Jonas
Co-Founder – Chairman of the Board
Founding partner of Gama Capital and manager of the Gama Educação FIP funds, Jonas Gomes holds a PhD in mathematics and is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
In 1998, he joined the Opportunity Group where he founded and was CEO of Innovate, an investment holding company in internet start ups.
Together with Paulo Guedes, he founded BR Investimentos, which was renamed Bozano Investimentos after a merger with other managers. He structured and managed several funds with total assets above R$2 billion (BR Educacional, BR Education Ventures, Criatec II, Bozano Educacional II and FIP Brasil Corporate Governance funds).
He was R&D Director at Globograph, a branch of TV Globo responsible for the development of the digital platform for special effects and animation using 3D computer graphics.
He was a researcher at IMPA (Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics) where he founded the Visgraf Lab, structured the master’s and doctoral programs in the areas of Computer Graphics, Computer Vision and Image Processing. He is the author of over 15 books, several of them translated and published abroad.
He received the Brazilian Internet Builder diploma from the Ministry of Science and Technology for having been one of the founders of the National Research Network (RNP), a Social Organization that planned and implemented the .BR domain, the first Brazilian Internet backbone.
In 1998, he joined the Opportunity Group where he founded and was CEO of Innovate, an investment holding company in internet start ups.
Together with Paulo Guedes, he founded BR Investimentos, which was renamed Bozano Investimentos after a merger with other managers. He structured and managed several funds with total assets above R$2 billion (BR Educacional, BR Education Ventures, Criatec II, Bozano Educacional II and FIP Brasil Corporate Governance funds).
He was R&D Director at Globograph, a branch of TV Globo responsible for the development of the digital platform for special effects and animation using 3D computer graphics.
He was a researcher at IMPA (Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics) where he founded the Visgraf Lab, structured the master’s and doctoral programs in the areas of Computer Graphics, Computer Vision and Image Processing. He is the author of over 15 books, several of them translated and published abroad.
He received the Brazilian Internet Builder diploma from the Ministry of Science and Technology for having been one of the founders of the National Research Network (RNP), a Social Organization that planned and implemented the .BR domain, the first Brazilian Internet backbone.
