Rui has more than thirty years of experience in investment and fund management in Portugal. He was a fund manager for Banco Totta & Açores — today part of Santander for ten years — before launching his brand FundBox in 2004. Since then FundBox funds have raised more than 550M € and executed more than 650 transactions in real estate, private equity and other alternative assets. Rui has been instrumental in the establishment and management of many successful Golden Visa investment funds.
Nuno joined FundBox almost 20 years ago as an operations analyst. He became head of operations in 2014 and managing director of the private equity arm in 2018. Nuno has a degree from ISCAL, Lisbon’s renowned business and accounting school. Nuno has overseen many successful private equity funds in his time at FundBox and we are confident New Frontiers will be another success story for this accomplished manager.
In the past two years, João was responsible for raising €120M across four Golden Visa qualifying investment funds between 2021 and 2023. João has 30 years of experience in Financial Services, including key roles in the investment fund, corporate service, insurance and re-insurance sectors in Portugal, Brazil, UK, and the US.
Noel is the CEO of Shannon Energy. Shannon has successfully identified and sourced, then developed and assisted through to successful exit, many solar projects in South Africa, Hungary, the United Kingdom and his native Ireland, to name a few. Noel and Shannon Energy now bring that experience, expertise and unique set of metrics, to projects on the government Acordo list in Portugal with New Frontiers.
David, a Scotland-born law graduate from the University of Edinburgh, has been involved in capital markets and the alternative investment space, for 20 years. He is the founder of DRC, a specialist financial consultancy firm in Edinburgh.
Pedro Mendes Leal, a seasoned entrepreneur in hospitality, construction, and real estate for over 30 years, founded Empark in 1992 and served as its CEO until 2018. He also established the Bairro Alto Hotel in Lisbon in 2002 and Hotel Valverde, recognized as Europe’s finest luxury boutique hotel by the World Travel Awards in 2020. Pedro has remained actively involved as a shareholder and executive chairman of Hotel Valverde since 2013.
Luiz Godinho Lopes is a leader in the real estate and construction sector and the founder of Soconstroi, which he merged with A. Silva & Silva in 1995. Since 1999, he has been developing hotels on the Estoril/Cascais coast. He has owned and sold the famous Intercontinental Hotel and several Holiday Inns in Portugal.
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