Ricardo Samuel Goldstein

In 2018, after finishing a complete turnaround of MEGA/Transreta, was invited by one of its former shareholders (Grupo LORINVEST) to structure a distressed assets fund, and, to oversee new investment opportunities. This new division is called AKRON CAPITAL.

In 2015, he was given the mission of managing MEGA/Transreta, the heavy equipments rental operation of the Mega Group and Lorentzen Group, which is undergoing a massive restructuring and turnaround process due to adversities in the economy and specially on its main client base, the construction, oil&gas and infra-structure sectors.

In 2014, he advised an important family office, the Mega Group, and was invited to join the group as a partner and Chief of Business Development.

In the beginning of 2012, he advised a group of investors in the acquisition and re-structuring of Loosho.com, the first Brazilian makeup e-commerce, and, later in that same year, joined the company as a partner, jointly heading the operation with designer and cosmetics market expert Suzana Rosenfeld, re-vamping platform, ERP, logistics, digital marketing and expanding from make-up to a diversity of products, positioning the company to be one of the leading e-tailers in the country.

In January 2010, he launched Security Feel Better in the United States of America and also in LATAM.

In 2009 he launched in Brazil the first anti-hangover drink, developed by French scientists in 1996 and commercialized under the name Security Feel Better.

In 2007, he co-founded with the legendary inventor of the super models, John Casablancas, creator of Elite Models, the StarSystem project, that came to be one of the most active and successful model scouting projects in the world. He also managed the business during its startup period of almost one year.

In 2006 left his executive duties as the CFO of Trump Realty Brazil, but remained on the board of directors and as a major shareholder. Later that year he teamed up with Ernst & Young and international businessman Ricardo Bellino to create The Entrepreneurs Institute (INEMP); to promote entrepreneurship in Brazil and the Entrepreneurs of the Year Awards. He and his partners successfully sold Trump Realty Brazil to a large Brazilian investment consortium that same year.

Between 2006 and 2009, he and Mr. Bellino, under the umbrella of their consulting company Gold&Bell, developed and launched the School of Life project, an entrepreneurship educational and motivational program that was taught on over 700 schools of the Microlins chain, the largest network of professional training franchises in Brazil. The project has spun off and is currently and independent education platform, on and offline, with partnerships with entrepreneurial groups in Spain and Silicon Valley. In this same period, they have also developed a project called Casas Brasileiras, a partnership with wholesaler giant Ponto Frio, building company Tenda and TV Record television network, promoting the sales of homes, appliances and financial services for Brazilian expatriates in the USA.

Goldstein lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is married to Alessandra Barbosa and they have two children, Jessica (born 1991) and Hannah (born 2004)

Goldstein spent his early youth between Colombia, Uruguay and Brazil, where his father Sami Goldstein relocated as an IBM executive. Later, in his high school years, they lived in Wellesley, MA and White Plains, NY. He then returned to Brazil and began a four-year Bachelor of Business Administration program at Universidade Santa Úrsula. There, he also attended two years of Electrical Engineering Studies. He graduated with honors from USU in 1988.

Samuel Goldstein, as he is most commonly known, was born May 10, 1966, in, Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, into a traditional Jewish immigrant family from Egypt and Lebanon. He was educated at Colégio GIMK (Grupo Integrado Magdalena Khan).