Virgilio Deloy Capobianco Gibbon has served as Chief Executive Officer of Afya since 2016 and led the company's Initial Public Offering on Nasdaq in 2019. He was honored by the United Nations as an Impact Leader for the Sustainable Development Goals and, in 2023, was named Best Executive in the Education Sector in Brazil by Valor 1000. Prior to Afya he was Chief Operating Officer at YDUQS (formerly Estacio Participacoes) from March 2010 to March 2012 and its Chief Financial Officer from March 2012 to June 2016. He was Executive Director of Business Consulting and Education Industry at TOTVS from October 2007 to December 2009 and a Senior Manager of Business Consulting at Accenture from 2000 to 2007. He holds a degree in economics from PUC-RJ and completed executive programs at FGV, Stanford and Harvard.