Bio Details

Augusto Barbosa Estellita Lins is our President, a position he has held since 2018. He is responsible for the relationship with associations, certain key accounts and the support to distribution channels. In 2020, Augusto has also become responsible for overseeing and coordinating our social responsibility and sustainability team. Prior to joining StoneCo., he served as Commercial Director at Redecard from 2011 to 2013, where he was responsible for managing the relationship with merchants and oversaw the sales team. Between 2001 and 2011, he served as Director in different capacities at Itaú Unibanco, Hipercard Banco Múltiplo and Cartāo Unibanco, where he was responsible for marketing credit cards and consumer financial products, including personal loans, insurance products and installment plans. Between 1993 and 2001, he served as Corporate Finance Director at ING Bank, where he participated in numerous mergers and acquisitions, structured debt financings and other capital market transactions involving Brazilian and Latin American companies. Prior to joining ING Bank, he worked in the corporate finance department at N M Rothschild & Sons in England, Portugal, Spain and the United States, where he participated in several structured transactions. Mr. Lins received a degree in electric engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in 1985, an MBA degree in Finance from Boston University School of Management in 1990 and completed an advanced management program in Business Administration from Fundação Dom Cabral/INSEAD in 2004. He also participated in the Owner President Manager Program at Harvard Business School in 2017.