Ricardo Güther is a seasoned finance professional with over 19 years of experience in treasury and financial operations within large multinational corporations. Holding an MBA in Controllership and Finance from USP Esalq, Ricardo has built a career marked by strategic leadership, operational excellence, and deep expertise in financial risk management. Currently serving as Senior Treasury Manager at Arcos Dorados (McDonald’s master franchisee in Latin America), Ricardo leads a team overseeing the full financial cycle, including accounts payable and receivable, real estate administration, insurance, and treasury operations. He has spearheaded initiatives in e-commerce support, liquidity planning, and debt issuance. His previous roles include Treasury Manager for Latin America at General Mills, Baxter, CHS Agronegócio, BASF, and Itaú, Ricardo held various leadership positions in credit, collections, and treasury, consistently driving improvements in cash flow management, risk control, and financial reporting. Ricardo is known for his analytical mindset, hands-on approach to financial strategy, and ability to lead cross-functional teams through complex transformations.

Ariel Mares Machado is currently Treasurer of iFood, with over 15 years of experience as a seasoned treasury and finance executive at leading financial institutions in Latin America. His distinguished career encompasses extensive expertise in banking operations at BTG Pactual, Latin America’s largest investment bank, and in corporate treasury management and ALM at Mercado Livre, one of the region’s largest technology companies.

Carolina is a seasoned financial expert with over 20 years of experience in financial products and services. She serves as an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Corporate & Investment Bank’s Payments division. Carolina joined the Payments Management team in June 2022 as the Head of Payments Sales for Brazil Corporates and was later promoted to Brazil Payments Head in August 2024.
Her career in the financial sector began in 2004 at Santander Brazil, where she worked in the Markets team, specializing in FICC Derivatives Structuring and Sales. In 2011, she transitioned to Itaú BBA’s International Corporate Sales team in London, and in 2013, she moved to their New York office, focusing on selling LATAM products to US multinational corporations.
In 2018, Carolina returned to Santander Brazil as the Head of Multinationals (Americas & Asia) within the Global Corporate Bank team, from where she was invited to join J.P. Morgan.
She holds a degree in Business Administration from Fundação Getulio Vargas and a postgraduate degree in Finance from NYU Stern.

More than 15 years’ experience in Finance across multinational companies, in different segments (Chemical Industry, Consumer Goods and Civil Construction), with International Experience as finance business partner of Latin America countries. For the last 5 years, I´m Treasury Manager for Americas at Solvay Group. Believe that people will lead companies to another level, challenging ourselves with new goals, I am an enthusiast of digital transformation and business strategy.

Eduardo joined JP Morgan in 2008, as cash management product manager. In 2016, he was promoted to sales director in Brazil for products and services for financial institutions, fintechs, insurance companies and the public secto, being appointed as Brazil Payments head in 2021. Since 2024, Eduardo serves the company as the treasury services latam head.

He began his professional experience in the financial sector in 2002 at Deloitte consulting. In 2007, he was transferred to San Fancisco to work with financial institutions.

With over 20 years of experience with financial products and services, Eduardo is leading the franchise through an evolving regulatory & economical scenario.

He holds a degree in production engineering from the university of Sao Paulo, and a postgraduate degree(MBA) in finance from Insper.

Thiago is a business administrator with a postgraduate degree in Business Management from Fundação Dom Cabral and a master’s degree in Administration with a specialization in Business Management from FIA. Thiago began his career at Cielo in January 2018 and is currently Executive Superintendent of Treasury and Term Products. He has 21 years of professional experience in Financial Planning, Controllership, Investor Relations, Treasury, and Term Products at leading companies such as Cielo, GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes, Marfrig Global Foods, Cargill, and Ericsson Telecomunicações – in Brazil and Jordan.

Meily Franco is a tax executive with extensive experience at companies such as PwC, ContourGlobal, and Alstom, focusing on the Latin American market. Her solid academic background and corporate governance expertise, developed as a member of fiscal councils at associations and listed companies, give her a comprehensive perspective and make her a leading figure in the sector. She participates in several associations in Tax Law, Finance and Corporate Governance and acts as a mentor for professionals in Finance and Tax.

Leandro Wendt is CFO at Agrícola Alvorada. Finance executive with more than 20 years of experience across all financial departments, holding decision-making positions in different companies such as Nutrien, Corteva, Dow Chemical, LDC and Brasil Foods. He has extensive experience in structuring departments, implementation of governance and internal controls, having built and led high-performance teams in constantly evolving environments. Awarded as Treasurer of the Year in 2022 by IBTC and leadership over the finalist teams for the IBEF Award for two consecutive years (2021 and 2022) and over the award-wining team of CONACREDI (2023); all of them recognized institutions in Brazil.Leandro holds an MBA from Fundação Getúlio Vargas and graduated from Universidade do Vale do Itajaí with a bachelor’s in business administration.

Andrea Iorio is one of the most requested keynote speakers about Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation, Leadership and Customer-centricity globally, and he shares his thoughts and ideas at the intersection of business, technology, philosophy and neuroscience in his more than 100 keynotes per year to many Fortune 500 companies such as Abbott, Bayer, Cargill, Dow, IBM, Roche, Syngenta, Tetrapak and more. He is the author of the book “Between You and AI: Unlock the Power of Human Skills to Thrive in an AI-Driven World”, published by Wiley.

He is a columnist at the MIT Technology Review Brazil, the official host of NVIDIA’s podcast in Brazil, counts with more than 100k followers on Social Media, and has been ranked among the 15 main global AI influencers on Linkedin by Taplio.

He speaks frequently at high-profile conferences such as the AI Summit by Informa Tech, InsureTech Connect by Clarion Events and the Banking Transformation Summit by MoneyNext.

He holds more than 10 years of experience in multinational and tech companies: he was the Head of Tinder across Latin America for 5 years, and Chief Digital Officer at L’Oréal Brazil. He is an economist with a Degree from Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), and a MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins’ SAIS (Washington, DC), and is now an MBA professor at Fundação Dom Cabral.