He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1990), a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Getulio Vargas Foundation - SP (1993) and a doctorate in Business Administration from the Getulio Vargas Foundation - SP (2003). He is currently a collaborator - Inventive Solutions, an extracurricular professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation - SP, an adjunct professor at the Propaganda and Marketing Higher School and a full professor at the Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation. He has experience in the area of Business Administration with emphasis in Quantitative Modeling, and in Engineering with emphasis on Systems Simulation, working mainly on the following topics: big data, cognitive computing and computational finance.