Jair Ribeiro

Jair Ribeiro
Born	(1959-10-16) October 16, 1959 São Paulo, Brazil
Occupation(s)	Businessman, investor
Known for	Founder of Associação Parceiros da Educação and Casa do Saber; co-investor at Proz Educação; former partner at Banco Indusval & Partners; co-founder of Banco Patrimônio

Jair Ribeiro (born October 16, 1959, in São Paulo, Brazil) is a prominent Brazilian businessman and investor. He established and currently leads Associação Parceiros da Educação and Casa do Saber. Additionally, he is a co-investor and active partner at Proz Educação, a company that integrates vocational education institutions under EB Capital. Ribeiro holds equity and serves on the board of Alicerce Educação, provides advisory support to Todos pela Educação, and has previously collaborated with both the São Paulo State Education Department and the Centro Paula Souza Institute.

In the financial sector, Ribeiro was a partner in the controlling consortium and a board member of Banco Indusval & Partners. He also acted as managing partner at Sertrading S.A., one of Brazil’s foremost foreign trade enterprises.

Back in 1988, Ribeiro co-established Banco Patrimônio, which grew to become Brazil’s third largest investment bank before its acquisition by JP Morgan Chase in 1999.

Education

Ribeiro earned his law degree from the University of São Paulo in 1982, alongside an economics degree from Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado. In 1984, he completed a master’s program in law at the University of California - Berkeley.

Career

Jair Ribeiro’s professional journey began in 1979 when he worked as a lawyer specializing in mergers and acquisitions.

In 1988, he co-founded Patrimônio, a mergers and acquisitions advisory firm partnered with the American bank Salomon Brothers. By 1992, the company secured its investment banking license. As CEO, Ribeiro directed significant capital market initiatives in Brazil, including the privatization of Telebrás, the country’s largest privatization effort, as well as overseeing the inaugural international ADR issuance for Aracruz S.A. In 1999, he was involved in the sale of Banco Patrimônio to Chase Manhattan.

That same year, Ribeiro took on the role of president at Banco Chase Manhattan Brazil until 2000. Subsequently, from 2000 to 2003, he served as managing director for JP Morgan’s international equity division based in New York, managing markets across Europe, Asia, Australia, and Latin America.

In 2006, he co-founded CPM Braxis SA and held the CEO position until 2009. This IT company employed more than 7,000 people and generated revenues exceeding R$1.5 billion before being acquired by the French group Capgemini for R$517 million in 2010.

Between 2005 and 2020, Ribeiro was both shareholder and board member at Sertrading SA—a leading player in Brazilian foreign trade that expanded from R$80 million in revenue (2004) to R$7 billion by 2020. From 2011 to 2018, he acted as Co-CEO and shareholder of Banco Indusval SA, a corporate credit institution with an affiliated securities distribution firm (Guide Investimentos), collaborating with Warburg Pincus. Under his guidance, Banco Indusval developed Guide Investimentos—a wealth management platform later sold to China’s Fosun Group in 2018—and launched Smartbank S.A., a B2B digital banking solution created in partnership with Silicon Valley’s The Hive.

In cultural and educational fields, Ribeiro founded and led , a São Paulo-based venue for courses and cultural programming inaugurated in 2004.

Dedicated to enhancing public education standards, he created Associação Parceiros da Educação—an NGO that fosters collaboration between private entities and public schools throughout São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro—reaching around 250,000 students across more than 400 schools. He has also served on São Paulo’s Board of Education and Management Committee within its Education Department and participated on the board of Todos pela Educação, an organization advocating for public education improvements. His commitment was recognized with the Trip Transformadores award (Education category) in 2008. Further honors include accolades from the Brazil Fund and World Fund (New York) in 2010 and 2018 for his contributions to Brazilian public education. Moreover, he co-chaired the Pact for Racial Equity initiative that established an ESG framework addressing racial matters for Brazilian companies.

In autumn 2019, Ribeiro was appointed visiting scholar at Stanford University School of Education (California, USA).

External links

• Banco Indusval & Partners
• Sertrading S.A
• Casa do Saber
• Parceiros de Educação
• Secretaria Estadual da Educação de São Paulo
• Conselho Estadual da Educação de São Paulo