Yuri Gitahy

Yuri Gitahy (BSc, MSc, MBA) is the founder of Aceleradora, a Brazilian startup accelerator. He's also an angel investor, startup mentor, and investing partner on seed capital funds. In his early career, he worked for IBM, taught for Sun Microsystems, founded a software startup, helped bootstrap the largest Brazilian freemail service at BOL, and managed the systems engineering team for Universo Online. He was CTO for Vetta, an offshore outsourcing provider, founded an IT consulting services firm and started working full-time in Aceleradora since 2009.