Tastes and flavors experienced by Álvaro Garnero.

Álvaro Garnero was born in Rio de Janeiro. Son of Mario Garnero and Ana Maria Monteiro de Carvalho. His family is compared to great social American and European dynasties, like the Kennedy or the Grimaldi families, with a
long tradition of prestige and representativeness.

Joaquim Monteiro de Carvalho, his maternal grandfather, was the one responsible for bringing companies like Volkswagen, Peugeot and Moët & Chandon to Brazil. For most of the last century, the Monteiro Aranha Group
was a driving force in the economic growth and social progress of Brazil and Alvaro still has a participation on this successfull group. Joaquim Monteiro de Carvalho is an institution. Mario Garnero, Álvaro's father, is the
Chairman of Brasilinvest Group, a holding company located in São Paulo with interests in the financial, telecommunications, infrastructure, real estate and agricultural sectors in Brazil and abroad. He is also the Chairman of Fórum das Américas and president of the United Nations Association-Brazil, both non profitable organizations active in Brazil. He has a deserved prestige all over the world with influential relationships.

Álvaro Garnero graduated in Administration from the National University in San Diego State and MBA. He used to spend some time of his vacation with his family in the south of France, and lived in the United States for 15 years,
where he got married and had a son.

Besides his strategic functions at Brasilinvest, Álvaro Garnero is also a businessman with important expertise - and patrimony - in the entertainment area. In 50 X 1, Álvaro Garnero revisits, describes and presents tastes and
experiences which were unforgettable in his life. A life that is already magnificently rich of all kinds of tastes and experiences.