Alexandre Coutinho

Alexandre Coutinho is our Chief Investment Officer and Senior Portfolio Manager for the Credit Business unit. Mr. Coutinho is primarily responsible for managing the Credit Business Unit at Patria. Mr. Coutinho was responsible for raising a R$1.2bi closed-ended credit fund in 2017 and 2018 with household investors such as the IFC, IDB, BNDES, a major Middle Eastern pension fund and relevant Brazilian pension funds. Before joining Patria in 2016, Mr. Coutinho was an MD at Credit Suisse Brazil with the role of credit portfolio manager and COO of its Asset Management branch. Previously, he was a credit Portfolio Manager at Gávea Crédito, a subsidiary of JP Morgan. Mr. Coutinho also had other professional experiences at Deutsche Bank, Spinnaker Capital, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch. Mr. Coutinho holds a degree in Engineering from Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica and has an MBA from Columbia University.