Emiliano Machado Bio

Emiliano B. Machado is an M&A Director at Sapore S.A., an ACON fund portfolio company, and also acts in an advisory capacity to ACON Brazil, an ACON affiliate company, on fund and administrative matters. Prior to starting these roles in 2022, Mr. Machado was a Director of ACON. Prior to joining ACON in 2009, Mr. Machado was an Associate with Credit Suisse’s Latin America Investment Banking Group in New York. Prior to that, Mr. Machado was an Associate with FM&Co., a cross border M&A advisory boutique in New York. Mr. Machado worked previously at MTN Capital Partners, a private equity firm in New York as well as in the principal investments division of FUNBEP pension fund in Brazil. Previously, Mr. Machado has served on the board of Dori Alimentos, an ACON fund portfolio company, and of Conexão, a prior ACON fund portfolio company. Mr. Machado holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from UTP/PUC-Pr in Curitiba, Brazil and an M.B.A. from Cornell University.