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BOARD & KEY PERSONNEL 

 

 

 

Rajan Sahay – Group Chairman
Rajan graduated in Economics and History from Oxford University in before joining a boutique consulting company specialising in M&A and worked in London, Boston, Atlanta and Paris. In 1994, he came to Portugal to set up Obrana which is now the leading developer, investor and landowner in the Lisbon Silver Coast region of Portugal. He is also the current President of the Portuguese Indian Chamber of Commerce (CCPI) as well as Vice President of the Portuguese Association of Home Owners (Associação Portuguesa  de Proprietários - APPROP). He has written for numerous journals on Real Estate and Economics, appeared on television as a property expert for Channel 4 and was an ad hoc adviser to the Foreign Office for the Golden Visa scheme in Portugal.

 



 
 

Clive Bennett – Advisor to the Board
Clive is Global CEO of MGI Worldwide, a top 20 network of audit, tax and accounting firms operating in over 100 countries. Before this role he was a founding partner of a highly successful executive search firm in Lisbon; Country Manager of the global shipping group CMA-CGM; and a senior official in the UK House of Commons. He holds an MA from Oxford, an MBA from Cranfield and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists in London.

  Obrana Board Advisor - Clive Bennett

 
 

João Caiado Guerreiro – Advisor to the Board
João heads one of Portugal’s largest and most respected law companies. João assists Obrana as its principle legal counsel and is a cofounder of the Portuguese Indian Chamber of Commerce. He completed his LLM at Kings College and in addition to his commercial activities he is Professor of Real Estate Law at the ISCTE University Lisbon

   
 

Humberto Leal – Advisor to the Board
Humberto headed one of the largest Tourism Consulting companies in Europe and has over 30 years of experience working in the tourism sector worldwide. He has held countless key roles including: Chief Advisor to the Secretary of State of Tourism (Guinea-Bissau); President of the Board of Directors (Portuguese Tourism Forum); Board Member (APECA); Board of Directors (CNET). Humberto assists Obrana Group on resort, hotel and tourism related activities.