João Pedro Ferreira has a Master's degree in Civil Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto and graduated in Project Management from Porto Business School.

With a professional career directed towards the area of innovation project management and strategic management for the construction sector, he currently works as Innovation Manager at Grupo ACA, having held, in the past, management positions in consulting and civil engineering companies. 

Bruno Serra is currently corporate administrator at Grupo ACA for Portugal.

With a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Minho and a business degree from Católica Porto Business School, his professional career has been guided by works management and division management positions. He also was responsible for the activities of Grupo ACA in Angola.

As a result of this experience, and having under his responsibility different companies with different scopes of action and located in different regions, he is a single source of knowledge of the Group and of the Construction sector, with a vast international experience in the management of companies from different business sectors.

Fernando Correia is currently Corporate Director of Information Systems at ACA Group.

With a degree in Computer Engineering, he has solid management skills, knowledge consolidated by executive training in reference entities such as Porto Business School or Católica Porto Business School.

With a professional career of almost 30 years in the areas of IT (Information Technology) and Management, he knows the needs of the sector in terms of digital transition.

Joana Resende is the Vice-Rector of University of Porto for Strategic Planning, Knowledge Valorization and Entrepreneurship, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Management of U.Porto, President of U.Porto Science and Technology Park (UPTEC) and the local coordinator of the European Alliance for Global Health (EUGLOH) at University of Porto. She is also a member of the General Council of INESC-TEC (Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science). From 2017-2020, she was a member of the Board of Directors of Cef-up (Center for Economics and Finance at University of Porto).

She holds a PhD in Economics and Management Science from Université Catholique de Louvain (joint degree with U.Porto). Her main research areas are industrial organization and digital economics. She is particularly interested in investigating business models and competitive dynamics allowed by new generation digital technologies allowing firms to engage in price and product personalization strategies. Her research has been published in leading international economic journals.

Over time, she has acted as consultant for both private and public entities, in the areas of competition policy, regulation and energy markets.

Gabriela Teixeira is Partner responsible for the Consulting area at PwC Portugal, Angola and Cape Verde.

At PwC since 1997, Gabriela has more than 20 years of experience in business consulting, advising national and international clients from several geographies, namely Portugal, Angola and Mozambique.

Over the years, Gabriela has assisted several clients in consulting and transformation projects, which gave her a wide degree of experience, transversal to several sectors, and a deep knowledge of the companies' dynamics in several aspects, namely in the analysis of operational efficiency drivers, quality management, process understanding, financial and operational business analysis.