Board of Directors
Guilherme Dias Fernandes Benchimol is the Chairman of the Board, a position he has held since August 2019. Mr. Benchimol has over 20 years’ experience in the financial services market. He founded XP group in 2001 and has been its chief executive officer from 2001 to May 2021. Currently, Mr. Benchimol also serves on the board of XP Brazil as the Chairman since 2018, and focuses on new expansion and growth initiatives. Mr. Benchimol holds a bachelor’s degree in business economics from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
Chair of the Compensation Committee
Bruno Constantino Alexandre dos Santos is a member of our board of directors, a position he has held since November 2019 and our Chief Financial Officer, a position he has held since November 2019. Mr. Constantino has over 20 years’ experience in the financial markets. He joined XP CCTVM in 2012 and has been its chief financial officer since 2019. Prior to joining us, he was CIO of Graphus Capital from 2010 to 2012 and a partner at BTG Pactual from 2000 to 2010. He also served as a member of the board of directors of CEMIG from 2002 to 2004, Light from 2006 to 2009, and Valid from 2010 to 2019. Mr. Constantino was awarded a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter in 2009. Mr. Constantino holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and an MBA from IBMEC Group.
Member of the Compensation Committee
Gabriel Klas da Rocha Leal is a member of our board of directors, a position he has held since November 2019. Mr. Leal has been with the XP group since 2006, has been a board member of XP Brazil since 2018, and has been an executive officer of XP CCTVM since 2019. Prior to joining us, he worked at SC Johnson from 2002 to 2006. Mr. Leal holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and an MBA from IBMEC Group.
Member of the Compensation Committee
Bernardo Amaral Botelho is a member of our board of directors, a position he has held since November 2019. Mr. Amaral has been with the XP group since 2007 and has been a board member of XP Brazil since 2018. He is also an executive officer of XP CCTVM, XP Gestão, XP Vista, XP Advisory, XP VP, Tecfinance, XP Educação and Leadr. Prior to joining us, he was a lawyer of Costa Advogados Associados from 2001 to 2007. Mr. Amaral holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and an LLM in Business Law from IBMEC Group.
Fabrício Cunha de Almeida is a member of our board of directors and our general counsel, positions he has held since November 2019. Mr. Almeida has been in XP group since 2011. Prior to joining us, he was a lawyer at Barbosa, Müssnich & Aragão from 2005 to 2011. Mr. Almeida holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Universidade Cândido Mendes in Rio de Janeiro and holds a postgraduate degree in corporate law and capital markets from FGV.
Guilherme Sant’Anna Monteiro da Silva is a member of our board of directors, a position he has held since November 2019. Mr. Monteiro da Silva joined XP CCTVM in 2018 as executive director. Prior to joining us, he worked at Falconi Consulting from 2005 to 2018. Mr. Monteiro da Silva holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Universidade Federal de Viçosa and an MBA in corporate finance from Universidade de São Paulo.
Martin Emiliano Escobari Lifchitz is a member of our board of directors, a position he has held since November 2019. He has been with General Atlantic since 2012, and is a member of its Management Committee, is the Chair of its Investment Committee, and is the head of its Latin America business. Mr. Escobari serves on the board of directors of XP Brazil, Arco Platform Ltd., Laboratorios Sanfer, S.A.P.I. de C.V., Grupo Axo, S.A.P.I. de C.V., and has previously served on the boards of Ourofino Saude Animal Participações S.A., Sura Asset Management, Smiles S.A., Aceco TI Participações S.A., Grupo Linx, Decolar.com, Inc and Empreendimentos Pague Menos SA. Mr. Escobari co-founded submarino.com and was its chief financial officer from 1999 to 2007. He was an associate at the Boston Consulting Group (New York) from 1994 to 1996, an investment officer at the private equity firm GP Investimentos from 1998 to 1999, and a managing director at Advent International from 2007 to 2011. Mr. Escobari holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard College (Harvard University) and an MBA (George F. Baker Scholar) from Harvard Business School. He serves on the board of Primeira Chance, a scholarship program for gifted children in Brazil and is active with Endeavor Brazil, where he mentors young entrepreneurs. Mr. Escobari is also a member of the Brazil office of Harvard’s Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and a board member of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Member of the Compensation Committee
Geraldo José Carbone is a member of our board of directors, a position he has held since November 2019. He is currently a member of the compensation committee of Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A. Mr. Carbone is a corporate governance consultant for Aché Laboratórios Farmacêuticos and currently serves on the board of directors of Aché Laboratórios Farmacêuticos and Copersucar S.A. Mr. Carbone was president of BankBoston in Brazil from 1997 to 2006 and an executive vice president at Itaú Unibanco S.A. from 2008 to 2011. He was also a director at Federação Brasileira de Bancos (Febraban) from 2001 to 2006 and president of ABBI—Associação Brasileira de Bancos Internacionais from 2000 to 2004. Mr. Carbone is also actively involved in cultural initiatives, and is an executive director of MASP—Museu de Arte de São Paulo, and the chairman of MAM— Museum of Modern Art, among others. Mr. Carbone holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of São Paulo.
Cristiana Pereira is a board member of XP Inc since June 2022. With over 20 years of experience in capital markets, Mrs Pereira is founder and partner of ACE Governance, a consulting firm specialized in corporate governance and capital markets. She is also a member of the board and remuneration committee at Maestro Locadora de Veículos S.A., member of the board at CESAR, Innovation Institute of Recife, and Arco ILP S.A., and coordinator of the Audit Committee of CERC S.A. Mrs Pereira is also a former member of the fiscal council of Bradesco S.A., and former managing director for B3, where she participated in important projects, such as the creation of Novo Mercado and of distance voting service for Brazilian companies. She participated in the Executive Program of Wharton School, in the Board Member Program of IBGC and in the Advanced Boardroom for Women – ABP-W of Saint Paul Business School. She is also an instructor for several executive programs and a volunteer in different initiatives related to Governance and Capital Markets at the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance – IBGC, has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a master’s degree in Economics from FGV – Fundação Getúlio Vargas, with an extension at Università Bocconi. Mrs Pereira is an economist from Unicamp, State University of Campinas.
Chair of the Audit Committee
Luiz Felipe Calabró is a member of our board of directors, a position he has held since August 2020. He is a lawyer with over 20 years of progressive experience in capital markets, self-regulatory activities in stock, derivatives and commodities exchange, commercial law, compliance, capital markets and banking regulation, clearing house and central depository of legal issues, investment funds and asset management regulation, consumer law, banking consumer, contracts, civil litigation and corporation law. After working on various law firms, Mr Calabró worked 13 years at BSM Market Supervision at B3 (2007-2020) and is currently the Legal Counsel at Levy & Salomão Advogados. He holds graduate, post-graduate and master’s law degrees from the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC SP) and a PhD in Commercial Law from the University of São Paulo (USP).
Independent Member of the Audit Committee
Guy Almeida Andrade is a board member of XP Inc since May 2021. He has more than forty years of work experience in auditing, accounting, internal controls, valuation and taxes. Mr. Andrade is a board member of several public and private companies and management and governance entities in Brazil and abroad. Guy has bachelor’s degrees in Accounting and Business Management from the University of São Paulo (USP) and Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, respectively.
Independent Member of the Audit Committee