Duarte Moreira
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Duarte Moreira | |
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 Moreira in 2017 | |
| Born | September 23, 1982 |
| Education | Warwick Business School (MBA) |
| Occupations | Investor and entrepreneur |
| Known for | Co-founder and CEO of the private equity firm Zeno Partners Group |
| Children | 2 |
Duarte Luis Lima Constantino Moreira (born September 23, 1982) is a Portuguese and Swiss investor and entrepreneur.[1][2][3] He is a co-founder and CEO of the Zeno Partners Group. In 2023 and 2024, he participated in the 69th edition of the Bilderberg Meeting,[4] and in the 70th edition of the Bilderberg Meeting, which brings together each year some of the most influential people in the Western World.[5][6]
He grew up in Barcelos, Portugal. He attended local schools and completed his secondary education in year 11 entering college without ever attending Year 12, where he studied law, Finance & Management in Portugal and in the United Kingdom.[7]
Duarte Moreira obtained an MBA from Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick, UK.[8]
Career
Duarte Moreira started his career as an investor in venture capital and private equity in 2007 in a Geneva based private markets investment firm with $1.8 Billion in AUM.[9]
In January 2016, with his colleague and long-time friend Christopher Kile, he created Zeno Ventures (a subsidiary) and Zeno Partners, a private investment group based in Geneva,[10] with offices in Zurich and in San Francisco.
Founded in 2016, Zeno Partners now manages 6 investment funds and controls billions in assets invested across 100 companies.[11][12]
In 2019, he became a director of an industrial group founded in Portugal in 1986, before becoming Chairman of the Board of Directors between 2020 and 2024.[13][14]
In July 2022, he became the Chairman of the Board of Directors of a Swiss financial group founded in 2002 and specialized in the management of pension funds, with 10 billion in assets under management.[15][16] He is also a director of a real estate company with assets in Switzerland of 1.9 billion.[17][18] Previously, he was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of a Swiss bank.
In December 2023, he was featured in Bloomberg as his firm Zeno Partners was believed to have formulated a EUR 6bn offer for Altice Portugal together with Warburg Pincus.[19][20][21][22][23]