gzani

Business Development

I build commercial functions from nothing.

Co-founder and CEO of VoltFi, a stablecoin yield vault on Bitcoin. Took it from concept to live mainnet with real depositors, secured and delivered two ecosystem grants against public milestone trackers, and built the BD side from zero: 50+ conversations, a 30+ company pipeline across Bitcoin L2s, protocols, liquidity providers and market makers.

Also founder of SBOR, a benchmark lending rate for the Stacks ecosystem. Built and shipped it solo in sixteen days using AI as the engineering surface: daily fixing across five lending markets, public API, published methodology. It turned into working relationships with protocol founders and CTOs.

Before crypto: 22 years owning a full P&L in Brazil, 26% annual revenue growth over five years, selling to large retail chains, and a brand-rights sale to The Coca-Cola Company. Earlier, hedge fund buy-side analyst. Engineer, MBA from Boston University.

Looking for BD or partnerships at a Bitcoin, stablecoin or fintech company. Remote preferred, open on level.

Experience: 11 years

Yearly salary: $120,000

Hourly rate: $75

Nationality: 🇧🇷 Brazil

Residency: 🇧🇷 Brazil

Experience

Co-founder & CEO

VoltFi

2024 - 2026

Built go-to-market and partnerships from zero, carrying VoltFi from concept to live mainnet with its first depositors and first on-chain yield distribution. Secured and delivered two ecosystem grants against public milestone trackers, on scope and on schedule. Opened 50+ Bitcoin-native BD conversations and built a 30+ company pipeline across Bitcoin Layer 2s, protocols, liquidity providers, market makers and investors. Worked with product, engineering and legal on onboarding, compliance and integration requirements. Represented the company at Bitcoin conferences, including a Bitcoin-native finance panel at a Bitcoin Las Vegas 2025 side event.

Founder

SBOR

2002 - 2026

Built and shipped a benchmark lending rate for the Stacks ecosystem solo in sixteen days: a daily fixing reading five lending markets, a versioned public API with a written stability policy, an immutable archive, published methodology and bilingual documentation. Used AI assistants as the engineering surface rather than an engineering team, shipping a monitoring service, an npm-published MCP server and a data licence alongside the core product. Found and publicly corrected errors in published data, including a data bug in a protocol its own CTO had not flagged. Turned the work into working relationships with protocol founders and CTOs across the ecosystem.

Managing Director & Partner

Centennial Alimentos

2002 - 2024

Owned the full P&L and delivered 26% annual revenue growth over five consecutive years through distribution expansion, pricing strategy and channel development. Negotiated and closed a US$350K brand-rights sale to The Coca-Cola Company, owning the deal from first contact through signature. Personally sold to and managed large retail chains, independent stores and distributors, negotiating private-label agreements and multi-year commercial contracts. Directed sales, marketing, finance, logistics and operations.

Buy-Side Analyst

Utor Investimentos

2000 - 2002

Skills

business-development

crypto

defi

marketing

partnership

sales

english

portuguese

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