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Rose Mach
CEO
+351 935 200 396
Phuong (Rose) started her career by studying business admin. , starting in finance and then moving into the marketing/brand world, responsible for brand investment and advice, advertising campaigns, brand activation, events, PR and media plans, in her role as Business Development Director in Red Activation, an international agency in 2005, based in Vietnam.
After over 6 years in Red she had a short spell back in finance (in the family business) and then in 2012 decided to start her own marketing agency - Brand 360. With Rose´s passionate, creative and results driven leadership, she recruited new clients (local and international) and led the creative team in developing advertising and marketing concepts/campaigns, pitched these back to the clients and then lead the execution and delivery of the key campaigns once awarded. she also led the overall business, with Brand 360, expanding and growing significantly over 5 years.
With her move to Portugal in 2019, Rose again demonstrated her entrepreneurship, taking on a different career in the import export of frozen foods with Porto World.
She was responsible for the business development and growth of the Vietnamese market for Porto World, growing the sales volumes over 10 times in just over a year. She developed a significant understanding of global markets, logistics and now has a broad global business network.
In 2023 she again started up her own business, Dragon Intel where she has steadily build a strong client base in both areas of food trading/logistics and marketing. It continues to go from strength to strength.
Hugo Sameiro
Client Representative
+351 938 354 769
Hugo Sameiro , a young entrepreneur, passionate about business, communication, and sports.
He began his professional journey by studying Marketing and Management and has since explored a variety of fields to develop new skills and continuously expand his knowledge base - he has gained valuable experience in communication, consumer behavior, and teamworking.
Throughout his studies, he was directly involved in the development of communication projects, branding strategies and marketing plans for high profile Portuguese companies such as Super Bock and Sport Zone.
More recently, he has again broadened his expertise through his experience in the real estate sector, where he has effectively leveraged his promotion and sales skills, in successfully meeting the needs of clients from diverse backgrounds.
Currently, at Dragon Group, Hugo serves as a client representative, facilitating the international trading of food products, while applying his expertise to marketing projects and events management.
Keir Steinke
Business Advisor
+351 915 165 640
Keir Steinke is retired from the corporate world and currently involved in a variety of his own businesses and partnerships, ranging from business consulting, high-end fashion to real estate development.
Previous to this he worked for Masan Consumer as Chief R&D Officer for 3 years, where he was responsible for leading the Research and Development function across a multicategory and rapidly expanding local foods business in Vietnam – this included categories such as convenience foods, seasonings, coffee, beverages, processed meat and beer.
Before that, he spent time in Shanghai as VP R&D, Innovation and Packaging for Estée Lauder Companies, APAC. Here he was responsible for refocusing and building new capabilities in the region while at the same time “opening corridors” to the USA based R&D Centre.
Prior to that he had been with Unilever for over 20 years, bringing diverse market experience to his role, having worked for Unilever companies in South Africa, Russia, Brazil, Germany, China and the Netherlands. He has a long history of driving innovation for Unilever. In South Africa, he started his career in packaging design and development, having worked across Foods, Home Care and Personal Care. Russia saw his take on a dual role in Supply Chain and R&D, putting in place the building blocks for what has become an important country in Unilever’s global portfolio. Initially in Europe, he delivered aggressive Skin Care innovation programs for three key brands - Dove, Axe and Lux. Later he lead the European R&D team to focus and re-ignite growth primarily across a broad spectrum of Food categories. In Brazil as VP R&D Home and Personal Care LATAM, he piloted Unilever’s first Regional Home & Personal Care Technology Centre, a model which was subsequently rolled out globally, and oversaw unprecedented growth in the Household product category.
He has a demonstrated ability of bringing to life innovation through people as a key pillar of growth, and championing the development of R&D talent/organisations through such initiatives as “Enterprise Change”, “Looking Forward” and R&D Academy. From April 2008, he was based in Shanghai. This appointment was focussed on further advancing Unilever Shanghai’s ambitious mission of “Made in China” innovation for people everywhere. He commissioned a multimillion Euro ‘One Unilever’ research centre in Shanghai and this was the centrepiece of this commitment to growth in Asia.
He received my Bachelor of Science Honours degree, in Plant Biochemistry and Biological Sciences from the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa. He also has a Diploma in Marketing Management.