Antonio Ermirio de Moraes Neto is a co-founder and partner at Vox Capital, Brazil’s first Impact Investing company, which channels investments and technical assistance to innovative companies with solutions that generate disproportionate social impact to low-income communities throughout Brazil. Antonio helped found the organization in 2009, when he was 23 years old, and since then Vox Capital has become a reference in Latin America Impact Investing market.
Before creating Vox Capital, Antonio has been active in high-impact entrepreneurship since 2002, always assuming leadership roles.
Mr. Moraes was the president and founder of the Family Fund of Votorantim, one of the largest conglomerates in Brazil, through which he has been active in social business investments for Poverty Reduction in Brazil, in areas such as Microfinance, Fair Trade and Income Generation.
Over the last 200 years, Latin America, like most other regions, has seen a dramatic improvement in its economic and social indicators. But it can still do more.