Launching The Land Group in 2016 represented for Francisco the perpetuation of a family tradition managing extensive privately owned farmland holdings in Portugal and South America, a practice started by his great-grandfather over a hundred years ago and continued by subsequent generations.
Francisco previously led London-based Union Group, an investment firm focused on real assets in South America and co-founded Union Energy Group, a Peruvian run-of-river hydropower project developer later acquired by TSX-listed Polaris Renewable Energy.
Before these ventures, Francisco founded Plane Tree Capital, a renewable energy and carbon markets-focused investment firm regulated by the UK FCA, sold to Union Group in 2011.
Earlier in his career, Francisco worked in renewable energy and carbon credit investments at Carbon Capital Markets, management consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton, and capital markets at Edmond de Rothschild Group and Banco Icatu in London, Geneva, and Rio de Janeiro.
Besides his busy professional life, Francisco has been surfing giant waves in Nazaré, Portugal, since 2017. This serious hobby has grown into Team Red Herrings, a big wave surfing team he co-founded to develop talent, carry out ocean-related social and environmental initiatives, provide water patrol services, and organise management training and team-building offsites for professional sports teams and companies.
Francisco holds an MBA from INSEAD and a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Economics from École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Lausanne in Switzerland. Francisco speaks fluent English, Portuguese, Spanish and French.
Profile: https://www.the-land-group.com/field-notes/introducing-francisco-roque-de-pinho
About The Land Group:
Founded in 2016 by Francisco Roque de Pinho and Joaquín Labella, The Land Group currently operates 40,000 hectares of farmland across eight properties in Uruguay and Paraguay, with plans for expansion beyond South America in 2025. The Land Group acquires, transforms, and operates farmland – employing regenerative approaches to deliver consistent, financially compelling, and environmentally sustainable investment returns and asset appreciation.