Bio

Pedro Teixeira is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and Co-Head of Morgan Stanley’s Tactical Value Investing Team (MSTV). Mr. Teixeira joined MSTV in March 2017. Previously, he was a senior analyst and a founding member of Nokota Management LP in New York, a value driven, cross-asset class investment fund founded in 2011. Having started with $250 million in assets under management, Nokota Management had over $2 billion of assets under management by the time of his departure. During his 5.5 years at Nokota, Mr. Teixeira focused on European credit and equity investments across sectors and on the financial sector globally. Prior to Nokota, he spent 2.5 years at TPG-Axon in London focused on credit and equity investing across a number of European sectors. Mr. Teixeira started his career in 2001 at Goldman Sachs International in London, spending the bulk of his 8-year tenure within Goldman Sachs Principal Strategies, a team with responsibility for a significant portion of Goldman’s balance sheet investments. He was a founding member of the department’s Principal Finance business in 2003, which sourced and managed non-control investments in private and public companies across the capital structure. In 2006, Mr. Teixeira became head of Principal Finance in Europe and served as the secretary of the Principal Investments Committee, a group consisting of the Firm’s president, CFO and senior partners, responsible for reviewing and approving all meaningful balance sheet investments made by the Firm. During his career, he has invested globally across sectors and asset classes, in both public and private companies. Mr. Teixeira graduated as valedictorian of the Economics Department of the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Lisbon in 2001.