Email: fcr@taguscann.com
Mobile: +351.912755202
Francisco Cruz Rosa
CEO
TAGUSCANN is 100% owned by FUSA, which is wholly owned by Francisco Cruz Rosa, manager/economist and his family. Francisco has extensive experience in management positions in Investment and Commercial Banks (where he has listed some companies on the Lisbon Securities Exchange), manager of important holdings  (Portucel – currently known as The Navigator Company, and IPE – at the time the main largest Portuguese State Owned holding company - where he chaired the General Development Company and some companies with activity in Africa), and also manager or administrator of smaller companies in the IT sector including the management of a family agricultural company.
He chaired and was a member of the board of directors of venture capital companies, where he supported the creation of several startups.
He chaired and was a member of the board of directors of venture capital companies, where he supported the creation of several startups.
Sofia Amram
CLO
Sofia Amram is a Lawyer of Corporate Business, partner in a well known Lisbon Law Firm after a career with three other top Lisbon law firms.
Afonso QueirozÂ
CFO
After alternating between the Portuguese and the English Curriculums, Afonso graduated in Management at Nova School of Business & Economics. He then started his professional career with pharmaceutical giants AstraZeneca, where he benefited from high standard training in Sales & Marketing. Seeking to diversify his knowledge and life experience, he accepted an offer to work for Real Estate Developers Abrantina Investimento Imobiliário, later acquired by Grupo Lena. Assigned to Angola, Afonso successfully developed a portfolio worth 200M$, and obtained interdisciplinary business expertise.After returning to Portugal, he became a founding partner for creative hospitality brand The Independente Collective, where he took on Finance, Property Management and Business Development, as the firm converted a business concept into a 7 operation venture with an annual sales volume of approximately 6M€ and 150 employees, while developing a robust pipeline to more than double its size and profitability in 2 to 3 years.Â
José Raul Ribeiro
Director of Cultivation
Degree in agricultural engineering (plant protection, integrated pest management, pedology, fertilizers and soil fertility, plant physiology, cultural techniques, production methods) Technical adviser of organic farming (vineyard, horticulture, fruit growing), urban bio-gardens (Almeirim).Trainer in organic farming, IPM and Integrated Production courses throughout the country, totallingover 3 000 hours, since 1995. Elaboration of training programs for technicians and farmers (2003).Supervision of control system (including audits of the Portuguese control bodies), regulation of organic farming sector. Portuguese delegate to the SCOF meetings (Standing Committee of Organic Farming) on 2006-2010, in Brussels. Coordination of projects of research and demonstration on organic horticulture, on 2003-2005, to the Ministry of Agriculture, as well as preparation of guidance documents, selection of pesticides for legal use in IPM.
Joana Cruz Rosa
Business Developer
Mastering 4 different languages including French, Portuguese, English and Spanish, Joana graduated in Economics at Nova School of Business & Economics. While studying, she worked at two Marketing companies. Upon graduating, she decided to take an intensive course on web development. With this new set of technological skills she started working on a CRM startup as a Product owner & Manager. After that she decided to work at Nova SBE Venture lab helping startups to grow and get funding. Right now she is working as Product data & analytics Operations at Feedzai, a market leader in fighting fraud with AI.Â