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Duarte Luis Lima Constantino Moreira (born on September 23, 1982) is a Portuguese and Swiss investor and entrepreneur. He is a Co-Founder and CEO of the Zeno Partners Group, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tellco Bank SA, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Vangest Group. In 2023, he participated in the 69th edition of the Bilderberg Meeting, which brings together each year some of the most influential people in the World.

Biography
He grew up in Barcelos, Portugal. He attended local schools and completed his secondary education in year 11 entering college without ever attending the Year 12, where he studied Law, Finance and Management in Portugal and the United Kingdom.

Personal life
Duarte Moreira is married and father of two children. He currently resides with his family in Geneva, Switzerland. He enjoys playing chess and tennis.

Career
Duarte Moreira started his career as an investor in venture capital and private equity in 2007.

Between 2007 and 2015, he worked for a Swiss investment group, where he developed, in his capacity as Principal, various investment strategies.

In January 2016, with his lleague and long-time friend Christopher Kile, he created Zeno Partners, a private investment group based in Geneva.

Founded in 2016, Zeno Partners now manages 6 investment funds and controls billions in assets.

In 2019, he became a director of the Vangest group, an industrial group founded in Portugal in 1986, before becoming Chairman of the Board of Directors in 2020.

In July 2022, he became Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Tellco Group, a Swiss financial group founded in 2002 and specialized in the management of pension funds. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tellco Bank, a bank (acquired by the Tellco group in 2017) which manages one of the largest independent pension funds in Switzerland, with 10 billion in assets under management. He is also a director of the company Tellco Immobilien, which manages real estate assets in Switzerland of 2 billion, and which is a subsidiary of the Tellco group.

In December 2023 he was featured in the press as according to Bloomberg, his firm Zeno Partners was believed to have formulated a EUR 6bn offer for Altice Portugal together with Warburg Pincus and Antonio Horta-Osorio.

Distinctions
Duarte Moreira holds an MBA from Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick, UK.

In 2023, he participated in the 69th Bilderberg Conference. Since the first meeting of the Bilderberg group in 1954 he is among the youngest Portuguese or Swiss to have ever participated in the meeting.