Microservice

Microservice

Microservice was founded in 1966 by Isaac Hemsi, Roberto Hemsi, Sergio Alhadeff, and David Alhadeff as a manufacturer of plastic extruded sheets and moldings. The firm grew alongside Brazil's industrial modernization, supplying critical components to the electronics and food packaging sectors. The founding families retain control, and the group's governance reflects a clear functional split among the original partners: Isaac Hemsi led industrial and commercial operations, Roberto Hemsi oversaw finance, and Sergio Alhadeff managed administration. The group deploys capital across three distinct verticals. Its legacy business manufactures plastic sheets and precision moldings for industrial clients, with production facilities in Barueri and Manaus. A second line serves consumer packaging, primarily for Brazil's large food processing industry. The third vertical operates in entertainment and data storage, where Microservice historically held a key role in optical media distribution — manufacturing and replicating CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs for the Latin American market. Bank of America, through its former BankBoston subsidiary, was a major institutional investor in the group via BancBoston Capital, signaling external validation of the group's cash generation and asset base. Headquartered in São Paulo, with a second industrial plant in Manaus, the group historically employed a lean holding structure that included a Cayman Islands entity — BancBoston Investments Microservice Holdings Inc. — reflecting the participation of international institutional capital alongside family ownership. No current AUM or deployment figures are publicly disclosed, and the group has maintained a characteristically low profile relative to Brazilian peers of comparable vintage. The structural differentiator is the group's posture as an operating company that reinvests rather than a family office that allocates. Unlike most Brazilian family offices that liquidated an operating business and shifted to financial portfolios, Microservice's capital deployment remains embedded inside the industrial operations. This architecture — a multi-generational industrial group with a history of institutional co-investment and a Cayman holding structure — provides the Hemsi and Alhadeff families with both operational control and capital flexibility uncommon among Brazilian single-family offices.