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Jorge C. Kapotas

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Jorge C. Kapotas graduated in Business Administration at FEA-USP, as well as in History at FFCHL-USP, in 1982. He held executive positions in corporate finance before leaving for California in 1984. In Los Angeles, he completed his MBA at UCLA with a strong concentration in Finance in 1986, moving to the East Coast in the same year. In New York, he began his career in the global financial markets at Merrill Lynch, where he remained until 1991 as Vice President at Merrill Lynch Capital Markets. After his return to Brazil that same year, he held executive positions in several banks in São Paulo, including Banco Francês e Brasileiro, Banco Cidade and Banco Credibanco, where he was International Director from 1996 to 2000. In 2002 he completed his Master of Science in Mathematical Modeling in Finance at IME-FEA University of São Paulo and in 2008 he received his PhD in Applied Mathematics at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics at USP. He is currently the CEO of Octaplus Financial Analytics.

Pedro Paulo Schirmer

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Graduated in telecommunications engineering at the Instituto Militar de Engenharia in 1984 with a master’s degree in mathematics, completed in 1985 at the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA). In 1989, he obtained his PhD degree from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. After completing his PhD, he held an assistant professorship position at the Institut für Angewandte Mathematik, the Institute of Applied Mathematics at the University of Bonn, Germany, where he worked for almost seven consecutive years in the field of differential equations. After his return to Brazil, in 1996, he became an Associate Professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (IME-USP) at the University of São Paulo. In addition to his research in applied mathematics, he actively participated in the joint IME-FEA master’s program in financial engineering. Since 2010 he has been the COO of Octaplus Financial Analytics.

André de Oliveira

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He studied Computing at UNESP and Mathematics at PUC-SP, improved knowledge in applied mathematics, economics and finance in courses at institutions such as the Central Bank of Brazil, IME-USP and IMPA. He worked with applied research in research centers such as Fundação CERTI (UFSC) and Tanque de Provas Numérico (POLI-USP), he was the creator and co-author of software for the aerospace sector covered by the FINEP/MCT economic subsidy program. He has extensive experience in research, development and innovation in the industry, having worked in engineering positions at pioneering startups in networking appliances, machine-learning and data-science in Canada, Spain and Germany. Created, developed and implemented core backends for companies such as TIM, OLX, Thales Air Systems and Alcantara Space Center, Banco do Brasil and Caixa Econômica Federal. An open-source enthusiast, he produced contributions as a developer of the OpenBSD project, launched open source solutions and was the first Latin American invited to speak at BSDCan at the University of Ottawa. He is currently CTO at Octaplus Financial Analytics.

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