3. Who is Manuela
Medeiros?
• Manuela de Medeiros Pereira Soares
was born in 1952 in Portugal and she
is 71 years.
• At the age of 42, she created her first
clothing company and currently has
more than a thousand stores in 65
different countries, including a store
in Istambul.
• She won the BPI (a Portuguese bank)
businesswoman award in 2019.
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4. History of
parfois:
• From a very young age, she
wanted to become
independent and earn her
own money.
• Her dynamism made her
invest in the field of fashion,
first with a clothing store and
later dedicating herself to
accessories, transforming the
name Parfois into a reference
for the female public.
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7. Early life
• José Neves was born in June
1974.
• He grew up in Porto, Portugal,
where his grandfather owned a
shoe factory.
• He studied economics at the
University of Porto.
8. Career
• Neves founded his first tech company, Grey
Matter, while studying at university. The company
provided software for clothing manufacturers.
• In the same year, he founded a software firm
called Platforme for small fashion brands in 1996. In
1996, at the age of 22, he launched a footwear
brand named Swear, and opened a store in London.
The brand sold to other shops. He started a retail
fashion store named bstore on Savile Row in London
in 2001.
• In 2008, Neves founded Farfetch. In June 2017,
Farfetch sold a minority stake to JD.com, for US$397
million, prior to launching in China.
• In September 2018, following the IPO of Farfetch
on the New York Stock Exchange, Neves' stake in the
company was valued at US$1.4 billion.
9. Farfetch & curiosities
• FARFETCH is the global technology platform for luxury
fashion, as well as being a marketplace since it has no
stock of pieces, working in partnership with brands and
boutiques around the world to bring you closer to the
best luxury curation.
• Since the birth of FARFETCH in 2008, the founder José
Neves wanted to connect creators, curators and
consumers around the world. When it all started, they
had only 25 boutiques in 5 countries, today they have
connected consumers in 190 countries, with boutiques in
over 50 countries, with over 3,000 of the world's best
brands, delivering a truly luxurious shopping experience.
10. Cristina Fonseca
• She's 35 years old;
• Studied Telecommunications and Network
Engineering at the Instituto Superior Técnico, of
Lisbon, and specialized in Artificial Intelligence in
the Global Solutions Program of Singularity
University, United Stated of America;
• She is an investor and technology entrepreneur
and co-founded Talkdesk, a platform that allows
companies to create their call center in the cloud.
11. Currently,
she is…
• a Venture Partner at
Indico Capital Partners,
where she invests and
supports technology-
based startups to create
global products on a
normal scale.
• a non-executive
member of Galp's Board
of Directors.
12. • The company has raised nearly $125 million
in recent years and Cristina Fonseca was
featured in 2016 on Forbes magazine's
"30 Under 30" list;
• In 2017, she became an Agenda Contributor
to the World Economic Forum.
14. Who is Mário
Ferreira?
• Born on the 15th January 1968
in Matosinhos, Portugal;
• President of Mystic Invests;
• CEO of Douro Azul;
• Owner of Pluris Investments.
15. Also known
for...
• Being one of the 5
“sharks” in the
Portuguese version of the
Tv show Shark Tank;
• Being the first ever
Portuguese person to go
to space.
16. How did it start?
• At 16, he went to London, against his father will,
to work and broaden his knowledge. He had 2
years of very hard work in a restaurant.
• In spite of having the oportunity to be a partner
of the restaurant, he decided to follow his
passion and travelled around the world in
various cruises. That´s where he made contacts,
gained experience and learned what he needed
to start in the boats business.
• However, before that, he also opened his own
restaurant in his hometown.
• His hard work mentality, his courage to take risks
and search for all sorts of oportunities helped
him to build his net worth of €600 million.
Private brand which agreggates about 15 companies focused in the travel and tourism sector,,, very well known company that locates in the Douro region with all sorts of luxury river cruiseships cruise-hotels, buses, helicopters,,, a financial group that invest in businesses in áreas such as media, real state or travelling
In august of the last year, he among other 5 people took a 10 minute trip that cost between 200k and 300k dollars to eachone.
