Piero Minardi é Senior Advisor da Warburg Pincus desde 2023. Anteriormente foi Socio Diretor da mesma gestora entre 2014 e 2022. Antes da Warburg Pincus, o Sr. Minardi atuou como Sócio do Grupo de Private Equity da Gavea Investimentos, gestora privada, de 2006 a 2014.

Anteriormente, atuou como Sócio do Private Equity, America do Sul, Cone Sul na Darby Overseas Investmentos, Diretor de Private Equity no Baring Private Equity Partners e AIG Capital Partners, e Diretor de Mergers & Acquisitions na Bunge International/Santista Alimentos.

O Sr. Minardi ocupou também posições senior no Banco Pactual, McKinsey & Company e Accenture. Foi Diretor no Conselho Administrativo de vinte companhias entre públicas e privadas. O Sr. Minardi foi Membro do Conselho Administrativo da EMPEA (Emerging Markets Private Equity Association) entre 2011 e 2015. É formado em Engenharia de Minas pela Escola Politécnica da USP, SP e possui MBA pela INSEAD, Fontainebleau, França.

Como profissional da área de Private Equity desde 1999, Piero Minardi tem trabalhado com investidores internacionais na captação de recursos e investimentos em Private Equity no Brasil. Fundos pelos quais atuou ou atua investiram mais de USD 8 bilhões em mais de 50 empresas no país.

Piero Minardi foi também conselheiro do EMPEA e, até 2015, o único representante latino americano no CA da entidade. É também parte do Latin America Concil da entidade.

Sócio fundador da Lions Trust, a primeira administradora de fundos brasileira especializada no segmento de Private Equity e Venture Capital.

Autorizado pela CVM a atuar como administrador de carteira de valores mobiliários, Francisco possui mais de 20 anos de experiência nos mercados financeiro e de capitais, tendo sido responsável pela estruturação e/ou administração de mais de 100 FIP’s.

Atualmente é (i) Vice-Presidente do Conselho Deliberativo da Abvcap; (ii) Membro do Conselho de Regulação e Melhores Práticas do Código de ART da Anbima; (iii) membro do Conselho do Código de Autorregulação em Governança de Investimentos da Abrapp e (iv) membro do Conselho de Representantes da CNF.

Head of Alternative Investments at Bradesco Asset and Vice President of the Board and Head of the Regulation Committee at the Brazilian Association for Private Equity and Venture Capital (ABVCAP). Former Head of Alternative Investments at BNP Paribas Asset Management Brasil for 4 years. 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 (AMP) 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 é sócio-fundador da Igah, Ventures. e sócio do Pátria, maior plataforma de investimentos alternativos da América Latina.

Um dos pioneiros da indústria de Venture Capital no Brasil, atua neste mercado desde 2010, e já adquiriu participações em mais de 50 empresas por meio dos fundos sob sua gestão.

Foi um dos primeiros investidores institucionais de grandes startups brasileiras como iFood, Infracommerce, Contabilizei, Avenue, Securities, Unico, Conexa Saúde e CRM&Bônus.

Antes de entrar para o mercado de venture capital, foi Global Revenue Manager das lojas online da Apple em Cupertino (CA, EUA).

Possui MBA pela Kellogg School of Management e o propósito de impulsionar empreendedores que buscam melhorar a vida das pessoas por meio da tecnologia e gerar ganhos de eficiência em diferentes setores.

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 observer of Petz. He was on the board of Innova Property Management and MC1 Tecnologia.

 He is a portfolio manager authorized by CVM and CFA charterholder.

 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 Brazil & 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 (PE-backed) 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).

Jorge Lange (New York) joined KKR in 2024 and is a member of the Global Client Solutions team. Previously, Mr. Lange was a partner at XP Inc and head of fund of funds alternatives in the asset management group. Previously he worked for more than a decade as a senior executive at private equity firms, including Graycliff Partners and Partners Group. He started his career at Banco Itaú as an economist in 2003. He received a B.S. in Economics from Universidade de São Paulo and an MBA from London Business School.

Managing Director and Head of Brazil of Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital, Cristina has over 20 years of experience in finance, including alternative investments, investment banking and the corporate market.

Previously, Cristina 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 and co-led venture capital for Brazil at Darby Overseas Investments, worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley in New York, besides business development, strategic planning and M&A across multiple sectors at Bunge Group.

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 Paulo.