Thiago Teixeira has been appointed as the new CTO of Brazil-based payments and banking technology provider Dock, effective immediately.Dock’s new CTO, Thiago Teixeira (Image: LinkedIn)The former CI&T engineering head will be responsible for “innovations within Dock’s technological infrastructure, as well as for products and services”, the vendor states.Speaking on his appointment, Teixeira recognises the “market opportunity in both artificial intelligence and cybersecurity”, adding that customer-centric solutions will “inevitably involve artificial intelligence”.He moves from IT services and consulting company Zup Innovation, where he has spent the past year as general manager and CPTO of its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) software, Stackspot.Prior to this, Teixeira worked for over 11 years across several senior engineering roles at software company CI&T.His new employer, based in São Paulo, is noted for its Dock One platform, which provides card issuance, credit, risk, acquiring, and digital banking services to businesses throughout Latin America.Dock was founded in 1999 and achieved unicorn status in 2022, following a $110 million growth funding round led by Lightrock and Silver Lake Waterman. The company claims to manage 75 million active accounts and process over eight billion transactions annually.Last year, Dock partnered with Brazilian challenger Parabank, which adopted Dock’s private-label card processing platform to offer tailored credit and prepaid debit cards to consumers with diverse disabilities.To find out more about the partnership, read our interview with the firm’s CEOs Antonio Soares and Gelson Junior.
Gio. Feb 6th, 2025
