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Startup investor and Serial Entrepreneur. Fasttrack VC

Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

FastTrack.VC  "Beyond funding"The World's innovative engine where breakthrough ideas rise to become game-changing companies.The Fast Track VC team replicates Ruben’s success model, through a unique professional Startup Investment Fund.  At Fast Track VCWe understand the startup world from an inside perspective, having  "been there, done it".

FastTrack.VC

Founder & CEO

The EPIC Global Heli Tour departed  Whistler, Canada, on May 1st and landed 97 days later, precisely where it started. On the way, Ruben Dias and Mischa Gelb stepped foot in more than 40 countries, flying over five different continents, Empowering People & Inspiring Change all over the planet through a series of open-for-all free conferences aimed at future entrepreneurs and healthy lifestyle seekers.  Ruben and Mischa achieved two world aviation records. The fastest antipode round the world trip on a helicopter (97 days) and the longest distance of a Helicopter Round The World trip in history (60.165 kms). The EPIC World Tour is a helicopter event company which provides unique experiences in nature throughout British Columbia by combining flying and motivational tools to empower people for entrepreneurship and inspire change on lifestyle habits, that allow the achievement of optimal physical, mental and spiritual health.

Epic World Tour

CEO and Mission Pilot

Founder and Owner of Leading Capital SGPS the investment holding company

Leading Capital SGPS

Founder,Owner and President

Sports Stars Media FZ Dubai ( a SSM plc company ) entered into an agreement with Cristiano Ronaldo, one of football’s most popular and valuable players, to promote a new business concept for a worldwide, crowd-sourced football tournament - The Game by Ronaldo. Ruben was the creator of "The GAME BY RONALDO" , the biggest football championship ever.www.gamebyronaldo.comDirectly aimed at the universe of 300 million footballers globally who are ready to experience a truly revolutionary competition, The GAME allows Teams to challenge and be challenged by other participating Teams from all over the world.Highlights•	Pioneering a new concept of a crowd sourced football championship. •	A new social network platform is the basis for the administration and interconnection of the real life football matches.•	Cristiano Ronaldo and his agent, Polaris, are strategic shareholders in the project.•	In order to fund the Ronaldo project, SSM raised an additional £[711,375] at 1p per new ordinary share. •	The Ronaldo project explored several revenue opportunities, including:-	global product sponsorship -	monthly subscriptions from participating players-	licensing and franchising rights of the final stage playoff games. -	social network portal and app advertising revenue-	sponsorship of events and teams - licensing and merchandise •	Ronaldo is currently the most popular sports personality on Facebook, the world’s most popular social network with 90 million Facebook fans and 35 million Twitter followers. In 2014 the business was sold to a group of private investors.

Sports Stars Media Dubai

Co-Founder & CEO

Creative Systems is a pioneer in the implementation of RFID technology. The company creates and implements advanced solutions for automatic identification and traceability that cover the entire project life cycle (design, hardware, software, services, support), with special emphasis in retail, logistics and manufacturing, where it holds deep know-how and experience. Creative Systems has clients in all continents, serving more than 50 of the largest 100 retailers in the world.In January 2015 Creative Systems was acquired by Tyco International. <a href="http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/tyco-retail-solutions-acquires-creativesystems-a-european-rfid-solution-provider-1981792.htm">http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/tyco-retail-solutions-acquires-creativesystems-a-european-rfid-solution-provider-1981792.htm</a>

Creativesystems

Investor - Board Member

Mobitto is a mobile lifestyle app that rewards people by shopping the things they like the most. Focusing on customer loyalty & user engagement it provides the tools to improve the way people interact and engage with their favorite brands and venues. The company was founded in June 2011 by José Simões and Diogo Teles soon after it was accepted to StartupBootcamp (TechStars affiliate) accelerator program.Early 2012 Mobitto ran a closed pilot in Lisbon (Portugal) that eventually led to the current concept. Mobitto is a trademark owned by Mobile Hangar, which is funded by serial entrepreneur Ruben Dias and soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo.

Mobitto

Investor & Chairman of the Board

Co-Founded SSM. The first Portuguese company to be listed on AIM London Stock Exchange. Sports Stars Media Plc (SSM) and its Portuguese subsidiary Special Factory, was  established to engage in the production and commercialisation of children’s CGI animation television series and brands with a focus on sports and sports stars.Its purpose was to develop new concepts that combined Children’s entertainment with professional sport and education.SSM has the exclusive rights of a new football entertainment platform - Mourinho and the Special Ones, a new series, mobile app and Trading Card Game, fully endorsed by the worldwide renowned Football coach José Mourinho, using his name, image and likeness.In 2014 the business was sold to a group of private investors.

Co-Founder, CEO

BeAnywhere delivers a real-time platform that solves, with elegant simplicity, a broad range of IT management challenges, making work easier, more efficient and secure for thousands of companies around the world.The company provides innovative cloud-based solutions of leading products on remote access, support, monitoring and management. The SaaS product line is built on easy to manage proprietary technology, that can be used by organizations of any dimension. BeAnywhere has offices in Europe and North America and datacenters in all continents. Our international sales, development and support teams work around the clock to provide to our customers simple, complete and secure solutions, which assure the maximum return on investment.BeAnywhere Ltd was acquired by SolarWinds

BeAnywhere

Founder, CEO

Griffin Finance Lisbon provides financial, advisory, IPO and corporate finance services to growing companies in the UK, Portugal and Spain.HistoryFor many years Griffin Corporate Finance has provided advise and introductions to companies considering floating on ISDX, AIM and the Main London Stock Exchange. In that time it has assisted some 30 companies on achieving AIM or ISDX (Plus market) status with a value of over £120,000,000.In the main these client companies were small growing businesses that gained additional funding, profile and visibility from listing on AIM or Plus now ISDX.The directors of Griffin Corporate Finance have considerable experience of the junior stock markets and have a track record and hands on knowledge of maximizing the benefits to be gained from a public listing.What We Do:Griffin Corporate Finance can provide advice, introductions and assistance on:-> Pre IPO and IPO fundraising and listings for the AIM and ISDX markets.-> Experience in bringing international businesses to the London Stock Exchanges.-> Specialising in helping growing UK, Portuguese and Spanish companies.-> Corporate Financial advisory services.-> Equity loan and finance to fund growth.-> Experienced management with a track record in the smaller caps arena.-> Independent Director and Project management services.-> Access to leading Corporate Lawyers, Nominated Advisers, -> Reporting Accountants and Stockbrokers specialising in the junior stock market space.Griffin Corporate Finance aims to provide direct jargon free advice on all aspects of fund raising, floatation and stock market procedures in a professional and confidential manner tailored to the particular business needs and requirements of its clients.

Griffin Finance Lisbon

Co-Founder  -  Partner

Treino Avancado is a service aviation company specialized in aircraft training rentals. In 2014 the  company was sold to the leading General Aviation group in Portugal

Treino Avançado

Co-Founder. Owner

Bigstorm Studios was the first company to produce a full 52 Episode animation series in Portugal - Gombby Green Island.Gombby Green Island has been a worldwide success and has been broadcasted on cable and free to air TV channels, in more than 50 countries. In 2010 Gombby Green Island was one of the 4 finalists at the renowned world licensing fair, in London - "License This" .

Big Storm Studios

Co-Founder, Owner and CEO

Exclusive Country Partner for Panda Security in Canada. Created the company from scratch. Sustained 30% yearly growth rates for 6 years. In 2010 the company was sold to Panda Security.

Panda Security Canada

Founder, Owner, President

In 1997 Euro Carisma Lda became one of the first Country Partners of Panda Security - <a href="http://www.pandasecurity.com">www.pandasecurity.com</a> .  In 8 years Panda Security Portugal achieved market leadership in the country, surpassing 42% of market share. In 2008 the company was sold to a major European IT Group.