Stone appoints Luiz Barroso to its Board of Directors

– BRAZIL, São Paulo –  Stone (Nasdaq: STNE) today announced the appointment of Luiz Barroso to its Board of Directors.

About Luiz André Barroso

Luiz Barroso, a former VP at Google, joins the Board and will help set the guidelines for the company’s technological performance to increasingly differentiate Stone in the market, leading industry innovations and going far beyond offering financial services and products. This technological evolution trajectory is part of the value generation and business development proposal that had already projected Stone’s growth curve since its IPO in 2018.

The Brazilian Luiz Barroso is a world reference for his contributions to computer architecture and digital systems. He was an exponent at Google, where he was responsible for the backbone of the company’s online services platform, where he coordinated technical roadmaps spanning across the brand’s products and worked as Vice President of Engineering on the Core and Maps teams, and as a technical lead in areas such as research and computing platform design.

He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the National Academy of Engineering; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of the 2020 ACM/IEEE Computer Eckert-Mauchly Award. He has a master’s in electrical engineering from PUC-RJ and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California. He is co-author of “The Datacenter as a Computer”.

Source: https://www.stone.co

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