Born in May 1966, she is a founding partner and managing director of STS GAEA CAPITAL. She has over 20 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, debt issuance, equity issuance, corporate debt renegotiation and private equity investments. She was a founding partner of STK Capital (equity asset manager) and of the consultancy VirtusBR Partners. Previously, she was the director responsible for the commercial area of ​​the industrial segment at Banco Santander and director of the Industrials and Conglomerates Advisory Group at Banco ABN AMRO. Prior to that she was Vice President of Investment Banking and M&A at Merrill Lynch in Brazil and New York and Associate at Lehman Brothers in New York. member of the Board of Directors of Norte Energia between 2013 and 2015. Luciana holds a BA in Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, a Master's in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and a Master's and Ph.D. in Economics and Finance from Harvard University.