António Vidal

COO

Graduated in Zootechnical Engineering at Universidade de Évora, in 1985, and with a post-graduate degree in Animal Production at the Instituto Agronómico Mediterrâneo in Zaragoza, Spain, in 1986. He is a permanent member of the Portuguese Order of Engineers, by the Colégio de Engenharia Agronómica.

Since 1988, his professional activity has been mainly related to the planning, implementation, monitoring and supervision of agroindustrial projects, including the preparation and monitoring of budgets, preparation of investment projects and environmental permits, and production management in companies with activities in production of cereals, pastures and forage crops, vineyard and forest, and also the supervision of a feed mill and a biogas facility.

Between 1988 e 2004,  he was Production Coordinator in Sociedade Agropecuária Vicente Nobre, S.A..

Between 2004 e 2012, he was Production Coordinator, Director and Administrator at Intergados, S.A..

He was also, in 2008 and 2009, a professor of Management of By-products and Effluents in the Master's degree in Food Safety at Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa).

In 2012, he founded A.V.A. Vidal - Consultoria em Licenciamento e Produção Animal, Unipessoal, Lda., a company that provides services of licensing and rationalisation of animal production facilities and feed mills.

From 2015 to 2018, he was Director of International Projects at FTPGM, Lda., a company of the Euroeste Group, coordinating the preparation and implementation of agroindustrial investment projects in Europe, Africa and South America.

He is, currently and since 2018, Partner and COO of INTERPEC.