The people behind Nuplia.

Murillo Piotrovski

Founder & CEO

He has spent more than 20 years leading large-scale operations across seven countries. He started as an engineer at Bosch, moved on to GrandVision in Europe, and returned to Brazil as CEO of Fototica. From 2023 to 2025 he was VP of Operations at EssilorLuxottica in New York, where he led more than 1,100 stores. In the United States he saw firsthand how fast AI was being adopted by companies, and he fell in love with the thesis. Back in Brazil, the math didn’t add up. The country has clean energy, data centers with available capacity and growing demand, yet much of that computing still runs abroad and at a high cost. He founded Nuplia to change that. With a team of AI infrastructure specialists, Nuplia is committed to giving its clients a robust, simple-to-use service that runs in Brazil, while building infrastructure that matters for the country. A mechanical engineer from UFSC, he holds an MBA from IMD and completed IBGC’s Board of Directors program.

Gustavo Buffara

Chairman of the Board of Directors

An investor and board member with more than twenty years in Private Equity, Infrastructure and Telecom in Brazil and Latin America. He has served as Chairman and Vice-Chairman of listed and private companies, chairing investment and Human Resources committees and taking an active role in corporate governance, combining an investor's perspective with hands-on board experience. He has a track record in infrastructure projects in sanitation, ports, airports and public-private partnerships. Before that, he worked as an executive and consultant at international companies in the United States, Europe and Latin America. He holds a degree in Public Administration from FGV-EAESP, an MBA from IMD (Switzerland) and a Master's in Public Policy from Georgetown University.

Thiago Moreira

Head of Operations

He has more than 25 years of experience in customer operations, in teams such as professional services and customer success. He spent nearly 19 years at Liferay, where he was Professional Services Manager for Latin America and led a team of solution architects handling customers' critical escalations. He knows first-hand the problems customers run into, and believes that once an incident is solved, the most important question is how to make sure it never happens again. Beyond those teams, he also ran the go-to-market for Liferay Cloud. Computer Science degree from UFSC.

Marcos Karpovas

Head of Business & Partnerships

He brings 25 years in strategy, innovation, M&A and project management at companies such as Accenture, Integration and Telefônica-Vivo, where he was a director, and as a partner at EY. He is a partner at the consultancy Ohrys, a senior advisor at the M&A firm Apeltrys and an advisory board member at FuturizeNow. Engineer from Poli-USP, with an MBA from Business School São Paulo and a board diploma from ISE Business School.

Gregory Wagner

Head of International Expansion

A capital-markets executive with more than 20 years in senior roles at ABN AMRO, RBS and Itaú BBA, in New York and London, he founded Aeonic Ventures and has experience connecting U.S. and Brazilian markets. MBA in Finance from Fordham.

Ana Laudisio

Head of Strategic Initiatives

More than 20 years in strategy, transformation and technology across the US, the UK and Australia. At Qantas she was VP of Strategy and Transformation, leading a 250-person team, and later VP of Strategy and Chief of Staff at QantasLink. She started in M&A at ABN AMRO in London and now helps companies define and implement AI strategies. MBA from UNSW; business degree from Insper.

Paulo Fonseca

Partner – Scherm Group – GTM

Partner at Scherm Group and Sales Director at Scherm Brasil, Supermicro's longest-standing partner in the country. He has sold more than 500 NVIDIA GPUs, most notably the JAIRU Cluster at CIAAM/USP, with 96 NVIDIA B200, the largest university AI cluster in Latin America, along with projects for Brazil's Federal Police and for Recod.AI/Unicamp, with the Abaporu Cluster. He has spent more than 10 years bringing HPC and AI infrastructure to universities, research institutes, government and companies.

Matheus Serpa

Partner – Scherm Group – Technology

Partner at Scherm Group and HPC & AI Director. He has worked in high-performance computing since 2013 and holds a PhD in Computer Science from UFRGS, with research in HPC and processor architecture, and an MSc from the Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He has taken AI to production at Bayer, Johnson & Johnson and the Rio Grande do Sul State Court of Justice, and spent 6 years as Data Science & AI Lead at DigiFarmz, an agtech startup. NVIDIA-certified in AI infrastructure and operations, he leads the architecture and build of the Nuplia platform.

Thierry Monteiro

Partner – Scherm Group – NOC Engineer

Runs operations and monitoring for Nuplia's infrastructure: NVIDIA GPU health, network, firewall and VPN, alerting and incident response. He brings his experience running IT and datacenter infrastructure at Scherm Group. He is an NVIDIA-Certified Professional in AI Infrastructure and an NVIDIA-Certified Associate in AI Infrastructure and Operations, with AWS Academy training in cloud architecting.

Oleg Tumanov

Advisor

A tech entrepreneur, investor and advisor with more than 30 years scaling ventures in digital media, banking and AI. He founded ivi, one of Europe's first large-scale video streaming platforms, and led it as CEO from 2007 to 2022, growing it to more than US$200 million in annual revenue and 5 million paying subscribers. He is President of the investment firm Lighthouse Strategy, an advisor to Flashpoint Venture Capital and an early-stage investor in AI, robotics and health-tech companies. Advanced Management Program at Wharton.

Igor Arouca

Advisor – Software

Former CTO of Liferay, where he led engineering, cloud, security and IT across more than 15 countries and scaled Liferay Cloud to 16 global regions. He now advises AI startups. Computer Engineering degree from USP, MBA from the University of Illinois and Wharton's CTO Program.

Saeed Shamsi

Advisor – AI Factory Architecture

More than 20 years building and operating large-scale telecom and compute platforms. As head of AI Factory at one of Canada's largest telecom companies, he led the country's #1 AI/HPC data center from architecture through production, and he now helps build Canada's largest neocloud. He is co-founder of NovoTech Software and advises AI infrastructure companies through SABA Management Consulting.

Humberto Ribeiro

Advisor – Innovation and Institutional & Government Relations

An engineer, he has worked on digital transformation in Brazil and abroad since 1996. He was Secretary of Commerce and Services at Brazil's Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (2011–2014) and a visiting professor at Cornell University. Since 2015 he has been Managing Partner at Epicentor, a cybersecurity, innovation and strategy consultancy. He leads CIBERLAB, with FINATEC / University of Brasília, and is currently a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council and of FIESP's Security and Defense board.

Edson Barreto

Advisor – People & Culture

20 years advising CEOs, boards, and investors on people strategy during hypergrowth, M&A, and IPO preparation across more than 60 countries in infrastructure, energy, sustainability, agrifintech, retail, and consulting. Currently CHRO at Degas. Previously at South Pole and China Three Gorges, he has led HR through 11 full M&A cycles and built the people infrastructure that supported organizations scaling from startup to thousands of employees. Creator of the Ocean Method, a people analytics framework connecting workforce data to business financial outcomes. Keynote speaker on the Future of Work and AI in HR. Psychologist with a Global Executive MBA from RSM Erasmus University.