Pós graduado em Gestão de Negócio pela FGV EAESP (2015) e Bacharel em Sistemas de Informação pela Universidade de Taubaté (2009). Profissional com mais de 10 anos de experiência na área de produtos, trabalhando em soluções inovadoras e de missão crítica. Com participação em projetos nacionais e internacionais em programas da Organização das Nações Unidas, para a iniciativa pública e privada, em segmentos tais como: varejo, aéreo, financeiro, fiscal, logístico e geoprocessamento. Entusiasta e apaixonado por gestão estratégica de produtos, auxilia as empresas no desenvolvimento de negócios inovadores capazes de gerar e capturar valor no mercado.

Doctor Campos was born and raised in Brazil. He has lived in all continents spending most of his life in Brazil, Australia, Spain, India, France and Guinea-Bissau. Newton speaks English, Spanish, French and Portuguese fluently and in his personal time he enjoys spending quality time with his family and friends, hiking, playing acoustic guitar and discovering new places, which has taken him to almost 70 countries.

Professionally, Newton's life is driven by reshaping Capitalism through entrepreneurship and technology, preparing leaders to thrive relentlessly in their quest to solve local and global business, environmental and social challenges. He is the Country Director of IE University in Brazil, Professor of Entrepreneurship at FGV EAESP, Visiting Professor at IE Business School (Spain) and ITA (Brazil) and Founder and Managing Partner of Newton Equity Partners, a company that invests in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) via Search Funds worldwide.

He is the former Academic Director of FGVcepe Private Equity and Venture Capital Research Center at FGV EAESP (Brazil), published the book The Myth of The Idea (2015, 2020), the book chapter Teaching Entrepreneurship Online (2017) and the Glossary of Search Fund Terms (2022). Newton holds a PhD in Business Administration from FGV EAESP (2010), an MBA from IE Business School and IIM Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (2002), a Bachelor in Accounting from PUC São Paulo (1999) and a Technician degree in Information Technology from ORT (1994).

Carlos Gila is an Adjunct Professor of Management at Columbia Business School in the USA and at IE Business School in Spain.

He is widely recognized as one of the Spanish leading financial and operational crisis management professionals. He is a hand-on expert in turnarounds and workouts, with extensive experience in acquisitions and divestures, bankruptcy reorganizations, and the restructuring of troubled businesses. He has been highlighted on National media as an authority on restructuring, and has been the recipient of the Turnaround Management Association´s “International Turnaround of the Year” Award in 2011.

Carlos began his professional career as a credit risk analyst and moved to became a strategic management consultant at Andersen Consulting. After he went to found and lead Gila&Co. to become the ground breaking Turnaround Firm in Spain for more than a decade. From 2010 to 2022 Carlos was Senior Advisor for Oaktree Capital Management and now serves as an Advisor or non-executive Board Director in various companies, chairing audit and governance committees.

He has decades of experience as a CEO/President, identifying, purchasing, running, reviving and selling companies, the essential steps in a Search Fund.