Keynote Speakers
Senior Partner, Plural Capital
Eduardo is a founding partner of Brasil Plural, one of the largest financial groups in Brazil with 40 billion BRL under management. In 2014 he was chosen as one of the top businessmen under 40 by the main business magazine in Brazil. He is also a bestselling author, columnist of Exame magazine, and the first Brazilian to be awarded by Queen Elizabeth II for his efforts to eliminated violence in the training of horses in Brazil.
Additional Speakers
Advisory Board Member, Cedro Technologies
Expansion Manager, Agencia Estado
Mr. Andrade is an Economist with broad experience working as a stock broker and currently is part of Agencia Estado's sales team as an expansion manager. He is responsible for presenting its real time solutions for participants of three different markets: political, financial, and agricultural. He plays a lead role in the Agribusiness project for Midwest, Northeast, and North regions of Brazil, traveling to the main agribusiness cities to present solutions to companies that demand high quality real-time information to improve their strategies and decision making process.
Head of Market Data and Co-Location Services, BM&F BOVESPA
Adolpho joined B3 in July 2013 and is the Head of Market Data, Analytics and IT Services. Adolpho was previously at FIS where he was Head of Sales for Latam. Before then he was a Director at Bloomberg managing the business of their data sales for Latam. Adolpho started work in the city with Sao Paulo, Brazil at Thomson Reuters, in their media sales team. Adolpho holds a BA from The University of Mackenzie and an MBA from The FIA University.
Chief Editor, Thomson Reuters
Cesar Bianconi is currently the editor-in-chief of Reuters News' local servie in Portuguese language. He took the helm of the unit in January 2013, after working in the same company as a reporter and editor for about ten years. During that period, he covered and oversaw coverage of Brazilian publicly listed and private companies, from steelmakers to pulpmakers to retailing and telecommunications firms. Bianconi has a degree in journalism from Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo and a masters degree in corporate finance from business school Ibmec Sao Paulo, currently Instituto Insper.
Vice President, FactSet Brasil
CEO, Taura
Maria Eugenia Cauduro Cruz is FISD Brazil Representative, responsible for events and membership for Latin America. She is also CEO of TAURA Representações, www.taurabr.com, co-author of the book “Manual de Negociação” (negotiation manual) and professor for international affairs graduation course and MBA at FAAP University in São Paulo, Brazil. In the past, she has worked at Reuters and Dow Jones Newswires, on partnership development, marketing and commercial areas, with 25 years’ experience on projects with United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America. She has a master degree (MPA) by FGV/EAESP and graduation on Marketing and Advertising at ESPM/SP.
CEO, AD Consulting
Anastasia Dokuchaeva is a seasoned professional with expertise and proven track record delivering regulatory technology solutions to the financial services industry. At this time Anastasia is an independent consultant working with the RegTech start-up community and advising firms on product and go-to-market strategy for recent and upcoming regulations such as 4MLD, MiFID II, and GDPR. She is currently working on such a project with London-based ClauseMatch. Prior to this, Anastasia was Director of Global Regulatory Solutions at FactSet, where under her leadership the company released a number of successful solutions for Solvency II, BCBS 239, PRIIPs and KYC/AML. Anastasia is a frequent speaker at industry events with the focus on challenges around data management and data standards.
Strategic Partnerships, Google
Alessandro Germano has more than 15 years of professional experience in innovation, new business development, partnership management, and start-ups. He currently leads strategic partnerships for a wide range of products at Google in Latin America, including finance, health, maps, ads, and social impact. Alessandro is a Bachelor of Engineering from Escola Politecnica da USP, and has a master's degree in Business from FGV-SP as well as a degree in Innovation from Stanford University. Alessandro is also a professor of Innovation Management at Senac Sao Paulo.
Telecommunications Executive Corporate Banking, Itau-Unibanco
Executive Director, XP Investimentos
Roberto Lee serves as Executive Director for XP Investimentos since the merger between XP and CLEAR Corretora (one of the leading companies for active traders in Brazil) which he co-founded in 2012.
Prior to that, he served such companies as Wintrade (founder), Agora CTVM, and Patagon.com.
Lee has 18 years' experience working with technology solutions for online trading, focusing on the design, development, and risk management systems for retail trading.
Sao Paulo Bureau Chief, Bloomberg News
Julia Leite is Bloomberg Sao Paulo's bureau chief, returning to her native Brazil after three years covering emerging markets for Bloomberg News at the company's headquarters in New York. She helps oversee a team of about thirty journalists covering several topics, including markets, commodities, finance, and deals, besides their real-time services in English and Portuguese. She joined Bloomberg after graduating with a master's degree in economic journalism from Columbia University in New York. Leite holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Sao Paulo (USP).
CEO, BDS
Carlos graduated in Business Administration from Escola de Administracao de Empresas da FGV (FGV Business Administration School) in 1981 and has over 15 years of experience working with financial markets. He began his career in the brokerage market, having been a broker of large financial institutions such as Banco Safra, Organizacoes ROMA (Globo), Banco Garantia, Cargill, Icatu Dtvm, Banco BBA Creditanstalt, Bung and Borg, Banco Central do Brasil, among others. In 1984 he was invited to be the Golden Superintendent of Banco Safra, then the person responsible for arbitrations and Golden Superintendent of Banco BBA Creditanstalt, and also had an active role in the development of the market of financial arbitrages in Brazil. In 1994 he founded the Ergondata Trading Systems, a company focused on technology for trading desks. During this time, Carlos brought the representation of TIBCO to Brazil and was its exclusive distributor for over 6 years until assigning the operations to Reuters in March 2000. In 1996 he conceived the BDS.h solution and became the partner manager of BDS solutions and information.
Operations Director, BM&FBOVESPA
Mario Palhares is currently the Managing Director responsible for trading at BM&FBOVESPA. He joined BM&FBOVESPA in 2002 and has held several positions at the Exchange, including Managing Director of BM&FBOVESPA Bank before taking on his current post. Prior to BM&FBOVESPA, Mr. Palhares worked for several Brazilian investment banks, brokerage houses, and pension funds. Mr. Palhares holds a master's degree in Business Administration from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janiero and an MBA in Finance from IBMEC.
EDM & Corporate Actions, BTG Pactual
Executive Director, CETIP
Carlos Eduardo Ratto Pereira is the current Executive Director at CETIP responsible for commercial and product development areas, which includes clients and institutional relationship management, product research, and product development. He is also responsible for supporting the company's CEO to develop and put in place the strategic planning.
He has almost 20 years of experience in financial market. He was team leader in two multinational banks (BankBoston and HSBC) for more than 10 years. He has large experience in the whole product life circle including business intelligence, product development, sales material, product training, client presentation, and post implementation review. During this time he built a solid contact with Sales teams, companies, institutional investors, regulators and other banks' product teams. Carlos Ratto has a Business Degree from São Paulo Catholic University, an MBA in Finance at IBMEC-SP and an MBA in Business Management at BankBoston Corporate University with a final exchange module at University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management - Toronto- CA.
Associate Director, CETIP
Ricardo Vit is an associate director at CETIP SA, heading the business of Trading Solutions, Market Data, and Qualified Services. He has a bachelor's degree in Business Administration and a business certificate from UCLA in Investments and Finance. His 15+ years of market experience has been focused on Fixed Income and OTC derivatives. He started his career at Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO), in Newport Beach, CA, working as a pricing, performance & data acquisition analyst for three years. Back to Brazil, Ricardo has been with Bloomberg for seven years, working with product development and specialized sales for different types of products, including data, analytics, trading, and order management systems, covering all countries in Latin America.