Mr. Carvalho is Laplace’s founder, and currently Chairman of the Board of Grupo Casas Bahia.
Before Laplace, he was a founding partner of Angra Partners and worked at Accenture, Lehman Brothers in New York, and in the Corporate Finance Division of Monitor Clipper Partners in Boston; he has also participated as a member of the Board of Directors of companies such as Telemig Celular, Terra Santa Propriedades Agrícolas, Progen, Metrô do Rio de Janeiro and TMA.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechatronics engineering from the University of São Paulo’s Polytechnic School and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Mr. Carvalho is also a former Corporate Finance Professor at the Insper Instituição de Ensino e Pesquisa in São Paulo.