A Zup, Itaú Unibanco technology company, announces André Palma as its new CEO. Palma left his activities as Superintendent of Technology at the bank and fully took on the new role since last week. Bruno Pierobon, co-founder and until then CEO of the company, becomes advisor to Palma and also to Zup, in addition to taking a position on the Council
In 13 years of existence, this is the first time the company is changing its highest executive. The choice involved the search for a professional who brings market experience, technically enabled, with histories of transformations, with admiration for Zup and its culture of entrepreneurship and innovation
Among your activities at the bank, Palma dedicated his last two years at Itaú Unibanco to the adoption and operation of StackSpot, product co-created between Zup and Itaú that makes software development more efficient through generative artificial intelligence
The change is part of an internal restructuring at Zup, that gives robustness to the company's current strategy based on GenAI and ensures the expansion of StackSpot, consolidando sua posição como uma empresa de produto com oferta de Professional Services/Consulting
"Our mission at Zup will always be to create innovative solutions and products that transform the way people and companies interact with technology". With this new challenge, I commit to excellence in delivering results that not only meet the needs of our clients, but also anticipate the construction of the future. And I will do this while keeping the DNA of Zup, company with entrepreneurial energy, competitive in the market, that cares for people and inspires as a tech leader, comment Palma
In more than 20 years of working at Itaú Unibanco, André Palma accumulated experiences as superintendent of infrastructure engineering, systems, architecture, governance and operations in Technology, in addition to having acted strategically in the journey of modernizing the bank's platforms, cloud and AIOps
Palma explains that he takes on the leadership with the aim of continuing Zup's trajectory, with a customer-centric approach and a focus on brand growth in the national technology market, seeking to lead innovation and excellence in GenAI
"Zup is an AI-First company". We have seen in the last year a global window of opportunity for GenAI and we want to take advantage of it to be the main partner of our clients and future clients in the use of this technology. The constant search for increasingly excellent delivery, explain, for example, our recent affiliation with MIT, working in a mutual collaboration with the GenAI core that enables access to the laboratories, teachers and researchers who are dedicated to the topic. In front of the business, we will grow our investment in AI by almost 80% in 2024, provoking us to go beyond the code assistant and platform engineering. Our desire is to become a reference in the market by creating AI agents that operate throughout the development cycle, hyper-contextualized with the needs of each challenge and ready to generate efficiency throughout the entire journey.”
