Customer-Centric Financial Strategist and Leadership Expert

Rui is a financial services professional with 20+ years of experience equipping small & medium enterprises in multiple sectors with the funds required to grow & thrive. He oversees a team of 10+ bank personnel to provide attentive support to enterprise clients, visiting them on site and hosting them within the branch. Rui’s mentorship style has accelerated top performers’ careers at Caixa Geral de Depositos, where he sustains its meritocratic company culture.

He is known for identifying fast-growing businesses and entrepreneurs in Northern Portugal with noteworthy, scalable concepts and forming mutually beneficial partnerships. He monitors credit at each stage of the engagement to flag risks and forecast trends. The Executive MBA has expanded Rui’s horizons by preparing him to make informed, data-driven decisions more quickly, with a more solution-oriented approach to problem solving. The institution instills an entrepreneurial mindset into its candidates, which Rui uses to better understand the businesses that he advises Caixa Geral de Depositos leaderships to invest in.

Upon completing the MBA, he aims to use his sharpened strategic approach to ascend into a higher leadership role with even more responsibilities, hundreds of direct reports, and responsibility for more locations nationwide, where his decisions would have a wider impact and influence the bank’s long-term agenda.