Board of Directors

Mr. Thomaz is our Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, a position he has held since our inception. Mr. Thomaz is also our co-chairman of our board of directors, a position he has held since 2019. Graduated in Mechanical Engineering at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Geraldo developed the VTEX platform under the SaaS model, providing systems, servers, security and infrastructure for enterprise-level companies. Since 2021, he has also served as a board member for Instituto Reditus, a non-profit organization in Brazil. He currently also leads the Research & Development teams. We believe that Mr. Thomaz is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his considerable business experience in the technology industry and his experience serving as a director of other companies.

Mr. Gomide de Faria is our Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, a position he has held since our inception. Mr. Gomide de Faria is also our co-Chairman of our board of directors, a position he has held since 2019. Graduated in Mechanical Engineering at UFRJ. Mariano currently leads VTEX’s Sales and Marketing teams, overseeing the UK and Asia markets. He is a teacher and lecturer for events like ecommerce Day, Internet Retailer, eShow, and UNCTAD ecommerce Week. We believe that Mr. Gomide de Faria is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his considerable business experience in the technology industry and his experience serving as a director of other companies.

Mr. Alvarez-Demalde is a member of our board of directors, a position he has held since 2019. He also acted as a member of the board of our subsidiary, VTEX Brazil from 2014 to 2019. He is a co-founder and co-managing partner of Riverwood Capital, a leading growth-capital private equity firm focused on the global technology industry, and one of the largest early investors in VTEX. Before starting Riverwood Capital, Mr. Alvarez-Demalde was an investment executive at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., where he focused on leveraged buyouts in the technology industry and other sectors, and was also with Eton Park Capital Management and Goldman Sachs & Co. Mr. Alvarez-Demalde is a former and current director of and/or advisor to several technology companies, including Alog Data Centers do Brasil, Billtrust (Nasdaq: BTRS), Conductor, Globant (NYSE: GLOB), Greenhouse, Industrious, LAVCA, Navent, Nubox, among others. Mr. Alvarez-Demalde holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina, which included an exchange program at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Alvarez-Demalde is also a Global Ambassador with Endeavor, and interested in non-profit initiatives related to education. We believe that Mr. Alvarez-Demalde is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his considerable business experience in the technology industry and his experience serving as a director of other companies.

Mr. Scannapieco is an independent member of our board of directors and co-chairman of the Audit Committee, positions he has held since May 2021. Currently, he is managing director of the Business Hack-ing Studio at Globant. Prior to that, he led the U.S. East Region for Globant and was the chief financial officer from 2008-2018. Prior to joining Globant in 2008, Alejandro served as chief financial officer at Microsoft South Cone (2002-2008) and Patagon.com South America (1999-2002), an internet startup that was sold to Santander Bank. He also served as Senior Finance Analyst at JP Morgan (1994-1999) and Senior Auditor at EY (1990-1994). Mr. Scannapieco currently serves as a board member for RetailApp Inc., a performance management platform for retailers, a position he has held since 2016. Mr. Scannapieco holds a postgraduate degree in capital markets, a degree in public accounting and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. He has also completed a postgraduate degree in finance from Torcuato Di Tella University.

Mr. Matin is an independent member of our board of directors, a position he has held since May 2021. Mr. Matin is the president and chief executive officer of Avetta, LLC, a private company providing cloud-based supply chain risk management solutions which he joined in October 2019. From November 2018 to September 2019, he was an entrepreneur-in-residence with Warburg Pincus LLC, a private equity firm. From 2013 to October 2018, he was the president, chief executive officer and a board member of Paradigm Ltd., a leading developer of software solutions to the global oil and gas industry, when it was acquired by Emerson Electric Co. From January 2012 to April 2013, Mr. Matin was executive vice president of IHS Inc., a publicly-traded company that is a leading global source of information and analytics. Mr. Matin joined IHS through the acquisition of Seismic Micro-Technology, Inc., or SMT, a global leader in the geology and geophysics software market. He joined SMT in July 2007 and was its president, chief executive officer and a board member. Before joining SMT, Mr. Matin was general manager of the enterprise security business unit at Symantec Corporation, which he joined in January 2006 upon the company’s acquisition of BindView Corporation, a global provider of agentless IT security compliance software. Mr. Matin also served as a partner of McKinsey & Company from 1995 to 2004 in their Houston offices. Mr. Matin also serves as chairman of the board of directors of NYSE-listed ASGN, a provider of information technology and professional services in the technology, digital, creative, engineering and life sciences fields across commercial and government sectors. Mr. Matin also served as a member of the board of directors of RS Energy Group, a Canadian company supporting companies in the oil and gas industry with its data analytics and forensic research, from December 2018 to January 2020. In addition, Mr. Matin serves as a board member or trustee on non-profit organizations including the Houston Endowment, Texas Children’s Hospital and Asia Society Texas Center. Mr. Matin brings extensive experience managing and advising public and private high-technology companies. Mr. Matin holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School, a master’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and a bachelor’s of degree in electrical engineering from Regional Engineering College in India.

Mr. Fouilland is an independent member of our board of directors and co-chairman of our audit committee, a position he has held since May 2021. Mr. Fouilland is currently chief financial officer of Firmenich, one of the world’s largest fragrance and taste companies. From March 2012 to July 2020, he served as chief financial officer of Criteo SA, a global advertising technology company (NASDAQ: CRTO). From September 2009 to March 2012, he served as senior vice president and chief financial officer for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region of SAP AG, a multinational software corporation. From April 2008 to September 2009, Mr. Fouilland was the chief financial officer of Business Objects S.A., an enterprise software company which was acquired by SAP AG in 2007. Mr. Fouilland holds an MBA from INSEAD, a Diplôme d’Études Supérieures Spécialisées degree in Financial Audit from Université Paris Dauphine and a Business degree from the ESLSCA Graduate School of Business in Paris.