Loja Group

Ricardo Amaro

Mr. Amaro has over ten years experience in fund management operations, investment, accounting and marketing. Prior to joining Loja, Mr. Amaro spent 5 years in Mozambique, as a consultant specializing in institutional fundraising and management for private-sector agricultural projects funded by global development institutions such as the International Finance Corporation and the European Union. Prior to moving to Mozambique, Mr. Amaro worked in Brazil for Banco Brascan, a Brazilian-Canadian investment bank, where he was involved with trade finance, opening and maintaining credit lines, fundraising, hedge and swap operations, foreign exchange and loans and structured deals. Before joining Brascan, Mr. Amaro was one of the founders of Nortia Investment Club, a student-managed initiative that traded stocks on the São Paulo Stock Exchange with institutional support from the Brazilian Institute of Capital Markets (IBMEC). Mr. Amaro completed all course work for a BA in Economics at IBMEC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is fluent in Portuguese and English.