João Trigo da Roza
With 30 years of professional activity, as manager and consultant, is deeply knwoledgeable of several economic sectors. He was consultant in McKinsey & Company and partner of ATKearney, CEO of PT Multimédia.com, and Director of Parque Expo Promoção e Desenvolvimento Imobiliário (Expo 98). Currently, is President of the Portuguese Association of Business Angels (APBA), Associate Director of ATKearney and invited Professor at Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics. Graduated in Civil Engineering (IST), also has a MSc in Structures Engineering (IST), a MBA (UNL), an Executive Program Growing Companies (Stanford) and a Private Equity Program (Harvard Business School). |
Nuno Magalhães Guedes
Brains2Market's partner, he is President of the Supervisory Board of the Portuguese Association of Business Angels (APBA) and Managing Director of a consumer goods' company. Moreover, he has teaching duties at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and at Instituto Nacional de Administração. Previously, was Director of companies in the editorial and television sector. Academically, has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in Management by Fundação Getúlio Vargas. Presently, he is also Director of an NGO and author in the subjects of Corporate Strategy and children, young and adult fiction. |
António Trigo da Roza
Graduated in Medicine by Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, he initiated his professional career at Hospitais Civis de Lisboa, from where he left in 1993, in order to focus on private practice. Since 2007, he is coordinator of the Otorhinolaryngology's service at Hospital da Luz. he has several published works in national and international scientific magazines and is frequently invited to participate in Conferences and Speciality Meetings. At the same time of his medical career, he has been participating in the creation of several companies and has investments in start-up's, which have been quite successful in their activity expansion process. |
António Pedro Alves
Has ten years of experience as an Executive in the insurance sector, at AXA Portugal and Lusitania Companhia de Seguros, and was for seven years consultant at ATKearney, integrating the practice of international financial institutions. His expertise-s areas are strategy, marketing and operations. Moreovehas developped projects in telecommunications, banking, insurance, industry and tourism. Academically, has an MBA from Faculdade de Economia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, a post-graduation in Management of Financial Institutions by ISCTE/INDEG, a degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Universidade de Lisboa and attended training for Executives at INSEAD. |
João Severino Mendes
With over 15 years of professional experience, he initiated his career in the consulting sector at Arthur D. Little, having, afterwards, gone through other compaies in that field. Also, he worked in companies from the Information and Communication Technologies and Media sector, such as SIC. Currently, he is Senior Manager at Deloitte, being responsible for the TMT practice (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) on Strategy and Operations (S&O). In parallel, he is also Board Member at the Portuguese Association of Business Angels (APBA). At the academic level, he has a degree in Industrial Engineering and Management (IST), and an MBA by Universidade Nova de Lisboa. |
Fundo de Capital de Risco Empreender Mais
Operating in the venture capital market since 1991, Caixa Capital is one of the sector's pioneer in Portugal. Being one of the market's main player, it acts in pratically all phases of companies' life cycle. Its mission is to invest in funds and companies with great appreciation potential, in order to generate appropriate returns in relation to the implicit risk of its investments, contributing also to the sustainable development of the Portuguese business landscape. The FCR Empreender Mais, has as target, investments in Portuguese early stage start-up's from the ICT, Health, Cleantech and Life Sciences sectors. |