Joaquim Saldanha e Souza

Joaquim started his career as a strategy consultant with Prof. Michael Porter’s Monitor Company. He moved on to Roland Berger before switching to investment banking with Banco Efisa and Banco Finantia, and later to Portugal Telecom where he took responsibilty for M&A in Portugal and Brazil.

He left PT and Brazil to become a partner in the Brazilian-founded hedge fund Dynamo Capital in London, a position he left in the aftermath of the subprime crisis, to return to Portugal and to investment banking, now as CEO of Caixa BI, the investment banking arm of the Portuguese Republic’s bank CGD. Upon leaving Caixa BI, he took non-executive director positions in various companies, in Brazil, Turkey, Panama and Portugal. He is the non-executive vice-chairman of FundBox SGOIC, FundBox’s AIFM.

Joaquim holds a BSc in Economics from NOVA SBE and an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden Business School.