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Duarte Moreira

Duarte Luis Lima Constantino Moreira (born September 23, 1982) is a Portuguese and Swiss investor and entrepreneur. He is a co-founder and CEO of the Zeno Partners Group. In 2023 and 2024, he participated in the 69th edition of the Bilderberg Meeting, and in the 70th edition of the Bilderberg Meeting, which brings together each year some of the most influential people in the Western World.

Early life and education

He grew up in Barcelos, Portugal. He attended local schools and completed his secondary education in year 11 entering college without ever attending Year 12, where he studied law, Finance & Management in Portugal and in the United Kingdom.

Duarte Moreira obtained an MBA from Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick, UK.

Career

Duarte Moreira started his career as an investor in venture capital and private equity in 2007 in a Geneva based private markets investment firm with $1.8 Billion in AUM.

In January 2016, with his colleague and long-time friend Christopher Kile, he created Zeno Ventures (a subsidiary) and Zeno Partners, a private investment group based in Geneva, with offices in Zurich and in San Francisco.

Founded in 2016, Zeno Partners now manages 6 investment funds and controls billions in assets invested across 100 companies.

In 2019, he became a director of an industrial group founded in Portugal in 1986, before becoming Chairman of the Board of Directors between 2020 and 2024.

In July 2022, he became the Chairman of the Board of Directors of a Swiss financial group founded in 2002 and specialized in the management of pension funds. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of a Swiss bank, a bank which manages one of the largest independent portfolios of pension fund assets in Switzerland, with 9 billion in assets under management. He is also a director of a real estate company with assets in Switzerland of 1.9 billion.

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 together with Warburg Pincus.

Personal life

Duarte Moreira is married and has two children. He currently resides with his family in Geneva, Switzerland. He enjoys playing chess and tennis.

Others

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.

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