PARTNERS
PAGEON | Executive Consultans
Pedro Almeida Gonçalves
Consultant Partner
Senior Executive with more than 25 years of experience in top management functions in sectors such as Transportation, Infrastructure and Construction, leading various types of organizations – joint-ventures, public companies, listed and unlisted companies – with activities in several countries and continents.
Currently non-executive Director of Vallis Capital Partners, Private Equity leader in Portugal in the mid-market segment, and member of the Investment Committee of the Vallis Sustainable Investments Fund II Partner and CEO of Vallis-Consolidation Sector Consolidation Fund and, between 2012 and 2017, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Group of Companies acquired by the Fund (now ELEVO GROUP).
Several senior management functions throughout his professional career, namely CEO of the Soares da Costa Group, between 2006 and 2011, Director at the Somague Group from 2003 to 2005, and Director of Metropolitano de Lisboa between 1992 and 2000.
Strong orientation towards the management and motivation of teams with professionals of high competence, creating and stimulating a competitive atmosphere and a culture oriented towards the results.
MLA Maricato Lima & Associados | Law Firm
João Maricato
Consultant Partner
Lawyer, with 25 years of experience in real estate, urban planning, construction and public contracting and with activity in Portugal, Spain, Mozambique, Angola and South Africa, having integrated several law firms such as Bufete Mullerat, Abogados Asociados, de Barcelona, and the Portuguese companies PMBGR – Pena, Machete, Botelho Moniz, Nobre Guedes, Ruiz & Associados and RPA – Rui Pena, Arnaut & Associados, and currently with offices in Lisbon and Maputo and a partnership in Johannesburg.
Provides legal consultancy to several municipalities, as well as national and international companies in the fields of promotion and real estate management, construction and public works, tourism, banking, real estate investment funds, health, shopping centers and large commercial, airport and environmental areas, in particular in the organization and licensing of urban and real estate operations, territorial planning, installation of tourist developments, public works and construction works and public contracting.
Trainer in the areas of urban planning and public contracting, with dozens of training actions in Portugal and Angola.
METRO URBE | Projects and Consulting in Architecture
João Pedras
Consultant Partner
Senior Architect, with 25 experience in the execution of architectural projects and their coordination and supervision.
Partner in the Metro Urbe office – Projects and Consultancy in Architecture, with authorship of several architectural projects, highlighting the most emblematic ones, such as the Hotel 3 K Europa, at Av. da Republica in Lisbon, 5 Hotels of My Story group at Rua do Ouro, Rossio, Rua da Madalena, Praça da Figueira and Rua Augusta, all in downtown Lisbon, also the The Lumiares Palace Hotel in Príncipe Real in Lisbon, in addition to several residential buildings and other units hotels in the Algarve in Lagos such as Cascade Resort and also in Cape Verde Fortim Mindelo Resort.
METRO URBE | Projects and Consulting in Architecture
Hélder Silva Cordeiro
Consultant Partner
Graduated in Architecture by Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, after 20 years of experience in the design and management of Architecture projects , as co-founder of Metro Urbe – Projectos e Consultoria em Arquitetura, Lda, in partnership with Arch. João Pedras and a large team of professionals, develops a wide national and international portfolio of works in the Hotel Industry, Housing, Services and Urbanism.
A strong impetus for new challenges and entrepreneurship stands out in his career, embracing, unreservedly, new projects beyond those that his training in Architecture gives him.
