Founder Profile
Cristina Helena Zingaretti Junqueira
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Cristina Helena Zingaretti Junqueira?
Cristina Helena Zingaretti Junqueira is a founder of Nu Holdings Ltd., which was founded in 2013 with David Vélez Osorno and Edward Wible.
- Company founded
- Nu Holdings Ltd.
- Founded
- 2013
- Co-founders
- David Vélez Osorno and Edward Wible
Background
Cristina Junqueira studied industrial engineering at the University of São Paulo and earned an MBA at Northwestern's Kellogg School, then worked at Boston Consulting Group and Itaú Unibanco, where she ran parts of the credit card business.
Founding Story
Cristina Junqueira co-founded Nubank in 2013 and helped design its early credit card and customer-service model. After the 2021 IPO she became one of Brazil's few self-made female billionaires. She moved to Miami to lead Nu's US business and was named CEO of the US operation, which won conditional OCC approval for a national bank in January 2026 and launched products in September 2026. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
Sources
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- Nu Holdings FY2025 Form 20-F (Nu Holdings Ltd.)
- Nu Holdings Ltd. on Wikipedia (Nu Holdings Ltd.)