Mentors

Terence Lee

Co-founder and current chairman of Sustaincia.org, a non-profit organization encouraging sustainability using technology and social efforts.

Professionals from all industries come together for projects such as smart city digital community, art and cultural sustainability with NFT and metaverse, sustainability content analysis using AI NLP; and we organize events for green transportation and energy, biotechnology exchange, global financial investments in technology, and future career paths for youth. Our members consists of technologists, financial experts and education practitioners from all over the world. We have a saying “at sustaincia we launch sustainability!”

Bruno Gutman

Bruno Gutman is a lawyer licensed in Brazil and Portugal, with expertise in startups, venture capital, and international business expansion. He works on structuring companies, investment funds, and soft landing projects, connecting ecosystems in Brazil, Europe, and the CPLP countries.

With solid experience in innovation and investments, he has supported entrepreneurs and foreign investors in mobility, business expansion, and capital attraction processes in Portugal. He is a member of the Braga Delegation of the Portuguese Bar Association, being the first Brazilian to join its governing bodies.

António Trindade

António Trindade was born in Angola in 1960. He was raised and educated in West Africa and Europe. He arrived Hong Kong in 1986 and was appointed CEO of CESL Asia in Macau in 1998. He has steadily guided the company in providing sustainable products, services and technology solutions addressing local needs in areas such as energy and technical facilities management, architectural and engineering services, development and operational services for critical public and private infrastructures for environment, energy, transportation and culture, agriculture and foods. He contributes to a prodigious number of associations of social, economic, educational and professional nature, including founding president of the Macao Association of Environmental Protection Industry. He has a ‘Portuguese-Catholic’ background. He married a Chinese national and has raised his daughter – a fan of Sporting Clube de Portugal – with the best of the two cultures. Fairness, he says, also has a place in business. He says: “I would be happy if my daughter and people around me can say I have helped them improve their quality of life.”

Higor Esteves

Master’s degree in Industrial Management and Strategy from the Higher Institute of Economics and Management (ISEG – Portugal). He is Vice-President of CE-CPLP, the Executive Committee of the Business Confederation of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries (CE-CPLP), working to coordinate the private sector, governments and multilateral organisations to strengthen economic relations within the CPLP. He is also Director-General of Start CPLP, responsible for promoting entrepreneurship, innovation and the creation of business ecosystems among member countries. He held the position of Director-General of FUNCEX Europa (Brazilian Foreign Trade Studies Centre Foundation), where he led initiatives aimed at promoting international trade, attracting investment and bringing European markets and Portuguese-speaking countries closer together. He has extensive international experience, having participated in projects developed in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Poland, China, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Mozambique and Angola, working on initiatives for trade promotion, business internationalisation, economic diplomacy and the development of multisectoral strategic partnerships.

Benson, Io Teng Fok

Vice President of IT Corporate
Sociedade de Jogos de Macau S.A. (SJM)

Felix Pontes

Member of the Association of Macau Basic Law
Deputy Chairman of the Board of General Assembly of the Macau House of Mercy
Former Executive Director of AMCM

Dr Toa Charm

Associate Professor, CUHK
Chairman, OpenCertHub
Principal Advisor of Elite Start-ups in Asia