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Tentchou Jean Pierre (born November 17, 1961) is a Cameroonian business magnate, hotelier, and investor. Pierre is the chief executive and chairman of Hotel Saint Michel, one of the largest hotel of the west region in Bagangté, Camerron. He is also the owner of many luxury renting houses. Beyond this, Pierre is one of the best-known entrepreneurs and business man in Cameroon.

Early life

Pierre was born in Douala, Cameroon, in an upper-class family to the billionaire Tentchou Michel, Sr. and Nana Christine. His father who was a well respected man in Cameroon and in some African countries. Michel was a very influential businessman, and he launched a brewery well known as the Nouvelles Brasseries Africaines (NOBRA) in 1979 with Pierre Tchanque [1][2][3],an elite of the Western Province in Bazou, Cameroon. Tentchou J.Pierre's mother was a business woman who spent most of her time assisting her husband in the management of his fortune. Pierre has several siblings. He was the seventh of his name in his family, but was known as " J.P " Early on in his life, Pierre's parents had a law career in mind for him. When pierre was young, his family regularly attended a Catholic church, and during schools break, the family will travel to different European countries.

At 12, he attended one the most selective high school in Douala called College Saint Michel. Then at the age of 14, he flew to Europe where he attended a prestigious and exclusive preparatory school well known as the Lycée Condorcet de Paris. Pierre took interest in business when he came back from Paris in the 1985 after earning a high school diploma under request of his father. Pierre took over the control of his father fortune after his had died few years later.