Hugo Bastos
Hugo started his career as International Sales Engineer at B&B, in Guimareas Portugal, where he was in charge of expanding the business internationally, mainly in European and African markets, thus responsible for the development of the business plan and implementation of the commercial strategy and achieving the sales goals.
Massive sales were reached with the Italian brand Ditec, leading Ditec to become the number one distributor in Portugal.
He was also responsible for the negotiation of the exclusive representation (for Portugal) of the largest brand in the world (field of automatic systems - KONE) - which was strongly developed in the Portuguese market and successfully exported to Angola.
Then Hugo became a business consultant for HSK Consulting, and handled the turnaround of several European companies switching from the “red” financial situation to a multi-million Euros in revenues
Hugo was also involved as a Quality Engineer helping those companies with the implementation of the procedures enabling them grow fast, with a special focus on the sales process. (One of the tools used was the norm EN ISO 9001:2000 and some of the companies were successfully certified by SGS).
In the past few years, Hugo entered the actual commodity trading world as a Biomass Trader and also Industrial Engineer for HSK Consulting, Portugal and Spain, for 4.5 years, handling spot and long term arrangements for domestic and industrial corporations.
Several deals successfully done, with regard to the following commodities: Wood Pellets, Wood Chips, Olive Cake, Almond Shells, Palm Kernel Shells.
Hugo later joined DASCO Partners LLP, London – UK, as a senior Biomass trader, dealing with the following commodities: Palm Kernel Shells from West Africa, Wood Chips both biomass and for pulp and paper, from US to Turkey, Wood Pellets both Industrial (A2) and Domestic EN A1Plus, mainly to the Italian market, the biggest in Europe. He also organized several Top Table Meetings (TTM`s) with both Buyers and Sellers as well.
Hugo was then offered to join ORKA NRG AG, Geneva - Swisserland as Senior Physical Biomass Trader, with a a strong focus on Biofuels, developing strong relations around the world: Angola, Morocco, Tunisia, Mexico, United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain.
Hugo has a Master degree (IEM) in Industrial Engineering and Management from the University of Minho (Portugal). (He was voted best student of the University of Minho (2nd year) in the disciplines of Physics and Trigonometry).
Hugo is fluent in Portuguese, English, Spanish, average Italian.
The biggest Hugo's passion is off-road driving, 4x4 cars, endure motorcycles and all mountain bikes.Rides to Morocco and Tunisia desert were successfully achieved. Next challenge is DAKAR with motorcycle WR450.
Cine, travelling, music, top gastronomy with fine wines...