MIGUEL GERALDES CARDOSO

With a diverse personal background he started his studies at the Lycée Français Charles Lepierre, in Lisbon, which allowed him access to Portuguese and French cultures, later getting is degree (MSE) in Electric Engineering at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). Throughout his life he acquired diversified training in civil construction (Falcão Bauer, São Paulo, Brazil), Law (two post-graduate courses at the Faculty of Law of Lisbon, FDUL) and Management (post-graduate course at Instituto Superior de Gestão, ISEG).

He had professional activity in three continents. In São Paulo, Brazil, he was in charge of supervising the construction of 50 schools across the State. In Africa Mozambique, as consultant to local General Directorate of Energy, inserted in a World Bank program, and in Algeria as TPF Algérie’s CEO / Directeur General responsible for all the local railway projects’ management ( and others) with a chiffre d’affaires > 50 million euros. Finally, in Portugal with intense and diversified activity in the field of project coordination and engineering consultancy in sectors as diverse as Airports, Manufacturing Units and Buildings.

He created and directs the companies Ardan-Serviços, Projectos e Gestão, Lda (Engineering, Consulting and Project Coordination), Ardan Property Management (Building Management and Real Estate Activity) and Ardan Power Solutions (Power Generation Systems). It also acquired the company NAVERIL- Soc.Belgo-Portuguesa de Comércio Industrial, Lda, dedicated to International Trade, mainly in the Defense, Navy and Railways sector.

Throughout his career he provided services to important companies and offices (Partex-CPS, TPF, LMSA, Tecnoplano, S.A., FASE, S.A., Technip / Lusotecna, Regino Cruz, Nuno Leónidas, António Barreiros Ferreira – Tetractys and other).