Fostering Bilateral Trade and Investment Flows Between Brazil and Florida

Brazil-Florida Business Award Honorees

Acknowledging and celebrating exemplary business and civic leaders and their extraordinary organizations for their strategic vision and valuable contributions to the sustainable economic and social development of Brazil and Florida.

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Guilherme Benchimol
Founder & Chairman of XP Inc.

Guilherme Benchimol is the Chairman of our board of directors of XP Inc., a position he has held since August 2019. Mr. Benchimol has over 20 years’ experience in the financial services market. He founded the XP group in 2001 and has been its chief executive officer since 2001. Currently, Mr. Benchimol also serves on the boards of XP Brazil as the Chairman since 2018. Mr. Benchimol holds a bachelor’s degree in business economics from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. 

He was listed in Bloomberg50: The people who defined global business in 2018 by Bloomberg Business Week. The IPO held on NASDAQ was fourth-largest listing in the U.S. in 2019.


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