Cesar is one of the founders of CI&T and has been our CEO since the Company’s inception in 1995. He is an entrepreneur in the technology and digital space. He taught himself computer programming by the age of 11, and at 13 he sold the code of a chess game to a tech magazine. At the age of 23, he co-founded CI&T Brazil. Under his leadership as CEO, the company has grown and expanded globally. He is also an active investor in venture funds and startups, a columnist for MIT Sloan Management Review and board member at Raia Drogasil, the Lean Enterprise Institute and Sensedia. In 2019, he was awarded EY Entrepreneur of the YearTM in Brazil. Mr. Gon is a computer engineer, with a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP).