Joao Bras Jorge is the new President of the Polish-Portuguese Chamber of Commerce

Joao Bras Jorge is involved with the financial sector in Portugal and in Poland since twenty-six years. He started his professional career as a stockbroker, later i.a. to sit on the Board of an investment bank and also on the Board of the Lisbon Stock Exchange. Before coming to Poland for five years, he remained in charge of the Retail Banking Customers Division and coordinated operations of the Millennium bcp Retail Network in Portugal. 

He in the Management Board of Bank Millennium S.A. in Poland since 2006. In the years 2006-2008 he managed the Retail Banking division and from 2009 – the Corporate Banking area. In 2010, he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, to become Chairman of the Management Board of Bank Millennium S.A. in 2013. 

Joao Bras Jorge graduated in management from Universidade Catolica Portuguesa as well as AESE Business School in Lisbon.

At the same time a new Board of PPCC was appointed, comprising representatives of selected member companies in the Chamber, including Jeronimo Martins Polska, Eurocash, Mota-Engil Central Europe, EDP-R, Martifer Renewables, CJR Wind, Haitong, Parfois, Colep Polska, Domański Zakrzewski Palinka, LPR and Browary Łódzkie.

Details of the composition of the new Board of the Polish-Portuguese Chamber of Commerce are available on www.ppcc.pl.

For additional information please call:

Weronika Gwiazda, Polish-Portuguese Chamber of Commerce
Email: weronika@ppcc.pl
Tel: +48 22 322 7667

Founded in March 2008 in Warsaw, the Polish-Portuguese Chamber of Commerce (PPCC) is an independent, non-profit organization that sets out to promote bilateral business relations between Poland, Portugal and the Portuguese speaking countries working to attract investors from Portugal to Poland and vice versa.  The Chamber of Commerce offers support in the establishment of commercial contacts, match-making, ad hoc legal advice, organization of individual and group trade missions, seminars and conferences. PPCC members are Portuguese companies operating in the Polish market as well as other Polish and multinational companies engaged in business on the Portuguese market.