Brazil Deep Dive
São Paulo, BrazilOct 17th & 18th,2012
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Speed Networking sessions
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Entrepreneurs attending this industry tour will visit marquis consumer companies, take
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Table of Contents
General Info
Attendee Info
Welcome letter
Schedule Day 1
Schedule Day 2
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Endeavor Candidates & Staff
Brazilian Endeavor Entrepreneurs
Endeavor Network Members
Endeavor Staff
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Welcome to Brazil!Welcome to São Paulo, Brazil!
We are truly excited to host you in our city. During these 2 days, Entrepreneurs from Latin America and South Africa will be introduced to Brazil’s High Impact Entrepreneurship Ecosystem. Entrepreneurs, Mentors, Investors and Service Providers will gather to discuss opportunities in the Brazilian Market and learn from each other about best practices when doing business in our country.
As you prepare your trip, please check out some important information:
Transportation from Airport
to Event’s neighborhood
Language
Identification
Water
Tipping
Weather
Currency
Electricity
Official cabs are available at Guarulhos’ airport and will cost approximately R$120-140 (~US$60-80) for a one-way transfer to Intercity Berrini. Alternatively, for R$35 (~US$17)
you can take the Airport Services Bus (airport-busservice.com.br) to a central location and get a cab from there.
Portuguese. English is spoken in most tourist and commercial areas.
Foreign visitors are advised to carry identification at all times.
Visitors are advised to drink bottled water
Restaurants will automatically add 10% service fee of the total bill. It is
common practice to tip 10-15% in services
Reais. Commercial establishments do not accept dollars
110 volt system
Temperature in São Paulo ranges from 15-28°C during October. It’s always good to
carry a jacket because climate tends to change throughout the day.
Credit Cards Visa and MasterCard are widely accepted in hotels, restaurants and major
stores. Most cabs will only accept cash.
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Brazil Deep Dive ScheduleOctober 17th: Ceo Summit
Leading Business event that gathers 700 CEOs and Senior Executives to hear from Brazilian
leaders and exchange management best practices.
08h00: Endeavor Shuttle departs from Hotel Intercity Berrini - Alcides Lourenço da Rocha Street, 136 to Hotel Unique
08h30-09h00: Registration at CEO Summit (Hotel Unique)
09h00-09h50: Succession Challenges• Rafael Klein, President of Viavarejo / Moderator: Mauro Terepins, E&Y
09h50-10h35: Great Women, Great Leaders• Adriana Machado, President GE Brazil/ Rosangela Lyra, President of Dior Brazil / Dra. Janete Vaz, Sabin Laboratory
10h35-11h10: Coffee Break
11h10-12h00: Reinventing a Big Company• Paulo Kakinoff, CEO of Gol Linhas Aéreas / Moderator: Cris Correa, Journalist at Exame
12h00-12h50: Investors’ Look• Zeca Magalhães, Founder of Tarpon / Martin Escobari, Executive Director General Atlantic Brasil / Juan Carlos Feliz, Executive Director Carlyle / Moderator: Carlos Aciutti, E&Y
12h50-14h20: Networking Lunch
14h20-15h10: The rise of a New Consumer• Sergio Habib, Jac Motors / Guilherme Paulus, Founder CVC / Moderator: Jean-Marc Etlin, Itaú BBA
15h10-15h30: Coffee Break
15h30-16h20: Success Trajectory• Nelson Sirotsky, Founder Grupo RBS / Salim Mattar, Founder Localiza / Moderator: Marilia Rocca, Founder of Endeavor Brazil
16h20-17h10: e-Growth• Gilberto Mautner, Founder Locaweb / Julio Vasconcelos, Founder Peixe Urbano / Daniel Wjuniski, Founder Minha Vida / Moderator: Bob Wollheim, President SixPix
17h10-18h00: • Alex Atala - renowned Brazilian Chef
18h30-19h00: Endeavor Shuttle departs from Hotel Unique to Dinner at 1900 Restaurant (Club Athletico Paulistano - Rua Honduras, 1400)
19h00-20h00: Cocktail
20h00-22h00: Dinner with Brazilian Endeavor Entrepreneurs
22h00-22h30: Endeavor Shuttle to Hotel Intercity Berrini
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Brazil Deep Dive ScheduleOctober 18th: Speed-Networking Sessions
08h00: Endeavor Shuttle departs from Hotel Intercity Berrini - Alcides Lourenço da Rocha Street, 136
08h30-09h00: Registration and Breakfast at HSM (Av Nacoes Unidas, 12.551 - 11th floor)
09h00-10h30: Speed-Networking Session - Part 1: Connect with Mentors and Investors
10h30-11h00: Coffee Break
11h00-12h30: Panel “Lessons from Doing Business in Brazil” with Endeavor Entrepreneurs• Marcelo Romcy, Co-Founder and CEO of Proteus• Martin Enriquez, Co-Founder and CEO of Social Metrix• Raúl Polakof, Founder and CEO of Scanntech• Moderator: Bob Wollheim, President of SixPix 12h30-14h00: Lunch
14h00-15h30: Speed-Networking Session - Part 2: Connect with Service Providers (lawyers, consultants and head-hunters)
15h30-16h00: Final Remarks
16h00-16h30: Endeavor Shuttle to Hotel Intercity Berrini
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Esteban Brenman Argentina CEO, Guía Oleo
Guía Oleo is a website that helps consumers from Argentina and Brazil share restaurant recommendations though an easily search-able data. GO received an investment of 1MM in 2010 and used these proceeds to hire a team that could take the company to the next level; the company increased its revenues by a 150% com-paring 2010 to 2011. The site has almost 700.000 monthly visits.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Finding a partner to expand in Brazil and other
Latin American countries.
Raising Capital:USD 3M-5M
Pamela Chávez Crooker Chile CEO, Aguamarina
Pamela runs Aguamarina, a biotech research and development com-pany that offers services for the mining and aquaculture industries. Based in Antofagasta, Aguamarina offers laboratory services to lo-cal mines and it develops prototypes for environmentally-respon-sible products that increase the efficiency of copper extraction.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Strategic partnerships
- Entrance in to the market
Raising Capital:> USD $10M
Fernando Cammarota Uruguay CEO, CEPA
Fernando Cammarota has successfully transitioned from com-petitive race car driver to be the leader of CEPA, a company that specializes in driver training and accident prevention consult-ing, and has quickly become a regional leader in Latin America.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Human Resources
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Michel Cohen Uruguay Founder & CEO, Lolita
Michel has turned Lolita into a global apparel retailer. He was fea-tured on the cover of America Economia as a model for franchising, highlighting his successful expansion model into the Central Ameri-can, South American, Caribbean, Asian and European markets.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Finding partners, and investors
- Finding a master franchisee
Richard Dewing South Africa CEO, Cibecs
Cibecs allows clients to easily and quickly recover lost data, reduc-ing infrastructure utilization and optimizing bandwidth and stor-age usage. Richard has significant entrepreneurial experiences. Before Cibecs, he cofounded and managed two other IT start-ups.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Finding partners to enter the market with
Germán Dyenchauz Argentina Director, Integro
Germán is the director of Integro, which creates loyalty programs to help companies improve the engagement, motivation and perfor-mance of their employees, sales channel partners, and customers.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Increase awareness of our HR platform - Finding potential parners with knowledge of how
to sell our platform
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Alberto Lederman Colombia Partner, Aranda Software
Alberto is a partner at Aranda Software, a company that monitors IT infrastructure and services, controls IT implementation, main-tenance, and technical support, and enforces service agreements.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Partnering and joint venture opportunities
- Entrance in to the market
Raising Capital:USD 3M-5M
Francisco Gross Uruguay President, Seinco
Francisco is in charge of the coordination and develop-ment of projects of sanitation, water supply, and preserva-tion of the environment, taking charge of the responsibil-ity for much of the projects implemented by the firm SEINCO.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Increase visibilty of Seinco - Strengthen partnership network with potential business partners
- Explore potential investors with local partners
Raising Capital:USD 3M-5M
Ricardo Leyva Colombia Executive Director, Sistole
Ricardo has been blazing the trail for what he calls “expe-riential marketing.” While the industry refers to this prac-tice as below-the-line (BTL) advertising, Ricardo views this nascent industry segment as a transformative movement.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Positioning and sales growth
- Improving local market knowledge
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Julio Made Argentina President, Lenor
Julio is the visionary behind Lenor, the first mover in Latin America’s nascent industry for product testing, inspection and certification.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Opening a filial of Lenor as a Certification Body
to comply with mandatory INMETRO regulations
Ariel Lijtenstein Uruguay Director, RobTec
Ariel, a director at RobTec, designs prototypes for parts of products that need to be tested and developed before the fi-nal product can be produced. RobTec rapidly designs these prototypes through specialized materials and processes.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- 5 years strategy planning - E-commerce and retail business development
Claudio Lopez Silva Argentina CEO, ASIGNET
Claudio Lopez Silva is a self-educated entrepreneur with a proven ability to identify opportunities and develop non-conventional, high-impact products with state-of-the-art technology. Claudio founded Service Bu-reau Intetel, now Asignet, as a pioneering company that provides ful-ly-automated employee productivity monitoring web-based services.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Defining a startup structure
- Developing strategic partnerships
Raising Capital:USD 5M-10M
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Pablo Milburn Uruguay CEO, Datamyne
Pablo Milburn founded Urunet/Datamyne, a trade-related infor-mation provider for corporate decision-making. Urunet/Datamyne supplies online information systems on all foreign trade move-ments in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Entering the market
- Staff selection
Olivier Paccot Chile CEO, Woodtech
Olivier is co-founder and CEO of Woodtech, a technology com-pany that offers services to the forestry industry. Their flagship product, Logmeter 4000, is a laser that automatically measures the volume of wood loaded on moving trucks allowing clients to save millions of dollars every year and improve their efficiency.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Growth in the mining and construction industry with our measurement service/product - Finding local partners and representatives in the market
Raising Capital:USD 3M-5M
Tomas Pando Argentina Co-Founder & CEO, PAEZ
Tomas co-founded PAEZ, an Argentinian sandal company. By working with entrepreneurs instead of corporate distributors to champion its products and build its brand, PAEZ has doubled revenues annually and built an impressive online community in support of their product.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Raising capital with Brazilian investors- Entrance in to the market- Understanding the industry
Raising Capital:USD 3M-5M
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Sebastián Schickendantz Uruguay Co-Founder & President, STATUM
Sebastián is a co-founder and President at STATUM, a Uruguayan software shop focused on Business Process Management (BPM) so-lutions. A fast-growing start-up with a big vision, the company has already amassed an impressive list of local and international clients.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Finding partners in Brazil in the areas of con-sulting, software development and BPO
Francisco Piasentini Argentina Co-Founder & CEO, PAEZ
Francisco co-founded PAEZ, an Argentinian sandal company. By work-ing with entrepreneurs instead of corporate distributors to champion its products and build its brand, PAEZ has doubled revenues annually and built an impressive online community in support of their product.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Raising capital with Brazilian investors- Entrance in to the market- Understanding the industry
Raising Capital:USD 3M-5M
Raúl Polakof is the visionary entrepreneur behind the outstanding success of Scanntech, Uruguay’s leader in point of sales technology. Scanntech is a technology-based company that develops and markets intelligent point of sale software for medium to large retail companies.
Raúl Polakof Uruguay Founder & CEO, Scanntech
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Finding CPG Companies- Networking with banks
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Diego Vorobechik Argentina Director, Bibliografika
Diego is a director and co-founder of Bibliografika, a “print on demand” publishing company. Bibliografika uses an innovative digital technology process in which a copy of a book is not created until an order is received.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Orienting with local partners- Fundraising- M & A
Raising Capital:USD 3M-5M
Gustavo Vorobechik Argentina Director, Bibliografika
Gustavo is a director and co-founder of Bibliografika, a “print on demand” publishing company.Bibliografika uses an innovative digital technology process in which a copy of a book is not created until an order is received.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Orienting with local partners- Fundraising- M & A
Raising Capital:USD 3M-5M
Michael Yorston Chile Marketing Manager, Woodtech
Michael is a pioneer behind Woodtech, a technology company that offers services to the forestry industry. Their flagship prod-uct, Logmeter 4000, is a laser that automatically measures the volume of wood loaded on moving trucks allowing clients to save millions of dollars every year and improve their efficiency.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Growth in the mining and construction industry with our measurement service/product - Finding local partners and representatives in the market
Raising Capital:USD 3M-5M
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Rosina Cammarota Uruguay Country Manager, CEPA
Rosina is the daughter of Fernando, the Founder of CEPA. Today she is in charge of operations for all of Brazil.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Human resources
Sally Buberman Argentina Wormhole IT
Sally is a passionate entrepreneur at Wormhole IT, a com-pany devoted to revolutionizing the way people work, learn and communicate through the Internet in Emerging Countries.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Developing a partner network (resellers) in the Telecommunication Market and Educational Mar-ket. - Expansion in the market
Raising Capital:< USD 1M
Erico de Angelis Colombia General Director, Sistole Brazil
Erico is the General Director at Sistole Brazil, working with experi-mental marketing. Sistole is a below-the-line advertising company.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Positioning and sales growth - Improving local market knowledge
Javier Carrique Argentina Business Development: Latin America, ASIGNET
Javier is in charge of Business Development in Latin America for ASIGNET. Asignet, is a pioneering company that provides fully-au-tomated employee productivity monitoring web-based services.
Raising Capital:USD 5M-10M
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Defining a startup structure
- Developing strategic partnerships
Diego Chorny Argentina CEO, Brand Value
Diego founded Brand Value, a marketing and promotional strategy agen-cy, which in only two years becomes one of the most awarded promo-tional marketing agencies at European level, consecutively occupying the fifth and second position in the ranking of Spanish creative agencies.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Finding partners
- Finding local partners and top local managers
Raising Capital:USD 3M-5M
Ilze Dewing South Africa Business Development Director, Cibecs
Ilze is the business development director at Cibecs in South Africa. Cibecs Continuity allows clients to easily and quickly recover lost data, reducing infrastructure utilization and optimizing bandwidth and storage usage.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Finding partners
- Entrance in to the market
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Neal Dewing South Africa CIO, Cibecs
Neal is the CIO of Cibecs in South Africa. Cibecs Continuity al-lows clients to easily and quickly recover lost data, reducing infra-structure utilization and optimizing bandwidth and storage usage.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Finding partners
- Entrance in to the market
Duncan is the CIO at CEPA, a Uruguayan company that specializes in driver training and accident prevention consulting. Duncan supervises a highly qualified dis-tributed team of engineers and developers while help-ing bridge the gap between technology and business.
Duncan Espiga Uruguay CIO, CEPA
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Human resources
Rudy Frejtman Uruguay General Manager, ZENIT
Rudy is a General Manager at ZENIT, a Uruguayan company striving to become the leader in marketing and preparation of items for camp-ing, travel and leather goods. ZENIT is innovative and constantly per-fecting its processes through excellence in service, quality and price.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Finding partners to market product in Brazil
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Gustavo Montes Uruguay Business Development Manager, Datamyne
Mr. Montes joined Mercosur OnLine as Commercial Manager in Buenos Aires in 1997. In 2005, he transferred to the U.S. as busi-ness development manager. Mr. Montes attended the ISEDE in Uru-guay and studied Business Administration at the UADE in Argentina.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Marketing our services- Networking locally
- Establishing campaigns
Alejandro Schein Uruguay Director, ZENIT
Alejandro is the Director at ZENIT, a Uruguayan company striving to become the leader in marketing and preparation of items for camp-ing, travel and leather goods. ZENIT is innovative and constantly per-fecting its processes through excellence in service, quality and price.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Local retail opportunities
Raising Capital:USD 1M-3M
Clineu Stefani Argentina Partner, Bibliografika
Clineu is an electrical engineer who worked with IBM in Japan, USA, and Brazil for 10 years. His own com-pany, psi7, is a print-on-demand business in Brazil.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Capital cost- Lack of governamental incentive
- High taxation cost
Raising Capital:USD 5M-10M
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Santiago Soler Uruguay Director, ANTICIPATE
Mr. Soler has 20 years of experience in international development proj-ects working for multilateral organizations. He has extensive experi-ence in the design, implementation, and evaluation of tourism projects.
Main Brazillian Market Challenges:- Selecting our right clientes - Comply with local fiscal and legal regulations.
- Understanding the language and culture
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Ivan Barchese, a metallurgical engineer, is the man behind Mex-tra. Ivan perceived that suppliers of aluminum tablets lacked the know-how to manufacture metallic powders, obliging these companies instead to pay high prices for the raw materials.
Guilherme has helped transform a small graphics department into a one-of-a-kind technology company with sector-leading know-how in graphic services that is quickly taking over the Brazilian market. The company offers a tool-box of techno-logical solutions that provides clients a customized solution.
Mario Chady is now President of Grupo Trigo, the parent company that he founded in 2006 to man-age all of the Spoleto brands: Spoleto, Domino’s, and Koni Store. Mr. Chady has expanded Spoleto out-side of Brazil to 23 locations in Mexico and 3 in Spain.
Luis is a serial entrepreneur and founder of BenCorp, a strategic consultancy and manager of corporate benefits, which uses an IT platform to reduces costs for employ-ers and promotes healthy living. Luis sold Dental Corp, his first venture, in 2007 for US$ 15 Million to Odontoprev.
Luis Alexandre Chicani Brazil Founder, BenCorp
Mario Chady Brazil President, Grupo Trigo
Guilherme Bruno Brazil Co-Founder, Arizona
Ivan Barchese Brazil Founder & CEO, Mextra
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Arnold created SubWay Link, which consists of two busi-ness units: a video production firm that offers businesses a fully integrated service, and SubWay Link, which pro-vides a “Business TV” solution — closed-circuit television.
Valério created Tecno Logys, a company that expe-dites the building and prevents the waste of materi-als. In addition to the bricks, the company provides all equipment, projects and staff to perform the services.
Valério Dornelles Brazil Founder and President, Tecno Logys
Arnaldo Goldemberg is the founder of LAN De-signers, the first company to implement and op-erate an IT outsourcing project in Brazil.
Arnaldo Goldemberg Brazil CEO, LAN Designers
Arnold Eugenio Correia Brazil Founder & President, SubWay Link
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Patrick is an Endeavor Entrepreneur and the Co-Found-er of Run Run, a team management software in the cloud. He also founded Aorta, a mobile application de-veloper sold in 2012 to a major media group in Brazil.
Patrick Lisbona Brazil Co-Founder, Run Run
Eduardo is a partner at Grupo Trigo and President of Spoleto, a company that combines the speed of fast food service with the piazza of a gourmet chef preparing innovative, restaurant-quality food in front of the customer. This unique dining expe-rience has become one of Brazil’s most popular franchises.
Eduardo Ourivio Brazil Partner, Grupo Trigo
Daniel’s company, Minha Vida, has become the most popular portal for health and wellness in Bra-zil, growing its database to 18 million registered us-ers, including 11 million unique users per month.
Daniel Wjuniski Brazil Founder, Minha Vida
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Marcelo is an Endeavor Entrepreneur and co-found-er Proteus, a network security services company and quickly won over Brazil’s largest corporations. Key cli-ents in Brazil include Siemens, Aventis, and Nextel.
Marcelo Romcy Brazil Co-Founder, Proteus
Antonio Carlos is an Endeavor Entrepreneur and the Co-Founder of Run Run, a team management software in the cloud. He also founded Aorta, a mobile application developer sold in 2012 to a major media group in Brazil.
Antonio Carlos Soares Brazil Co-Founder, Run Run
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Veronica is the founding partner of Pacific Invest-ments with 14 years of experience making private equity investments in a variety of sectors, includ-ing private equity, real estate and venture capital.
Veronica Allende Serra Brazil Partner, Pacific Advisors
Francisco Alvarez-Demalde is a founding Partner of Riverwood Capital. Prior to joining Riverwood, Mr. Al-varez-Demalde was an investment professional at Eton Park Capital Management, where he focused on a vari-ety of private equity investments in emerging markets.
Danilo Amaral is a founder and partner at Trin-dade Investimentos. Danilo was an M&A lawyer for over eight years, working at Mattos Filho, Veiga Fil-ho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados as well as New York-based Grant, Herrmann, Schwartz & Klinger.
Rafael is a tax partner at Vieira, Rezende, Barbo-sa & Guerreiro. He previously worked with Teixeira de Freitas, Rodrigues e Associados - Sociedade de Advogados, RL. Rafael received his masters at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Francisco Alvarez-Demalde United States Partner, Riverwood Capital
Rafael Amorim Brazil Tax Partner, Vieira, Rezende, Barbosa & Guerreiro
Danilo Amaral Brazil Partner, Trindade Investimentos
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Patrick is a Director at DGF Investimentos, where he leads acquisition sourcing, negotiation, and portfo-lio management activities for the DGF Inova fund.
Patrick Arippol Brazil Director, DGF Investimentos
Marcelo is a s a founding partner of Vieira, Rezende, Barbosa e Guerreiro Advogados. He specializes in le-gal advising for corporate law and capital markets.
Marcelo Barbosa Brazil Partner, Vieria, Rezende Barbosa e Guerreiro Advogados
Mr. Cherto is the Founder and CEO of Grupo Cherto, a Brazilian consulting firm specialized in growth strategy and hands on em-ploymentation for business expansion and market dominance.
Marcelo Cherto Brazil Founder & CEO, Grupo Cherto
Sergio is a senior associate at Veirano Advoga-dos (2001/currently) in São Paulo, Brazil. He has ex-tensive experience in banking and finance , con-tracts, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions.
Sergio Bronstein Brazil Senior Associate, Veirano & Advogados Associados
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Alberto is a specialist working to optimize the productive relationships between companies and their customers through the development and dissemination of Culture Advisory. Alberto has trained more than 45 000 people.
Alberto Couto Brazil President, Alberto Couto Treinamento e Consultoria em Vendas
Bruno is a leader in the innovation indus-try, where he has participated in the develop-ment of different technologies, products and businesses. In 2008 he received the Distinguished In-novator award given by the Business Software Alliance.
Bruno Ghizoni Brazil Director of Research Management, Portbank
Renato founded Giovanini F º Lawyers, a law firm spe-cializing in re-organizations corporate and property for tax purposes, succession, asset protection and other, op-erations Mergers & Acquisitions, and business Litigation.
Renato Giovanini Filho Brazil Founder & CEO, Giovanini Filho Advogados
Giovanni serves as CEO of Allis company providing HR ser-vices subsidiary of GP Investments. In 2008/09 was CEO of Minerco, company mining rights controlled by the GP. Was CEO and IRO of Terna Participações SA (Electricity).
Giovanni Giovannelli Brazil CEO, Allis
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Partner at Workhouse Capital, an early stage investment technology fund. Formerly, Andrew founded Workhouse, LLC, an investment firm consultant, specifically targeted in the Clean Technology industry, seeking opportunities to foster the development of technologies and companies.
Andrew Heckler United States Founding Partner, Workhouse Capital
Daniel has founded more than 15 tech startups from 1999 to 2010. The companies created in this peri-od have been capitalized through over 10 rounds of Venture Capital investments from 8 different funds.
Daniel Heise Brazil President, Direct Talk
Antônio Carlos is a vice-chairman and proprietor of the second chamber of the first section of the board of tax appeals. He specializes in tax, tax litigation and energy.
Antônio Carlos Guidoni Filho Brazil Partner, Vella Pugliese Buosi Guidoni Advogados
Ricardo Guterres is consultant-partner of SalibyRH. He has intensively developed in people and human resources man-agement in general though courses and seminars in U.S. and in England, such as the WorldatWork and the ASTD seminars.
Ricardo Guterres Brazil Partner, SalibyRH
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Daniel is currently the managing director at Grid Investments. He has extensive experi-ence in pharmaceuticals and consumer goods.
Daniel Ibri Brazil Managing Partner, Grid Investments
Carlos Kokron is Managing Director of the Group responsible for Stratus Growth Capital Area. He directs two teams focus-ing on different themes: Applied Technologies and Cleantech.
Carlos Kokron Brazil Director: Growth Capital, Qualcomm Ventures
Vanesa Kolodziej is Managing Partner of Nazca Ven-tures, an early stage investment fund for tech start-ups and recently started Fundadoras, a NGO that helps female entrepreneurs access Venture Capital.
Vanesa Kolodziej Argentina Co-Founder, Nazca Ventures
Haroldo Korte joined the Investment Team in 2010, and helps to cover Latin America. In 1992 Haroldo was invited to join the management of Grupo Itama-rati where he was responsible for new business de-velopment and launched several key telecom groups.
Haroldo Korte Brazil Atomico
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Carlos is a general manager executive with prior experi-ence in services and SW sales. Carlos recently built Telcor-dia’s subsidiary in Brazil. He is interested in opportunities to grow as a GM to manage increasingly complex teams.
Carlos Henrique Lobão Pegurier Brazil President, ePay Brazil
José is the VP of planning at Netshoes. He also serves on the Board of TOTVS, the Strategy Committee, a body created in the Council meeting on 22 June 2011, that aims to assist the Board of Directors in defining the shares of medium and long term of the Company.
José Rogério Luiz Brazil VP of Planning, Netshoes
Omar Mangalji United States Partner, Workhouse Capital
Paulo is the director of 2GET, providing special-ized Executive recruitment services for compa-nies in Brazil. Paulo Mendes and Eduardo Baccet-ti realized the need for innovation in the market to provide specialist consulting services recruitment in Brazil.
Paulo Mendes Brazil Partner, 2GET
Omar Mangalji is a managing director of Cap-Meridi-an Ventures, which is a private investment vehicle with a broad mandate to invest in numerous asset class-es globally.CMV is industry and geographic agnostic but will specifically seek out investments in innovation.
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Raul is an experienced sales director in IT industry (work-ing 7 years at IBM and 10 years at Oracle). In the last 5 years, specially involved in selling IT solutions for Financial Services markets (large banks, credit cards and insurance).
Raul Miyazaki Brazil Director of Sales, Oracle
Michael is the Managing Director at Ideiasnet, a publicly traded Brazilian company with multi-stage investments in the technology, media and telecom sectors in Brazil.
Michael Nicklas Brazil Managing Director: Portfolio Development, IdeiasNet
Paulo is currently responsible for managing and monitoring AxialPar portfolio companies as well as origination and evalu-ation of new investments opportunities through Axial Gestão.
Paulo Nico Brazil Management & Resources, AXIAL Par
Alexandre is a PWC Brazil Partner since July 2007. He joined PWC as a Corporate Finance analyst in Au-gust 1995, being promoted to Manager in July 1996, Se-nior Manager in July 2000 and Director in July 2006.
Alexandre Pierantoni Brazil Corporate Finance Partner, PWC - Brazil
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Carlos has held several important positions, including Marketing Director of Brasil Telecom, CEO of MetroRED and Managing Director of Avaya. At Bematech, he was Chief Operating Officer from 2008 to 2009 and,from 2010 to 2011 was the company’s Chief Executive Officer.
Carlos Pinto Brazil Executive VP, Bematech
Carlos is based in Brazil as part of Atomico’s network of Market Expansion Professionals, where he assists Atomico portfolio companies to expand into Latin America. Car-los has spent over 15 years helping telecommunications and technology companies to set up their operations.
Carlos Pires Brazil Business Development, Atomico
Alexandre joined Cosin Consulting as a partner, practicing management consulting business in several areas. He focuses on consolidating the performance of the company as a leader in training companies with structuring and problem solving.
Alexandre Ribeiro Brazil Partner, Cosin Consulting
Edson founded Astella Investimentos, a private equity firm, in December 2007. Prior, Edson was Managing Part-ner at Cicerone Capital where he originated and executed M&A and Capital Markets transactions in Latin America.
Edson Rigonatti Brazil Managing Partner, Astella Investimentos
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Willian Shiang is senior associate (partner) of Carlyle, fo-cused on acquisition opportunities in South America, based in Sao Paulo. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Shiang was senior associate of the consulting firm AT Kearney.
Willian Shiang Brazil VP, The Carlyle Group
Anderson Thees is a Founding Partner of Red-point e.ventures. Previously, Anderson was the CEO of Apontador, the leading local search web-site and geolocation webservices provider in Brazil.
Anderson Thees Brazil Founding Partner, Redpoint eVentures Brazil
Gabriela Ruggeri is the Regional Advisor at DMGT In-ternational for Latin America, based in Buenos Ai-res, Argentina. Operating in over 40 countries,DMGT produces high-quality content,information, analyt-ics and events for both businesses and consumers.
Gabriela Ruggeri United Kingdom Regional Investment Advisor on Latin America, DMGT
Andy Tsao is a Managing Director with SVB Global Pri-vate Equity Services, working with SVB’s international private equity and venture capital clients. In addition, Tsao leads SVB’s Global Gateway, which assists innova-tion companies with their international market expansion.
Andrew Tsao United States Managing Director, Silicon Valley Bank
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Bob runs Sixpix, which publishes ResultsON, Clix, Oxigênio.etc and Pix platforms. Sixpix also owns Ei Mobile, a mobile marketing company and DeptY, fo-cused on marketing consultancy for generation Y.
Bob Wollheim Brazil President, SixPix
Rodrigo V. Vella is a founding member of Lawyers Buosi Vella. His professional activity is focused on le-gal advocacy business, focusing on mergers and ac-quisitions, capital markets and financial transactions.
Rodrigo Vilardo Vella Brazil Partner, Vella Pugliese Buosi Guidoni Advogados
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Nicolás del Pino Endeavor - Argentina Manager: Entrepreneur Services Argentina
Margarita Manginio Arocena Endeavor - Uruguay Director: Entrepreneur Services Uruguay
Natasha Hazan Endeavor - Brazil Director: Expansion & New Business Brazil
Nicolas is a manager of the Entrepreneur Services team in Argentina.
Natasha is a director of expansion and new business at Endeavor Brazil.
Margarita is the Entrepreneur Services Director at Endeavor Uruguay. She has experience in advertising, consulting, fashin and apparel.
Bianca Martinelli joined Endeavor Global in March 2011 as Director of Entrepreneur Services after 4 years working at Endeavor Brazil. As Portfolio Director on the Endeavor Global Entrepreneur Services team, Bianca provides global services to Endeavor Entrepreneurs from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Indonesia, Uruguay and South Africa.
Bianca Martinelli Endeavor - Global Director: Entrepreneur Selection & Growth
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Agustina Palmai Endeavor - Argentina Entrepreneur Services
Meghan Murphy Endeavor - Global Entrepreneur Selection & Growth
Allen Taylor Endeavor - Global Director: Global Network
Meghan joined Endeavor in September 2011 as a member of the Search & Selection team. Prior to working at Endeavor, she was a Global Graduate at HSBC, working for the bank’s wealth management and alternative investments groups in London, Singapore, and New York.
Agustina is a member of the Entrepre-neur Services (ES) team in Endeavor Argentina.
Allen leads Endeavor’s efforts to connect its portfolio of 450+ high-growth companies with US-based mentors and inves-tors. Having established Endeavor’s west coast presence, Al-len is now focused on leading the Endeavor Investor Network.
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