at a glance
Entrepreneurial-minded leader with 20 years in growing media businesses, internet consumer and B2B services.
Co-founded and led a digital & traditional media network fully dedicated to premium live content with an unprecedented engaging format, later acquired by WarnerMedia. Managing General Partner of iC-More Ventures and Chair of the Board at Reaction.
Leadership roles at Nike, Twitter, and Globo based in Silicon Valley. Expert in global sports media, Latin America business building, and early stage investing. Background in Engineering, MBA at Babson College, Stanford Alumni, and recently graduated from a 12-week program covering AI & ML at MIT.
Investor at OpenAI, Woof, Brandlovrs, XP Health, JWS, Galy, Strofe, Jiffy.ai, FeverUp, Republic, Conta Simples, Hamama, IDWall, GamersClub (exit to Immortals Team), Peer5 (exit to Microsoft) and EasyCarros. Operating LP at Canary, Venture Partner and Advisor at Mindset Ventures, Founder and BoD at Reaction, and investor at Tau Ventures.
Mentor at Endeavor and Supernode, consultant at Stanford Seed Program, member of Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs, awards from Deloitte, Grupo Abril and Endeavor.
Father of 3. Sportsman and ocean lover.
Vision
Values
Curiosity with Grit, Integrity & Trust, Mindfulness with Empathy
Mission
Promote sustainability and equality of opportunities by providing essential digital services to an untapped base of 1 billion non-English speakers by 2030.
Strategy
Inspire global leaders to drive capital, knowledge and time to source, fund and mentor disruptive and relentless founders with a long term vision to positively transform society while generating unprecedented ROI.
Objective
Lead fast growing ventures positioned to deliver my mission and focused on services that are migrating to digital platforms. Understand, grow and serve new global consumer base. Assemble and inspire business development teams, strategic partners, and key stakeholders. Empower diverse individuals with growth mindsets, mindful business practices and the spirit of a founder.
Highlights
Built deal flow of 1500+ scale-ups, 70+ POCs, 8 long-term partnerships and 3 investments.
Co-founded and directed national live sports media network with $20M in sales and 100M DAU. Exit to WarnerMedia.
Closed strategic premium rights with the NBA, Champions League, Premier League competing with ESPN and FoxSports.
Partnered with FIFA World Cup, The Voice, MasterChef and Copa America driving +20% growth in DAU for Twitter.
Appointed Global Partnerships DRI at Twitter for #Rio2016 Olympics and drove growth of +32% in int'l revenues.
Raised $10M with class Stanford Executive Program of 2018 and 2019 as founder and board member at VC firm, Reaction. Invested in 10+ scaleups including Starship, Trybe, New Age Eats, and Klivo.
Augmented business by advising and investing directly in 10+ scaleups including GamersClub, Republic, Fever, and JWS.
Operating LP at Canary (VC), US Advisor and Operating LP at Mindset Ventures, and LP at Tau Ventures.
Graduated from “VC Unlocked” program at UC Berkeley and “Mergers And Acquisitions” at Stanford GSB.
Mentor at Endeavor, consultant at Stanford Seed Program and member of Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs.
Awards: “Entrepreneur of the New Brazil” and “Top5 Fastest Growing Companies”.
Currently based in California, green card holder, fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish.