A team of experienced and engaged business-oriented professionals

Among other roles, Miguel spent many years of his professional life as at KPMG Corporate Finance & KPMG Restructuring in Lisbon and in London, where he became an associate director. He was latter a junior partner at TIIC, an international private equity fund focused on infrastructure, with a geographical investment focus in Europe and the Americas.

More recently, Miguel held several senior roles in the Angolan market, first as Head of Investment Banking at Banco Millennium Atlântico, a leading financial institution in Angola and Africa, and later as the founder, CEO and shareholder of the first Angolan asset management firm incorporated under the country’s new legal framework: Odell Global Investors.

Miguel holds a Post-graduate Diploma in Global Business (with distinction) from the Said Business School – University of Oxford (United Kingdom), a Masters in Finance from ISCTE Business School (Portugal) and a Bachelor Degree in Management from ISEG – University of Lisbon (Portugal). He has also completed the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at Wharton Business School – University of Pennsylvania (USA).

Miguel is fluent in Portuguese, English, French, and Spanish.

As a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group “BCG”, a world-leading strategy and management consultancy company, his work focused on key sectors, namely O&G, Telecom, and Public Sector where he supported numerous projects. In addition to his consulting role, he supported the company’s business development efforts in the country and was a member of the local recruiting team, where he helped design and implement the local and international recruiting strategy as well as lead the social responsibility efforts in Luanda.

Prior to that, he held a position in the Risk and Quantitative Analysis team at BlackRock in their London office where the team was responsible for enterprise-wide governance, risk and control self-assessments, and communication of the firm's corporate and operational risk profile. He also developed and communicated EMEA's risk appetite & profile statements, risk scenarios, and carried out annual reverse stress tests.

At the start of his career, he also had experience at both Barclays Global Investors as part of the Risk team and at Lehman Brothers as a member of the Internal Audit team.

He has a degree in Business BSc (Hons) from the University of Bath (United Kingdom). He is fluent in Portuguese and English and can speak some Spanish and French.

Before joining Hemera Capital Partners, he was a Director at QWC LTD, supporting banking institutions in managing their portfolio of Non-Performing loans.

Prior to that he Co-founded and was the Head of Real Estate and Private Equity funds of Odell Global Investors, the first Angolan asset management firm incorporated under the country’s new legal framework.

In 2012, he joined the investment banking division of ATLANTICO, leading teams in M&A and Structured Finance deals over various sectors, such as Real Estate, Financial Institutions, Agribusiness, Energy, Healthcare.

He started his career as a member of the European Valuation Center team of Willis Towers Watson in Portugal, where he was involved in actuarial pension scheme analysis for UK based companies.

Mário holds a Master’s degree in Finance from Brookes Business School of Oxford Brookes University, Postgraduate studies in Banks and Insurance Companies Management and a Degree in Finance, both from ISEG - University of Lisbon.

He is fluent in Portuguese and English.

Augusto currently is the Head of the Investors Relations at Hemera Capital Partners.

Prior to that he Co-founded and was the Director of Investor Relations & Business Development at Odell Global Investors, the first Angolan asset management firm incorporated under the country’s new legal framework. At Odell, he was responsible for the roadshows on the market for capital raising for the Funds.

In his earlier experience, he was a senior analyst at the Investment Banking Division of the ATLANTICO, where was involved in several Projects from different industries.

At the start of his career, Augusto worked as a junior analyst in the Agricultural Credit Department of Banco do Brasil, where he provided credit to protect small and mid sized farmers production in the event of natural phenomena.

Augusto holds a Master´s degree in Finance from Grenoble Graduate School of Business (France/UK) and a Bachelor´s Degree in Economics from Federal University of Paraná (Curitiba, Brazil). He also has completed a Program for Management Development (PMD) by IESE Business School in Barcelona (Spain).

He is fluent in Portuguese and English.

Antonella has several years of experience in investment banking, having developed projects in Corporate Finance (M&A and Valuation), as well as Structured Finance in different sectors and markets (lusophone countries).

She started her career as an investment banking analyst in Portugal at ATLANTICO Europe, and later joined the team in Angola, assuming managing positions, leading teams in different projects. She was involved in some of the most relevant Investment Banking deals in Angola.

Before joining Hemera Capital Partners, she was Investor Relations of ATLANTICO, being responsible for the communication with shareholders and for the preparation of the bank for a future Private Placement and IPO, coordinating internal and external teams.

Antonella holds a Master in Business Administration with a Major in Finance and a Degree Business Administration, both from CATÓLICA Lisbon, School of Business & Economics (Portugal). She is fluent in Portuguese, English and German.

Her career has started in Portugal at Teixeira de Freitas Rodrigues & Associados, then moved to FBL Advogados and, before joining HCP, she was a Senior Associate at Dentons Lead. She has been actively involved in advising national and foreign institutions such as banks, assets managers and other financial intermediaries on regulatory, legal and governance matters, being also involved in financing transactions and in providing legal advice in structuring projects to be financed by development finance institutions.

In 2018, Nair joined the legal department of Standard Bank Angola, as Legal Manager of Corporate and Investment Banking, being responsible for the legal assistance to Investment Banking, Transactional Products and Services, Capital Markets and other business areas.

In 2017, she led the Unit on Communication, Cooperation and Financial Inclusion of the National Council on Financial Stability (CNEF), a currently extinct public advisory body, taking on duties of legal advisory, team coordination and management of the cooperation initiatives between the different regulatory and supervisory bodies of the Angolan financial system, in particular the Ministry of Finance, the National Bank of Angola, the Capital Market Commission and the Angolan Insurance Regulation and Supervision Agency. She was also part of the working group promoting the first National Risk Assessment in Angola in connection with money laundering and terrorist financing risk.

Nair holds a Law Degree from Lusiada University of Lisbon and executive trainings on Banking, Compliance and Capital Markets fields.

Before joining Hemera Capital Partners, he led the Department for Macroeconomic Policy and Management of the Studies and Statistics Office at the Ministry of Finance of Angola, a very relevant department in the design of the country’s economic and fiscal policy, which amongst other tasks also had the responsibility to draw up the country’s Budget Report.

Prior to that, he led the Research team as part of the Treasury and Markets Department at Banco Millennium Atlantico, having contributed to the area’s restructure at Atlantico.

In parallel he has been lecturing a range of subjects within the Economics and Management course at the Universidade Católica de Angola, mainly focusing on Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Public Finance and Industrial Economics.

Previously he also worked as an auditor at KPMG, and lectured History of Economic Thought and Currency and Credit in the Economics course in 2011 at the Instituto Superior de Ciência e Relações Internacionais.

Additionally, he has published several articles in a range of newspapers and magazines on social and economic issues, and participated in the 2018 Angola Economic Report prepared by the Center for Studies and Scientific Research of the Universidade Católica de Angola.

Jânio has a master's degree in Intermediaries and Financial Markets from the University degli studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, in Italy. Before, he graduated in Economics, with distinction, from the Universidade Católica de Angola.

He is fluent in Portuguese, English and Italian.

She began her career at a Miami-based Real Estate Brokerage Firm, supporting Brokers’ transactions by performing property cash flow analysis and valuation, as well as local market research, reporting on key economic and demographic trends in assigned commercial and residential real estate markets.

In the past few years, Joana relocated to Angola, where she worked at an Angolan Real Estate Firm, being responsible for the Consultancy and Appraisal Department, carrying out Real Estate Market and Feasibility Analysis, as well as appraising a wide range of properties located throughout several Angolan provinces, thus building extensive local market knowledge.

She holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Management completed at Catholic Portuguese University, in Portugal and two Master’s Degrees from Florida International University, in the U.S.A. - a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Science in International Real Estate.

Joana is a Certified Appraiser of R.E. Investment Funds.

She is fluent in Portuguese and English and can speak some Spanish.

As an Accounting Technician at Banco Millennium Atlântico, she was responsible for overlooking the elaboration and maintenance of accounting scripts for new banking products as well as for the parametrization of the accounting system ensuring that all Banking transitions carried out automatically were correctly logged. She led a support team responsible for ensuring that all accounting operational processes involving the Bank´s network ran smoothly. She also led the team responsible for Operational Control and Bank Reconciliations, whose mission was to ensure the compliance of all operations in the accounting and operational sphere.

In 2016, as a result of the merger between Banco Millennium Angola and Banco Privado Atlântico, she was part of a migration team with members from both institutions, whose responsibility was to ensure that the successful migration and integration of accounting systems and information.

In 2013, she joined the Accounting department of Banco Millennium Angola, in the Operational Control unit, where she was responsible for, bank reconciliations, portfolio validation, among other tasks. Furthermore she led the tax team responsible for all the Bank's tax obligations.

Her first work experience was at AAA Seguros, S.A where she worked for 3 years as an accounting technician. She was responsible for controlling claims while also performing other activities to the Accounting Department.

She has a degree in Accounting and Administration from the school of Economics at the Agostinho Neto University in Angola.

Fluent in Portuguese.

Zélia started her career at PwC Angola as a Junior Associate in the Audit & Assurance department, having grown to the position of Manager, where she led several teams and audit / consulting projects in various financial institutions and industry in general in Angola.

Before joining HCP, she worked at Banco de Negócios Internacional as Manager of the credit, where she was involved in adapting internal processes in light of international standards, before that she worked at The Boston Consulting Group in the Finance and Accounting department, having performed functions as Senior Accountant.

She has a degree in Economics from the Catholic University of Angola and holds a postgraduate Diploma in International Business, Banking and Finance & Corporate Responsibility from ZHAW - Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

Zélia is fluent in Portuguese and English.

As a Securities Fund manager at Odell Global Investors he was exposed to securities funds (one open-ended and one closed), managing securities and analysing all potential securities investments available in the local market.

Prior to that, he worked at Ernest & Young Angola, where he was part of the assurance team as junior auditor, covering different sectors such as Oil and Gas, Import & Export Industry and Construction.

Márcio holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance from Nova Southeastern University (USA) and a degree in business administration from Nova Southeastern University (USA).

He is fluent in Portuguese and English.

Before joining Hemera Capital Partners, she was a Consultant at Deloitte, where she acquired specialized knowledge, particularly in projects related to real estate taxation, telecommunications, definition and implementation of a new organizational structure, implementation of communication and change management initiatives.

Naima has a Geology Degree specialized in Natural Resources from University of Lisbon (Portugal) and University of St. Andrews (Scotland).

She is fluent in Portuguese and English.

Sani Rodrigues began her professional career as an Administrative Assistant working alongside the executive team in a Multinational company, having acquired over 6 years of experience in the areas of accounting, marketing and finance.

During this period, she led the company's organization and development actions and was a relationship manager with customers and suppliers, where she contributed to winning new contracts. She specialized in the field of Economics in Portugal. She is fluent in Portuguese.

As a back-office analyst at SG Hemera Capital Partners, his work is focused on the registration and control of the fund´s daily operations. With this, his role ranges from registering the fund´s accounting records, compliance with tax obligations, payment to suppliers, sending monthly regulatory reports and audit support.

Independently, he elaborated and presented an Enterprise Risk Management workshop where he talked about the importance of Operational Risk in a start-up.

Previously, he did a six-month internship program at Banco Millennium Atlantico. An experience that allowed him to gain an all-around knowledge of the Bank´s activity, holding positions such as Bank Teller, Business Intelligence Analyst, Treasury Market Analyst, Operational Risk Analyst, Compliance Officer, and Operational Risk Auditor.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Indiana University Indianapolis and Minors in both Business and Political Science.

He is fluent in Portuguese and English.

Prior to Hemera Capital Partners, he was an accounting analyst at Odell Global Investors, where he was part of the Accounting and Finance department, with the responsibility of ensuring the classification and posting of entries in their respective Diaries, the processing and payment of tax obligations as well as payments to suppliers. At Odell he also supported the HR department maintaining attendance records and processing of employee’s salaries. Prior to Odell, he worked as an accounting assistant at Sul Engenharia.

He has vast knowledge of the Angolan tax legislation and is a member of the Order of Accountants and Accounting Experts of Angola.

He has a degree in Managerial Accounting from Lusiadas University of Angola, Alves is fluent in Portuguese and conversational in English.

Prior to Hemera Capital Partners, he was an IT analyst at Odell Global Investors, where he managed the IT system’s infrastructure, the installation and configuration of routers and Cisco swicthes and he also managed and monitored the network infrastructure. He has a vast experience with administration software, network servers (AD,IIS, DNS, DHCP, Proxy and FTP), Exchange Server 2013, and many others. He is also experienced in Data-Center migration.

Previously he worked at Novabase as a network engineer, where he was responsible for installing and configuring Cisco and Microsoft equipment, as well as managing and monitoring the Network Infrastructure.

Early in his career, he worked at Velonet Teleinformatica SARL, as a Systems Analyst in the IT department, where he was responsible for managing small and large businesses Network Infrastructures, monitoring and controlling the communication infrastructure of all of Banco BAI’s branches.

He holds a Bachelor in Computer Networks and Systems, Adão is fluent in Portuguese and conversational in English.

Nazaré has more than 14 years of professional experience, 10 of which in the banking sector where she was responsible for the management of top Executives.