Alexandre Villela

Managing Director

Qualcomm Ventures

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Alex is leading deals in LatAm and Digital Enterprise, Networking, Datacenter related deals in the U.S. Before that, he worked for Intel Capital and led several equity investments in Latin America, in a variety of sectors (Cloud Services, Healthcare IT, Big Data Analytics, FinTech)

Amit garg

Principal

Samsung NEXT Ventures

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Amit focuses on software especially Internet/consumer technologies, investing $250K to $3M in seed, series A or B, and helping them partner with Samsung to grow and make a meaningful difference in people's lives. Amit’s primary focus is Digital Health, secondary is Emerging Markets.

Anderson Thees

Managing Director & Co-founder

Redpoint e.ventures

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Anderson Thees is Managing Director and co-founder of Redpoint e.ventures, an early stage venture capital firm focused on the Internet.Its partners include funds from Silicon Valley, as well as a global network of sister funds in China, Russia, Germany and Japan.

ANDY TSAO

Managing Director

Silicon Valley Bank

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Andy is Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s Global Gateway, which assists innovation companies in the emerging markets with their US and intl. market expansion. Andy also leads SVB Global PE Services.

AnN RAVEL

Professor, UC Berkeley

Fellow at New America

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Ann M. Ravel was nominated to the Federal Election Commission by President Barack Obama in 2013.  After her appointment received the unanimous consent of the United States Senate, Ms. Ravel joined the Commission on October 25, 2013. Currently, she is a Professor at UC Berkeley Law School and is also a Fellow at New America.

Antoine colaco

Partner

Valor Capital Group

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Prior to joining Valor, Antoine was at Google for 9 years serving in a wide range of capacities. He was most recently COO of Global Partnerships, supporting all of Google’s partnerships. Previously, he established Google’s India presence and was the COO for APAC and LATAM regions.

Alana Rizzo

Advisor

Albright Stonebridge Group

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Alana provides clients with in-depth political analysis and supports in developing and implementing stakeholder engagement strategies in Brazil and across Latin America. Before joining ASG, Alana spent over a decade as an investigative journalist at several of Brazil’s leading media outlets.

Arnaldo tavares

Director, AI ISV Partnerships

Intel

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Arnaldo is developing Intel's Artificial Intelligence software ecosystem. Prior to it, he was developing and implementing strategy for Machine Learning to key Enterprise verticals at NVIDIA for over 7 years.

Asheesh Birla

SVP Product

Ripple

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An industry expert on blockchain and cryptocurrency, Asheesh first joined Ripple in 2013 to lead the development of their product suite. He started his career as an entrepreneur 15 years ago in Silicon Valley, founded a content management company that he later sold to Thomson-Reuters.

AVANISH SAHAI

VP Worldwide ISV &

Tech Alliances ServiceNow

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Avanish is an India-born, Brazil-raised, US-educated senior tech executive. Before ServiceNow, he was VP at insidesales, CPO at Demandbase and held leadership positions at Oracle, McKinsey and Salesforce.

Eder santana

Research Scientist in Machine

Learning

Toyota Research Institute

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At Toyota Eder is working on Deep Learning for driving autonomous vehicles. His previous work include contributions to the popular Deep Learning library Keras and to the FaceID group at Apple. He is originally from São Luís, Maranhão.

Eduardo Henrique

Co-Founder, Head of Business Dev.
 

Movile

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Eduardo is responsible for leading Movile's global expansion and also communications including PR, relations with strategic partners like Apple, Google, Facebook. He was also one of the creators of PlayKids, the world’s top grossing educational entertainment platform for kids

Enrique ortegón

General Manager
 

Salesforce Latin America

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In his role Enrique is responsible for all of Salesforce's commercial activities in the Latin American market.  He directly oversees sales, business development, solution engineering, enablement and go-to market strategy for the region.

Flavio pripas

Managing Director

Cubo

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 Nominated as one of the "Most Creative People in Business 2012" by FastCompany, Flavio is leading CUBO, a transformational project to foster entrepreneurship in Brazil, sponsored by Itau Bank and RedPoint eVentures. 

FRED ASLAN

Founder & CEO

 Adavium Medical

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Fred is an accomplished health care industry expert leading the largest Brazilian medical equipment/diagnostics company. He is also Board Member at BayBrazil & VP at Venrock, the VC arm of Rockefeller family.

harald batista

Board Member

BayBrazil

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A serial entrepreneur and investor, Harald is currently assisting several Silicon Valley startups. He is also founder of Aura Enterprises and Ilumina Tech, designing a new approach to education based on skills in high demand, best teachers, and mentoring.

Hernan Kazah

Co-Founder & Managing Partner 

Kaszek Ventures

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Before Kaszek Ventures, he cofounded MercadoLibre (Nasdaq: MELI), Latin American largest commerce and payments online platform, where he worked for 12 years, as COO and later as CFO. He sits on the board of Kekanto, GetNinja among others.

Lucas Mendes Teixeira

Head of Brazil   

WeWork





 

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In just over a year in the WeWork’s leadership, Lucas launched three spaces in Sao Paulo and one in Rio de Janeiro. By the end of the year, WeWork may have 15 locations in the country. Prior to WeWork, Lucas was at Banco Itau, where he co-founded Cubo.

MArcello torres

Manager Sales Dev North America

LinkedIn

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Marcello manages a team of Sales "High Potential" Executives, covering all USA and Canada for SMB and Enterprise accounts. He was awarded Best Sales Manager in LinkedIn Americas (2018) - Demand Excellence.

MARGARISE CORREA

Founder & CEO   

BayBrazil



 

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Margarise founded BayBrazil in 2010 to build the Brazilian-American tech hub in Silicon Valley and nurture entrepreneurial ecosystems. Before that she worked 7 years as TV broadcast journalist in Brazil. 

MAuro Goncalves Filho

Director, Product Mgt & Strategy

Loon, Alphabet

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Loon is a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, designed to connect people in rural and remote areas, help fill coverage gaps, and bring people back online after disasters. Mauro shapes business models to enable the mission to connect people everywhere by inventing and integrating audacious technologies.

nandu ramani

Engineering Director

Uber

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Nandu focuses on Safety, Insurance, Risk, Identity, Knowledge & Decision platform. He is also building Uber's knowledge graph. Prior to Uber, he was Engineering Director at Google and has led teams in the US, India and Europe.

Nicolas Szekasy

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Kaszek Ventures

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Kaszek Ventures is Latin America’s largest VC firm with US$ 182 million investment in 52 companies, most of them in Brazil. Nicolás currently sits on the board of Nubank, Creditas, GuiaBolso, Grupo ZAP, among others.

Raphael de cunto

Partner

Pinheiro Neto Advogados

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Raphael is partner in the Palo Alto and São Paulo offices of Pinheiro Neto Advogados, Brazil’s leading law firm. He has more than 20 years of experience counseling clients in the tech industry negotiating M&A and financing transactions.

RON CZERNY

Founder & CEO

PlayPhone

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Ron serves as the visionary behind Playphone (aquired by GungHo, Softbank Group).  He was the co-founder of the Brazilian Video Game Association and Chairman of Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF). He's also a BayBrazil Board Member. 

Shawn Carolan

Consumer VC

Menlo Ventures

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Shawn focuses on IT investments in the consumer sector—with particular interest in major technological shifts that improve daily lives. Examples include current investments in Roku and Uber, as well as Siri, which sold to Apple in 2013.

VICENTE SILVEIRA

Chairman of the Board

BayBrazil

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Vicente is a data, AI, engineering expert and BayBrazil teammate from our early days.  He’s held leadership positions at Uber, as Head of Fraud Data Science; LinkedIn, as Director of Engineering; and VeriSign (now Symantec), as Director of Product Mgt.