Officers & Directors

Executive Officers

Name Office
Ricardo Dutra Principal Executive Officer

Mr. Dutra is the CEO of UOL Group (PagSeguro Digital Ltd., UOL CS, Compass/Edge UOL and UOL EdTech) since Oct-2022 and he had been a member of the Board of Directors between 2017 and 2022. Previously, he was the Chief Executive Officer of PagSeguro Digital Ltd. from Feb-2016 until Oct-2022 and worked for the UOL Group from 1997 to 2005, holding management positions in operations, marketing, and sales, and rejoined the group in 2009 as Country Manager at UOL Argentina in Buenos Aires, where he served until 2010. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical/industrial engineering from the Industrial Engineering University (Centro Universitário da Faculdade de Engenharia Industrial – FEI), a post-graduate degree in business from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV) in São Paulo, and an MBA from Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. Prior to rejoining UOL, he was a management consultant at Bain & Company from 2007 to 2009.

Alexandre Magnani Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Magnani is the Chief Executive Officer of PagSeguro Digital Ltd. since Oct-2022. He was the Chief Operating Officer of PagSeguro Digital Ltd. from Oct-2021 until Sep-2022. Previously, he was the Director of the company’s Acquiring Business Unit from 2015 until 2021. Before joining PagSeguro Digital Ltd., Mr. Magnani worked for nearly 15 years at Mastercard International, leading their Latin American regional new business development and retailer issuers initiatives. Prior to that, he spent over six years for Redecard and Credicard in Brazil. Mr. Magnani holds a bachelor’s degree and an MBA in business management from the Getulio Vargas Foundation (Fundação Getulio Vargas –FGV) in São Paulo, Brazil.

 

Artur Schunck Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer and Chief Accounting Officer

Mr. Schunck is the Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer and Chief Accounting Officer of PagSeguro Digital Ltd.. He has held multiple roles in the Finance department, leading the company’s Finance, Treasury, Controllership, BI, FP&A, Logistics, Financial Services, and Credit Products teams. Prior to that, from February 2014 to April 2015, he was the Director of Financial Planning and Treasury for our parent company UOL – Universo Online S.A., where he was in charge of the FP&A and Treasury functions and responsible for monthly forecasts, annual Budget, Accounts Payable, Cash Management and Funding structures and the group’s financial consolidation process. Before joining the UOL group, Mr. Schunck worked from January 2006 to December 2013 for Walmart Brasil Ltda. in several financial management roles, culminating in his position as the Director of FP&A and Strategy, leading the Financial Planning and Strategic teams. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Pontifical Catholic University of the State of Rio Grande do Sul (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul) in Porto Alegre, Brazil and an MBA in Business Management from the Getulio Vargas Foundation (Fundação Getulio Vargas –FGV) in São Paulo, Brazil.

Board of Directors

Name Office
Luis Frias Chairman

Mr. Frias has been the Chairman of our board of directors. He was the Principal Executive Officer between 2017 and 2022. He joined Grupo Folha in 1981 and has been its principal executive officer since 1989. In that capacity he led Grupo Folha’s expansion into various new markets, such as commercial printing (through Plural, a partnership with Quad Graphics) and e-commerce logistics (through Transfolha). In 1996, he founded UOL, a pioneering Brazilian Internet company. As Principal Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of UOL, he has expanded UOL’s business, through organic growth and more than 20 acquisitions, to cover digital content and products, e-learning and cloud/IT services, as well as the PagSeguro Digital Ltd. financial technology business. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of São Paulo (Universidade de São Paulo – USP).

Eduardo Alcaro Vice-Chairman

Mr. Alcaro is currently the Vice-Chairman of PagSeguro Digital and Chief Financial Officer of the UOL Edtech. He has been a member of our board of directors since 2017. Previously, he had been the Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer and Chief Accounting Officer of PagSeguro Digital from 2011 until 2021 and the Chief Financial Officer of the UOL group from 2011 until 2021. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV-SP) in São Paulo. Before joining our group, Mr. Alcaro held several positions, including Finance Vice President at Walmart Brazil from 2008 to 2011, Financial Planning and Investors Relations Director at Walmart USA from 2006 to 2008, Mergers & Acquisitions Director at Walmart USA from 2003 to 2006, Finance Manager at Walmart Brazil from 1997 to 2003 and Senior Auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1992 to 1997.

Maria Judith de Brito Director

Mrs. de Brito has been a member of our board of directors since July 19, 2017. She has also been head of human resources, legal matters and institutional relations of the UOL group since its creation in 1996, and has been the Vice Chairman of UOL’s board of directors since 2005. She has worked for Grupo Folha since 1990, and is the current Superintendent of Grupo Folha. She holds a bachelor’s degree in public administration from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV-SP) in São Paulo and a master’s degree in political science from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo – PUC-SP). Mrs. de Brito was a professor of the undergraduate course in Business Administration at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation from 1986 to 1990, and professor of the graduate program in journalism at ESPM (Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing) from 2011 to 2013. She was president of the National Newspaper Association (Associação Nacional de Jornais) from 2008 to 2012, and is currently a member of the board of ABECS.

Maria Carolina Ferreira Lacerda Independent Director

Ms. Lacerda has over 25 years of experience in the financial industry and has held various senior management positions throughout her career. Ms. Lacerda is currently an independent member of the board of directors and a coordinator of the audit, risk and related parties committee at China Three Gorges Brasil, one of the largest clean energy companies in the world. Since 2021, Ms. Lacerda has been an independent member of the board of directors at IHS Towers, a telecom infrastructure provider in Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, and at Rumo S.A., a Brazilian logistics company. Ms. Lacerda also acts as an independent board member and audit committee member of Hypera Pharma, the largest pharmaceutical company in Brazil since 2016. Ms. Lacerda has held various other senior management positions, including, among others: member of the board of directors and chair of the audit committee at Vibra Energia (former privatized BR Distribuidora) between 2019 and 2022; member of the board of directors of ANBIMA, CNF and the Listing Chamber at BM&FBovespa in Brazil between 2012 and 2016. She has also held senior roles in various investment banks, including: Managing Director (head of Investment Banking Brazil) at UBS Investment Bank from 2011 to 2015; Investment Banking Managing Director at UNIBANCO from 2008 to 2009; Investment Banking Managing Director at Deutsche Bank in Brazil in 2009; Investment Banking Director at Merrill Lynch, Inc. in Brazil and New York from 1999 to 2008; and Corporate Finance Analyst at Bear, Stearns & Company, Inc. in New York from 1996 to 1997. Ms. Lacerda holds an MBA degree in finance from Columbia Business School (USA), and a BA degree in economics from the University of São Paulo (Brazil).

Marcia Nogueira de Mello Independent Director

Ms. Mello holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Mackenzie Presbitarian University (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie) in São Paulo, Brazil. From 1984 until 1997, she worked for several information technology services companies, and since 1997 she has dedicated her career to the payments market, working for a series of companies in the industry, including Hypercom (1997/2004), Verifone (2004/2006), Sagem (2006/2007), and Electronic Data Systems (2007/2008), an HP company focusing on payments processing systems, business process outsourcing (BPO) and infrastructure. From 2008 until 2011 she worked at Cielo, first as IT Director, managing architecture, IT innovation and strategy, projects and certification and later as Commercial Director, to develop alternative sales channels (banks, enterprise resource planning (ERP) companies, international organization for standardization (ISO) standards, etc.). From 2011 until 2013 she rejoined the VeriFone Group to develop the Brazilian market for Point, a new business unit dedicated to expanding alternative payments infrastructure. After that, from 2013 until 2014 she acted as the Commercial Director for Elavon do Brasil for medium and large accounts. In mid-2014, she assumed the role of CEO of Global Payments South America and of member of the Board of Directors at Global Payments Serviços de Pagamentos Brazil. Since the beginning of 2020, Ms. Mello has focused on mentoring young executives and preparing women from underprivileged communities to enter the job market.

Cleveland Prates Teixeira Independent Director

Mr. Teixeira holds a master’s degree in Economics from Getúlio Vargas Foundation (Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV-SP) in São Paulo and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of São Paulo (Universidade de São Paulo – USP). From 2002 to 2004, he served as a Commissioner of the Administrative Counsel for Economic Defense (Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica – CADE), the Brazilian antitrust agency, and from 1999 to 2002, he served as Deputy Secretary for Economic Monitoring (Secretaria de Acompanhamento Econômico – SEAE) of the Brazilian Ministry of Finance, and as Coordinator General of Trade and Services and Cartel Prosecution for the same department. In 2002, he was a member of the Federal Fund for the Defense of Collective Rights of the Brazilian Ministry of Justice, and from 2006 to 2008, he was Council of the Brazilian Institute of Economics (Instituto Brasileiro de Economia – IBRE) at Getúlio Vargas Foundation (Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV). Since 2007, he has taught courses on Microeconomics, Economic Analysis of Law, Antitrust and Regulation at the GVLaw graduate program at the law school of Getúlio Vargas Foundation (Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV-SP) in São Paulo, and has coordinated a course in Market Regulation at the Foundation Institute of Economic Research (Fundação Instituto de Pesquisas Econômicas – FIPE). He is also the Managing Partner of Microanalysis Consultoria Econômica, having worked on economic issues and coordinated projects in financial, regulatory and competition affairs in various sectors of the economy, including consultancy to both national and international government agencies, such as the Applied Economic Research Institute (Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada – IPEA), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Develoment (UNCTAD) and the World Bank.