About

Thiago founded AIQON in 2012 to support energy cost reduction in companies of all sizes through the implementation of efficiency and use reduction technology, while developing market awareness of the need for more sustainable business practices. As AIQON grew, it added new lines of services. From 2018 onwards, it became a fully-fledged cybersecurity, auditing and compliance firm.

Since 2020, Thiago also serves as Vice President of Business Development at TransparentBusiness with the goal to accelerate the company’s growth by attracting investors and increasing market penetration in Brazil.

Prior to AIQON, Thiago served as an Investment Banking specialist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and as Treasury Analyst and Global Management Trainee at AmBev / Anheuser-Busch InBev.

Thiago is a scholar Fundação Estudar since 2006, the most prestigious meritocratic scholarship foundation in Brazil, led by Jorge Paulo Lemann, Marcel Telles and Beto Sicupira, among other renowned professionals.

Thiago also contributed as a Vice President to ADVB (Brazilian Association of Sales and Marketing Leaders), a 65-plus-year-old institution well-known for its excellency in developing sales and marketing markets in Brazil and as the curator for FBM (Brazilian Marketing Foundation)
Thiago graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Economics and minors in Political Science and Mathematics.

To Thiago, car loving is a lifestyle. He is a car enthusiast and raced in Formula Vee and Formula 1600 in Brazil. Thiago and his wife display this passion in a Youtube Channel, called CarDaddy.

He is also an investor in the Piquet Entertainment and Race Park in Florida, among other investments.
In 2019, Thiago moved to the US along with his beautiful wife and baby son.