WHO WE ARE
Our Story
Why We Exist:
Quiet Cove Foundation was founded in 2017 by Brian Paes-Braga. QCF seeks to find innovative solutions to large scale social issues with a vision for innovation.
Our Team
Brian Paes-Braga is a Canadian-born entrepreneur, merchant banking executive, and author. Currently, he serves as Managing Partner at SAF Group, a leading structured credit and merchant banking group which builds, invests, finances and advises high growth companies as well as provides flexible and long-term capital solutions to public and private corporations while providing stable returns for investors through its structured credit arm. Since its founding in 2014, SAF has allocated over $3 billion of capital across more than 40 transactions.
Brian was formerly Chair of the Board of Directors of Thunderbird Entertainment, a global multi-platform entertainment company creating award-winning programming for the world’s leading digital platforms, and a former board member of DeepGreen Metals (now known as The Metals Company), which closed a >US$2 billion go-public transaction on the NASDAQ in September 2021 and aims to supply the world with ethical, clean metals harvested from the deep ocean floor. Previously, Brian was Founder and CEO of Lithium X Energy Corp., a lithium resource company which, within 2.5 years, raised approximately $53 million and was acquired in an all-cash deal for $265 million.
Brian sits on the Advisory Council of the International Crisis Group and supports several charities and research groups through his private family foundation, Quiet Cove Foundation. He also authored the recently released book 8: Reflections on Building Business + Balance, an Amazon #1 Best Seller. 100% of the proceeds of 8 will be donated to initiatives supporting the betterment of human mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
The Journey
Imperative to Brian on his journey through the business world has always been to remain philanthropically minded. Brian has travelled the globe on mission trips working with Syrian refugees in Greece, building schools in Peru, and has supported many causes locally in Vancouver.
Brian believes that the current status quo in the charity space hinders innovation and growth. Charites are confined to old notions of overhead and percentages spent on things such as marketing. They believe that this creates an imbalance as charities are told to think big, act big, but operate small.
Quiet Cove Foundation was created to challenge these notions. We encourage charities to think big, take risks, and disrupt the status quo.
Brian supports charities in their grand visions for change, taking risks alongside them, with the ultimate goal of HUGE social impact.
“The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead; ask about the scale of their dreams - their Apple-, Google-, Amazon-scale dreams - how they measure their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come true, regardless of what the overhead is.”
- Dan Pallotta
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