Luís Manuel Veloso de Almeida

General-Director

  • Company Transcom
  • Country Mozambique
  • Sector Telecommunications

Luís Veloso is the current General-Director of Transcom in Mozambique, since 2020.Engº Luis Veloso de Almeida is a senior executive with more than 30 years of experience in leadership, business development and management in international markets such as Africa, China and Europe.

He is currently Managing Director of Transcom, the founding entity of ISUTC – Instituto Superior de Transportes e Comunicações and ITC – Instituto Transportes e Comunicação.

He has extensive experience in the financial sector: he was Chairman of the Executive Committee of Banco MAIS in Mozambique, Member of the Board of Directors of SIMO, Member of the Board of Directors of Caixa Económica de Cabo Verde, Member of the Board of Directors of Banco África Oeste and Managing Director at Geocapital.

He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, has completed the Advanced Management Program for Executives at the Catholic University of Portugal and the Advanced Program for Non-Executive Directors at the Portuguese Institute of Corporate Governance.

He has been a member of the Ordem dos Engenheiros in Portugal since 1990, and an associate member of the Portuguese Institute of Corporate Governance.

He has been regularly invited to be a speaker at some international seminars and conferences, such as:

  • “International Forum on Green Energy“, Macau, April 2010.
  • “Cooperation within an international framework of energy and food challenges – Biofuels and social, economic and environmental sustainability”, Lisbon, FIL, 18 June 2009.
  • “Forum for the Study and Development of Biofuels and Renewable Energies”, Macao, April 2009.
  • “Mobile Banking”, at CIAB Febraban 2007 (Brazilian Federation of Banks), São Paulo, June 2007.
  • “Mobile Commerce World 2003”, in the seminar “Mobile Content – Bank requirements on mobile financial services”. London, September 24, 2003.
    He was Chairman of the Executive Committee of Banco MAIS, in Mozambique, from 2014 to 2019, and also Member of the Board of Directors of Caixa Económica de Cabo Verde, between 2009 and 2019. Luís Veloso also held the position of Member of the Board of Directors of the Bank West Africa in Guinea-Bissau, between 2012 and 2017, and the position of Director General of Geocapital, between 2008 and 2020.
    He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from IST and a postgraduate degree in marketing from ISGL.