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.