Rui was appointed to the Board in September 2017. As CEO and Co-CIO, he manages the firm’s US$500million portfolio, invested across fixed income and alternative credit strategies. Rui’s career spans nearly two decades with executed transactions in excess of ~US$8billion.
Where he spent advising, raising capital and structuring debt securities across public and private markets for high-net-worth individuals, mid-sized corporations, sovereigns and supranationals in the Southern African region. Started his career in wealth management at Citigroup and later at Morgan Stanley where he helped service a client base of 450 households with US$400 million of AUM.
He recently served as an independent consultant for the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization; and today he also serves on the Board of international non-profit organizations including the Berkeley College Foundation, the Oxford Business Alumni Network (OBA) Chapter in Luanda, UK-Angola Chamber of Commerce.
Rui currently holds a PGDip in Strategy & Innovation from University of Oxford; an MSc in Finance from Imperial College London; and a BBA in Management from Berkeley College. He studies Data Science and Machine Learning for Asset Management at EDHEC Business School and Private Markets from CFA Institute.
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