Bruno Wittmaack
Chief Financial Officer at Oxygea
Bruno Wittmaack
Chief Financial Officer at Oxygea
São Paulo, São Paulo
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Financial Officer
2023 - Current
Oxygea is corporate venture capital investment firm and innovation acceleration hub focused on sustainability and digital transformation. Reporting directly to the CEO and Board in quarterly meetings. Responsible for the group Financial Planning and Analysis Strong interaction with corporate areas and investment team.
CFOO & Venture Capital Partner
2020 - 2023
Partner & Chief Financial and Operating Officer Responsible for the group Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Reporting directly to our senior partners in quarterly meetings. Venture Capital - focused in Retailtechs (2022 onwards): Led the transition to a venture capital firm, structured and helped raise a R$40 million Venture Capital Fund (Jun/22, 1st close) Member of the Investment Committee focused in deal structure, negoation and valuation. Responsible for our relationship with legal advisors, fund admin, fund regulation activities and invested company financials. Legacy Business (until 2022) HiPartners holding+ 6 directly invested companies Directly involved in proprietary pipeline, negotiation and exit strategies 2 deals in 2020, 1 exit in 2021, 1 exit in 2022 M&A advisory: worked closely with 3 fintechs (payments/acquiring), modeling and preparing for potential sale/investment round. Developed strong relationship with a sector leader (NYSE listed).
Equity Analyst
2019 - 2020
Founded in May 2010, Ibiuna Investimentos is an asset management company, currently with more than R$32 billion in assets under management. Senior analyst responsible for coverage and recomendation of companies in the Capital Goods, Logistics, Infrastructure, Fuel Distribution & Education sectors.
Partner
2018 - 2019
Re-branding of Victoire Brasil Investimentos. Partner and Co-Portfolio Manager. Senior analyst responsible for coverage and recommendations of companies in the Capital Goods, TMT (Technology, Media and Telecom), Logistics, Infrastructure (Roads, Railways and Airports) & Utilities (Electric and Sanitation) sectors.
Portfolio Manager / Equity Analyst
2008 - 2019
Founded in 2004, Victoire Brasil Investimentos reached assets under management of R$2.5 billion, exclusively in Brazilian equity funds. I started as an equity research intern, reaching Co-manager and largest junior partner. 2013-2019: Co-Manager of the Long Only Strategy (Small Caps R$1.6bn and All-Caps & Dividends R$600 million). Diligence in portfolio exposures, validating the theses value pillars, building the portfolio. Coordinator of the Corporate Governance Committee during the years 2013 to 2018, including relationship with Board of Directors and Supervisory Board, other shareholders and executives of the investees. Boards of Directors: 26 elected members Fiscal Council: 41 elected members 2008 to 2019: Senior analyst responsible for coverage and recommendations of companies in the Capital Goods, TMT (Technology, Media and Telecom), Logistics, Infrastructure (Roads, Railways and Airports) & Utilities (Electric and Sanitation) sectors. Average of 100 meetings with companies per year. Modeling, Valuation, Monitoring of companies invested by the portfolio, Value generation through governance actions. Customer Relationship: as co-manager, meetings and relationship with Family Offices, Wealth Management, Banks, Pension Funds, Endowments (USA), Sovereign Funds (Europe) and several Investment Platforms.
Internship - Equity Trading Desk
2007 - 2007
Internship at Banco Merrill Lynch Brasil's Equity Trading Desk, advising on the control of orders and daily executions, in the allocation of operations and in the creation and implementation of tools for the integration of the different systems of the desk.
Estágio Controladoria
2006 - 2007
Internship in the controllership area, working with the back-office team to verify the allocations and metrics of the funds and their publications.
Internship - Human Resources
2006 - 2006
Training & Development area, with the preparation of courses and seminars with an international audience, monitoring the need for professional qualification within the workforce with the various engineering areas. Subsequently, I worked briefly with Remuneration and Career Development.
Internship - Commercial Proposals
2006 - 2006
Creation of commercial consulting, implementation or sales proposals for all customers, analyzing the need for the number of consulting/maintenance hours and number of licenses. Focused on medium and large companies, also working with public company bids.