Priscila Rodrigues
Piero Minardi is based in São Paulo and joined Warburg Pincus in 2014. Previously, Mr. Minardi was a Partner in the Private Equity Group at Gavea Investimentos, a private investment company, from 2006 to 2014. Prior to that, he was Head of Private Equity, South America Southern Cone at Darby Overseas Investments, Principal of Private Equity at Baring Private Equity Partners and AIG Capital Partners, and Director of Mergers & Acquisitions at Bunge International/Santista Alimentos. Mr. Minardi has also held senior positions at Banco Pactual, McKinsey & Company and Accenture. He served as Board Director in fifteen Boards of public and private companies. Mr. Minardi is a Board Member of EMPEA (Emerging Markets Private Equity Association) since 2012. He holds a B.S. in mining engineering from Escola Politécnica USP, São Paulo, and an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.
Founding partner of Lions Trust, the first Brazilian fund administrator specialized in the Private Equity and Venture Capital industries.
Authorized by the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (“CVM”) to act as a portfolio manager and also as a fund administrator, Mr. Sanchez has more than 13 years of experience in the financial and capital markets, and was responsible for the structuring and administration of more than 40 FIPs, FIEEs and FIC FIPs.
Mr. Sanchez is (i) Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Abvcap-Anbima Private Equity Regulation and Best Practices Code; (ii) Vice-Chairman of Abvcap Board of Directors; and (iii) member of the Regulation Executive Committee of Abvcap.”
Prior to joining Lions Trust, Mr. Sanchez was director at Stratus Group, a Brazilian PE Fund Manager, where he worked more than 3 years as responsible for the structuring and fund administration department.
Prior to joining Stratus, Mr. Sanchez worked at BEM DTVM (a subsidiary of the Bradesco`s Group specialized in third parties funds administration) and also at Bradesco Bank, first at the securities and funds services department (custody, controlling, bookkeeping, foreign investors legal representation) and after at the investment department (structuring investment products and funds for specific types of investors).
Luiz Eugenio Junqueira Figueiredo
Head of Alternative Investments at BNP Paribas Asset Management Brasil and member of the Advisory Board and Head of the Regulation Committee at the Brazilian Association for Private Equity and Venture Capital (ABVCAP). Luiz Eugenio was a partner at Rio Bravo Investimentos since the firm's foundation in 2000. During 13 years at Rio Bravo Luiz Eugenio held relevant positions such as Head of Private Equity, Head of Real Estate Investments and Chief Operating Officer (COO). He was previously an officer at Banco Pactual's corporate finance group, where he specialized in financial institutions. Before joining Banco Pactual in 1997, he worked at Unibanco as a sell-side investment analyst and also at Price Waterhouse. Luiz Eugenio holds an Advanced Certificate for Senior Executives from MIT Sloan School of Management (USA) and a BA in Economics from FAAP (Brazil).
Marina Procknor is partner at Mattos Filho Advogados. Marina practice focuses on a wide variety of cross-border transactions, including private equity, joint ventures, structured finance and securitizations. She represents financial institutions, sponsors and investors in the formation and capitalization of a broad range of investment vehicles, and related financing, acquisition and disposition transactions, including hedge, private equity, real estate, distressed assets, among others. In 2013, she was listed in the Latin Lawyer as one of the most inspiring women in the Latin American legal profession. She sponsors social business and impact investment initiatives in Brazil through her pro bono work with Professor Muhammad Yunus.
Pedro Sirotsky Melzer is Founding Partner at Igah, Ventures. and Partner at Patria Investments, the largest alternative investment platform in Latin America.
A pioneer Venture Capitalist in Brazil, he has been in the industry since 2010, and has built a portfolio of more than 50 companies through the VC funds he manages.
He was one of the first investors to fund Brazilian successful startups such as iFood, Infracommerce, Contabilizei, Avenue, Securities, Unico, Conexa Saúde e CRM&Bônus.
Before joining the VC industry, he served as Global Revenue Manager at Apple in Cupertino (CA, USA).
Pedro holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and has the purpose to invest in entrepreneurs who seek to improve people's lives through technology, generating efficiency gains to diverse economic sectors.
Partner since November 2012 at Treecorp Investimentos, a private equity manager focused on growth capital, where he conducts investments in the consumer/retail, health, technology and services sectors.
He is currently chairman of the board of directors of Cabana Burger and a board member of Zee.Dog. He was on the board of Innova Property Management and MC1 Tecnologia.
He is a portfolio manager authorized by CVM and candidate for CFA Level III.
Previously, he served for five years as a senior associate at Vella, Pugliese, Buosi e Guidoni Advogados, where he participated in dozens of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions, structured investment funds, and conducted corporate reorganizations.
Graduated in Law in 2005 from the State University of Ponta Grossa (UEPG). Postgraduate in Corporate Finance from FIA-USP, and postgraduate in Tax and Corporate Law from Faculdade de Direito de Curitiba.
Joined SPX as a Partner in 2021
Managing Director of The Carlyle Group and Head of Carlyle South America Buyout team between 2007 and 2021
Managing Director of AIG Capital Partners between 2000 and 2007
Director of Bozano’s private equity unit between 1994 and 1999
President of ABVCAP from 2014 to 2018 and Member of the Board since 2012
28 years of experience in private equity, with ~USD 3.5 bn invested in 35 deals
Bachelor's degree in International Relations from the University of Brasilia (UnB) and Master's degree from Johns Hopkins University
Joaquim Lima is a Partner at Riverwood Capital, where he focuses on Latin America. Prior to joining Riverwood in 2011, Joaquim was an Investment Officer with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private investment arm of the World Bank Group, where he focused in the technology industry and other sectors in Latin America, based in Washington DC and São Paulo. Prior to that, Joaquim was an M&A/corporate development and IR executive with Brasil Telecom and worked in investment banking at Citi in Brazil.
Joaquim holds an MSc in Finance from City University of London, where he was a Chevening Scholar, and a BSc degree in Business Administration from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE).
Sócio da XP Inc., ingressou na XP Asset em 2020 onde é Head da estratégia de alternativos. Anteriormente, ocupou posições de senioridade na Victoria Capital Partners, Lightrock, Graycliff Partners e Partners Group e iniciou sua carreira em 2003 no Banco Itaú. Jorge é bacharel em Economia pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP), com parte da graduação realizada em Harvard e Boston University, e possui Master in Business Administration (MBA) pela London Business School.
Partner at XP Inc. and head of the Alternatives investment strategy, Jorge joined XP Asset in 2020. Previously, he held senior positions at Victoria Capital Partners, Lightrock, Graycliff Partners and Partners Group and began his career in 2003 at Banco Itaú. Jorge holds a Master's in Business Administration (MBA) from the London Business School and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Universidade de São Paulo (USP), with part of his degree done at Harvard and Boston University.
Managing Director and Head of Brazil of Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital, Cristina has over 20 years of experience in private equity, mezzanine and investment banking, besides strategic planning and M&A in the corporate market.
Previously, was Partner and Head of Private Equity at STS GAEA Capital and Director responsible for mezzanine financing at Credit Suisse (Brazil). Prior to Credit Suisse, held positions of Head of Private Equity for Brazil at Darby Overseas Investments, and worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley in New York, in addition to business development, strategic planning and M&A at Grupo Bunge.
Bachelor’s degrees in Business Administration from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation and Biological Sciences from the University of São Paulo and MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Rafael joined Spectra from its inception, where he shared in all earnings from
growth of the company, which is now among the most active investors in America
latina in alternative assets with around BRL 6 billion of capital under management.
At Spectra, prospecting and relationship was involved in the most diverse strategies of
investment, including Venture Capital, Search Funds, Real Assets, Legal Claims, Private
Equity and Growth and Distressed, and all structuring activities, operations and membership
of various boards of directors or investment committees of portfolio assets.
It also contributed to the creation of several management companies that were anchored by the funds of the home, helping to expand the industry in recent years.
Rafael is the creator, together with Insper and ABVCAP, of the research initiative for
assets, a project that gave rise to more than 15 technical articles in the last 10 years, and manages the
largest database in latin america on alternative assets in the world, hopefully with the
dissemination of unique information about the industry to other participants.
He also led the prospecting, negotiation and structuring of secondary asset acquisitions
illiquid assets, an initiative disseminated in Brazil by Spectra and important for promoting liquidity
to industry participants to recycle capital into new growth strategies
investment.
Within Spectra, he led an initiative to import and nationalize the practice of “Research
Fund", a strategy that today represents more than 40 assets invested in Brazil, with more than
BRL 1 billion in equity, and is an important professional alternative for the alternatives industry.
Rafael is also the founder of the Latin American Committee of Search Funds, which brings together
key members and investors of the community to debate the tropicalization and improvement of the
model in the region.
He is an elected member of the board of ABVCAP (Brazilian Association of Private Equity and Venture
Capital) since 2023, mandatory until 2026.
Rafael holds a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic School of the University of São
Paul.