• Director at PremiValor Consulting;

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• Has significant experience in project and corporate finance, financial advisory, economical-financial modelling,  business valuation, business plans and strategic diagnostics, business modelling, project management and market research;​

• Director - Information Security and IT Risk at EDP - Energias de Portugal;

• Chief Security Officer at Altice Portugal;

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• Worldwide coordinator of the CyberWatch Program at the Altice Group;

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• Member of European Cybercrime Center (EC3) Advisory Group on Communication Providers at EUROPOL;

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• Over 15 years of experience in the application of advanced software technology to cyber intelligence and cybersecurity;

• Director of LIACC – Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory;

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• Vice-president of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence;

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• Evaluated more than 50 proposals and/or projects of European programs FP6, FP7, Horizon2020 and national programs of FCT and ANI / Portugal 2020;

• Portuguese Air Force Logistics Commander;

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• Was the Deputy Director of the National Defense Resources Directorate at the MoD;

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• National representative in NATO Logistics Committee, in NATO Resource Policy and Planning Board and in the LongTerm Review of the European Defense Agency. (2018/2019);

• Electrical and computer engineering in Naval Postgraduate School of Monterey, California;​

• Director of the National Security Office, which includes, in its structure, the National Cybersecurity Center;

• CIO in the Navy in 2009;

• Responsible for developing and maintaining software for Portuguese Navy frigate combat systems and for modernizing and automating radio stations;

• Portugal's representative with NATO bodies that are responsible for information and communication technologies;

• Director - Information Security and IT Risk at EDP - Energias de Portugal;

• Advisor for the Defence Resources of the Ministry of Defence;

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• Degree in Electronics and Computer Science and a Master in Military Electronics Engineering;

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• Project Manager of the NATO Smart Defence “Multinational Project on Cyber Defence Education and Training (MNCDE&T)” and the National Co-Leader at the European Union Military Training Group - Cyber Defence Discipline;

• Over 25 years of experience in Cyber Security;

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• Development Director at EAST (European Association for Secure Transactions) and he chairs the EAST Payment Task Force;

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• Member of the EC3 Advisory Group on Financial Crime at Europol;

• Chief Security Officer at Altice Portugal;

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• Worldwide coordinator of the CyberWatch Program at the Altice Group;

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• Member of European Cybercrime Center (EC3) Advisory Group on Communication Providers at EUROPOL;

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• Over 15 years of experience in the application of advanced software technology to cyber intelligence and cybersecurity;

• Doctor in Law;
   

• Professor at the Law School of the University of Lisbon (Tax, Public Finance, Competition and Regulation);

• Degree in product design;

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• Involved in multiple design/engineering hardware and software projects;

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• CEO of of Holy Grail Inc;

• General partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital fund, ONSET Ventures;
   

• Start-up entrepreneur, with multiple successful exits via IPO and acquisition;
   

• Serves on multiple advisory boards in Europe and the US;

• Chief Police Inspector responsible for Portuguese Judiciary Police cyber crime unit UNC3T (working on the field since 1991);
   

• Portuguese Police representative on INTERPOL’s European Working Party on Information Technology Crime;
   

• Professor of IT criminality and digital forensics (Judiciary Police, FCUL, IP Beja) and fellow researcher;
  Degree and Postgrad in Law (UAL) and postgrad on Cyberwarfare by Militar Academy;