Private Equity World Brasil Conference - Speaker list

Ricardo Arantes joined Intel Capital in 2003. Before Intel, Ricardo worked as an Investment Director for Eccelera, a VC fund controlled by The Cisneros Group. Prior to Eccelera, he was a Director at Latintech Capital, a VC fund focused in technology investments in...

Partner and Senior Executive of CRP Companhia de Participações, the oldest Private Equity firm in Brazil, with more than 29 years of experience, focused on the South region. Clovis is graduated in Economics and Business Management and participates in several Boards of...

Renato T. Bertani holds a PH. D. in Sedimentary Geology and Geochemistry from the University of Illinois, USA. He has over 35 years of international experience in exploration and production projects, acquisitions and divestments in several Latin American...

Ettore V. Biagioni is the Managing Partner and founder (2004) of Alothon, a Private Equity firm which focuses on Latin America. Mr. Biagioni has been doing business in Latin America since the mid 1980's and has worked with members of the Alothon Group since 1993. From...

Mr. Bicalho is a founding partner of Triscorp (in 2003), responsible for investment advisory services (asset allocation, manager selection, etc.), a member of the Executive Committee. Mauricio has over 17 years of investment management experience. From 2001 until...

Robert E. Binder: atualmente Diretor Presidente da Antera Gestão de Recursos S/A e gestor nacional do Fundo Criatec, foi Diretor Executivo e fundador da ABVCAP (antiga Associação Brasileira de Capital de Risco), empreendedor responsável pela criação de uma corretora de ...

Cristiano joined HSBC Capital in February 2008. Prior to joining HSBC Capital, Cristiano was a Vice-President at AEA Investors, focusing on direct investments for its global middle market buyout fund. He also worked for Aetos Capital, an affiliate of AEA, ...

Mr. Bruneau is Executive Director at 57 Stars LLC, a manager of emerging market private equity fund-of-funds. Prior to joining 57 Stars, Mr. Bruneau was a Director at the J.E. Robert Company, where he was responsible for originating, underwriting, negotiating and...

Mr. Sidney Chameh is the Chairman of ABVCAP (Brazilian Association of Private Equity and Venture Capital). He is also founder and partner of DGF Investimentos, a private equity and venture capital fund established in São Paulo – Brazil. He has been managing investment ...

Matthew E. Cole is a Managing Partner of North Bay Equity Partners, a private equity firm focused on Latin America. Matt has more than 20 years of investment banking and private equity experience in Latin America, having also served as a Principal at Texas Pacific...

Mr. Collier is a senior member of the investment team for Siguler Guff's BRIC Opportunities Funds, which invest in the large and dynamic economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China. Siguler Guff has been investing in Latin America, primarily Brazil, since 2007. The...

Steve Cowan, Managing Director. Mr. Cowan is a founder of 57 Stars, an independent global investment manager owned and managed by its investment team with more than USD 1 billion under management focused on partnership and co-investment in select private equity markets ...

Mr. Cunningham is co-founder and President of Touchstone Group, LLC an institutional placement agent that raises institutional capital for alternative investment managers across the liquidity spectrum, from illiquid venture capital and private equity strategies to...

Tem Mestrado em Economia, Especialização em Finanças Empresariais, Especialização em Sistemas Elétricos de Potência e graduação em Engenharia Elétrica. Durante cerca de 20 anos atuou como engenheiro da Companhia Hidro Elétrica do São Francisco - Chesf nas áreas de...

Maurício da Rocha Wanderley CIO of the Fundação Vale do Rio Doce de Seguridade Social-VALIA (CVRD’S Pension Fund) with U$ 6.3 billion in assets under management. Graduated in Economics at UERJ – Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and MBA in Finace at IBMEC.

Peter de Svastich is the Managing General Partner of GEM Brazil Private Equity Fund SCA/SICAR where he is responsible for the overall Brazilian operations of the Fund and interfaces with GEM New York in matters related to fund-raising, private placement...

Marcelo is Partner, Managing Director and Head of 3i Brazil. He leads the 3i team in Brazil and Latin America. He joined 3i from Standard Bank Private Equity in 2011 where he was Managing Director and Head of Private Equity in Brazil. Marcelo has over 15 years of...

Maureen Downey, Principal (joined 2007, 4 year of private equity experience) Maureen focuses on sourcing, analyzing and closing secondary investment opportunities as well as manager selection for Emerging Markets on a primary basis and participates in fund...

Raphael joined Tarpon in 2007 and is currently the Head of US, GCC and Asian investors. Prior to joining Tarpon Raphael held senior positions at Grupo VR, Globosat Channels and American Chamber of Commerce. He was also a real estate senior analyst at Binswanger Inc. ...

Since July 2009 President & CEO of Cetip SA, a leading Brazilian infra-structure provider for the Fixed Income and OTC Derivatives market. Joined the company together with the Advent Private Equity Fund. Company was IPOed in October 2009. Before joining Cetip, Fleury...

Luiz Eugenio Junqueira Figueiredo is Rio Bravo's chief operating officer. He has been a partner of Rio Bravo since the firm's foundation in 2000. Luiz Eugenio was previously an officer in Banco Pactual's corporate finance group, where he specialized in financial...

Philip T. Fitzgerald is a Managing Director - Emerging Markets of Paladin Realty. Prior to joining Paladin Realty in 1998, Mr. Fitzgerald was a founding partner of Griffin Capital, a boutique investment banking firm specializing in originating, structuring and...

Cláudio Vilar Furtado, 63, is a tenured professor at EAESP- Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), where he has been teaching graduate and post-graduate classes in the disciplines of Investment Strategy, Corporate Finance, Private Equity and Venture Capital since 1974. As an...

Alvaro Gonzalez is an Investment Director & Responsible for Latin America Investment Activities of Altamar Capital Privado. He is part of the Investments & Fund Analysis Department since the firm´s inception in 2004. During the past 6 years, he was responsible for...

Renata Guinther é economista pela Universidade Federal Fluminense e administradora industrial pelo CEFET-RJ. Atua como chefe do Departamento de Investimento em Fundos - DINV da Finep liderando a equipe de análise, seleção e acompanhamento de novos Fundos de...

Allan Hadid is the Chief Executive Officer of BRZ Investimentos. He joined BRZ in May 2010. Previously he served as CFO and Head of Investor Relations at GP Investments. From 2002 to 2006, he was the Chief Investment Officer of a Brazilian family office. From 2000 to...

Janusz is a Managing Director in the Investment Management team at Capital Dynamics and has over 27 years of private equity experience. Janusz has a leading role in developing the firm’s emerging markets expertise and during his tenure as head of Asset Management, he...

Carlos is co-head of Quilvest Private Equity investments in Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. He is also Managing Director of Quilvest Dubai, a Quilvest office that handles investor relationships with regional family offices and institutions as well as Asian...

Will Honeybourne, Managing Director, joined First Reserve in 1999. Mr. Honeybourne's responsibilities include investment origination, structuring, monitoring, and strategic growth assistance with particular emphasis on upstream oil and gas, the equipment, manufacturing ...

Amaury holds a PhD from MIT in Engineering and Applied Mathematics and an MSc and BSc from PUC Rio. Prior to Vision Brazil Investments, his professional experience included: (1) Founding Partner and CIO of Capitania Asset & Risk Management; (2) Managing Director, Head...

Ricardo works with alternative investments since 2003 and is one of the few professionals in Latin America with a broad alternative asset experience, spanning private equity, venture capital, real estate, infrastructure and distressed assets. He was formerly with the...

Working in BNDES-Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social, a state owned bank, since 1985, having worked throughout many areas. During the period 1985-1992 was involved in credit analysis of projects in the Industrial Area. Since 1996 have been worked in...

Mr. Estevao Latini is a Private Equity Portfolio Manager at PETROS – Petrobras Pension Fund, responsible for a capital commitment of US$ 2.5 billion in private equity and venture capital funds. He represents PETROS on several Fund´s Investment Committees. Previously Mr ...

Robert S. Linton is the founder of LCE Placement and Consulting Services, a São Paulo-based boutique that provides international sales / marketing and investor relations services to Brazilian private equity and hedge fund managers. LCE is presently coordinating...

Duncan Littlejohn is Managing Director- Latin America for Paul Capital Partners, a well known secondary private equity fund manager with over US$ 7 billion in AUM. He was previously a partner of BPE Investimentos, a primary private equity fund manager whose...

Antonio Machado is Portfolio Manager and Head of Trading Desk of Real Grandeza - Fundação de Previdência e Assistência Social, the Pension Fund for Eletrobrás Furnas and Eletrobrás Eletronuclear employees and one of the largest institutional investors in Brazil with...

Mario Malta is a Director at Advent International. He has joined Advent in 2003 and has co-led or participated in more than 10 investments made by Advent in Latin America, including the acquisition of Cetip in 2009 and the recent acquisition of TCP – Terminal de...

Demósthenes Marques, Born in Passo Fundo - Brazil, has a degree in civil engineering from Universidade Federal de Santa Maria – Brazil. He also holds a master’s degree in Business Management from the Universidade de Brasília, Brazil, and a diploma in Urban Development...

Formado em Administração e Finanças Públicas pela Harvard University, dos Estados Unidos, Charles Pimentel Martins tem o empreendedorismo como o norte de sua carreira. Persistente e focado em obter resultados, este jovem talento admira a meritocracia e se considera uma ...

Humberto Matsuda é o sócio responsável pelos fundos de Venture Capital da Performa Investimentos. Possui MBA em Finanças, Comunicação e Relações com Investidores pela FIPECAFI (Fundação Instituto de Pesquisas Contábeis, Atuariais e Financeiras) e é graduado pela...

Ms. Matthews joined the firm in November 2006 and is the Product Specialist handling Investor Relations and Fund Raising for PineBridge Investments’ Emerging Markets Private Equity Funds. Prior to this she was a Regional Sales Manager in the Alternative Investments...

Luiz Borges de Medeiros joined Rio Bravo in 2008 as a Manager of Rio Bravo Nordeste II Private Equity Fund. Currently, Luiz is the head of Recife Office and serves as a member of the board of several invested companies. Previously, Luiz Medeiros was the M&A leader at...

Piero Minardi: Joined Gávea Investment Funds in July 2006, becoming a Partner of Gávea Investimentos in December 2006. Piero has extensive private market experience in Brazil, having held senior positions in management consulting, corporate finance, strategic mergers & ...

Marcelo is a partner of AEM Capital. His responsibilities include investment origination, structuring execution, monitoring and exit. Before joining AEM Marcelo was a co-portfolio manager at Nexo Capital Gestão de Recursos. His earlier career was in Bain & Company and...

Victor Muñoz is a Managing Director of Denham Capital and brings 12 years of investment experience to the firm. Victor is head of Denham's Latin American office in Sao Paulo and is responsible for origination, analysis, structuring and execution of investments in Latin ...

Founder and CEO of TMG and founder and chairman of MVA Participações SA, an investment holding company formed to make and manage investments by Mr. Viana’s family Prior to TMG, Mr. Viana was the CEO of Latinpart, a holding company formed to restructure five privately...

José Luiz Osorio, 37 years of work experience JBI’s Founding partner (2003) Elba Equipamentos e Serviços S.A. – Board Member since March 2010 MZ Participações S.A. – Board Member since December 2009 CVM – Brazilian SEC (2000-2002): Chairman BNDES/BNDESPar – Board...

Ana Paula de Castro is the Regional Director covering Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay. She has over 10 years of experience in internal due diligence for middle sized corporate reorganization, contributing to the advisement of business risk management and...

Fernando Pinto is a Principal focused on buyout investment opportunities in Brazil and South America. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Pinto was an investment officer with Capital International Research Inc., in its private equity generalist fund focused on emerging...

Aquiles Ponte is an executive officer at T&A since 2002, having been in various management positions before that. Formerly, he was responsible for new projects within T&A, such as the Fortaleza Subway, including the development and start-up of new plants and...

Pedro Rudge (34) is a Founding Partner of Leblon. Pedro has 14 years of experience with Brazilian Equities. From 2004 to 2008, Pedro worked at IP, as a member of the investment team. He became a partner in 2006. He was responsible for structuring investment vehicles...

Al Samper is a member of the Pension Fund Governing Board of the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN). He is also a former Chairman of the Board of Trustee of the Virginia Retirement System and former Chairman of the Board of the Virginia College Building...

Economista (1972), Engenheiro Agrônomo (1973), pela Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, RS. Pós-graduado (Mestrado) em Economia Agrícola (Universidade de Wisconsin, Estados Unidos, 1976). Diplomado (Economia e Estratégia) pela Associação dos Diplomados da Escola...

Head of Private Equity at Banco Modal, Mr Streithorst manages two funds comprising capital commitments in excess of USD 1 billion, including a recently raised USD 300 million fund dedicated to the Brazilian oil and gas supply chain. Played leading role in the...

Elemer Suranyi, joined PineBridge in September 2010 as a Managing Director responsible for managing deal teams in sourcing, negotiating, monitoring and exiting Private Equity investments in Latin America. He also participates as a member in the investment...

Joe Topley is a Managing Director of Parish Capital, based in London. He leads the firm’s secondaries investment program. Before joining Parish Capital, Mr. Topley established and ran the secondaries investment program for Nomura, based in London. Prior to...

Jon Toscano is the Founder and CEO of Trivella Investimentos S.A., an investment management company with a focus in growing mid-sized cities in Brazil. Trivèlla is the manager of the following funds: (a) Listed Equities: Trivèlla Brazil Growth FIA; (b) Private...

Mr. Vieira is Director of Investments and Head of Fund Advisory Services for the Safdié Group in Brazil. He began his career as a fixed income sales & trading associate. Later on, he performed the role of fixed income senior trader for bank proprietary desks. After MBA ...

Peter J. Von Lehe is a Managing Director of Neuberger Berman, a partner dedicated to the NB Private Equity Fund of Funds business and a member of the Fund of Funds Investment Committee. Previously, Mr. Von Lehe was a Managing Director and Deputy Head of the Private...

Urs Wietlisbach is a co-founder of Partners Group and serves as an Executive Vice Chairman, having responsibility for the international business development of the firm. He is a member of the business development committee, the global portfolio investment committee as...

In 2001 Mr. Wollak founded the Axxon Group to manage the Natexis Mercosul Fund with the Natexis Group as anchor investor. Mr. Wollak was a partner in the BISA and TCR funds (Argentina) from 1994 to 2003. Prior to that, he was executive director of InverCapital, a...