Consulting Board

PhD in Marketing for Sustainability, Master in Management and Co-founder and Executive Director of Cooperativa Biovilla. In the last 10 years, it has developed and managed all procedures for tourist licensing in the Arrábida Natural Park and raised the necessary investment to build nature tourism, which has come to be considered one of the largest projects for sustainable development in the country. It crosses and combines academic knowledge in the area of ​​Marketing for Sustainability, with its strong entrepreneurial aspect, with professional experience in large multinationals such as Unilever and L'Oreal, realizing business solutions and brand positioning through unconventional and unique techniques that increase social and environmental value through its own consultancy brand The Good Brands.

Master in Law from USP and PhD in Sociology from the Sorbonne. She was Secretary of Culture of the State of Ceará (2003-2006) and Secretary of the Creative Economy of MinC (2011 to 2013). She is a professor of the Professional Master's Degree in Tourism Business Management at the State University of Ceará, Director of the Observatory of Fortaleza, Municipal Governance of the Planning Institute of Fortaleza (IPLANFOR), Consultant on Public Policies for Culture and the Creative Economy and ad hoc Consultant for UNESCO for the implementation of the culture indicators of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Social entrepreneur in the area of ​​territorial competitiveness and motivational speaker on entrepreneurship, as well as an activist for a profitable social economy: sustainable profits with social benefits. He is currently manager of the Luxembourgish consultancy Grous Partners, dedicated to promoting investments in rural areas. He is also co-founder and coordinator of the Novos Povoadores Program, an organization that has sponsored the installation of more than 200 companies in rural areas, with an effective success rate of over 90%! In addition to all this, he is the editor of the guide “Investir à la Campagne au Portugal” and promoter of the information channel.

Lawyer and Business Consultant; Invited Professor at ISCSP – University of Lisbon; Member of the Installing Committee of Investors Portugal; President of the Business Angels Club of Lisbon; He was Vice President of FNABA – National Federation of Business Angels Associations.

Businessman and Entrepreneur. He made an international career in the global management of Multinational Companies at an international level. In 1996 he founded Mercal Consulting Group and has been a Managing Partner ever since. He is also a Partner of IMCN – Independent Management Consultancies Network in Zurich and is currently Chairman of the Board. He is Senior Advisor and Guest Professor at several Higher Education Institutions in Portugal and abroad.

PhD in Management, Master and Bachelor in Engineering and Bachelor in Sociology. He was managing director and general manager of companies and consultant/trainer in many others, namely in the energy, telecommunications, banking, pharmaceutical industry, culture and health sectors. Developed training/consultancy projects for the Angolan Public Administration, as well as several training actions in Cape Verde, Mozambique, Romania and Brazil. It has developed multiple training actions for Public Administration leaders and several projects in central and local administration organizations. He supervised about a dozen doctoral theses in Management, having been co-author of 3 books and several other publications, including more than a dozen articles in indexed journals. He is a researcher at BRU-IUL and teaches at ISCTE Executive Education.

Director of Digital and Communication at AICEP. Previous Director of the INOV Contacto Program, an international internship program in a professional context, promoted and managed by AICEP, the subject of international mentions of Good Practices by the EU (DG Enterprise and Industry, 2007 and Indústrias Criativas, 2010), Case Study by the OECD (with replica recommendation for Welsh Assembly Government, 2008) and Success Story by FSE (School to Work, 2013 and FSE supported projects, 2015-16).

Founder and CEO at Science4you; Master in Management and Graduated in Finance; Entrepreneur of the Year by the European Commission in 2010; In 2015, was awarded the honour Ordem de Mérito Empresarial by the President of the Republic; In 2020 was the founder and President of the Retail and Restoration Brands Association.