Tiago Simões de Almeida

VOGAL

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Sharp, hardworking, enjoyable, married, catholic, Portuguese chemical engineer with post graduations in management and finance and over 30 years banking experience. With a passion to serve people and accomplish very demanding targets.
WORK HISTORY
Head of Specialized Financing, 02/2024 to Current
Banco BPI, S.A.
– Main activities: structuring and lending in Structured and Project Finance transactions, including Acquisition and Leveraged Finance across sectors, with a particular focus in Agriculture, Tourism and Real Estate, including ESG.
Head of Resilience and Operational Risk, 05/2023 to 02/2024  
Banco BPI, S.A.
– Overseeing the institution’s management of operational risk, business continuity, external fraud and business control.
Chief Commercial Officer, 08/2021 to 04/2023
Banco Português de Fomento, S.A.
– Executive board director in charge of business lines of the Portuguese national promotional bank, created in November 2020 with the mission to support economic and social development, including the mandate as Green Bank and Export Credit Agency.
Chairman of the Advisory Board, 11/2021 to 04/2023
FIEAE – Fundo Imobiliário Especial de Apoio às Empresas
– Chairman of the Advisory Board of FIEAE, a fund dedicated to the acquisition of real estate integrated into the assets of companies as a way of converting those assets into liquidity.
– At the end of 2022, FIEAE’s net assets were valued at around 188M€.
Head of Operations, 10/2020 to 08/2021
Banco BPI, S.A.
– Responsible for operations control and management, including payment processing, bank transfers, finance contracts workflow, back office, helpdesk, financial markets operations, documents archiving and bank accounts onboarding and management, among other operational functions.
Head of Residential Real Estate Finance, 01/2020 to 10/2020
Banco BPI, S.A.
– Responsible for a new department mainly focused in the financing of Build to Sell and Build to Rent residential real estate projects. 
– New financings reached 80M€ in 2020, exceeding target by 30%.
Non-Executive Director, 04/2018 to 10/2021
Vialitoral – Concessões Rodoviárias da Madeira, S.A.
– Non-executive member of the board of directors of Vialitoral, which holds a motorway concession in Madeira Island.
Head of Structured and Project Finance
CaixaBank, S.A. – Sucursal em Portugal, 01/2019 to 12/2019
Banco BPI, S.A., 04/1994 to 12/2018 (Head of department since 08/2009)
– Main activities: advisory services, structuring and lending in Structured and Project Finance transactions, including Acquisition and Leveraged Finance.
 
EDUCATION
Nova SBE: Corporate Governance – Leadership of Boards
ISEG: Sustainable Finance
Universidade Nova de Lisboa: General Management Course
Universidade Católica Portuguesa: Advanced Finance Program for Executives
Instituto Superior Técnico: Degree in Chemical Engineering