Following a record-breaking 1.5 billion identity transactions in 2025, the company scales its executive leadership team to accelerate cross-border expansion.
SÃO PAULO, February 19, 2026 – Unico,the global leader in identity verification network infrastructure, today announced a major acceleration of its international growth strategy alongside a significant expansion of its executive leadership team. The company hasappointed proven enterprise veterans across Growth, Product, Strategy, andFinance to scale operations. Unico currently manages a commercial footprintspanning 23 countries and a global workforce of over 500 professionals, solidifying its position as the primary trust layer for the digital economy.
In 2025,Unico achieved its highest operational volume since its founding in 2007,processing over 1.5 billion identity authentications within the calendaryear. These transactions successfully mitigated over 4.1billion(R 23billion) in potential fraud losses. Concurrently, the platform achieved anindustry-leading 99.98% biometric precision threshold while drasticallyexpanding its network effect, now covering 96% of Brazil's economicallyactive adult population.
Toconvert this momentum into global market share, Unico has appointed PabloSurace as Head of International Growth, based permanently in the UnitedStates. With more than 25 years of experience launching and scaling globalbrands and technologies, Surace brings an elite track record from Meta, wherehe spent a decade driving growth, and Procter & Gamble. He has alsospearheaded cross-border strategic initiatives for multinational giantsincluding Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, and McDonald’s.
"Unicopresents an extraordinary opportunity to reshape how trust, security, andlarge-scale access operate at a global level," said Surace. "In anera where identity data verification has become the definitive frontier of thedigital landscape, our mandate is to deliver sustainable, frictionlesscross-border growth."
Thecompany is further scaling its engineering and product roadmap by appointing FredericoMontezuma as Product Director. Montezuma joins after a nine-year tenure atHotmart, where he led strategic business units focused on open APIs, enterprisepayment infrastructure, and digital media products. He brings a deepcombination of high-scale product vision and an M&A execution track record.
On theStrategy front, Unico welcomes Vinícius Custódio as Principal Strategy.Backed by a robust career in enterprise business development and tech sales atglobal giants MongoDB, Zendesk, and LinkedIn, Custódio specializes in steeringlarge-scale data architecture, AI deployment, and digital transformationinitiatives across Latin America.
Roundingout the executive expansion, Bruno Branco joins as Director of Controllingand FP&A. With over 15 years of corporate finance expertise, Brancojoins from fintech unicorn EBANX, where he managed international financesquads, engineered complex financial systems, and implemented rigorous publiccompany governance frameworks compliant with the highest global compliancestandards. His background also includes senior tenures at Ernst & Young(EY) and Grupo JCR.
Thiscombination of proprietary, cloud-native technology and a heavily reinforcedleadership team underpins Unico’s objective to expand its internationalfootprint and fulfill its vision of becoming the world’s largest, mostresilient identity verification network.
Leveragingfacial biometrics, machine learning, advanced artificial intelligence, andmulti-layered security protocols, Unico validates transaction legitimacy andidentity risk with absolute certainty. As the definitive market leader, Unicois trusted by the five largest private banks in Brazil, nine of the top tenenterprise retailers, and eight of the top ten licensed fixed-odds sportsbetting platforms operating in the region.
Unicois the leading identity verification network in Latin America, and a globalprovider of trust infrastructure. By utilizing proprietary technologybiometrics and machine learning, Unico eliminates fraud and secures digitaltransactions for a safer, more efficient world. For more information, visit www.unico.io.
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