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a highly motivated and results-oriented economist with 20 years of experience in management, business reengineering, and change management in European companies. He has been responsible for executing complex projects involving company sales, management support, and information and organisational systems in the IT, telecommunications, and utility sectors. He was born in Holland but has lived and worked in Portugal since 1998. His main professional skills include: co-ordinating and managing multifunctional teams on projects in the IT, telecommunications, media, and energy sectors; executing partnerships between European IT, telecommunications, media, and energy companies, in which he draws on his in-depth knowledge of global value chains and market players and employs an innovative approach that is focused on internationalisation, planning, organisation, and start-up control of new companies.

Ema is a sociology graduate who, from an early stage, has belonged to organisations that focus on management and process improvement in information and outsourcing systems. With twenty years’ experience in management, she has acquired and developed skills in process management, projects and programmes, communication and people management, leadership and negotiation in management, change management, project planning and control, risk management, information security system management, and IT service management, among other areas. She is a certified trainer and a specialist in frameworks such as ITIL, PMBoK and CMMI. She is highly skilled in the use of normative references, implementing systems based on standards such as ISO, BS or EN.

graduated from the University of Minho with a degree in Management Information Systems. She has 10 years’ experience of management consultancy and Information Systems, having spent a large part of her career at a North American consultancy company, where she worked as a senior consultant on projects involving process re-engineering and information and change management systems development. She has also carried out management and business development roles for public sector clients, as well as project management, team coordination, and client management roles. For the past five years, in parallel with her professional activities, she has developed skills in the areas of leadership and personal and professional development. 

graduated from the Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (IST – UTL) with a degree in Electronics-Telecommunications and Electronics and subsequently completed a Masters degree in Computer Studies. In 1994 he began working for AMS as a team coordinator and IT architect. In 1996 he joined Case (now named Logica), where he performed several roles, including senior IT and communications strategy consultant, project manager, and manager. In addition to his professional activities, he has developed his knowledge and experience of coaching and personal development; communication and people management; and negotiations and company management.

João has a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics and Computing from the Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa (IST-UTL). He subsequently obtained a post-graduate degree in Project Management. After beginning his career as a programmer and business analyst in the financial area (banking) almost 20 years ago, he moved into the area of Verification and Validation (functional tests, non-functional tests, and corresponding tools), in which he possesses significant experience covering the offer, sale, and proposal of solutions as well as their implementation. Throughout his career he has supplemented his training and experience in Team Management and Project Management (PMI certification) and acquired knowledge of the energy and utilities sectors, the public sector, geographical information systems, the financial sector, and telecommunications. He has also developed skills in process management (ITIL) and business maturity consolidation and assessment models (CMMI – Capability Maturity Model Integration).