Mr. d’Amato is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with an extensive background in the Brazilian financial market. He was a partner at HedgingGriffo and Credit Suisse Hedging-Griffo, where he worked for over twenty years, before co-founding Aston Capital Management, a Registered Investment Advisor with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission with $350 million of assets under management. He is also responsible for managing six different investment funds domiciled in the Cayman Islands and the U.S.

• BSc. in Business Administration, focusing on General Management, from the Sao Paulo School of Business Administration.
• Masters in Business and Economics from the Sao Paulo Institute of Applied Economic Research.
• Masters in Business Administration from Northwestern University