
THE PEOPLE BEHIND æqualis
A multidisciplinary team for a multidisciplinary problem.
Clinical insight, scientific depth and technical execution in one research-driven company.
WHY THIS TEAM
Healthcare simulation sits at the intersection of disciplines.
Clinical context
Computational depth
Scientific validation
THE CORE TEAM
People who move between research and reality.
Gustavo Jacob
FOUNDER & CEO
Surgical oncologist, entrepreneur, inventor and researcher focused on healthcare and artificial intelligence.
Ricardo Cabral
COO & CCO
Physician and health IT executive connecting healthcare innovation with real-world adoption.
Helena Couto
CFO
Building sustainable foundations through governance, operations and financial strategy.
Anísio Lacerda
SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR
Professor at UFMG working across causal inference, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Gisele Pappa
ACADEMIC LEAD
Professor at UFMG working across causal reasoning, machine learning and decision science.
Lucas Santiago
DATA SCIENCE LEAD
Working across machine learning, synthetic data generation and computational experimentation.
WORK WITH US
Complex problems need the right mix of people.
We welcome research partners, technical collaborators and healthcare teams with a question worth testing.






