Gustavo Furuta

Gustavo Ando Furuta is a São Paulo-based investment and strategy professional whose current public profiles list him as a Senior Advisor at Roland Berger. Public profile data also identifies prior roles at Alvarez & Marsal, H.I.G. Capital, Continental Grain Company, Oncoclínicas&Co, Victoria Capital Partners, Southern Cross Group, and Boston Consulting Group.

His investment career includes a long period with Continental Grain Company / Arlon Group, where public deal announcements show him acting as an Arlon representative in Brazil. In 2017, when Arlon acquired a substantial minority stake in OK Superatacado, Furuta joined the company’s board of directors alongside Bruno Martins Silva and Claudio Galeazzi.

Furuta’s public education records include studies at the School of Economics, Business and Accounting at the University of São Paulo, Vanderbilt University, and Stanford Graduate School of Business executive programs. Escavador/Lattes records identify his full name as Gustavo Ando Furuta and show early academic work at USP in administration and economics-related areas.

After his investing roles, Furuta moved into operating and advisory work. SignalHire lists him as Managing Director at Alvarez & Marsal from July 2023 to December 2024 and Senior Advisor at Roland Berger from January 2025 onward; Econodata also lists him as Senior Advisor at Roland Berger Ltda. in São Paulo.

• Arlon’s stated focus was investing in “middle-market businesses across the entire food supply chain in the Americas,” with emphasis on growth-oriented businesses in food and agriculture.
• In Latin America, Arlon worked with local relationships and sector expertise, including its partnership with VR Investments in Brazil.
• Furuta’s disclosed Arlon work was not seed or angel investing; the verifiable deals are private-equity minority or growth investments in established companies.
• In the OK Superatacado transaction, Furuta emphasized the operating quality of the founders and leadership, saying that OK’s team brought “a wealth of retail and operational experience.”
• His later Alvarez & Marsal activity focused on private-equity transformation: thesis development, diligence, post-deal planning, performance optimization, and exit strategy.