Ahoy mighty pirates! Please give a big ARRR to Dey Dos. He will be our key speaker for the Inspirational Talk on Monday, the 4th of March!

When you ask Dey Dos what he does, he simply says “I’m an awesome human popcorn machine.” And if you are curios enough to keep on inquiring he may go on explaining what that means to him. At StartUp Pirates he will be sharing his perspectives in what he calls “popcorning.” He is co-founder of Beautiful Individuals, a social construction that enables co-generated learning spaces to come to life in wonderful retreats, enabling participants to start operating from more powerful and beautiful sources of action. Dey is a former global president of AEISEC, the world largest student run organization dedicated to international exchanges and leadership development. So far he has visited 76 countries in his quest of serving others, himself and the world to design beautiful ways to live life.

Arrr you pirates of the seven seas! Please welcome André Luis who will be a mentor on the 3rd edition!

The desire to be different, to have an impact in people’s lives and add value to the society was always the purpose of André Luis’ life. Born in Setubal, he graduated in Industrial Design in IADE, and later got a Post-Graduation in Marketing Management in ISEG.
He started his career in the communication department of a Portuguese human resources group, where he was responsible for the company’s rebranding.
Two years later, at the age of 23, he had the chance to start his first company and also become one of the owners of Blackorange, the company he leads nowadays.
A few months later, he accepted the invitation to be Vitória de Setúbal’s Marketing director – his hometown sports club – becoming one of the youngest directors in sports, nationally.
In 2008 he founded ODD School along with a few other founders, an educational project with the ultimate goal of creating and developing the Entertainment Industry in Portugal.
With an innovative methodology in Portugal, Odd School is now a reference in the market. Since 2008 it has been developing behavioral psychology competencies in students and teaching Leadership modules.
Three years later, he co-founded Yellow Mammoth with his friend Nuno Rivotti, a studio born inside ODD, meant to integrate the best students of ODD in the market.
Today YM is developing products of his own, and outsourcing services for the international market.
Currently, André is the CEO of Blackorange and Yellow Mammoth.

Ahoy Pirates! Please give a welcoming ARRR to Miguel Neiva.

Miguel is a designer from Oporto and the creator of ColorAdd, a system of identifying colors for color-blind that was considered “one of the 40 ideas that will change the world.”.
As an invited speaker, he has taken part in more than 180 national and international conferences in such diverse areas as Inclusive Design, Marketing, Semyothics, Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
With a Master degree in Design and Marketing, he is currently lecturing the Fashion and Communication Master at that same University. He also cooperates with the Centre for Research Architecture, Urban Planning and Design, is a researcher in the area of the Mind Language Action Group and is a member of the Technical Commission for Accessibility and Inclusive Design. He is also the owner of the atelier – ÍCONE · Miguel Neiva which focuses on Communication Design and Equipment Design.

Miguel will give an Entrepreneurial Talk on the 6th of March.

Mateys, please give a welcome ARRR to a returning pirate: Pedro Falcão!

Pedro has a Degree in Information Technology Engineering and MBA by UNL. He is Investment Director at Novabase Capital and was previously Investments Director at Aitec SGPS, being responsible for analyzing more than 700 projects. He worked as Marketing Director at OutSystems and TIMw.e. where he helped the company expand to more than 90 countries. He was also a Strategic Consultant at Gemini Consulting. Formerly he worked in Banking and Services as Assistant to Chairman, Project Manager and Analyst/Programmer.

Hey mateys! The New Year brought one more awesome speaker to the Startup Pirates @ Lisboa – 3rd Edition!

Please, say ARRR to Kristin Mendez! She is the Marketing Manager for Boyden Global Executive Search in Portugal and Teaching Assistant for Marketing courses at Católica-Lisbon School of Business  A New York native, she holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communications and Psychology from UPENN as well as an MBA with concentrations in Marketing and Management from The Lisbon MBA International – a program held in partnership with MIT, Católica and Nova.  Her professional experience ranges from managing luxury health clubs in NYC (Chelsea Piers, The Sports Club/LA, Equinox) to marketing in various industries (L’Oréal, BBDO, The Lisbon MBA, Grupo Neves de Almeida).  She believes that brands are like superheroes – they can have great power but along with that comes great responsibility.  Brands can be born, they can die, they can evolve and all of this depends on the strategy (or lack thereof) behind the brand.