Pedro Valente
Pedro has integrated Crest Capital Partners since its inception in 2017 and is a member of the Investment Committees of its Buy-out funds.
At Crest, he was involved in more than 10 purchase and sale transactions, with emphasis on CPM.Penta, Gardengate, Rollerdoor or James Baroud.
Between 2009 and 2017, he worked at Explorer Investments, where he was dedicated to the private equity area, managing the Explorer funds and the Discovery tourist asset fund, having participated in more than 10 acquisition and sale transactions. Previously he worked at McKinsey, Adamastor Capital and BPI Fundos, and more recently he collaborated with Alpac Capital.
Since 2022, he is Invited professor of private equity at Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon).
He has a degree in Economics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon) and an MBA from Insead (Fontainebleau and Singapore).