Roberto de Saint-Malo - Managing Partner
Roberto has extensive experience finding, making and managing direct equity investments. Involvement with over 20 companies, including Cambridge Broadband and eDreams, have provided him with knowledge and experience that is highly valuable for early-stage ventures.
Roberto has been making direct equity investments since 1995. He was Executive Director of BHI Corporation and Founder & Managing Partner of tech-VC Latin Rim. During this time he has executed and managed 20 investments, achieving a 25% IRR on completed investment cycles. Roberto’s pre-Adara technology investment experience includes ventures such as Cambridge Broadband (Cambridge, UK), eDreams (Barcelona) and Energia Global (Boston / San José, Costa Rica).
From 1988 to 1994, Roberto served as CEO of Jumbo Comercial, a supermarket chain which notched up sales over $200m when he left in 1994. While at Jumbo he was also a board member at Pao de Açucar, a leading Portuguese retailer (sales over $1.2b in 1994).
From 1985 to 1988, Roberto was a consultant at McKinsey & Co., advising top management at leading banks and retailers in Spain and Portugal.
Roberto obtained an MBA degree from Harvard Business School and a Computer Science degree (BA) with Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors at Dartmouth College. He was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 1995 and has been a member of the Young Presidents’ Organisation (YPO) since 1992. Favorite pastimes are golf and trekking.