Summary
Luis Silva is a serial entrepreneur and fintech visionary with 17 years of experience building payment and cloud platforms from São Paulo, currently leading CloudWalk as Founder, Chairman and CEO. He has a track record of founding and scaling companies across payments, healthcare SaaS, biotech tooling and decentralized finance, and claims to have grown CloudWalk into a multibillion-revenue fintech with ambitions beyond planetary markets. A background in electronics, telecommunications and biomedicine combined with executive programs at Singularity University and Harvard Business School gives him a rare mix of technical depth and long-term strategic thinking. He is an active member of The Long Now Foundation, reflecting an uncommon commitment to century-scale perspectives in technology and culture. Known for early bets on Bitcoin payments in Brazil and open biotech platforms, he blends pragmatic product focus with bold, future-facing bets.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Biomedicine, Bachelor's Degree Biomedicine at Unifran
OPM 62 Owner President Program, OPM 62 Owner President Program at Harvard Business School
Empretec executive program entrepreneurship, Empretec executive program entrepreneurship at Sebrae
Associate's degree electronics, Associate's degree electronics at CEETEPS
Graduate Studies Programme Exponential Technologies, Graduate Studies Programme Exponential Technologies at Singularity University
Machine Learning, Machine Learning at Stanford University
English, Spanish, Portuguese