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André Xavier took over the leadership of BHS in 2017, when the company had a revenue of R$ 25.6 million and 192 employees. Eight years later, the annual revenue surpassed R$ 100 million, the team grew to 265 people, and the company expanded its operations in cloud, digital security, and artificial intelligence.
He returned through the main door.
In 2002, André Xavier walked through the doors of a technology company in Belo Horizonte to take an internship position. Years later, he would leave the business believing that chapter had ended.
The path, however, took an unexpected turn. André started his own consultancy, reconnected with the former company, and returned not as an employee, but as a partner. In 2017, he became the president of BHS, which since then saw its revenue grow from R$ 25.6 million to over R$ 100 million.
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The transformation also appeared in the size of the team. The staff grew from 192 to 265 employees, while the company claims to have served more than two thousand clients throughout its journey.
The internship that changed an undefined career
Before entering the technology field, André had started studying Control and Automation Engineering. He dropped the course, took vocational tests, and even tried to return to engineering.
The change happened when he got an internship opportunity in the technology area of an engineering company. The contact with software development altered his plans and led him to computing.
In 2002, he joined BHS as an intern. The company had been founded in Belo Horizonte in 1994 and still carried the name Belo Horizonte Sistemas, with operations related to programs, corporate networks, and Microsoft technologies.
André stayed with the business for about two years. He liked the closeness between employees and management but noticed internal changes that, in his view, weakened that environment. He left convinced he would not return.
A personal consultancy placed the companies side by side
After graduating in 2004, André gave up the graduation party and traveled through Europe. He spent some time studying Spanish in Spain and walked the Camino de Santiago de Compostela.
Back in Brazil, he started working with project management. About two years later, he created Sotis Consulting, specializing in the implementation of Microsoft Project Server, a platform used by companies to organize and monitor projects.
The consultancy gained clients, got closer to Microsoft, and ended up located in an office next to BHS. The physical proximity opened the door for joint projects.
What began as a commercial collaboration advanced to a merger, carried out around 2009. André returned to the former company as a partner and director, just a few years after leaving, believing that door was definitively closed.
Back as a partner, he took on strategic operations
The first major challenge after returning was to lead BHS’s operation in São Paulo. In 2011, he returned to Belo Horizonte to take over the entire consulting area.
The decisive change occurred in 2016, when the company’s founder decided to leave daily management and create a board. André spent approximately a year in the transition process and assumed the presidency in 2017.
At that time, BHS recorded a revenue of R$ 25.6 million and had 192 employees. The business was still heavily associated with software development and technology infrastructure.
Under the new leadership, the company expanded its operations in cloud computing, outsourcing professionals, digital security, data, automation, compliance, and artificial intelligence.
According to Exame, the annual revenue exceeded R$ 100 million in 2025. This represents a growth of over 290% compared to the value recorded when André took over, nearly quadrupling the revenue.
Mergers helped expand services and market
The expansion did not occur only organically. In 2017, BHS announced a merger with Axter, a company linked to infrastructure, security, managed services, and cloud computing.
Together, the operations gathered approximately 200 professionals and revenue exceeding R$ 25 million at that time. André remained in command of the company resulting from the merger.
In 2023, BHS also acquired 50% of the Minas Gerais-based Nowcy, specialized in digital security. The operation reinforced an area considered strategic given the increased concern of companies with data protection, compliance, and digital risks.
Artificial intelligence is expected to support the next leap
By 2026, the company’s projected revenue is expected to reach between R$ 120 million and R$ 125 million, with anticipated growth between 20% and 25%.
Artificial intelligence is expected to play an important role. It is anticipated that technology-related projects will represent between R$ 20 million and R$ 30 million of the year’s revenue.
Among the solutions developed is a platform aimed at analyzing corporate communications, capable of identifying potential regulatory risks, information leaks, harassment, discrimination, and non-compliance with internal policies.
The journey of André Xavier goes beyond a promotion within the same company. It shows how an intern who decided to leave returned years later with experience, clients, and his own company, transforming the former employer into the business he would go on to lead.
More than two decades after that first position, the door through which he entered as an apprentice has become the entrance to a company from Minas Gerais that surpassed R$ 100 million and is now trying to find in artificial intelligence the path for the next cycle of growth.
