Ana Cabral-Gardner

Ana is Co-Chairman and Co-CEO at Sigma Lithium, a portfolio company of A10 Investimentos, a leading impact investing venture capital and advisory boutique she co-founded. A10 FIA is the largest shareholder of Sigma Lithium, an emerging pre producer of environmentally and socially sustainable high purity lithium materials for EV batteries. Sigma Lithium aims to help tackle the effects of climate change while excelling in ESG, across its 3 metrics. Ana has over 30 years of experience as a senior banker at global investment banks in New York, London and Sao Paulo and over 15 years of experience as an investor. Prior to founding A10, Ana was Head of Latin American Capital Markets at Goldman Sachs in New York and a Managing Director at the firm. Ana was also Head of Latin American investment banking consumer & healthcare at Barclays in Sao Paulo and a manager director. She has also held senior investment banking positions at Merrill Lynch (now BofA) in London and New York for over 8 years. In 2000, Ana co-founded of a “portal” and online forum for women pioneering as an investor in “internet content” in Latin America. The company was backed by JP Morgan Chase and GP Investimentos (controlled by the 3G partners). Subsequently, Ana became board advisor of several retail and media companies in Latin America on their internet and ecommerce strategies, including Lojas Americanas (later B2W), Turner Broadcasting Latin America, Nova.com (later Pao de Acucar/ Via Varejo) Ana has been involved in more than 150 capital markets and M&A transactions, totaling over US$ 120 billion. Five of the transactions she led won the prestigious IFR "Deal of the Year" award including the Privatization of Vale in 1996. She has an MBA degree from Columbia Business School and a Masters in Finance degree from London Business School. In her non for profit activities She is on the Global Advisory Board of Columbia University Global Centers and she is a co-founder of Mulheres do Brasil, the leading women movement in the country, with over 100,000 women