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Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer

Brazilian businessman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ10270784 ↗
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Eduardo Sirotsky Melzer is a Brazilian business man that is the Chief executive of EB Capital, a Brazilian private equity firm focused on investing in companies that address Brazilian structural gaps. He was chairman and president of Grupo RBS and owner of the business conglomerate RBS, one of the largest multimedia communications companies in Brazil. Eduardo was also chairman of e.Bricks Digital and shareholder of e.Bricks Ventures, a venture capital and private equity company with operations in Brazil and abroad.

Education and career

In 1998, Melzer graduated with a degree in Business Administration from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), and in 2002, completed an MBA from Harvard University.

He began his career in Brazil in the financial and franchising markets, reaching the master franchiser office at the multinational Sweet Sweet Way, and also participated in projects for consulting firm Booz Allen & Hamilton.

In the United States, he was a senior analyst at Delphi Corporation and CEO of Box Top Media, a media company located in New York.

In 2008, Melzer attended the Effective Strategies for Media Companies and the Building and Leading Customer Centric Organizations at Harvard Business School.

Melzer was member of the Board of Ethics of the National Council for Advertising Self-Regulation (Conar), and the Executive Council of the Standard Norms (CENP), in 2009.

EB Capital

EB Capital is a Brazilian Private Equity firm focused on investing in companies that address Brazilian structural gaps.

The company states "We believe that Private Equity should be driven by execution excellence.

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