Mentores

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.”

Benson, Io Teng Fok

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

Bruno Gutman

Bruno Gutman é advogado licenciado no Brasil e em Portugal, com atuação em startups, venture capital e internacionalização de negócios. Atua na estruturação de empresas, fundos de investimento e projetos de soft landing, conectando ecossistemas do Brasil, Europa e países da CPLP.
Com experiência sólida em inovação e investimentos, já acompanhou empreendedores e investidores estrangeiros em processos de mobilidade, expansão empresarial e atração de capital para Portugal. É membro da Delegação de Braga da Ordem dos Advogados, sendo o primeiro brasileiro a integrar os seus órgãos diretivos.

Calvin Sio

Founder & CEO | Director of Sustainability Zence Object Technology | Chazence · Macau

Pioneer in cross-disciplinary sustainable innovation | Deep-tech green materials expert | University of Cambridge Sustainability Accreditation

Calvin Sio is an interdisciplinary designer with a specialisation in sustainable development. His works have garnered awards from several international renowned design institutions and have been featured in various domestic and international media outlets. This includes being listed in TIME magazine’s “2021 Best Inventions”. Calvin Sio has dedicated himself to leading Macau brands into the global market, promoting products in prestigious cultural establishments worldwide such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, Galeries Lafayette in France, LOFT in Japan, and Tsutaya Bookstore.

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

Higor Esteves

Mestre em Gestão e Estratégia Industrial pelo Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG – Portugal). É Vice-Presidente da CE-CPLP, Comissão Executiva da Confederação Empresarial da Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa (CE-CPLP), atuando na articulação entre o setor privado, os governos e organismos multilaterais para o fortalecimento das relações económicas no espaço da CPLP. Também é Diretor-Geral da Start CPLP, responsável pela promoção do empreendedorismo, da inovação e pela criação de ecossistemas de negócios entre os países membros. Exerceu o cargo de Diretor-Geral da FUNCEX Europa (Fundação Centro de Estudos do Comércio Exterior do Brasil), onde liderou iniciativas voltadas à promoção do comércio internacional, à atração de investimentos e à aproximação institucional entre os mercados europeus e os países de língua portuguesa. Possui ampla experiência internacional, com participação em projetos desenvolvidos no Brasil, Chile, México, Portugal, Espanha, Polónia, China, Qatar, Emirados Árabes Unidos, Moçambique e Angola, atuando em iniciativas de promoção comercial, internacionalização empresarial, diplomacia económica e desenvolvimento de parcerias estratégicas multissetoriais.

James Si Tou

General Manager, Huan Cai Fireworks Trading Co., Ltd.
President of the Macau Entrepreneurship Club
Founder of Shangju Holding Group Co., Ltd.

James Si Tou, 27 anos, nascido em 1997, formou-se na Cass Business School, City University London, com especialização em estudos de negócios.  Desde que se formou em 2018, regressou a Macau para iniciar o seu próprio negócio, fundando o Grupo Togather, que visa construir um ecossistema de negócios para ajudar as PME a globalizar os seus negócios.  No mesmo ano, assumiu a empresa familiar de fogo-de-artifício e transformou-a no mais experiente fornecedor de fogo-de-artifício e efeitos especiais de Macau. Participa activamente em actividades comunitárias, fundou a União das PME em 2022 e organizou com sucesso a “Exposição de Venda por Grosso e Negócios de PME de Macau”, ajudando mais de 200 empresas a conectarem-se umas com as outras.  Em 2023, foi presidente do Clube de Startups de Macau para promover o ambiente empreendedor de Macau.  Ao mesmo tempo, ingressou na Associação Internacional de Jovens Talentos de Macau e atuou como presidente para promover o desenvolvimento e o intercâmbio de jovens talentos.  Em 2024, tornou-se Director Regional de Hong Kong e Macau do Conselho Idealizador, promovendo a cooperação entre empresas nacionais e empresas da ASEAN e promovendo laços e desenvolvimento de negócios inter-regionais.

Renee Pan

Managing Director, Gobi Partners
Guangzhou Tianhe CPPCC Member
Member of Macau Science and Technology Committee
Guangdong Entrepreneurship Mentor

Renee is the Managing Director of Gobi Partners – an over 24 years’ Pan-Asia venture capital firm. Renee has more than 16 years of experience in business management and operations, 12 years in Venture Capital. Renee was previously the Managing Partner of Brinc China – a global VC and Accelerator, focusing on seed stage investments in IoT, Healthcare, Smart Manufacturing, AI and FoodTech, for helping them to accelerate the market validation and 0-100 stage. In addition, she and her team has helped over 100 overseas startups connect with the Greater Bay Area for supply chain or expanding into the China market. She also built out strategic partnership with other ecosystem players, including the government, corporates, research institutes and co-investors to foster the startup ecosystems and provide value add to startups.

Stephen Berry

Dr Stephen Berry is the Chief Executive Officer of DDE Technology, a cybersecurity services and advisory company that works with clients in Macau and around the world to protect critical public infrastructure and operations. Stephen has held business development and leadership roles in the IT industry for over 30 years. He first came to Macau in 2006, in the role of Technology Director for the City of Dreams casino and resort during its construction. Stephen is a guest lecturer on a range of leadership topics with various university MBA programs, including the University of Saint Joseph in Macau. 

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!”

Dr Toa Charm

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