João Dória

Investment Professional – Buyouts
João has more than 21 years in the investment industry and is a member of the Private Equity – Buyouts team at Explorer Investments, where he focuses on monitoring portfolio companies and analyzing and executing investment and divestment operations.

EXPERIENCE

Previously, he was CFO and head of the Logistics department at Amorim Luxury Group. He began his career at Barclays Bank in Lisbon. He worked in Barclays’ Investment Banking division in London, Madrid, Lisbon and Athens, where he accompanied some of Portugal’s largest companies. He also worked in the Investment Banking division of ALANTRA, in Lisbon. He co-founded the big data company Stokedge and was a non-executive director of iParque.

EDUCATION

He has an MBA from The Lisbon MBA (Nova SBE, Católica in partnership with MIT Sloan), and took part in INSEAD’s Advanced Corporate Finance and Harvard Business School’s Private Equity and Venture Capital executive courses. He has a degree in Management from Nova SBE.