Frederico Pedro Nunes, Bondstone's new COO: " I want to help develop Portugueses cities"

Frederico has a degree in Territorial Engineering from the “Instituto Superior Técnico” and a post-graduate degree in Management. He also has advanced training in Project Management and Evaluation. Started his career in 2002, at IDOM, as Project Director. In 2010 he accepted the challenge to lead the real estate area of Sacoor Brothers Group, for projects in Portugal, Spain, UK, Kuwait, Qatar, Singapore, Malaysia and Bahrain, being responsible for the construction and refurbishment of the brand’s shops and offices as well as the development of luxury hotels. In 2015, following acquisition by Lonestar, he headed to Vilamoura World as Development Director. Before joining the Bondstone team, he also worked for the Novo Banco Group, as Development leader of the investment fund management company GNB RE.

CAREER AMBITION “To lead multidisciplinary teams in the development of real estate projects that have a positive impact for the developer and the communities where they are located.”

MISSION “Leverage Bondstone’s portfolio of ongoing projects and enhance the development of new projects.”

HOBBIES “Reading and Sports.”

LAST BOOK “Winning” from Jack Welch.

The former head of development at Novo Banco Group’s real estate investment fund management company, is the new appointee at Bondstone, the private equity fund specializing in developing and managing real estate projects. With more than two decades of career in the real estate development sector, Frederico Pedro Nunes has just assumed the executive direction of Bondstone’s Operations area. In his new role, he will focus on continuing the company’s growth in Portugal and attracting international investment to Portuguese soil. At the Novo Banco Group, he was responsible for the management of a real estate portfolio estimated at €1.2 billion. A stage that, without much doubt, he points to as the greatest challenge of his career. At the age of 46, the new Chief Operations Officer at Bondstone already has considerable international experience.

Before joining the private equity fund, he worked for the Sacoor Brothers Group, as head of real estate for projects in Portugal and also Spain, United Kingdom, Kuwait, Qatar, Singapore, Malaysia and Bahrain. “For four years I developed opening and refurbishment projects for shops and offices of the brand, as well as luxury hotels,” he says. The experience he says he gained during this phase of his career in project management “in very different cultural environments at the same time”, where, he highlights, “it was necessary to develop a very clear and assertive communication capacity (transmitted and received), always knowing how to interpret the spoken and body language of my counterpart”, gave him the basis for the challenges he would take on at Novo Banco Group and for the one he has just embraced. With three years of existence, Bondstone has nine projects in its portfolio, distributed between Lisbon and Oporto. Frederico Pedro Nunes joins the company with the purpose of leveraging its growth – “we intend to reach 12 projects throughout 2023”, he shared to Expresso – and also “to capture international investment to develop the Portuguese cities”, he says. As a leader, Bondstone’s new Chief Operating Officer values “the capacity to adapt to uncertainty, leadership and motivation of hybrid teams and a constant willingness to learn”. His great career ambition, he says, is “to lead multidisciplinary teams in the development of real estate projects with a positive impact for the developer and the communities where they are located.”

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