Big wave surfer emerges from the barrel with $120M fund for regenerative agriculture

What do the Rothschilds, big wave surfing, and cows have in common? A Portuguese man by the name of Francisco Roque de Pinho, of course. Francisco used to be a banker at Rothschild, the most famous of European banking dynasties. For the past eight years he’s been quietly operating an investment firm funding sustainable cattle grazing in South America. In his spare time, he’s out conquering the world’s biggest surfable waves in Nazare, Portugal.  Today, Francisco is unveiling some of the mystique behind his business life with the official launch of the Land Group, a Lisbon-based €120mn investment vehicle that…

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