Lia Machado De Matos

CSO (Chief Strategy Officer) at Stone and PhD by MIT. She is responsible for designing the company’s strategy and leading the implementation of key strategic projects. She was responsible for the development of the Hub Strategy in 2015 and for the migration process subsequent to the Elavon acquisition in 2016. Prior to joining Stone Co., she served as a Family Office Director for Varbra between 2012 and 2016. Between 2006 and 2012, she served in several positions at McKinsey & Company in Brazil, including as an Associate Partner, where she was responsible for strategy, M&A and organizational projects of several Brazilian and global companies. Mrs. Matos received a bachelor’s degree in physics from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in 1998, a PhD in physics and electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005 and was a teaching assistant and research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1999 and 2005.