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Marcelo Marini is a businessman, financier, and author who writes on business, finance, and independent thinking for readers in more than 15 countries.
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Marcelo Marini is a businessman, financier, and author who writes on business, finance, and independent thinking for readers in more than 15 countries. Learn more.
From The Independent Thinking:
About Marcelo Marini
Marcelo Marini is a businessman, financier, and author with more than two decades of experience in business operations, corporate finance, governance, and long-term value creation.
With a close understanding of the realities behind each business, Marcelo combines financial discipline, operating experience, and a long-term perspective to address complex corporate situations. His work is centered on the relationship between business performance, capital allocation, governance, and the quality of decision-making in companies.
In corporate finance, Marcelo has experience in financial statement and business-performance analysis, value creation, capital structure, financing and investment decisions, financial planning, and cash management. His approach connects the analysis of financial information with the operating drivers that determine a company’s capacity to generate sustainable value.
His professional experience also includes mergers and acquisitions, advanced valuation, restructuring, debt management, and leverage. In governance-related matters, he works with the financial dimensions of agency issues, financial distress, and complex legal conflicts, considering how incentives, capital structure, and operating performance affect companies, shareholders, and other stakeholders.
He has implemented global standards of management, quality (ISO 9001), and financial credentialing (Dun & Bradstreet) across the organizations he has led, with projects spanning Brazil, the United States, China, England, Germany, Hong Kong, and Uruguay.
Marini holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration and an MBA in Corporate Finance from FGV, complemented by executive training at UC Berkeley in Global Supply Chain Management. He has represented institutions internationally, including as Guest Consul at the Startup Embassy in Silicon Valley and at the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, D.C.
For over a decade, his weekly writing has reached business owners and investors across more than 15 countries—including hedge fund managers, founders, high-net-worth investors, and senior executives across industries. His work has been recommended reading by The Berkshire Beat.
Education
MBA in Corporate Finance, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV).
Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, UPF.
Extension training in Global Supply Chain Management, University of California, Berkeley.
Financial Statement Analysis and Business Performance, Saint Paul Business School
Advanced Equity Valuation Techniques, New York Institute of Finance (NYIF).
Law degree (in progress).
Publications
Over more than a decade, he has written more than 500 pieces for Factual Money and The Independent Thinking, reaching readers in more than 15 countries, including business owners, founders, institutional and private investors, hedge fund managers, high-net-worth individuals, and senior executives.
His writing has been recommended by The Berkshire Beat.
Marcelo was also mentioned in Entrepreneur’s Mindset, by Gustavo Oliveira, and cited in “The Macro-Economics of Intuition,” an article by Fabs Martins.
Additional Activities
Institutional representation at the Organization of American States (OAS), Washington, D.C., United States.
Member of the Board of Advisors, Directors and Former Vice-President of Public and Private Institutions.
Guest Consul at the Startup Embassy, Silicon Valley, United States.
Ongoing writing on business, corporate finance, governance, and investment decision-making.
OAS - Organization of American States, Washington D.C., USA (2017).
Press Conference, China (2011)