Biography
Paulo Simões is a Partner at Egon Zehnder International, a member of its Technology & Communications Practice Group in Lisbon, Portugal, and a core member of the Leadership Strategy Services Practice. He has served local and multinational clients in Portugal on various projects in the technology, telecommunications, media, consulting, tourism, financial services, consumer, energy and industrial sectors. In addition, he has led executive search projects at a pan-European level and actively participated in several management appraisals around the world. In terms of previous experience, after a brief involvement in politics at both national and European level, Paulo Simões began his career as a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Co. in Lisbon, serving clients in the financial sector. Completing his MBA, he joined A.T. Kearney’s (then new) Lisbon office as an Associate and was later promoted to Manager, leading a variety of management consulting projects during the liberalization phase of the telecommunications market in Portugal and Spain. Later, he was invited to set up Cofina.com, as Executive Director of this sub-holding which has invested in 18 Internet and technology companies. Paulo Simões holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management, Sydney.