André Ribeiro manages his own businesses. He is an advisor, executive coach, facilitates MBA classes in business schools and trains trainers, coaches, executives and other professionals.

Has a degree in Business Administration by the University of Coimbra, Portugal, studied Economics at KU Leuven in Belgium, and has a Diploma from the London School of Economics. Master Trainer of Neuro Linguistics Programming and Master Coach by Holigral International, in Glastonbury, UK. 

He is a member of the International Coaching Federation and a Certified Toastmaster.

Was a consultant with several leading companies. He worked as the Director of Communications and Investor Relations in a Nasdaq listed american multinational company. He co-founded and managed a tourism and entertainment company.

André is half portuguese, half Indian, lived 7 years in Barcelona/Spain, 2 years in Macao/China, 4 months in Leuven/Belgium, 5 weeks in London/UK, 5 weeks in Goa and Bangalore /India, 5 weeks in Maputo/Mozambique.

He loves to dance, lately mostly Tango (electronic), also sometimes latin and african dances  Favorite rhythms are staccato and flow. In sports martial arts were a long time favorite, now it's mostly yoga to keep flexible.

He has had personal meetings with leaders as Arie de Geus, Belmiro de Azevedo, Deepak Chopra and Stephen Covey. He was trained and participated in conferences of world business personalities as Claus Moller, C.K. Prahalad, Colin Powell, Daniel Goleman, David Norton, Don Peppers, Edward de Bono, Gary Hamel, Jack Welsh, Jeffrey Sachs, Ken Blanchard, Kenichi Ohmae, Larry Bossidy, Michael Porter, Nicholas Negroponte, Paul Krugman, Peter Senge, Richard Boyatsis, Ram Charan, Robert Kaplan, Spencer Johnson, Thomas Stewart, Tom Peters, Philip Kotler and William Ury.