as heir to his fortune valued at 800 million dollars, who is the heir to his legacy and should use the resources to "solve the problems of education and assistance and protection of those in need". His Foundation also distributes basic food baskets at ABC Paulista, free medical care, among other things.