Alexandra Abreu Loureiro is partner at the Brunswick Group, a reputation consulting group which leads in Portugal and in the Portuguese-speaking world.

Gonçalo Mendes, partner at Oxy Capital, focuses on financing and implementing Oxy Capital II, an investment vehicle for growth and capital replacement in Portuguese companies. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of Nova SBE University and has gone through organizations such as ECS Capital, Millennium Global Investments and McKinsey & Company.

Diane Villax is Founder Chairman of Hovione, a company she founded in 1959 with her husband, Ivan Villax. Hovione is a worldwide company with a large experience in the development and compliant manufacture of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients and Drug Product Intermediates.

Daniel Viana has been a partner of Oxy Capital since its founding in 2012. Oxy Capital is a private equity fund management company with over one billion euros under management. He is currently dedicated to investing in the Oxy Capital II Fund which seeks to invest in Portuguese SMEs with high growth potential. He was previously Associate Director at UBS Investment Bank in New York and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Garrett McNamara is a giant wave explorer, renowned for discovering and pioneering when surfing the world’s largest wave in Nazareth. Since then he has shared his experience as a leader.

Managing Partner at Alantra has over 25 years of experience in debt transaction structuring and asset management. Prior to joining Alantra in 2014, he was a partner at PwC, responsible for debt advisory practice in Spain. In the past he was a director at European Capital and worked in this same area at BNP Paribas Iberia, New York and Paris.

José Lemos is a founding partner at Clearwater International. Among others he was founder and executive director of CBI (Investment Bank) and president of the Lisbon Stock Exchange.

João Bento has been CEO of CTT since May 2019. He is also a member of the General Council of the University of Lisbon, Vice President of the Academy of Engineering, member of the Strategic Innovation Council of Vieira de Almeida and member of the General Council of the Portuguese Institute of Corporate Governance. .

Rita Barosa is CEO of Alantra, a Spanis global mid-market specialist, nominated in 2019 for “European Corporate Finance House of The Year”. She also worked at Grupo Espírito Santo as advisor to the Board of Directors.

Governance & Finance Professor at NOVA SBE and CEO of IVENS, Governance Advisors. Doctorate in Business Administration. ROC and non-executive director of the European Investment Bank, Infrastructures of Portugal, EuroBIC and Manuel Champalimaud Group. Has publications in scientific journals about Governance. Member of the Harvard Business Review advisory board.

Marco Lebre, partner at Crest Capital Partners, founded Explorer Investments in 2002, where he was dedicated to private equity. Today he is also a visiting professor at Católica University.

Nuno Sequeira is the CEO of Solzaima. Solzaima, a renewable energy equipment company, national leader in biomass solutions. He is also a partner at Singularity Capital.

João Coelho Borges is a partner at Magnum Capital. He work in private equity at Och-Ziff Capital Management in London and also worked at Goldman Sachs. He is currently president of ROQ and Board Member of Vendap, INDIBA and Aire Networks.

Michael Santos studied Organization and Business Management at ISCTE. He is Partner, Corporate and International Tax at KPMG, which provides audit, tax and advisory services

João Talone, founder and partner of Magnum Capital in 2006, was CEO of EDP and Vice President of HydroCantábrico and Special Government Commissioner.

KPMG Associate Partner holds a Management Degree, a postgraduate degree in Corporate Finance and a Master’s degree in Finance from ISCTE. She has over a decade and a half of experience in the M&A market and currently serves in KPMG’s Deal Advisory area.