The operating system of Brazilian payments

Prior to Nova, he served as Vice President of Product Strategy at Neon, one of Brazil’s largest neobanks. Previously, he worked as a growth equity investor at General Atlantic and in private equity at The Carlyle Group and Tarpon Investimentos. He holds degrees in Business Administration from FGV and International Business from Northeastern University, and attended the Stanford Executive Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was named to the Forbes Under 30 list.

Before Nova, she spent five years at Google, where she was the Lead Product Manager of the Google Pay API - spearheading global initiatives such as the launch of Buy Now, Pay Later in partnership with Affirm, Afterpay, and Zip - and Lead Product Manager of Google Pay Africa. Previously, she founded and served as CEO of ConnectMed, a Kenyan healthtech company acquired by Merck KGaA. A Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, she earned an MSc in Computer Science and an MBA, and holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech.

A veteran of the Brazilian financial industry, he served as CEO of Neon from 2020 to 2022 and continues to serve as Executive Chairman of the Board. Prior to that, he spent 13 years at Banco Itaú, where he was a Managing Director (MD) and CEO of Itaú Europa Luxembourg, as well as COO of Itaú Europa International in the United States. He also co-founded Guide Investimentos, which was acquired by Safra. He is a founding partner of Yellow Ventures and Chairman of the Board at Inmetrics. He completed the Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD.