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Joao Miguel Ferreira - MBA, Msc Mech Eng

General Manager | Managing Director | Board - Business Excellence | Energy & Power Generation & Telecom Infrastructure | MBA & MSc Mech Eng | successful exp leading 700+ employees | Europe, Africa, Latam, Caribbean

Jurisdiction

Portugal | Spain | France | Germany | Belgium | Denmark | Ireland | Croatia | Lithuania | Brazil | Dominican Republic | Panama | Austria | Chile | Costa Rica | Czech Republic | Finland | Greece | Luxembourg | Netherlands | Norway | Poland | Romania | San Marino

Notable Employer

  • Project Director - Project General Manager EPC 100 million at VOITH HYDRO Gmbh

Experience

Seniority LevelC-Suite
Years of Experience20+ years
Current StatusActive
Regional Country Director, Southern Africa
2025 - Present

ENGIE Energy Access is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) and solar mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. Hired to implement a turnaround to improve the closure EBIT price in the sale out to company Ignite, was Responsible for Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambican businesses (5 entities), P&L and strategy and providing leadership to 3 Country Directors, being a Senior Member of the Board of Directors with Stakeholder Engagement. Lead the development of Solar PV projects and Mini-grids in partnership with funding facilities (Grants), partnerships and private investors, from Financing to execution and Commissioning.

Project Director - Project General Manager EPC 100 millionNotable
2022 - 2025

Global technology company in the markets of energy, paper, raw materials and transport. Following several years of low financial performance in project execution for large HydroPower EPC projects, appointed as project General Manager and Director to implement turnaround and transformation in their biggest EPC Hydropower construction, leading Engineering, Procurement, Logistics, Site Operations, HSE, Claim, Schedule and Contract Management and reporting to the leading project consultant based in Switzerland and to all stakeholders of the project. • Lead an international team of 30+ engineers in Germany, all areas from Procurement, Quality and Site Operations including a French site manager and hundreds of site subcontractors in all areas. • Developed and implemented strategic plan for the Inga G25 project, a 180MW plant valued at USD 100m. • Achieving positive CTC financial results and improved project performance, managed the contract implementing the contractual, claim strategy and the risk and financial management

Regional Managing Director, Caribbean and Latam
2018 - 2022

Camusat International is a leader in designing, building telecom infrastructures and ESCO-Energy Savings. Hired to turnaround, transform and restructure the business and design the strategy for a continuous and sustainable growth, following 6 years of poor results. Reported to Group President (based in France) with 20+ direct reports, c. 740 employees across Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Dom Rep, Haiti and Colombia. • Increased shareholder equity from US$4m in 2017 to US$7m in 2020/21. • Turned around loss-making regional EBITDA of -€200k in 2017 to positive €3.5m in 2020/2021. • Grew workforce from 200 employees to 740, and from 1 operations centre to 6 following the acquisition of a competitor. Led the due diligence, acquisition contract closure, merger and restructuration (M&A). • Designed the performance goals and KPIs for the operations of the 4 entities, standardized a fleet of 500 vehicles and implemented processes for operations monitoring and warehousing processes that immediately impacted P&L and cash, leading the regional Board of Latam and the management team.

Education

Masters of MBA in Energy and RenewablesISCTE BUSINESS SCHOOL LISBON / COLUMBIA SIPA
2011 - 2013
Masters of Mechanical EngineeringUniversidade Nova de Lisboa, FCT
2010 - 2012
Degree of Mechanical EngineeringUniversidade Nova de Lisboa FCT
1992 - 1998

Certification

Total Certifications1

Project Manager - Institute of Commercial Management UK

Skills

Core skills0
Languages4

Languages

English
Portuguese
Spanish
French