Background
Morais, the son of Portuguese lawyers was raised in Lisbon, Portugal, attended two of the top rated schools in the country, Colégio Sagrado Coração de Maria and Colégio Valsassina.
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Morais, the son of Portuguese lawyers was raised in Lisbon, Portugal, attended two of the top rated schools in the country, Colégio Sagrado Coração de Maria and Colégio Valsassina.
A Civil Engineer, Morais graduated from Portugal"s largest and most respected engineering institute, the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Class of 1996, having spent the last semester at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, France. In 2000 he was accepted for the Master of Business Administration program of Harvard Business School. Awarded the Sainsbury Management Fellowship, he graduated in 2002, specializing in private equity.
After the Master of Business Administration, Morais was appointed as consultant to the Portuguese Government for the privatization of a main State investing conglomerate, Institute for Private Education, and for the draft of the country"s National Energy policy.
Morais initiated his career at Halcrow Group Limited in the United Kingdom, working in privatization projects on behalf of multilateral agencies in Mozambique, Pakistan, Panama and Chile. He later moved permanently to London joining Arthur Andersen Business Consulting, to integrate the Energy and Utilities team as a Senior Consultant. Specialized in Private Equity investments while attending Harvard, Morais went on to buy out Temahome, a major Portuguese furniture design and manufacturing company, with a group of other Portuguese investors and the company"s management team in 2006.
He left the company at the end of 2009. in 2010, Stephan Morais was the first Portuguese ever to be named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Morais is a former Non-Executive Director at Crimson Investment Management, a real estate investment company, and has served on several companies´ Advisory Boards where he provided financial and strategic advice through his personal holding SEI. Currently Morais is an Executive Director heading up venture capital investing at Caixa Capital, one of the largest and most international private equity and venture capital operators in Iberia managing over 700 million Euros in funds. 2002 Sainsbury Management Fellowship.
2002 Sainsbury Management Fellowship 2009 Diploma in Mechanical Engineering Award - Design management Europe 2009 National Design Award - "Sena da Silva" Presented by the Portuguese Design Center and the President of the Portuguese Republic 2010 Nominated Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
He is a frequent speaker at global events, a Venture Capital Council Member at Invest Europe, Council Member of the International Venture Club, Chairman of the European Venture Finance Network and a jury at numerous entrepreneurship and investment awards.
