Session: Outsourcing Industry – The High-tech and Manufacturing Competitive Hub

Gonçalo Terenas is a seasoned international business leader, strategist, and entrepreneur with a distinguished career spanning corporate development, economic diplomacy, and cross-continental trade.

A) Current Roles & Leadership
. Head of International & Corporate Business & Shareholder at Tuga Innovations Inc (USA).
. Chief Development Officer at HHERF – Human Health Education and Research Foundation (London, since 2020).
. Honorary President of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Cultural Promotion of Portugal in West Africa (HQ: Cape Verde), fostering Europe-Africa bilateral trade.
. Executive Board Director at RCCPM (International Network of Portuguese Chambers of Commerce Worldwide, 2024).
. Co-Founder of Diaspora Prime Portugal, an independent private business intelligence consortium.
. Partner at ACBI Angola (A.Chipala Group, Luanda), driving AgriBusiness, Biodiversity, and Carbon Sequestration initiatives (2025).
. Special Advisor to ADS Group Chairman (since 2021).

Career Highlights & Milestones
Pioneered the SBCluster (2012–2021), Dakar & Abidjan’s leading platform for international trade and investment.
Appointed Member of the Portuguese Diaspora Council (2017) under the High Patronage of the Portuguese Presidency.
Founded Diplomatic Magazine (2017–2020), Portugal’s first economic diplomacy publication.
Named Ambassador of Madeira Investment for African Markets (2021), empowering startups and corporate growth.
Keynote speaker and delegate at global conferences (Portugal, Kosovo, Malaysia, Abu Dhabi, Maldives, Brasil, Macau, France, Ivory Cost, Senegal, Maroc, Uruguai, Spain, Belgium and Monaco).
. Co-founded the Kosovo-Portugal Chamber of Commerce (2025).

Early Career & Expertise
. Began in international franchising with National Business Brokers (São Paulo & Montevideo), mastering cross-border M&A and trade.
. Background in Law (Universidade Moderna de Lisboa), with advanced training in Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and International Lobbying.
. Multilingual strategist with deep experience in institutional relations and high-level bilateral forums across Europe, Africa, Asia and beyond.

Additional Engagements
. Art Collector ( installation committee of the association of collectors and antique dealers of west africa)
. International Commissioner, Senegalese Federation of Badminton (2021-2022).
. Sustainability and Biodiversity ( African based projects)

Rooted in family values and born in Lisbon (1972), Gonçalo Terenas merges sharp business insight with a visionary approach to connecting markets, accelerating innovation, and forging lasting international synergies.

Company Profile

DPP is an independent international business intelligence consortium, a private-sector alliance dedicated to harnessing the intellectual and entrepreneurial soft power of Portuguese people and the global Lusophone diaspora. Our mission is to amplify, elevate, and champion Portugal’s authenticity, competence, innovation, and excellence on the world stage—reinforcing the Portuguese language as an inseparable pillar of global influence and action. With over 260 million speakers, Portuguese is the world’s fourth most spoken language—an untapped economic accelerator and gateway to Lusophone markets

Core Vision & Strategy
Activating Identity, Driving Impact: We curate a shared leadership model and a meticulously designed multi-sectoral agenda to project Portugal’s brand of excellence worldwide, targeting key markets and minds. This approach is embedded in DPP’s DNA and corporate advocacy.

Digital & Technology as Catalysts: Digital transformation and cutting-edge technology fuel this vision. Beyond a one-stop-shop, the DiasporaApp platform serves as the neural hub and primary interface of the DPP ecosystem.

Value Through Excellence: We position success stories and prestige alliances at the heart of our strategy, inspiring minds and streamlining processes to generate momentum.

Our Universal Mandate
DPP fosters disruptive, selective collaboration across economic, financial, scientific, academic, cultural, and social spheres—bridging private and public sectors. Our central message:
“Bringing Portugal closer to the world.”