Nuno is Strive Capital’s Managing Partner & Director and has over 15 years experience in the mobile industry. Previously, he was McKinsey & Co's Senior Expert for Telecom, Media & Technology in Asia-Pacific and a member of its Leadership team. Before that, he was GSM Association’s head of Strategy, Corporate & Business Development, where he was responsible, among other things, for: shaping the industry agenda with the GSMA Board and managing its Board Strategy Committee; leading core strategic initiatives for the industry – e.g. Personal IM, .mobi; leading business development with vendors and other ecosystem players; as well as creating the GSMA’s first ever equity venture.
He started his career in IT as an analyst/coder. Nuno is a frequent speaker at key industry gatherings such as the Mobile World Congress, Mobile Asia Congress, JP Morgan Company Access Days, Deutsche Bank’s Access Asia and Access China, among many others.
He has also been a member of the Jury for the Global Mobile Awards since 2009. Nuno has been a counselor for the internationalization of the Portuguese Economy since 2005 and was recognized in 2006 as one of the “top 26 Portuguese executives abroad”.
He is a Computer Engineer by IST at the Technical University of Lisbon and holds post-graduate diplomas from Wharton School at UPenn, London Business School and the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford GSB.