Director of New Business Development, Inova Investimentos Ltda
Currently the Director of New Business Development for Inova Investimentos Ltda, the family office for the Ioschpe Family, Salomao Ioschpe also invests in soybean production and other agricultural commodities in Northeastern Brazil.
From 2008 until 2017, Salomao was co-founder, President and CEO of Insolo Agroindustrial SA, one of the largest developers of grain farming in Brazil for the food and biofuel industries. Also, since that date, Salomao served as a member of the Board of Directors for Iochpe-Maxion SA in Brazil, a global supplier for the OEM automotive industry.
From 1994 until 2008, Salomao lived and worked in the Greater Cleveland area, first as head of Iochpe-Maxion ́s North American operations and as CEO of Midland Steel Products Co. (a Cleveland, OH-based truck chassis supplier for the North American truck industry), and later as founder and head of BMA Automotive LLC, a consulting firm specializing in automotive projects for international OEM suppliers in North America.
From1989 to1994, he was an executive officer of Iochpe-Maxion in Brazil in charge of the Automotive Electronics division, having been CEO of the company ́s joint-venture business with General Motors-Brazil.
As of June of 2020, Salomao serves as President of the Brazilian Technion Society, a non-profit initiative aiming at garnering support for the Technion Institute of Technology in Israel among Brazilians. Salomaohas a degree in Economics, Finance, and Political Science from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (“Sciences-Po”)and an MBA from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.
Salomao, his wife Ivana and their three daughters Bianca, Maya and Anaïs have very fond memories of their almost 15 years in the Greater Cleveland area and have since been fans of the Indians, the Browns and the Cavs.