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Intel Capital names David Thomas as executive director for Latin America

Intel Capital has announced that David Thomas will return to his position as director of strategic investments for Intel Latin America, after a hiatus of 18 months. During that time, Thomas served as director general of the mergers and acquisitions group at Intel Capital, where he was responsible for large mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures.

The executive has worked at Intel Capital since 2000 and directed operations of Intel Capital Latin America between 2003 and 2009. During that period, he was directly involved in dozens of strategic investments and managed several successful exits of portfolio companies, such as Sonda (IPO), Exactus (acquired by Softland), Spring Wireless (private sale), Yavox (acquired by Naspers ) and Ativi (acquired by Euronet).

David Thomas also served in Latin America as honorary president of the Association of Venture Capital in Latin America (LAVCA) and as a founding member of the Centre for Brazilian Studies in Private Equity and Venture Capital FGV. The executive will be based in São Paulo.

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Roberta Prescott
Roberta Prescott
Editor, [email protected] Roberta Prescott is responsible for Latin America reporting news and analysis, interviewing key stakeholders. Roberta has worked as an IT and telecommunication journalist since March 2005, when she started as a reporter with InformationWeek Brasil magazine and its website IT Web. In July 2006, Prescott was promoted to be the editor-in-chief, and, beyond the magazine and website, was in charge for all ICT products, such as IT events and CIO awards. In mid-2010, she was promoted to the position of executive editor, with responsibility for all the editorial products and content of IT Mídia. Prescott has worked as a journalist since 1998 and has three journalism prizes. In 2009, she won, along with InformationWeek Brasil team, the press prize 11th Prêmio Imprensa Embratel. In 2008, she won the 7th Unisys Journalism Prize and in 2006 was the editor-in-chief when InformationWeek Brasil won the 20th media award Prêmio Veículos de Comunicação. She graduated in Journalism by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, has done specialization in journalism at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain, 2003) and Master in Journalism at IICS – Universidad de Navarra (Brazil, 2010) and MBA – Executive Education at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.