Board of Directors
Critical Manufacturing’s board is constituted by two non-executive directors representing Critical SGPS and three executive directors, that constitute also the executive management board.
Francisco Almada LoboChief Executive Officer and co-founder
Francisco Almada Lobo holds an MBA and an Electrical Engineering Degree from University of Porto. He started his career in a CIM R&D institute, and joined Siemens Semicondutores in 1997. Throughout Siemens, Infineon and Qimonda, he gained experience in several manufacturing areas having, in 2004, led the first migration of an MES system in a running high-volume facility. Between 2005 and 2009, he managed the Porto Development Center for Infineon and Qimonda, with implementation of automation projects in the group plants worldwide.
He holds an MBA from Escola de Gestão do Porto, acted as Chief Operating Officer of Critical Manufacturing, where among other areas, was responsible for the Product business unit. Since 2010 he's the company's CEO.
Diamantino CostaChairman and Member of the board (non-executive)
As a member of the Board of Directors, Diamantino Costa brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in both business and software development. He is the co-founder and Executive Vice-President of Critical Software SA and serves on the Board of its subsidiary in the UK, Critical Software Technologies Limited. Prior to this appointment he served as the head of Business Development for Aeronautics, Space, Defense and Transport markets at Critical Software, supervising European business operations as well managing and expanding the global customer base of two business units: world space agencies (NASA, ESA and JAXA) and leading prime contractors (Thales Alenia Space, EADS Astrium, etc).
As a researcher at the Dependable Systems Group at the University of Coimbra he authored and presented over 20 papers and provided material for books on computer software dependability. Dino holds a BSc and an MSc in Informatics Engineering and Computer Systems Architecture from the University Of Coimbra, Portugal and has been a member of IEEE since 1998.
Pedro MurtinhoMember of the board (non-executive)
Pedro has been in the Critical Software holding since late-2001, where he was Senior Finance Officer. Before joining Critical Software, he was for one year the CFO on a real-estate holding with nine companies, which held investments across Portugal and Brazil. During his period he raised project finance operations and fronted negotiations with large hotel chains such as Marriott.
On 2000 he was briefly involved as CFO of a holding working mainly on trading of graphic arts machinery, second largest vendor in Portugal, where he was in charge of settling representation deals with factories around Europe.At the beginning of his career (from 1995 to 1999) he worked on a regional Association, where he made his internship and became CFO on 1997.
Pedro holds a bachelors degree in Corporate Management from the Economics Faculty in Coimbra.
