Roberto Jatahy

Brazil | Grupo Soma | Commerce

September 18, 2022 | 10:30 PM

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Roberto Jatahy is president of Grupo Soma, whose IPO raised R$1.8 billion in July 2020. The group emerged in 2010 from the merger of retailers Farm and Animale (of which Jatahy was already president and co-founder), aimed at classes A and B. Soma bought ByNV in 2020, the first acquisition after the listing, and Cia Hering in April 2021, for R$5.1 billion. Jatahy has a degree in economics from Cândido Mendes University in Rio de Janeiro.