SPEAKERS 2020

GUEST SPEAKERS

David Vélez

Founder and CEO

Nubank

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Nubank is the leading Latin American financial technology company. Before founding Nubank in 2013, David was a Partner at Sequoia Capital in charge of the firm’s LatAm investments. Before Sequoia, David worked in investment banking and growth equity at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and General Atlantic. David has a BS in Mgt Science and Engineering and an MBA from the Stanford GSB.

Iris Choi

Partner

Floodgate Fund

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Iris leads all follow on investing and works closely with portfolio companies on a range of strategic areas. She also spent 10 years in investment banking, she was VP at Goldman Sachs focused on mergers and acquisitions and has worked directly with CEOs of leading consumer Internet, enterprise software and digital media companies. Floodgate’s portfolio includes Twitter, Lyft, Twitch.tv.

Henrique Dubugras

Cofounder and co-CEO

Brex

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A Brazilian entrepreneur, Henrique built payments company Pagar.me with his current co-founder Pedro. In just three years, Pagar.me grew to $1.5 billion in volume of transactions processed. In the fall of 2016, Henrique and Pedro sold Pagar.me and enrolled at Stanford University. After 8 months, they left school and founded Brex, a company that is reimagining financial systems.

Brian Requarth

Chairman

Grupo Zap

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Brian co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to 500+ people. Brian led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis, closing the deal in Dec 2017. He is also an angel investor in 25+ tech startups in Brazil and LatAm.

eric archer

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

monashees

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monashees is a technology VC firm founded in 2005 and based in São Paulo, Brazil. Eric serves on the boards of Clinica SIM, Jusbrasil, Fazenda Futuro, Conta Azul, MindLab, Enjoei, EduK, Foxtrot, among other portfolio companies. Prior to founding monashees, Eric did VC investing in the U.S. and Latin America with General Atlantic, and strategy consultancy with McKinsey & Company.

Jure Leskovec

Chief Scientist at Pinterest

Computer Sciences Prof, Stanford

University

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Besides his roles at Stanford and Pinterest, Jure is also an Investigator at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub. His research area is machine learning and data science for complex, richly-labeled relational structures, graphs, and networks for systems at all scales. The research has won several awards including a Lagrange Prize, Microsoft R. Faculty Fellowship, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and was featured in the NY Times and other outlets.

Nick Candy

Silicon Valley Bank

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Nick Candy, a Vice President of Research based in San Francisco, is responsible for the capital market research and data-driven analysis of the innovation economy that SVB serves globally. In this role, he has led global research efforts exploring investment, fundraising and exit dynamics in the venture ecosystem. Prior to that, Nick managed strategic advisory and valuation engagements for venture-backed technology companies as part of SVB Analytics.

Maitê Lourenco

Founder

BlackRocks Startups

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Maitê founded BlackRocks accelerator to encourage black people to access innovative tech ecosystems and empower black Brazilians to connect and start a cycle of a supportive exchange. Her work has impacted uncountable people in Brazil. One of the many key influences of Maitê’s work is the inclusion of the first startup led by a black person in the world in Oracle's acceleration program.

Steve Schlenker

Co-Founder, Managing Partner

DN Capital

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Steve began his career in venture capital and private equity in 1990. His sectors of focus include enterprise software, fintech, digital health. Amongst his select investments are Auto1, Datanomic (acquired by Oracle), Endeca (acquired by Oracle), Familybuilder (acquired by Intelius), Lagan/Kana (acquired by Verint), RecargaPay, Remitly and Parallel Wireless. Steve was previously at SUN Capital Partners, based in their London office.

Jonathan McNulty

CEO

Haus

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A consumer and real estate market veteran, Jonathan served as VP of Product, Growth and Design at Trulia where he led the teams through its $3.5 billion acquisition to Zillow Group. Prior to Trulia, Jonathan ran mobile and digital product for Chegg. Just over a year ago, he joined Haus, a new platform designed to make home ownership more flexible and affordable.

Pedro Waengertner

CEO and Co-founder

ACE

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Serial entrepreneur, angel investor and promoter of the Brazilian entrepreneurial ecosystem. An innovation expert, Pedro leads ACE, an acceleration program for Brazil’s growth startups. He has been working in the technology sector since the beginning of the commercial Internet in Brazil and has been a professor for more than 20 years and coordinator of the ESPM MBA, and author of the best seller The Strategy of Radical Innovation.

Nicolas Szekasy

Co-founder & Mgn Partner

Kaszek Ventures

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Nicolás Szekasy is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Kaszek Ventures, the largest venture capital firm in Latin America with over $1 billion of raised capital. The firm was launched in 2011 and has invested in more than 75 startups. He currently sits on the board of several technology companies including Nubank, QuintoAndar, Creditas, Zap, Notco, NuvemShop, Alice.

José Mauro D. Machado

Partner

Pinheiro Neto Advogados

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José Mauro has significant experience in litigation and advisory issues in intellectual property (IP) and technology matters. In the IP area, he concentrates his practice in cases involving the misuse of confidential information, brands. In the technology sector, Jose Mauro has a strong acumen on regulatory analysis of innovative products and services, data privacy and protection (LGPD) and e-commerce matters.

Marcelo Sales

Founder & CEO

Cyberlabs.ai

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Marcelo is a serial entrepreneur, angel and executive who began his journey in the wireless, internet and gaming industry when he created nTime and Movile. In 2011 Marcelo founded and led 21212 digital accelerator and in 2017 launched Cyberlabs, a deep-tech company focused on AI R&D based in Rio de Janeiro that develops and deploys MLaaS, computer vision software, mobile apps and more.

Konstanze Frischen

Global Leadership Group

Ashoka

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Konstanze Frischen heads Ashoka’s Global Tech & Humanity work, looking at patterns of social innovation from thousands of innovators. She’s a social entrepreneur and founder with a background in cultural anthropology, banking and journalism, advises citizen sector organization and sits on the innovation board of CASE at Duke University.

Kaaren Hanson

EVP Experience Design

Wells Fargo

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Kaaren leads a 250 person-team design that creates consumer banking experiences that are used by 1/3 of US Households. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Kaaren’s work at Facebook as the Director of Product Design led to modernizing and simplifying experiences across a portfolio of core products that grew over 40 to 50% year over year. She holds a BA from Clark University, a PhD from Stanford University, and has received two Intuit CEO leadership awards.

Belmer Negrillo

Lead Design AR Experiences

Facebook

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At Facebook's AR/VR group, Belmer leads a team of world-class designers, art directors, prototypers and artists, collaborating closely with product managers, engineers, and technical artists. Experienced in innovation (IDEO), in creative advertising (Ogilvy and DDB), in fast-paced development (startup), his work has received honors from Webby Awards, Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, The One Show, and Danish INDEX.

Lucas Pettinati

VP of Design & Research

Nubank

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Lucas leads a team responsible for crafting the user experience and creative direction for Nubank’s products and services throughout Latin America. Previously, he was Director of Product Design for Facebook’s Core Business Platform team, and Director of User Experience for GSuite while at Google. He is a named inventor on eight patents related to data visualization and user experience.

Caroline Winnett

Executive Director

Berkeley SkyDeck

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SkyDeck is UC Berkeley's premier tech accelerator and a global hub for entrepreneurs. Caroline leads a program that now hosts more than 200 companies per year. She recently launched the Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, a VC oversubscribed $24M fund investing in Berkeley SkyDeck startups that donates half of fund profits back to UC Berkeley. Caroline is also an angel investor, advisor, and a board member for several startups. She is a serial entrepreneur with two successful exits, a violinist, an Ironman triathlete, and the mother of twins.

nitin rao

SVP, Infrastructure

Cloudflare

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Nitin heads the Global Infrastructure team at Cloudflare, a leading security, performance, and reliability company on a mission to help build a better Internet. The company's network is one of the largest in the world, spanning more than 200 cities across over 100 countries, and is connected to more Internet Exchanges than other providers worldwide. He previously founded and sold Sunglass, a 3D modeling software company.

José Tomé

Co-founder & CEO

AgTech Garage

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Entrepreneur, enthusiast of open innovation and the Agribusiness innovation ecosystem, Tomé is among the 100 most influential people in Brazilian agribusiness, listed by Dinheiro Rural magazine (2018). Under his leadership, AgTech Garage is one of the most relevant innovation hubs in agribusiness worldwide. Graduated in chemical engineering, he has more than 10 years of experience with RD&I in startups, companies and a research center.

Karlyn Neel

Design Leader

Tesla

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Karlyn and her team are committed to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy. She has held previous design leadership roles at PayPal, athenahealth, StubHub and eBay. A pioneer in designing native apps, Karlyn designed one of the very first iPhone Apps featured in Apple’s App Store launch in 2008 for eBay—generating over 50% of mobile commerce in the US in the first two years. Karlyn is an avid vinyl collector, DJ and enjoys midcentury modern architecture.

Fabricio Dore

VP of Design

McKinsey & Company

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Fabricio leads design in Latin America helping organizations in their efforts to become digital (agile and customer-centric), building and launching new and innovative digital businesses. He’s been building services, experiences and digital products using Data, Analytics, APIs, and advanced tech. Fabricio was Head of Digital Innovation at Itau Unibanco and UX Director at Huge. He is an IxDA global leader and mentor for tech startups.

Sergio Furio

Founder & CEO

Creditas

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With 1,600 employees and US$315mn in VC funding, Creditas is one of the top fintechs in Latam and the leading secured lending platform in Brazil. Backers include Softbank, Kaszek, Redpoint eVentures, Vostok Emerging Finance, QED Investors, IFC, Quona Capital, Santander Innoventures. Using the customer properties, Creditas reduces the high interest rates paid by the Brazilian. Before founding Creditas in 2012, Sergio was an executive at The Boston Consulting Group and Deutsche Bank.

Hannah Kain

CEO

ALOM

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Hannah Kain is President and CEO of ALOM, a global supply chain company she founded in 1997 headquartered in Fremont, CA. She taught at Copenhagen Business School and is a published with three university degrees and a 30-year management career. She has been honored as a 2016 Top 25 Champion of Diversity in STEM by DiversityGlobal Magazine, won the 2015 Manufacturing Institute STEP Ahead award. Under her leadership, ALOM won the 2015 Silver Stevie Award as the best global woman-owned company, just to name a few.

Abhay Jain

CEO & Co-Founder

ActiveScaler

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Abhay is a Silicon Valley veteran, a serial entrepreneur, speaker, and Inventor. ActiveScaler provides consumer service of IMRIDE and operation automation system for transportation service providers. IMRIDE is the door-to-door multi-modal transport for traveler service that will be able to book trips from anywhere to everywhere in major cities. Before ActiveScaler, he has founded two other startups, Jinvani systech and Zeotech, which got successful exits.

Aviv Frenkel

Co-Founder & CEO

Enroute

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With 20+ years of experience in Israeli national media, Aviv leads an award-winning tech startup in the smart mobility industry. Enroute has developed a personalized, location-based commerce and loyalty plug-in for mobility companies He started his career at the Israeli army IDF radio station. Aviv is best known as Channel 10 News’ senior tech and automotive correspondent and anchor, where he presented his car show “Layla Galgali” which was aired for six years.

Benjamin Gleason

Founder

GuiaBolso

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An American living in Brazil for the last 13 years, Ben is the founder of GuiaBolso, a Brazilian fintech with over 4M users who use the app to improve their financial well-being, leveraging proprietary technology to aggregate their bank account and credit bureau data into an digital financial hub that facilitates better decisions and access to the best products in the market. The company has raised approximately $80M over 5 funding rounds.

amit garg

Partner

Tau Ventures

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Amit leads Tau Ventures, a seed fund in Palo Alto focused on applied AI in digital health, automation (cars, drones, robots), and enterprise. He has been living in Silicon Valley for 20 years. At Samsung NEXT Ventures he seed-funded nuTonomy (self-driving cars, sold for $450M), cofounded a startup called HealthIQ. He also worked at Norwest Ventures ($10B AUM), and at Google, where he was a product and analytics leader.

Howard Chao

Principal

Doon Capital

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Howard is an investor and counselor to entrepreneurs. He began his work life as a corporate lawyer with O’Melveny & Myers, a leading US law firm. In the past 7 years Howard has become an investor in 35 early stage startups in fintech, auto/mobility tech, ag/food tech, legal/reg tech and a few other verticals. He also hosts startup workshops at his ranch in the Santa Cruz mountains.

Carlos Mira

Founder & CEO

TruckPad

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Carlos has over 35 years of experience in the sector of logistics and transportation. He was the president of ASLOG (Brazilian Association of Logistics) and CEO of large companies in the sector. Since 2014, he has been an entrepreneur since 2014 with the logistics technology startup TruckPad, a digital freight marketplace. The startup won several competitions, it has been in the list of top “100 Open Startups 2019” and received investments from Movile (owner of iFood and Sympla) and from Mercedes-Benz.

Fernando Saddi

Founder & CEO

Easy Carros

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Fernando Saddi was born & raised in the automotive sector. From growing up in the family’s dealership, Saddi graduated in Finance & Entrepreneurship from Babson College (Boston) and started his first tech startup in Silicon Valley at 21. After building the largest online fashion marketplace in Brazil, Fernando is the CEO & Founder at Easy Carros, a mobility startup recognized as one of the leading startups in Latin America.

Tomás Martins

Founder & CEO

Tembici

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With 10+ years of experience in the market, Tomás was one of the first to bring bike sharing technology to Brazil and is the leader of micro-mobility company Tembici. The company’s main area of activity is in the planning, implementation and logistics operation of bike sharing systems and shared parking. Present in 15 Brazilian cities, and in countries such as Chile and Argentina, Tembici recently raised a US$47m Series B led by Valor Capital and Redpoint eventures, with participation of IFC and Joá Investimentos.

Mate Pencz

Founder

Loft

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Born in Hungry, Mate moved to Brazil in 2012 and, along with Florian Hagenbuch, founded Print, the leading online printing business in LatAm, sold to Vistaprint in 2016 for over $100 million. In 2016, Mate and Florian founded the VC fund Canary and in 2018, Loft, which is reinventing the process of buying and selling real estate in Brazil by leveraging technology and data to transform painful and bureaucratic processes into simple experiences. Last January, Loft raised $175 million Series C, co-led by Vulcan Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.

Hernan Kazah

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Kaszek Venture

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Prior to Kaszek, Hernan 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. Kaszek Ventures invests in technology companies in Latin America, including QuintoAndar, Creditas, DogHero, Gympass.

Ricardo Guerra

CIO

Itaú

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Ricardo has held several positions at the Itaú Unibanco Group, including Channels Officer (2008 to 2014); Financing Products Superintendent - Individuals (2007 to 2008); Credit Policies Superintendent (2006 to 2007); Electronic Channels Superintendent (2002 to 2006) and Internet Project Leader (1996 to 2000). He holds Bachelor’s degrees in Civil Engineering from Escola Politécnica, USP, São Paulo, and in Business Administration FEA-USP, and MBA from Kellogg School of Mgt. at Northwestern University, Illinois, U.S.

Angelica Mari

Senior Contributor

Forbes

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Angelica is a journalist focused on innovation and technology. She is a columnist at Forbes Brazil and senior contributor at Forbes.com and a reporter for Digital Planet, a BBC World Service program. Her work can be seen in various vehicles worldwide including The Guardian, Quartz, The Huffington Post, ZDNet, Computer Weekly and many others.

Mariana Vasconcelos

Co-Founder & CEO

Agrosmart

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Daughter of rural agriculture producers, Mariana was born in Itajubá, Minas Gerais. She co-founded Agrosmart on 2014 to offer smart farming software that allows remote monitoring of agroeconomic data for managerial automation. Her work has been recognized many times. Mariana was included in Forbes 30 under 30 and, in 2019, she was among Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business. She is also a global ambassador of Thought for Food and is considered one of most agtech influencers in LatAm.

Alec Wright

Chief Innovation Officer

GSVlabs

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Alec leads GSVlabs Acceleration and Ventures and Enterprise Innovation efforts. He has served as an advisor to 25+ Pre-Seed and Seed startups and Fortune 500 companies like 3M, Fidelity, MassMutual, Cisco and Fujifilm. In partnership with Google Dev. Launchpad, Alec founded the Pioneer Accelerator that has supported pre-seed startups in Korea, Mexico, Brazil and Russia. He is a Partner in the Maverick Fund, where he actively invests in enterprise AI, digital health and marketplace technologies.

Rosenildo Ferreira

Co-founder

Vale do Dendê

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Social entrepreneur, journalist, maker and writer, Rosenildo co-founded Vale do Dendê in Salvador, Bahia, in 2017. The accelerator aims at fostering innovation with focus on diversity by investing in businesses of social and economic impact and forming creative talents through Vale do Dendê Academy.

CARLOS KOKRON

VP & Managing Director

Qualcomm Ventures Americas

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Carlos Kokron is VP of Qualcomm and Managing Director Latin America for Qualcomm Ventures. He is currently scouting companies that will help transform the lives of people and businesses in the region by leveraging the mobile Internet

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)

Andre Ferraz

Founder & CEO

Incognia

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A computer scientist, André co-founded Incognia, a new digital identity for the mobile era, which uses precise location signals to create an anonymous behavioral identity to securely authenticate users with no friction to mobile Apps and digital wallets. Prior to it, André founded Inloco Media, the leading Ad-tech player in Brazil, which was recently acquired by Magazine Luiza, one of the top e-commerce platforms in the country.

Feredico Vega

Founder

CargoX

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Federico is an entrepreneur in the logistics space, having founded CargoX, the largest freight marketplace in LATAM. Matching truck drivers and carriers with millions of loads of cargo, CargoX lowers transportation costs for shippers while boosting income for truck drivers, which rarely travel empty, and reducing CO2 emissions. The company went from a small operation, ran from a Starbucks coffee shop, in 2013 to connect over 75% of all trucks in Brazil with loads and generate over US$20 billion in transactions per year.

Eddie Leshin

Advisor & Former CEO

Anthym Logistics

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Anthym, recently sold to Blue Grace, is a 3rd party logistics company that provides Truckload, LTL, Intermodal. It was created when Eddie joined and helped combine Cousins Logistics and Atomic Transportation. He continues to be an operating partner at Woodlawn Partners where he returned after taking 5 years off to help grow Coyote Logistics. Previously, Eddie was the COO at Coyote Logistics, and a Director overseeing the Chicago Central Branch of C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc., a $12 billion third party logistics (3PL) company

Felix Scheuffelen

Co-Founder & Partner

Assembly Ventures

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Assembly Ventures -with headquarters in Detroit and Berlin- invests in, and strategically supports, the entrepreneurs and mobility companies moving the Western world. OAlso is an Operating Partner at Beyond1435 is an innovation consortium between Deutsche Bahn, Siemens, Bombardier, and SBB. The goal is to jointly build innovation projects and grow them to industrial scale.

Noam Bizman

Vice President, Latin America

ServiceNow

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Noam joined ServiceNow in 2015, bringing more than 20 years of global sales and executive management experience. His career focus has been to drive sales and generate revenue for growth companies throughout North and Latin America. Prior to joining ServiceNow, Noam has held senior positions at several publicly traded companies, including HP Software, New Dimension Software, BMC Software.

Hermann Pais

Director Storage and Data

Microsoft

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Herman has 29 years of experience in Storage, Databases, and Cloud Computing. At Microsoft he leads storage and data categories for Azure Commercial Marketplace, Microsoft.

Previously Herman held leadership position at AWS, Oracle, and EMC. He is a volunteer pilot with Angel Flight West, providing free, non-emergency air travel for children and adults for medical or other compelling needs.

Alexandre Borges

CEO

Grão Direto

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Grão Direto’s platform improves market intelligence analysis for growers and buyers, helping them make better decisions. Alexandre graduated in Business and has Master's degree in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. A leader with experience in sectors such as wholesale distributor and food service, before joining Grão Direto Alexandre spent over 12 years working with large companies such as AmBev, Magalu, Cinemark, Grendene.

Joaquim Levy

Director

Banco Safra

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In addition to Banco Safra, Mr. Levy has served as a World Resources Institute Global Board Member since 2017. He is an Academic Fellow at Stanford University’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance. Mr. Levy served as President of the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) from 2018 to 2019. Prior to accepting this appointment, Mr. Levy served as Managing Director and CFO of the World Bank. Previously, Mr. Levy served as the Minister of Finance of Brazil.

Leonardo Fleck

Program Officer, Conservation

Initiatives

Gordon And Betty Moore Foundation

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Since 2012, Leonardo has designed, implemented, evaluated and reframed an eleven year (2016-2026), $149M grant-making program at Moore Foundation. His goal is to scale up market and policy innovations aimed at addressing global agricultural drivers of deforestation, GHG emissions and biodiversity loss, the largest effort promoting zero deforestation commodities globally by private philanthropy.

Fabio Sakamoto

Co-founder & COO

Rizoma Agro

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Rizoma Agro's goal is to scale regenerative organic agriculture. The company designs and operates agricultural systems that produce profitable organic crops with a positive impact on the environment. Prior to Rizoma, Fabio Fabio was Director of Grupo Boticário’s corporate venture fund (2+Capital), Brazil’s 3rd largest CFT - cosmetics, fragrances and toiletries – player, and consultant at Bain & Company in Brazil, U.S. and Asia.

Andrew Zolli

VP Global Impact Initiatives

Planet Labs

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Andrew Zolli oversees the global social, climate, environmental and humanitarian portfolio of Planet Labs, a breakthrough global sensing company that is deploying the largest constellation of Earth-observing satellites in human history to image the entire surface of the Earth every day, and make it universally accessible on the Internet. This data has potential for advancing inclusive social dev., public health & more. He also serves on the Intl. Board of Human Rights Watch.

Alessio Alionço

Founder & CEO

Pipefy

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Alessio founded Pipefy in 2015. Built out of necessity, Pipefy became a powerful platform for Work Management, allowing teams to have more control over their operations, connecting departments, centralizing requests and contributing to a better visualization. The platform has grown rapidly, Pipefy is now used in over 215 countries by leading enterprises such as Visa, IBM, Coca-Cola, Volvo, Santander and Kraft Heinz.