Three partners.
Three networks. One operation.
FAIRBANK's founding team is not a conventional advisory board. It is the operational architecture of the company — three partners whose backgrounds are individually credible and collectively unreplicable.
Pieter Paul Castelein
Co-Founder
Biography to be added.
Kellogg Fairbank
Founder
Kellogg Fairbank has spent twenty years operating in cross-border payments and digital assets. He holds an AMI real estate mediator licence in Portugal. His operating experience in the Portuguese market — its regulatory architecture, its institutional relationships, and the trust dynamics that determine whether foreign operators succeed here — spans more than a decade.
FAIRBANK was founded on a specific observation: that information asymmetry in the Portuguese property market consistently disadvantaged foreign capital, not because the information did not exist, but because no credible infrastructure existed to organise and deliver it. That observation became the foundation for a broader thesis about where sophisticated operators could create durable value in Portugal.
Filipe Dornellas
Partner
Biography to be added.
The Angola-Portugal capital corridor is one of the most active and least well-served cross-border capital flows in the Portuguese-speaking world. Filipe's background gives FAIRBANK direct operational presence on both sides of it — a market position that cannot be replicated by any competitor without an equivalent foundation.
Dutch precision. American depth. Portuguese-Angolan reach. Three nationalities. Three capital networks. The combination that makes FAIRBANK operational rather than theoretical.
FAIRBANK's ventures are built and maintained by a dedicated technology team operating across full-stack engineering and data science. They are the people who turn the thesis into working infrastructure.
Mihail Talev
Full-Stack Engineer
Nikola Zdraveski
Full-Stack Engineer
Achref Elarbi
Data Scientist
Adrian Garuta
Data Analyst
Interested in working with the team or joining it?