Executive Management

Mr. do Carmo Thomaz Júnior is our co-founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, a position he has held since our inception. Mr. do Carmo Thomaz Júnior 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, or 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 team in the Rio de Janeiro office. We believe that Mr. do Carmo Thomaz Júnior 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 co-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. Spolidoro is our Chief Financial Officer, a position he has held since January 2016. Mr. Spolidoro worked from 1998 to 2015 in asset management firms as Equity Portfolio Manager where he consolidated his solid knowledge in finance, financial market, equity analysis and business. Mr. Spolidoro holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering at UFRJ and a graduate degree in finance and capital markets at PUC RJ School of Business.

Mr. Shah is our Chief Strategy Officer, a position he has held since February 2020. He also serves as chairman of the board of directors at Avora Ltd (UK), Fact Finder GmbH (Germany), Magnolia AG (Switzerland) and Stonebranch Inc (U.S.). Previously, he was chief revenue officer for Microservices at SAP. From 2010 to 2016 he served as CEO at Jirafe Inc., a company he founded, which was acquired by SAP Hybris in 2016. From 2009 to 2010, Mr. Shah served as vice-president of Sales & Business Development at Magento Inc. Before Magento, he was co-founder of Joomlatools and OpenX. Mr. Shah holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from University of Chicago.

Mrs. Malik is our Chief Operating Officer for Growth, a position she has held since May 2021. She was vice-president of Global Go-to-market Strategy, Planning and Enablement from 2019 to 2021 and vice-president of Platform and Product Marketing from 2017 to 2019 at a high-growth SaaS company, Zendesk (NYSE: ZEN). Prior to that, she was vice-president of Marketing at PagerDuty (NYSE: PD). She has also held several other senior leadership positions across Sales and Marketing at Citrix, Prudential, Sumo Logic. Since November 2019, she also serves on the board of Greenhouse Software. Malik is an active advocate for diversity and leadership and recognized with awards by organizations committed to diversity initiatives, including Female Executive of the Year - Stevie awards for women in business and Business Leadership Award by the National Diversity Council. Mrs. Malik holds a Master of Science degree with the highest distinction along with a Director’s Award for academic excellence from Florida International University.

Mr. Forte is the Brazil Growth Officer, a position he has held since 2019. From 2001 to 2011 he was the co-founder and Director of WX7, where he co-led the company’s growth and subsequent acquisition by VTEX. From 2016 to 2019, Mr. Forte served as our Head of Sales in Brazil. Since 2019, when VTEX and TOTVS announced the joint venture, Mr. Forte has been chairman of its Board of Directors. Mr. Forte holds a law degree from the University of São Judas, a MBA in Ecommerce Strategic Management from Anhembi University and a MBA in Strategic and Economic Business Management from FGV University. Mr. Forte is also a guest lecturer at the MBA in Strategic Retail Management at Ibmec University.

Mr. Naranjo is our LatAm Growth Officer, a position he has held since June 2020. Mr. Naranjo served as Country Manager of Colombia from 2016 to 2020. Before joining VTEX, he served as Marketing Manager in Offcorss (CI Hermeco) for 10 years. Mr. Naranjo is a financial engineer and retail expert, passionate about Omnichannel and Cross Border ecommerce with more than 15 years of experience in ecommerce and retail, and 10 years of expertise leading the creation and expansion of successful brands, both physical and digital. Mr. Naranjo has also been a board member of the Colombian Chamber of Electronic Commerce (“CCCE”) since 2016 as a trusted advisor who shares knowledge that powers the ecommerce industry in Latin America. Santiago holds a B.S. degree in financial engineering with marketing at Universidad de Medellín.

Mr. Sodré is our Finance Executive Officer, a position he has held since February 2021. Previously, Mr. Sodré was a private equity investor at Advent International, where he joined as a trainee in 2009 before leaving as a director in January 2021. During his years at Advent, Mr. Sodré actively participated in more than 10 private equity investments, including CETIP, CCC Information Services and StoneCo, and in recent years he was a board member at Prisma Medios de Pago S.A., a leading payments company in Latin America, and GTM Holdings, a leading chemical distributor with presence in 11 countries in Latin America, where he was also a member of the Audit, Finance and M&A committees. Mr. Sodré holds a degree in Mechanical-Aeronautical Engineering with honors from Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (“ITA”) and an MBA from Harvard Business School.