Portugal
Hugo Mendes, Chief Financial Officer for the Macauto Group, has been appointed as Senator to the Grand Assembly of the World Business Angels Investment Forum. Senator Mendes represents Portugal in the International Finance Committee of the Grand Assembly.
Hugo.Mendes@wbaforum.org
Hugo Mendes is currently the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Macauto Group, the second-largest producer of automotive sunshades in the world; the company is listed on the Taiwan OTC Exchange (TWO) and headquartered in Tainan, Taiwan. He serves as a senior strategy advisor to the CEO and senior executives. Prior joining Macauto, he was CFO of the Asia Supply Chain for the Hong Kong-based Vivarte Group, and North China CFO for Decathlon Group, where he was based in Shanghai. He is a national Certified Public Accountant (CPA) of the Portuguese Order of Certified Accountants (OCC). Having graduated from the Oporto Polytechnic business school with a double degree in Accounting and in Finance, Mr Mendes is also a real estate developer, investor and entrepreneur. He is the founder and Managing Director of a real estate boutique and consulting firm that is committed to helping foreign investors find the best investments in Portugal. Furthermore, he is a member of the Lisbon Business Angels Club and a regular panel speaker at CFO roundtables, the CFO Innovation Hong Kong Forum, the FP&A Innovation Summit–Hong Kong as well as in investing and business angel-related events.
Portugal
Rui Falcao, Co-founder and Angel Investor at REDangels, has been appointed as Senator to the Grand Assembly of the World Business Angels Investment Forum. Senator Falcao represents Portugal in the International Academic Committee of the Grand Assembly.
Rui.Falcao@wbaforum.org
He is a professional angel investor, co-founder and managing partner of REDangels, the leading angel group in Portugal comprising more than 50 angel investors from 8 countries. Coming initially from a software engineer background, Rui was a serial entrepreneur of the internet booming days, participating as entrepreneur and angel investor in more than 20 startups in technologies and communications sector. Rui has the complete experience of the entrepreneurial cycle going from founding stage, validation, grow and internationalization, failure and successful exits. Rui has received several awards during his career, regarding entrepreneurship and creativity. He was founder and board member of professional associations such as multimedia, management and business angels, always committed with common good for society. Actually, his passion and effort is driven to develop a professional angel network brand and support gatekeepers and angel groups to become more professional, providing great angel experience and strong engagement. Rui was a university professor long time ago, before he decided to enter the entrepreneurial adventure. Recently, there is an extra life challenge to create taught and credibility about angel investing by finishing a PHD on angel investor perceived value.
Portugal
Pedro Bandeira, President of FNABA - National Federation for Portuguese Business Angels, has been appointed as Senator at the Grand Assembly of the World Business Angels Investment Forum. Senator Bandeira will represent Portugal in the Global Startup Committee of the Grand Assembly.
Pedro.Bandeira@wbaforum.org
President of FNABA - National Federation for Portuguese Business Angels. fnaba.org Founder and CEO of REDangels, a group of 65 angels from 11 countries investing together in 27 startups with 3 deads and 2 exits until now, with one 38x exit. redangels.com Founder and CEO of COREangels Network, the international network of professional groups of Angels. Started in 2019 with 4 groups - geographical and vertical groups. coreangels.com
Portugal
Marco Soares, Managing Partner at the CORE Angels, Portugal
Marco.Soares@wbaforum.org
Marco Soares is a Entrepreneur, CEO, board member and investor.
Angel Investor with COREangels Portugal, RedAngels and DigCap Ventures.
Co-founder of Inovretail in 2010, that was acquired by Sonae IM in 2016, specializing in innovative IT solutions for Retail.
With over 22 years’ experience in the Retail space (food and non-food), he is an experienced Delivery Manager and has played pivotal roles in Sonae Distribuição Portugal, Sonae Distribuição Brasil, Debenhams, Nisa Todays, Esprit, Tesco Central Europe, Despar, Wipro Retail (a Wipro Company) and Enabler.
Has worked in several different clients and lived across 2 different continents – Europe and South America.
Graduated in Computer Sciences from Minho Univeersity in Portugal.
Holding an MBA from Porto Business School in Portugal