Board of Directors

Mr. Fonseca earned an MBA with honors from Columbia University and holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Mauá – School of Engineering.

Before joining Newfoundland Capital, Mr. Eric worked as Co-Portfolio Manager for Latin America at Sandell Asset Management. Prior to that, Mr. Eric served as Vice President at Unibanco Securities NY – Equities Desk and also held the position of Associate in the Investment Banking Division of Unibanco Brazil from 2002 to 2005. Before joining Unibanco, Mr. Eric worked as a Logistics Analyst at BASF Brazil.

Mr. Marcelo Martins graduated in Electrical Engineering from UNICAMP with tenure at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. With over 25 years of experience in Technology, Private Equity, and Capital Markets in Brazil, the United States, and Europe, Marcelo has worked at Goldman Sachs, GP Investimentos, and Axiom Capital.
Mr Martins was a founding partner and board member of Spring Wireless (a company invested in by Softbank, Intel Capital, and Goldman Sachs). Over the past 12 years, has served as the Managing Partner and co-founder of Jive Investments, participating in investment committees and investment management in the Special Situations area.

Mr. Sérgio Saraiva Castelo Branco de Pontes graduated in Business Administration from UniCeub in Brasília, has an Executive MBA in Business Administration and Finance from FGV/COPPEAD/INSPER and specializations in Leadership for Executives and Competitive Strategy from Harvard Business School. He has over 30 years of experience in the Consumer Goods, Financial Services and Technology sectors, working in the areas of Innovation, Technology and Strategy. He served as CEO of Rappi, Executive Vice President of Cielo and had a long journey at Ambev, working in several areas and countries, reaching the position of People and Management Vice President. He also acts as a Board Member at Grupo Stefanini, Cassol Centerlar and as Consultant at Rappi.

Mr. Marcelo Toresi graduated in Engineering from the USP, with expertise in Strategic Management, Strategic Financial Management, Strategic Human Resources Management, Strategic Operations and Logistics Management, and Strategic Marketing Management from the FGV. Mr. Marcelo is the General Director of Torresi & Associates, member of the Boards of Directors of Banco Pan, Paranapanema, and Rossi Residencial, member of the Fiscal Council of Bombril. He has held the position of Director at Pilotage Investimentos, CEO at Banco Paulista, SOCOPA, and Banco Pecúnia, and Director at Silex Business Consulting. Additionally, he has worked as an assistant professor at BSP – Business School São Paulo and at LARC – Laboratory of Architecture and Computer Networks at USP (University of São Paulo)

With over 20 years in Business Strategy & Development & Management, Innovation, M&A, Marketing and Sales across several industries (Consumer Goods, Consulting, Investment Banking), acting also as Intrapreneur and Entrepreneur. Solid international experience, leading multi-cultural teams, with Regional & Global assignments in Europe, Latin America and North America, including 4 years at Nestlé’s Headquarter in Switzerland. Strong track record in structuring and managing new businesses of Healthy Food & Beverage, acting as an intrapreneur inside the fast-moving consumer goods industry. After 16 years working at Nestlé, in 2020 founded a consulting firm helping impact businesses to bring to life their ambitions and advising Impact Funds on their strategy and potential investments. Currently leading a team of 700 employees towards the “reinvention” of Nutrimental food company.

With over 20 years of experience in the marketing and technology market, Mr. André Loureiro began ESPN’s digital advertising operation in 2008. At Google, he was involved in launching advertising on YouTube for Brazil and served as Industry Head for the Consumer Goods segment. In 2016, started Waze’s office in Brazil and led its expansion into Latin America until 2020. Today, he is responsible for Pinterest’s operation in Latin America. Mr. André Loureiro holds an MBA from Duke University.