São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Co-founder and CEO of Bullet: borderless money, built on blockchain and AI-native since day zero. For over 2 decades I've built and scaled fintechs that didn't exist before. I've led the operations to build and launch Revolut X, Revolut's native crypto exchange in 2024. I had joined Revolut as its first employee in Brazil and launched it there (2021 to 2023). In 2014, I co-founded Neon, one of Brazil's pioneer digital banks and a future unicorn, back when fintech regulation was still only on paper. Earlier still came a venture builder called Startup House (2011) and a career in traditional financial at Merrill Lynch Investment Bank, from 2004 to 2011. The throughline never changed: build the financial rails from the ground up. With Bullet, that means the next generation of financial services, built on-chain. The Future of Money.
Bullet is the Future of Money. Not another bank, not just a fintech, the next generation that replaces it all. The first generation of fintech made money feel modern. But it was a new face on a very old stack. The next wave is different, because the stack itself changed: stablecoins settle globally and 24/7, self-custody makes the account belong to you instead of the institution, and on-chain rails sit underneath for payments, cards, savings, investments, and credit. We are rebuilding everything a neobank does, with none of the dependencies. In the old system, everyone earns on your money: the bank on your idle balance, the network on every swipe, the middlemen on every border. Bullet wants to invert that. Your money stops living inside an institution, inside a jurisdiction, under rules that can change overnight with a new tax, a regulatory shift, or a bank failure. It lives on a foundation where the rules are written in mathematics, not legislation, and access is governed by cryptography, not institutions. Same products a bank gives you, on a fundamentally different foundation on-chain: programmable money that works for you first. It runs 24/7, settles in seconds, earns while it waits, and crosses any border without asking permission, all while feeling like the everyday app you already know. Banking without a bank. Built on blockchain.
Leading operations for the Crypto Exchange, focusing on: - Strategic planning for immediate and future market expansions within the UK, EEA, and globally. - Defining product roadmap and scope for Spot Trading, Futures, and Perpetuals. - Streamlining onboarding and integrating crypto and fiat transaction channels. - Establishing entities and securing necessary licenses for operational scalability. - Crafting and executing market entry, growth, and operational strategies. - Enhancing customer support to ensure user satisfaction and loyalty.
- Initiated Revolut's entry into Brazil as the first hire - Crafted the foundational strategy for market introduction. - Set up of local entities and infrastructure - Successfully navigated the application process for the Revolut SCD License, securing the authorization. - Grew the team to 40 top-tier professionals - Created a talent hub supporting global departments with over 80 employees. - Oversaw Strategy, Product, Operations, and Customer Support, aligning all facets towards organizational objectives. - Launched global accounts and the Crypto product, pioneering the first 24/7 real-time FX conversion from BRL to 34 currencies in Brazil.
Co-founded from scratch one of the first digital banks to be created in Brazil: NEON. The digital account was born as a Debit Card called Contro.ly with an innovative and disruptive purpose, which was later transformed which is now Neon Pagamentos.
One of the first Venture Builders in Brazil, responsible to test several business ideas on the market and create the next generation of ventures. We were not investors, accelerators nor incubators. We had a high performance squad that created the business from scratch, searched for a product-market fit and prepared the venture for its independency.
Worked as a Derivatives Scructuring and Corporate Sales for Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities desk.