Manuel Garcia, with vast ICT experience, as a key component of business strategy, and working in several sectors, namely Telecommunications, Transport, and Banking Industry. Today as an independent senior consultant, Manuel Garcia, works at APDC, acting as national coordinator of the Upskill Program.

Manuel previously worked as a senior executive in large Portuguese companies, namely at SIBS, Novabase group, and Portugal Telecom (PT), either in Portugal or Brazil. At PT performing several executive functions, namely CEO of a PT company, ICT Service Provider in Brazil, board member of PT-Prime and leading in Portugal the IT transformation process, from a legacy telco provider to a "full 4 Player" and ICT provider for corporations.