Pierre Schurmann
- Location
- São Paulo Area, Brazil
- Industry
- Venture Capital & Private Equity
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Pierre Schurmann's Overview
- Current
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- General Partner at Bossa Nova Participações
- Past
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- CEO at Tutudo
- Investor at Experience Club
- President at Experience Club
- President at Conectis Experience Marketing
- Senior Partner at Consulting House
- Vp Business Development at Ideia.com
- Director, Business Development at StarMedia Network
- VP/Co Founder at Zeek!
- Director of Business Development at Schrumann Desenvolvimento e Pesquisa Ltda
- Recommendations
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50 people have recommended Pierre
- Connections
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500+ connections
- Websites
Pierre Schurmann's Summary
Pierre Schurmann is member of the Brazilian sailing Schurmann Family (www.schurmann.com.br), and sailed with his family during their first 10 year circumnavigation at the age of 15.
He begun his career as a stockbroker at Smith Barney in the United States and, in1994 returned to Brazil to work on the structuring and funding of the Magellan Global Adventure, a 30 month expedition by the Schurmann Family that retraced Ferdinan Magellan´s first circumnavigation and was turned into a TV series in Globo.
His entrepreneurial spirit was fundamental in allowing to fund several companies in the last decade.
After co-founding Zeek! and growing it to become Brazil´s second largest search engine, the company was acquired by StarMedia, where he became Director of Business Development.
In 2000, along with other Internet entrepreneurs, he co-founded Ideia.com, Brazil´s only Internet incubator to have U.S. funding (U$7.3MM) from Warburg Pincus.
From there, he went on to develop a portfolio of media and event properties that include Experience Club, CIO Club, Marketing Club and CIO Club which he sold in 2011.
Recently he has gone back into early stage investing in Brazilian startups thru Bossa Nova Participações.
On a personal note, he has dedicated his time to find and share balance in life thru his blog "Caminho Zen" in Istoé, Brazil's second largest weekly magazine http://bit.ly/istoeblog.
Pierre Schurmann's Experience
Pierre Schurmann's Languages
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English
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Portuguese
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French
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Spanish
(Professional working proficiency)
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