Team

Alexandre Dias

Founding Partner

Alexandre Dias is a Founding Partner and investment manager at São Pedro Capital. Alexandre was a partner and member of the Investment Committee at Victoria Capital Partners, an independent private equity firm focused on South America. With almost 30 years of professional career, he held CEO positions in several companies such as Anhanguera Educacional – today part of Cogna Educação – Google in Brazil and DIRECTV in Argentina, Uruguay and Peru, in addition to other executive positions at SKY Brasil. He worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company in offices in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico, focused on the practices of Financial Institutions and Telecom in the region. His previous experience also includes the area of M&A at the investment bank Robertson Stephens in the USA, the division of Private Equity of Credit Suisse in Brazil and the division of audit of Arthur Andersen also in Brazil. He served as Chairman of the Board of Damásio Educacional and Elemidia, as well as Member of the Board of Directors of Grupo Oncoclínicas and Qualicorp. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Positivo Tecnologia and Independent Member of the Board of Directors of Aliansce Sonae and Magnopus. Alexandre is a Civil Engineer, graduated from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and received his MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Guilherme Aboud

Partner – Investments

Guilherme Aboud is an Partner – Investments at São Pedro Capital. Guilherme was Strategic Advisor to the CEO of Caixa Econômica Federal where he worked on divestitures in excess of R$ 16 billion along with strategic discussions in the segments of insurance, lottery and asset management segment, in addition to several initiatives to improve governance of the largest Brazilian bank. Prior to Caixa, he worked at Astoria Capital Partners, a Financial Consulting boutique focused on small and medium-sized Brazilian companies, where he coordinated several buy-side and sell-side M&A projects in the sectors of Health, Consumer, Real Estate and Education Technology. Between 2010 and 2015, Guilherme worked in the Investment Banking team at Barclays, in more than 100 M&A, ECM and DCM projects involving large Brazilian and global companies, in the sectors of Telecommunications, Mining, Energy, Pulp and Paper, Consumer, Retail and Health. Guilherme has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV and received his MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Luciane Gomes

Partner – Operations, Risk & Compliance

Luciane Gomes is a Partner – Operations, Risk & Compliance at São Pedro Capital. Luciane was a Finance and Administration manager at Victoria Capital Partners in Brazil and has more than twenty years of experience in the financial market, of which fourteen spent at Claritas Investimentos, in the administrative and financial areas. In her last two years at Claritas, she served as Operations Manager, where she managed the back office of all local and offshore fund structures managed by the company. Luciane has a degree in Business Administration and an MBA in Finance from Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV.

Hélio Rotenberg

Senior Board Member ^(*)

Hélio Bruck Rotenberg has been a Senior Board Member at São Pedro Capital since its foundation. Hélio is the founder and CEO of Positivo Tecnologia having started his activities at Grupo Positivo in 1988, when he became the first director of the computer course at Faculdades Positivo (currently, Positivo University). In 1989 he led the founding of Positivo Tecnologia, taking the company to the leadership in the national computer market and inserting the country in the international map of Educational Technology exports. He held the position of Independent member of the Board of Directors at Rodobens in 2008 and 2009. Hélio is a civil engineer, graduated from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) in 1983, and holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from PUC/RJ since 1987.

(*) Due to his position as a shareholder and founder at Positivo Tecnologia, Hélio does not act as an Senior Board Member for FIP SPCONE.

Marcelo Lacerda

Senior Board Member

Marcelo Lacerda has been a Senior Board Member at São Pedro Capital since its foundation. Marcelo was a co-founder of Nutec Informatica along with Sérgio Pretto in 1986. Acquired by Telefonica in 1999, Nutec incorporated Terra Networks, the largest Internet company in Latin America at the moment. In 1999, Lacerda was a co-founder of F.biz, whose control was acquired by him later. In 2010, F.biz became the largest digital advertising agency in Brazil and was acquired by WPP Group in 2011. Lacerda and a group of executives hold a minority shareholding in the company. He is also co-founder and served as an executive at Blue Interactive S.A., a cable TV company with operations in 24 cities in nine Brazilian states. Blue Interactive was acquired by CLARO in January 2016. In 2012, Lacerda was a co-founder of Magnopus, a computer graphics software company headquartered in Los Angeles, California, a company of which he is Chairman of the Board of Directors. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of Elemidia and is a member of the Board of Directors of Atacadão S.A. (Carrefour Brasil Group). Marcelo studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.