Rita Marques was born in Porto in 1975.
Undergraduate (1998) and master’s degree (2000) in Electrotechnical Engineering and Computers from the University of Porto Faculty of Engineering. She has an MBA (2007) from the University of Southern California, as well as several leadership for executives programmes from the Corporate Institute (2018), London Business School (2017), and University of Texas at Austin (2016).
President of Portugal Capital Ventures - Sociedade de Capital de Risco, S.A..
She was Executive Director of the Porto Business School for MBAs and Postgraduate degrees (2016-2018), Coordinator of the Project Unit at the University of Porto (2008-2016), and Head of the Asian-Pacific Market and the Technology and Tourism sectors at the Portuguese Investment Agency (2003-2006).
She was also senior consultant at Microsoft Corporation (2006-2007) in the USA and expert at ANACOM (2001-2003).
She was Chair of the Supervisory Council of the Youth Foundation (2017-2019).
She has had several consulting assignments with public and private entities in the field of Innovation, Public Funding, Internationalisation and Foreign Direct Investment.