João Simões

CEO, OTIIMA

A civil engineer by training, he began his professional career as an intern at Mota-Engil in 2007, subsequently assuming leadership positions. In 2011 he led Mota-Engil’s operations in its first foray into Brazil. With a successful track record in managing large-scale projects in various sectors and different countries, one of the highlights of his career is the management of one of the lots of the Nacala Corridor railway project, in Malawi, for Mota- Engil, a contract of more than 200 million euros executed in just over two years. He began his professional career in the area of ​​building facades in 2015 when he joined Martifer. He has spent the last nine years managing operations in some of the most influential and demanding cities in the world, including Lisbon, Madrid, Paris and London. Working closely with some of the leading international figures in the area, he contributed to the successful completion of several prestigious European projects. He led Martifer’s façade business until March 2019, after which he began working in the UK as COO of Lindner Prater. For the past 18 months he has been Managing Director of the Clarison Group in the UK, responsible for the management of the English Architectural Glazing and Alucraft Systems businesses. In the last nine years, he has delivered more than 450 million euros in facade projects of various types and reaching up to 40 million euros.

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