Fersen Lamas Lambranho (born October 11, 1961 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian entrepreneur and investor. He is currently partner and chairman of GP Investments, the asset management and investment firm based in Latin America, and has been listed among the 'most experienced Venture Capital investors in Brazil'.[1][2] Having played a key role in Lojas Americas, Lambranho founded Americanas.com and was an early internet investor in Submarino and Shoptime in the late 1990s, which later became B2W. Key investments have included Equatorial Energia, Rumo, Oi, BRMalls, Magnesita and others.[3]
He started at GP Investments in 1998 and became a managing director in 1999. Four years later, Lambranho and current partner Antonio Bonchristiano started assuming the leadership of the firm, which they had control of by 2004. Under its new leadership, the firm was able to raise more private equity funds and expands its activities to investments in real estate and infrastructure.[5] GP is now a pivotal player in the Brazilian financing scene.[6][7][8][9][10][11] Lambranho also sits on the board of Centauro and Magnesita S.A.[12]
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Lambranho is a board member of several non-profit entities, such as Fundação Bienal de São Paulo[13] and COPPEAD-UFRJ.[14] Together with his wife, Paloma Lambranho, he is co-founder of the group Patronos da Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and is part of the committee of Prêmio IP Capital Partners de Arte (PIPA) 2014.[15][16]
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↑ Napolitano, Giuliana (2022-09-13). "Baixa no mercado de VC é passageira, dizem Fersen e Bonchristiano". BrazilJournal (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-10-05. Antonio Bonchristiano and Fersen Lambranho — two of the most experienced private equity and venture capital investors in the country — see a parallel between the current moment and the burst of the Nasdaq bubble in 2000.
↑ "Fersen Lambranho, da GP e da G2D, no quinto bate-papo do Exame IN". Exame (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2021-08-19. Retrieved 2022-10-05. For those who don't know, because he was always very discreet and avoided interviews as much as possible, Lambranho is behind several of the biggest Brazilian companies today — Equatorial Energia, ALL (Rumo), Oi, brMalls, LBR (milks), Magnesita, among many others. others. There was no sector in which there was not a foot of GP in the first decade of the 2000s. In addition to being one of the pioneers of internet investments, with Submarino, Webmotors, Mandic, iG and Patagon, among others.
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