OneMark PropertiesDeveloping the future of real estate in Portugal

A Portuguese entrepreneur and investor, José Cardoso Botelho has worked in real estate since 1988. He grew up on construction sites — his father was a developer — and that informal apprenticeship both precedes and explains the method he would later apply to the companies he founded. Between 2015 and 2025, he was co-founder and CEO of Vanguard Properties, alongside Franco-Swiss investor Claude Berda, building it into one of Portugal's leading real estate developers. Under his leadership, Vanguard delivered some of the most decorated developments in the Portuguese market over the past decade — among others, Castilho 203, Infinity, A'Tower, White Shell, Bayline, and Terras da Comporta. In parallel, in 2018 he co-founded, with Tatyana Bezukladnikova, Vanguard Stars, a junior tennis initiative with over six thousand registered athletes and fifty tournaments held in Lisbon, Madrid, Seville, Barcelona, Frankfurt, and Paris. In 2021, he also co-founded Pórtico, a bilingual biannual editorial project on art, sustainability, design, and culture. In 2026, he launched OneMark Properties, a new real estate development company structured around three brands serving distinct market segments: Signature Living, for the top of the residential market, with the ambition of bringing to Lisbon a standard of execution comparable to the leading international benchmarks; Curated Living, for the upper-mid segment; and KO-DA Smart Living Lofts, for flex-living. He serves as Chairman of OneMark and was Vice-President of APPII — the Portuguese Association of Real Estate Developers and Investors, for over five years until May 2026. He has been named Real Estate Personality of the Year by Jornal Construir (2025) and by Magazine Imobiliário (2024), and has accumulated over thirty-eight personal and project awards and more than two hundred and ten press references across four decades of activity. He believes that real estate is won by selling at prices that reflect what is delivered — not by saving on costs and eroding quality; that brand, art, service, and architectural coherence are, together, the only way to sustain pricing over time; and that exceptional buildings are built for generations, not cycles. He lives in Lisbon, with his wife and three children.

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International executive with over 25 years of experience in business management, banking, investments and strategic consulting. He was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he advised banks, energy companies and governments on high-impact strategic matters — business development, operational improvement, regulation and implementation of high-performance organisations. He served as Executive President of Nuvi Group for twelve years, leading an ambitious transformation and growth programme focused on Consumer Goods and Food Distribution, and building strategic partnerships with internationally renowned companies such as Moët-Hennessy, Diageo, Super Bock Group and Coca-Cola. His career also includes non-executive board roles in banking and investment activity in real estate and private equity projects. He lives in Lisbon with his wife and three children.

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Manuel Collares-Pereira (Lisbon, 1951) is one of the most internationally recognized Portuguese scientific voices in the field of renewable energy. He graduated in Electrical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico in 1974, with a final mark of 18.3 out of 20, and earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1979 as a Fulbright Scholar, under the supervision of Roland Winston — founder of the field of Nonimaging Optics, an area in which Professor Collares-Pereira's own work is today regarded as seminal. Coordinating Research Scientist at LNEG and Full Professor, both the highest grades in their respective careers, he held the Chair of Renewable Energies at the University of Évora between 2010 and 2020, secured through international competition, where he founded and directed the IPES — Portuguese Institute of Solar Energy, and led the IIFA Doctoral School. In Portugal, he is a founding figure of SPES — the Portuguese Solar Energy Society, and of the CCE — Centre for Energy Conservation, today ADENE. He has coordinated multiple European research projects — EU-SOLARIS, STAGE-STE, REELCOOP, PVCROPS, MASLOWATEN, PREFLEXMS, INSHIP — and represented Portugal on the European steering committees for renewable energy. He has published over two hundred and seventy peer- reviewed scientific articles in international journals, holds sixteen patents, and is identified by the Stanford University Ranking among the top two percent of most cited scientists worldwide. In 2008, the International Energy Agency awarded him the Solar Heating and Cooling Award — Lifetime Achievement, for the body of his work. He is a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, the Portuguese Academy of Engineering, and the Mexican Energy Academy. He served as Scientific Advisor to Vanguard Properties between 2021 and 2025, on matters of sustainability, energy efficiency, and climate change. In 2026, he joins OneMark Properties as co-founder and Scientific Advisor, with responsibility across sustainability, renewable energy, and new construction materials — increasingly decisive points of articulation between energy science and the real estate of the future. He lives in Lisbon, married, 2 sons.

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Responsible for Business Development at OneMark Properties, focused on identifying business opportunities and new real estate investments, working closely with brokerage networks, families and private investors. She has a solid academic background in Economics and Management (Oil & Gas) and Government Management, and brings an analytical outlook, strong proactivity and execution capability. Her expertise bridges planning with relevant experience in marketing, communications and the coordination of large-scale projects and events. Focused on value creation and the building of long-term partnerships, she helps clients find maximum security and profitability in the Portuguese market in partnership with the brokerage area. In an initial phase, she also oversees the day-to-day management of the company's office. Tatyana lives in Lisbon with her husband and three children.

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Civil engineer graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (2005), with a specialization in Real Estate Investment Appraisal and Analysis accredited by the CMVM, as well as complementary training in occupational health and safety and gas network design. Twenty years of experience in construction management, contract administration, and operational leadership across Portugal and three international markets — Angola, Brazil, and the United Kingdom. He began his career at Cantinhos S.A., where he progressed through the full execution chain, from site management to regional director for Northern Portugal, overseeing a diversified portfolio of projects that included school rehabilitation (Escola Secundária do Monte de Caparica and Garcia da Orta, both commissioned by Parque Escolar), urban regeneration, water treatment and supply infrastructure, sports facilities, and commercial refurbishments. In 2012, as part of a consortium, he assumed responsibility for the construction management of the Nova Centralidade do Bailundo project in Angola — 2,474 residential units and 210 commercial spaces, representing an investment of USD 40.2 million, delivered over 22 months under the Angolan National Housing Programme. This was followed by a consolidated international career within the Casais Group: project director in Angola between 2014 and 2017, with full responsibility for production, technical coordination, and financial management of construction contracts; project director and later market director in Brazil between 2017 and 2022, overseeing production, studies and proposals, procurement, and human resources; and, in 2023, Executive Board Member of Casais Brasil, reporting directly to the global Board of Directors. In parallel, in 2018, he led the delivery of the Candando and Caluanda hypermarket operations in Angola, coordinating architecture, retail fit-out, and civil construction works. In 2024, he founded and became managing director of Vanguard Building & Innovation, with full responsibility for the company’s conception, operational structuring, licensing, and supervision of the engineering, construction, procurement, quality, and finance departments. Recognized for decisive leadership, financial discipline in high-pressure execution environments, and the management of multicultural teams. Expert consultant and evaluator for public and private institutions. Member of the Ordem dos Engenheiros since 2005.

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Some careers are best understood from the end backwards. Fernando Caetano begins in the 1980s, in a small Lisbon design studio, and unfolds across four decades during which word and image gradually came together — a rare path of simultaneous mastery of both crafts. He trained in creative direction at Atelier do Sul in the mid-1980s, and spent the early years of his career in graphic design and signage — first as creative director at H.D.P. Design & Publicidade, then as partner and general manager of the firm's Lisbon office, and later as co-founder of Eyetec, a studio dedicated to signage design. From that period comes the eye — the capacity, increasingly rare today, to look at a space, an object, a page, and grasp in seconds what holds its composition together. In 2004, he founded the Essential Luxury Magazines group, at Open Media SA, and began what would become his principal editorial work. In nearly two decades at the head of the group — first as partner and general manager of the Lisbon office, then as editor-in-chief of international content — he carried the Essential brand from the Algarve and Madeira to London, Macau, and Kuala Lumpur, building along the way one of the most respected voices in Portuguese luxury journalism and a dense international editorial and commercial network spanning hospitality, jewelry, automotive, fashion, gastronomy, and high-end real estate. Essential Lisboa, Essential Madeira, Essential Algarve, and the international titles defined, during that period, the Portuguese editorial standard for the segment. In 2020, he stepped away from the operational leadership of the Essential group to take up a position at Vanguard Properties as Art & Luxury Advisor — a role that combined advisory on the acquisition and integration of art in the common areas of developments with the founding and editorial direction of Portico by Vanguard Properties, a magazine that became one of the brand's calling cards and a vehicle for articulating architecture, art, lifestyle, and territory. He held this position until February 2026. In May 2026, he joins OneMark Properties as Principal Advisor for editorial curation. His remit will cover the creation of editorial pieces that accompany each development — brochures, monographs, institutional materials — and the curation of artworks that will inhabit the buildings' common areas, the meeting point between architecture, brand, and the daily life of the residents. His simultaneous command of word and image — early training in design and creative direction, two decades in editorial work at the highest standard — is what makes this appointment fitting. At a time when the industry tends to separate these functions, Fernando Caetano stands for the opposite: the author who thinks the editorial object and the physical object as parts of one composition. Portuguese · English · Spanish Lives in Lisbon.

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Collaborator of José Cardoso Botelho since 1988, Adelino is responsible for External Services and for the office's operational coordination — spanning payments and collections, records management and procurement. More than three decades of continuity reflect a consolidated relationship of trust and deep knowledge of internal processes. Studies in Business Organisation and Secretarial Studies. Married, lives in Lisbon.

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Pedro currently leads a team of select partners in the development of hospitality, tourism and residential projects — with a particular focus on repositioning operations — across the Middle East markets and, now, Portugal. He is Managing Director of Otello Luxury Consulting. 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 — He was Chief Operating Officer of JNcQUOI and a member of the Advisory Board of the Amorim Luxury group in Lisbon, a group operating at the intersection of dining, fashion and hospitality (brands JNcQUOI and Fashion Clinic). Previously, as SVP Brand & Design at Jumeirah Group (Dubai), he was responsible for overseeing the global repositioning of the product — quality, design and service — across the entire high-end portfolio. He joined Jumeirah in May 2018, after a fifteen-year career with Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, where he held senior leadership positions at landmark properties — among them the George V in Paris, as well as in Geneva and Lisbon. He served as Acting General Manager of the Four Seasons Hotel George V (Paris) and Hotel Manager of the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues (Geneva). 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 — BSc in International Hotel Management from Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom (1998–2002), and studies in telecommunications engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico. 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞 — Two decades devoted to elevating the brand experience in top-of-market hospitality and lifestyle, with mastery of operational excellence, of brand experience through product, and of managing benchmark luxury brands. A career that combines international luxury hospitality (Four Seasons and Jumeirah) with the Portuguese dining and hospitality ecosystem (JNcQUOI and Amorim Luxury).

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