Murilo Saade

Background

About Murilo Saade

I am currently a multi family office executive in Lisbon, managing client's portfolios, acting in boards and investing into ventures. I also help in business development activities not only for Gow Capital, but also for some of the companies I have an advisory board seat, such as snowfox-AI and Global CRES. At the moment I participate in the following advisory boards: Contek Engenharia SA, Global CRES Storage Funds 1 and 2, snowfox-AI and ZS Empreendimentos Imobiliários. Previously I assisted the directors on financial and business analysis and decisions at Contek Engenharia acting as non statutary director. Before that, I was the manager responsible for the economic studies of Ilha Pura, an Odebrecht and Carvalho Hosken joint venture, created to build and sell a new neighborhood at Barra da Tijuca Rio de Janeiro. The first task is to build and sell the units that will be available to the olympic games in 2016. Within my responsibilities are business case analysis to set price and support line and sale managers in the task above. I also run the controlling process for the incorporation line (both financial and physical). Before that I was a manager for Accenture Management Consulting (having started my carrer there as an intern), focused on strategic projects such as, cost optimization, costing modeling, strategic planning, benchmark and business case analysis and organization restructure design and implementation (specially for finance functions) for several industries such as Energy, Mining, Financial Services and Telecom. Also, I have worked for Gafisa and Contek, both construction firms, as an intern supporting managing development projects and budget. I carry a Civil and Industrial engineer degree from PUC-Rio, as well as an graduate course from Insper in Finance and MBA degree from IMD in Lausanne (International Institute for Managment Development). I have been part of 7 exchange program, from 1 semester at University of Alberta (through PUC-Rio) to 6 months in Cambridge to improve my English and 2 months in France. I am also an intermediate in Spanish. My hobbies are Golf and Fishing. Specialties: Portfolio Management, Business Devolpment, Project Management, Cost Control, Business Case, Issue Tree Problem Solving among others.