2020 Brazil Florida Business Awards

Guilherme Benchimol, CEO and Chairman of XP Inc. to receive the 2020 Brazil-Florida Business Award

We are very pleased and honored to inform   you that Guilherme Benchimol, Founder   and Chairman at XP Inc. is the Brazilian     recipient of the 2020 Brazil-Florida               Business Award. 

This special occasion gives us the opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate an exemplary business leader and his extraordinary corporation for their strategic vision and valuable contributions to the sustainable development of the economies of Brazil and Florida.

A veteran in the financial services market for more than 20 years, Benchimol founded the XP Group in 2001 and has been its CEO since its inception. Currently, he also serves on the board of XP Brazil as its Chairman since 2018.  Benchimol was listed in Bloomberg50: The People Who Defined Global Business in 2018 by Bloomberg Businessweek.  He holds a bachelor’s degree in business economics from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

XP Inc. is Brazil’s largest brokerage by equity trading volume. Inspired by Charles Schwab, XP Inc. has been at the forefront of changing the way Brazilians invest by offering middle-class investors access to sophisticated investment products and trading platforms. The IPO held last December on Nasdaq was the fourth-largest listing in the U.S. In 2019.