Duarte Luis Lima Constantino Moreira (born September 23, 1982) is a Portuguese and Swiss

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and

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. He is a

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and

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of the Zeno Partners Group,

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of Tellco Bank SA, and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Vangest Group. In 2023 and 2024, he participated in the 69th edition of the Bilderberg Meeting, and in the 70th edition of the

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, which brings together each year some of the most influential people in the Western World.

Biography

He grew up in

Barcelos, Portugal Barcelos () is a city and a municipality in Braga District in the Minho Province, in the north of Portugal. The population in 2011 was 120,391, in an area of 378.90 km2. With 60 parishes, it is the municipality with the highest number of par ...

. He attended local schools and completed his

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in year 11 entering college without ever attending Year 12, where he studied law, Finance ''&'' Management in Portugal and in the United Kingdom.

Personal life

Duarte Moreira is married and has two children. He currently resides with his family in

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, Switzerland. He enjoys playing

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and

tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

Career

Duarte Moreira started his career as an investor in

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and

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in 2007. In January 2016, with his colleague and long-time friend Christopher Kile, he created Zeno Partners, a private investment group based in Geneva. Founded in 2016, Zeno Partners now manages 6 investment funds and controls billions in assets. In 2019, he became a director of the Vangest group, an industrial group founded in Portugal in 1986, before becoming Chairman of the Board of Directors in 2020. In July 2022, he became Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Tellco Group, a Swiss financial group founded in 2002 and specialized in the management of

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s. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tellco Bank, a bank (acquired by the Tellco Group in 2017) which manages one of the largest independent portfolios of pension fund assets in Switzerland, with 9 billion in

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. He is also a director of the company Tellco Immobilien, which manages real estate assets in Switzerland of 1.9 billion, and which is a subsidiary of the Tellco Group. 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 Altice Portugal S.A. (formerly known as PT Portugal) is the largest telecommunications service provider in Portugal. Since 2 June 2015 the company has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Altice, a multinational cable and telecommunications company ...

together with

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Others

Duarte Moreira holds an

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from

Warwick Business School Warwick Business School (WBS) is the business school of the University of Warwick and an academic department within the Faculty of Social Sciences. It was established in 1967 as the School of Industrial and Business Studies. The business school ...

at the

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, UK. In 2023 and 2024, he participated in the 69th and 70th Bilderberg Meetings. Since the first meeting of the Bilderberg group in 1954 he is among the youngest Portuguese or Swiss to have ever participated in the meeting.

References

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