Management

Ari de Sá Cavalcante Neto is a member of our board of directors and our Chief Executive Officer, positions he has held since February 2018. He has been a member of the advisory committee at Colégio Ari de Sá since 2007. Mr. de Sá Cavalcante Neto was an associate at Ernst & Young from 1998 to 2000. He was the chief operating officer of Colégio Ari de Sá from 2001 to 2005, and was an associate at McKinsey & Company in 2006. He holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Roberto Otero is our Chief Financial Officer, position he has held since May 2021. Previously, Mr. Otero has worked for 12 years at Bank of America as a Research Director. He holds a bachelor’s degree for Business Administration from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV).

Renata Machado is our Chief Operating Officer, position she has held since March 2022. She has previously served as People Director between September 2019 and November 2021, and People and Operations Director from December 2021 to February 2022. Mrs. Machado worked for 5 years at McKinsey & Company and, prior to that, she worked as a senior economist at a boutique consultancy firm. Mrs. Machado holds a bachelor degree in Economics from University of São Paulo and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

João Cunha is our Chief Product Officer. João has also been the CEO of SAS Digital, one of Arco’s core business units, since 2018. Prior to joining us, Mr. Cunha Silva was worked at Boston Consulting Group. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), and a certificate from the Executive Leadership Development program at Stanford University.