My Story

My first work opportunity after returning from Sweden was a trainee program at Coelima, a Textil company at vale do Ave, not far from the historical city of Guimaraes. 

After 6 months were we had the chance to learn about all the departments (that’s the idea behind the trainee programs) I was offered a position as the deputy to the Logistics director and I have to admit I was very lucky with that appointment. 

I had a lot of responsibility and work to do early on during a massive logistics transformation with automation implemented by an external logistics consultancy company. I also had the nicest and most respectful people to work with which taught me loads and probably shaped my approach to work for the rest of my life. 

Some years later I was hunted by Oporto Business School to work in a major transformation logistics project on a Public Hospital in Viana do Castelo, a port town 1 hour away from home.

It was a great work culture shock because I became a service provider, I was not actually working for the entity I was putting my work on and that was really strange in the beginning. 

The project was a great success and I learned to enjoy the opportunity to grow faster by being a consultant where you can focus more on the big picture and less on the nitty gritty of everyday operation. 

The consultancy was so sucesseful that the Hospital decided to hire me to head the new challenge posted by the European Union directives: to digitalize all the processed of public tenders for effienccy and accountability. 

There I was in an public hospital with the task of chaging old habits and make everything happen on a computer and not on a paper. It was fun, and at the end we become one of the first public entities in Portugal fully digital for Procuremet.

Fast forward to our world travel first stop: London, and an operations management job with DHL who had just won the public tender to manage the hospital logistics of Guy’s and Saint Thomas, one of the biggest Hospitals in the country. 

My challenge was to take over the deliveries operation inside the hospital and make it work as smoothly as possible so that DHL did not loose their contract. 

My first real experience working abroad (I did work as a professor assistant back at my Masters in Sweden) and dealing with completely different cultures as most of my staff was African. We did not loose the contract and I ended up taking over another operation at St. Mary’s Hospital. Happy days. 

After we moved to Brazil I got a job working for one of the infamous big 4, Ernst and Young , in the Supply Chain department. A dream come true for any consultant right? 

This time was to deal with big clients like Pharmaceuticals and Consumer Goods and to manage complex projects of network optimisation where decisions had to be made where the best location for new units was. 

Considering Brazil has one of the most complex tax systems in the world, something that could be as simple as choosing to place your warehouse close your demand became an almost impossible problem to solve. 

Was a very challenging job that I mostly enjoyed for getting back to the consultant viewpoint.

After EY I decided it was time to start my own projects and become an entrepreneur. But after our travels and our commitment to sustainability it had to be something with a positive impact.   

I co-founded Clube Greens that later changed the name to Greens Market with 3 more guys and it was an awesome learning experience. Like 90% of all startups ours did not survive too, but I learned so much about it that I decided not to work with startups anymore. 🙂 

At least not in the total bootstrapping model we did because we depend too much on investment that ultimately will own us, not a good feeling. Time to move on

After Clube Greens I decided together with Sara that we would really like to promote the travelling bug to everyone on the planet and also inspire to travel in a more sustainable way. 

Bring Zero Waste and Travel together and you get No Footprint Nomads. Started in 2017 this project gave me the experience to develop my Digital Marketing skills, specially SEO and Content Strategy which I could apply on other projects and work. 

This brand is now the linchpin for our other related projects like the E-commerce store and consultancy work.

Taking our eco travel and digital marketing experience together I decided to focus on eco-hotels to make travel more sustainable. 

Partnering with an SEO agency was the logical move so together we can provide the services to make green accommodations to thrive making traveling a lower impact activity. 

We also want to help hotel owners to transition to Green Certification preferably with Green Key International. 

Just before the pandemic I started to organize online events, and with no surprise that became my main work focus until now. 

I have co-launched some brands, like Eco Hotel Summit, Future of Work, Thriving Nomads, but I also work for other main events, like Greenfest.

I am now working full time with this and with virtual platforms access I am now a consultant for any company or individual that wants to do a virtual or hybrid event.