– UK, London – Savannah Resources plc (LON: SAV), the developer of the Barroso Lithium Project in Portugal, announced the appointment of Paulo Pinto to its Board as a Non-Executive Director.
Paulo Pinto is a representative of the Company’s substantial shareholders, Grupo Lusiaves SGPS, S.A., and Pluris Investments, S.A.
About Paulo Pinto
Paulo Pinto is an experienced Board Member and Senior Executive with over 30 years of leadership in the banking and financial services industry. He has served on the boards of multiple financial institutions and currently holds the position of Executive Board Member at Pluris Investments, a diversified investment group based in Portugal. Paulo Pinto is an experienced Board Member and Senior Executive with over 30 years of leadership in the banking and financial services industry. He has served on the boards of multiple financial institutions and currently holds the position of Executive Board Member at Pluris Investments, a diversified investment group based in Portugal.
Throughout his career, he has held senior management roles in areas including corporate and SME banking, strategic planning, structured finance, and M&A, notably during a 30-year tenure at Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Portugal’s leading state-owned bank. He brings a strong track record in governance, business transformation, and investment oversight.
An advocate of lifelong learning, he holds executive education credentials from Stanford GSB, MIT, INSEAD, London Business School, and others. His academic foundation in Economics (FEP – Universidade do Porto) is complemented by advanced training in financial analysis, credit risk, leadership, innovation, and strategic management.
Paulo Pinto is certified in Financial Analysis by the European Association of Financial Analysts.
About Savannah
Savannah Resources is a mineral resource development company and the sole owner of the Barroso Lithium Project (the ‘Project’) in northern Portugal. The Project is the largest battery-grade spodumene lithium resource outlined to date in Europe and was classified as a ‘Strategic Project’ by the European Commission under the Critical Raw Materials Act in March 2025.
Through the Project, Savannah will help Portugal to play an important role in providing a long-term, locally sourced, lithium raw material supply for Europe’s lithium battery value chain. Once operational, the Project will produce enough lithium for at least half a million vehicle battery packs per year, thereby ensuring that Europe meets the European Commission’s Critical Raw Material Act goal of achieving a minimum 10% of European endogenous lithium production by 2030. Savannah is focused on the responsible development and operation of the Barroso Lithium Project so that its impact on the local environment is minimised, and that its impact on the global energy transition and the socio-economic benefits that it can bring to all its stakeholders are both maximised.
For more: https://www.savannahresources.com/
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