Manoel Amorim served as President/CEO of several leading companies in
different sectors in Latin America and in Europe. He also served as a
Director in several Boards in the USA, Latin America, and Brazil.
He currently has investments as a non managing partner at Peak Capital
Partners in UT and MXF Partners in UT and at K2A Partners in Brazil. He
serves in the National Advisory Committee (NAC) of the Marriot School of
Management of the Brigham Young University in Provo, UT.
Prior to retiring as an executive, he served as CEO of Abril Education, an K-
12 Education company he took public in 2012, as CEO of Globex, a large
consumer electronics and appliances retailer, as Executive Chairman of the
Board of Vivo, the largest cell phone company in Latin America, as
Managing Director of the Telefonica Residential Business Unit for Latin
America, out of Madrid, as CEO of Telefonica São Paulo, as President of
America Online Brazil and as General Manager of Procter & Gamble Latin
America’s Baby Care division and as a member of the Global Leadership
Team of P&G Baby Care Global GBU.
He graduated as an Engineer from the Instituto Militar de Engenharia in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil, and holds an MBA from Harvard University.
Manoel is a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS. He was baptized
in Rio de Janeiro in 1972, at the age of 14, with the rest of his family. He
served a full-time mission in the Brazil São Paulo South Mission, from 1979
- 81 and as a Mission President in the Portugal Porto Mission, from 2015-
18. He is married to Marcia, and the couple has 3 children and 10
grandchildren.