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António Cunha Vaz President and Managing Partner of Cunha Vaz & Associados, with a vast fund of experience in communication management in a range of companies and institutions. He has worked on the staff of the Portuguese Parliament, on the staff of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, at the European Commission, as a consultant for the National Civil Engineering Laboratory and for Espírito Santo Commerce for European affairs, as guest professor in community law, on the staff of the Banco Comercial Português group and as a director of Oni. Author of a number of books and articles on European affairs, writer and presenter for a number of TV programmes, weekly columnist for Diário Económico and a regular contributor to a number of media publications. After graduating in law from Lisbon University, he studied executive management at INSEAD and pursued post-graduate studies in international relations at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and in European economics at ISEG. |
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David Seromenho With a degree in marketing from the Instituto Português de Administração de Marketing, he started his career in communication with the consultancy firm Weber Shandwick. He later worked as a marketing manager in the new technologies sector, later returning to the communication sector with a post as accounts manager at Inforfi. On the staff of Cunha Vaz & Associados since its inception, he is currently Vice President. Since October 2010 heads Cunha Vaz's office in Brazil. |
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Assunção Sá da Bandeira Having started her professional career at Banco Totta Aliança as an adviser to the directors, she saw through the merger process with Banco Lisboa & Açores. She subsequently worked freelance in communication and public relations, supporting a number of companies and organizations on special projects, such as the opening of Citibank's first office in Portugal, organization of strategy meetings in Portugal for the Readers Digest Group, with participants from all over the world, and planning and seeing through visits to Portugal by leading figures and bodies, such as the directors of the Rothschild Group. In 1986, she founded BA&N - Comunicação e Imagem, and served two terms of office as president of APECOM (Portuguese Association of Communication Companies). She joined Cunha Vaz & Associados as a director in 2005. |
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Francisco de Mendia Graduated in Economy from the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, he has a vast accumulated experience in communication management and finance. He is administrator of Cunha Vaz & Associados, since April 2011, having joined the company in 2005. Press officer to the Minister of Education of the XVI Constitutional Government, with the responsibility of the areas of New Technologies and Communication, he managed, during this period, the crisis communication regarding the teacher’s placing tender. Previously, he was a founding shareholder and director of “Agência Financeira” (currently owned by Media Capital group), and he integrated the staff of Banco Finantia, where he launched the brokerage areas for individual clients and private banking. He began his career as a journalist in the weekly newspaper “Semanário” and after that in “Diário Económico”. |
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Luis Lemos Graduated in Law and with post-graduate studies in institutional communication and organizational management, he collaborates in a variety of print media, and was the Director of the Sport Lisboa e Benfica In-House Journal between 2004 and 2009. Since the beginning of 2011, he coordinates and presents the television program “Zona de Decisão”, interviewing personalities from the Portuguese public life, in Benfica TV. He worked in the political campaign staff of Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral's candidacy for Mayor of Lisbon in 1997, and he joined the staff of Group Universidade Internacional, where he founded, in 1999, their Communication Office. In the year 2000, he was invited to coordinate the Sport Lisboa e Benfica Communication Office, where he remained until 2004, when he was invited to join Cunha Vaz & Associados. As Accounts Director, he had the opportunity to work the communication of several companies and institutions in political, sports and institutional areas. Recently, he coordinated several national political campaigns, but also international and local elections. He advised several municipalities in the communications field. As a result of his extensive experience in collaborating with print media and television, he is specialized in Media training, having developed this business area in the company. He assumed the position of Administrator in April 2011. |
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António Ferreira With a degree in business organization and management from ISCTE, he started his professional career as auditor at Caixa Geral de Depósitos, later moving to another position as auditor with Moore Stephens. With an appointment as assistant financial manager at Ferrovial Inmobiliária he pursued a career in financial management, also working as financial analyst for Jerónimo Martins, SGPS, S.A., in the field of consolidated accounting, and as head of accounts for the Consulgal Group, before joining Cunha Vaz & Associados as administrative and financial director, in March 2007. |
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Pedro Góis After studying at the António Arroio Decorative Arts School and graduating in media design from ESBAL, he worked in the audiovisual office at the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, and subsequently at the advertising agency, Título, having in the meantime won 1st prize in the competition for LNEC's periodicals and 1st prize in the competition for a new image for the Pescanova shops. From 1998 to 2001 he worked in the Semanário group, as art director for the weekly newspaper Semanário and the magazine Olá/Semanário, as well as other publications: Teenager, Playnet, Guia Satélite, Cristus, Jornal do Algarve and Factos magazine. From 2001 to 2003 he was in charge of graphic design and art director at Jornal de Negócios, holding the same office, from 2005 onwards, for the magazines Prémio, Prémio Viagens and Just Leader. He joined the staff of Cunha Vaz & Associados in August 2007 as Creative Director, working in the field of graphic design and advertising. |
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Ricardo Salvo After following the degree course in Media Studies at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Ricardo Salvo began his career as a journalist in 1992 at Diário de Notícias, specializing in financial markets, banking and telecommunications. He moved to Semanário Económico in 1999, editing the investment and business sections. Joining the staff of Diário Económico in 2003, he worked first as special features editor, then as editor of the financial and business sections, and more recently as the newspaper's editor-in-chief. He started to work in the media consultancy sector in 2007, at Parceiros de Comunicação, as accounts director for institutional clients. Senior Manager at Cunha Vaz & Associados since September 2008. |
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Cristina Ramos She attended the Business Communication course from the Instituto de Comunicação Empresarial de Lisboa. She began her career at Telecine - Premium TV, in 2002. A year later, she made an internship at WTHR, an advertisement company, and in New Design. She integrated Cunha Vaz & Associados’ team in 2004. Since then, and during this time in the company, she made specialized training in financial communication in Albion Group in Madrid. She is currently a Senior Manager and is also responsible for organizing international conferences with high level speakers. |
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Inês dos Santos Graduated in Communication Sciences, with a specialization in Public Relations and a Master in Communication and Leadership from Universidade Católica, she began her career in the Public Relations Office of the Port of Lisbon, and later she joined the communications agency Inforfi, where she devoted herself to the Communication management of several clients in the areas of Health, Distribution and Brans/ Consumption. She joined Cunha Vaz & Associados as a senior account, when the company was founded in 2003, and is currently Senior Manager. |
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Isabel Correia With a degree in Public Relations from the Universidade Fernando Pessoa, she has a postgraduate degree in Marketing at the Instituto Português de Administração e Marketing (IPAM). She began her career in a communications agency in Oporto, where she accumulated seven years of experience. In Cunha Vaz & Associados since January 2007, she is responsible for coordinating the CV&A office in Oporto, and the clients management in the area of Media Relations and Communication Consulting. Her favourite field is the direct contact with public institutions and businesses and corporate communications. Currently, she works as Senior Manager. |
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Marta Romão She attended the course of Sociology of Work, in Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, from Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. She began her professional career in the regional press in 1992, having joined a year later the society section of the weekly newspaper Semanário. Later, she worked in the field of Education in the publication Forum Estudante, which was followed by a period of regular collaboration with the Expresso and Correio da Manhã, in the sections related to Media and Communication. In 2006, she integrated the communications agency Imago, initially in the area of contents, being responsible for the editorial planning, writing, coordination of news and photography teams, and for monitoring the paging process, revision and printing of various magazines and institutional newsletters. In 2008, she became the company’s Director of Customers, in which she was responsible for developing and implementing the strategic communication plans, development for internal and external communications projects and media relations for clients in the areas of Construction and Real Estate, Tourism and Associations. She joined Cunha Vaz & Associados in September 2011 as Senior Manager. |
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Sofia Arnaud Graduated in Economy from Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, she began her career in 1999 in the field of economic journalism in the weekly newspaper Euronotícias, specializing in the areas of Financial Markets, Enterprises, Real Estate, Tourism and Alternative Investments. At the same time, she collaborated with some publications, as is the case Ganhar.Net Magazine, with a focus on the Internet, Telecommunications, Marketing and New Economy and some business magazines. Later, she worked in Revista Tempo, a magazine from Group Euronotícias. In 2003, she was invited to re-launch the magazine OQ Lifestyle/ OQ Executive, an evolution of the old OQ magazine, owned by Quarto Poder – Sociedade de Comunicação S.A., specialized in ‘lifestyle’ and businesses, where she assumed the position of editor of this publication. In addition to editing, she was responsible for the editorial planning of the magazine, the coordination of news and photography teams, for monitoring the paging process, review and printing. Sofia Arnaud joined Cunha Vaz & Associados in 2006 as Senior Account, responsible for the publishing area of the agency's internal publications. She is currently a Senior Manager in the company. |
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Rita Tamagnini For more than a decade, Rita Tamagnini was a journalist in RTP (Portuguese Public Television) in the economy area, and a correspondent in Brussels. Later, she moved to the communication area, and served as Director of Public Relations and Communication of the airline company Hi Fly. For more than five years, Rita Tamagnini was the press officer of the former Minister of State and Finances, Professor Fernando Teixeira dos Santos. She holds a degree in European Studies, from Universidade Moderna, has a post-graduation diploma in Space Law, from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, a post-graduation diploma in Air Transport Operations, from ISEC and is completing the Aeronautics Executive MBA, at ISEG/ ISEC. She joined Cunha Vaz & Associados in January 2012 as Senior Manager.. |
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Telmo Carrapa Graduated in Social Communication from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, he is specialized in applied communication (marketing, advertising and public relations). Telmo Carrapa began his career in the area of Public Relations and Communications Consulting in 1995, as Press Officer at the agency Unimagem. He, then, moved to the company NR Consulting as Communications Manager, and was promoted to Director of Communications, in May 1997, only a year after. It was in this position that, in 1998, he joined Bairro Alto, where he remained until September 2000, when he accepted the challenge posed by Ipsis. In Ipsis, he was promoted from Project Manager to Supervisor of Institutional Communications and, later, Deputy General Director. He joined Cunha Vaz & Associados in August 2011 where he is Senior Manager. |
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Dora Soares She began her career at EGM - Kent Industries Group. Between 1989 and 1991, she joined the team that implemented Sábado newsmagazine. In early 1991, she worked in the Office of the Secretary of State for Culture, from the XI Constitutional Government, and from there she moved to the Installation Office of the Centro Cultural de Belém Cultural Spaces, integrating, also, Centro Cultural de Belém Management Committee for the Presidency of the Council of the European Communities. Since July 1992, she assisted the Fundação das Descobertas Management Board, (Manager of Centro Cultural de Belém), where she joined the team responsible for culture until 1996. From July 1996 to August 1999 she was assistant editor, co-producer of covers, and responsible for the agenda of national politics, international, society, economy, culture and sport in the newsmagazine Visão. In September 1999, Dora Soares moved to the newsmagazine FOCUS, as coordinator of the editorial administrative sector and responsible for fashion production. In 2001 she went to ICA - Instituto Camões, where, among other things, coordinated the project “A minha pátria é a língua portuguesa” for East Timor, Cape Verde and Mozambique. In late 2004 and early 2005, she worked in the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the XVI Constitutional Government. She joined Cunha Vaz & Associados in June 2005, as manager for special projects in the area of events. |
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