Stephan Morais

Stephan Godinho Lopes Morais (born October 27, 1973 in London, England) is a European business management executive and investor.

Stephan Morais
Born (1973-10-27) October 27, 1973
London, England
NationalityEnglish and Portuguese
OccupationManaging General Partner of Indico Capital Partners

Academic career

Morais, the son of Portuguese lawyers was raised in Lisbon, Portugal, attended two of the top rated schools in the country, Colégio Sagrado Coração de Maria and Colégio Valsassina. A Civil Engineer, Morais graduated from Portugal's largest and most respected engineering institute, the Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon in Lisbon, Class of 1996, having spent the last semester at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, France. In 2000 he was accepted for the MBA program of Harvard Business School. Awarded the Sainsbury Management Fellowship, he graduated in 2002, specializing in private equity.

Business career

Morais initiated his career at Halcrow Group Limited in the UK, working in privatization projects on behalf of multilateral agencies in Mozambique, Pakistan, Panama and Chile.[1][2] He later moved permanently to London joining Arthur Andersen Business Consulting, to integrate the Energy and Utilities team as a Senior Consultant.

After the MBA, Morais was appointed as consultant to the Portuguese Government for the privatization of a main State investing conglomerate, IPE, and for the draft of the country's National Energy policy. Morais joined Energias de Portugal in 2003 as Chief of Staff of the CEO and was subsequently appointed Managing Director of the Bilbao based Naturgas Energia Servicios.

Specialized in Private Equity investments while attending Harvard, Morais went on to buy out Temahome,[3] a major Portuguese furniture design and manufacturing company, with a group of other Portuguese investors and the company's management team in 2006. He left the company at the end of 2009. in 2010, Stephan Morais was the first Portuguese[4] ever to be named a Young Global Leader[5][6] by the World Economic Forum.

Morais is a former Non-Executive Director at Crimson Investment Management,[7] a real estate investment company, and has served on several companies´ Advisory Boards where he provided financial and strategic advice through his personal holding SEI.

In 2010 he joined Portugal's largest bank Grupo Caixa Geral de Depósitos where he was appointed as Board Member and Deputy CEO of a new African investment bank[8] based in Mozambique, BNI - Banco Nacional de Investimento,[9][10] a partnership between Portuguese Caixa and the Mozambican government.

Morais is a former Executive Director heading up venture capital investing at Caixa Capital,[11] one of the largest and most international private equity and venture capital operators in Iberia managing over 700 million Euros in funds.[12] He became Portugal´s most notorious and successful Venture Capitalist after having led investments in most major Portuguese global startups such as Farfetch, Unbabel, Uniplaces, Codacy and others that raised significant capital in Silicon valley and London. He is also a former Venture Capital Council Member at Invest Europe,[13] Council Member of the International Venture Club,[14] Chairman of the European Venture Finance Network[15] and a jury at numerous entrepreneurship and investment awards.[16] He is a frequent speaker at global events.[17]

Currently, Morais is Managing General Partner at his own independent Venture Capital Fund, Indico Capital Partners, which he founded with Ricardo Torgal and Talkdesk´s co-founder Cristina Fonseca.

Honours and awards

References
  1. Acredita Portugal - Stephan Morais named Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum Archived 2011-09-03 at the Wayback Machine
  2. CNBC Enough with the self-loathing, Europe
  3. UP Magazine - The discreet charm of wood 10/01/2008
  4. Exame Expresso 03/09/2010
  5. The World Economic Forum - Young Global Leaders
  6. CEO CF - Stephan Morais named Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum Archived 2011-02-04 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Crimson Investment Corporate Governance
  8. CNBC Africa
  9. CNBC Investment Outlook (Video) Archived 2013-05-23 at the Wayback Machine
  10. Portuguese-Mozambican bank, Banco Nacional de Investimentos to start operating only in 2011 -Clube de Moçambique 11/30/2010 Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
  11. Iberian Tech Tour 2014 Interview
  12. Caixa Capital successfully exits its investment in Nonius
  13. Invest Europe
  14. International Venture Club
  15. European Commission
  16. fundación everis
  17. VENTURE CAPITAL FORUM 2015
  18. Sainsbury Management Fellowship
  19. Mobiliário em Notícia 10/22/2009
  20. DME official list of 2009 winners Archived 2012-03-18 at the Wayback Machine
  21. Jornal OJE 11/24/2009 Archived 2011-08-23 at the Wayback Machine
  22. CEO - Collaborative Forum Archived 2011-02-04 at the Wayback Machine
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