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Board of Directors

Nadine ​Teixeira

Nadine ​Teixeira

Nadine Teixeira is also Founder and President of FSD-Brazil. Nadine Teixeira is a corporate lawyer, naturalized US citizen, born and raised in Brazil. She has spent the last 14 years of her career both as outside and in-house counsel in the Silicon Valley. Nadine became passionate about soccer due to the strong connection her son, Alain Teixeira, has developed with competitive soccer since he was 7. Nadine is grateful for the opportunities Alain encountered through soccer and education in the US and is determined to assist other boys and girls in Brazil in reaching their highest potential.

André Luiz Moreira

André Luiz Moreira

Andre Luiz Moreira is a prominent Brazilian soccer player with 22 appearances and two goals for the Brazilian National Team, winning a Bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics. After an extensive professional career with clubs such as Sao Paulo FC, Marseille, Ajaccio and Paris Saint-Germain, Andre Luiz joined the San Jose Earthquakes in 2009 and made 16 appearances with the club over three years. Until June 2017, Andre Luiz was the San Jose Earthquakes U-14 Academy Head Coach.

Tom Dyal

Tom Dyal

Tom Dyal is an English Premier League soccer fanatic and a Partner at Redpoint Ventures heading Redpoint’s investment activity in growth stage companies. His recent consumer and mobile investments include Just-Eat, DraftKings, Pocket Gems, Answers.com, and Internet Brands. On the enterprise side, he led the firm’s investments in SentinelOne, Qwilt, Caspida (Splunk), Clearwell (Symantec), and NextG (Crown Castle), as well as others. Prior to co-founding Redpoint in 1999, Tom was a general partner with IVP. Tom is past president and former director of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists. Tom holds a B.E.E. from Georgia Institute of Technology and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Margarise Correa

Margarise Correa

Margarise Correa is the Founder and CEO of BayBrazil and was named 2017 Woman of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal recognizing “women who have made the biggest impact across all professions”. Margarise founded BayBrazil in 2010 to serve as a source of information and assist business communities in Silicon Valley and Brazil to establish bi-lateral ties. For that, she’s been creating a series of programs to nurture entrepreneurial ecosystems and address critical issues of doing global business. She works with several organizations to encourage networking among the Brazilian-American tech community and increase interaction & business between the two countries. She holds a B.A. in Journalism from Universidade Estadual de Londrina and before moving to the Bay Area she worked seven years as a news reporter, editor and anchor at Brazilian network broadcasts TV Globo, TV Cultura and TV Bandeirantes.

Roberto Linck

Roberto Linck

Roberto Linck (Betu) is Brazilian national and currently the CEO and major shareholder of Linck Group. The Linck Group is a sports, technology, fashion and talent management company with headquarters in Miami, FL. Linck Group owns companies such as Miami Dade FC, Ginga Scout, Model Scout ID, Aurora, Linckia, Conttratta, APSL and Softmovel. Betu is a former Major League Soccer football player, but his expertise in the soccer industry extends beyond the field, as his responsibilities also reside in talent representation. He is partners with Brazilian footballers, Roberto Carlos, Emerson Rosa and Fabio Simplicio. Betu comes from a soccer family, his great grandfather was the founder of the Rio Grande do Sul soccer federation and world champions Gremio. Since moving to the United States in 2002, Betu has attended school in California and played football in both Europe and the United States.

Ney Vieira

Ney Vieira

Ney Vieira has served as the Executive Director of Esporte União & RVS since 1990, in São Paulo, Brazil, with international soccer tournament experience in Spain (Barcelona), Finland (Helsinki), Sweden (Stockholm, Goteborg) and Denmark (Hjorring, Frederikshavn, Ishoj). Ney has a BA in Physical Education (1977), professional soccer license (1979), earned his MBA in Sports Management (2009) and is also a Member of the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association – NIAAA (2013). Ney was a Physical Education Teacher and Varsity Futsal and Soccer Head Coach at The American School of São Paulo (Graded School) during 1978-2013. Ney was also Head Coach and Commissioner at the Pelé Soccer Camp, Cosmos NY / Warner Communication and White Plains NY USA (1978-1981).

Management Team

Nadine Teixeira

Nadine Teixeira

Founder and President

Nadine Teixeira is also Board member of FSD-Brazil. Nadine received her LL.M in Corporate Governance & Practice from Stanford Law School in 2005 and her Bachelor of Law from the Law School of the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, in 1990. Nadine is licensed to practice Law in California and Brazil and is currently Sr. Corporate Counsel, Worldwide Channels, at Cisco Systems Inc.

Talita Cassiano

Vice-President of Projects

Talita Cassiano has been engaged in soccer since she was 10. She played for the teams Corinthians, São Paulo, Olympique de Marseille e for Mackenzie University in São Paulo, where she obtained her Degree in Education/Pedagogy. Talita created the project “Bring your Cleats” (which was very inspirational to FSD-Brazil) for the donation of used cleats to children in poor communities in Brazil. Talita has been involved in several community projects, such as shelter for children with cancer in Brazil and food distribution in Tijuana and Kenya: https://youtu.be/cvNsYAltfyc

Daniel Zimmermann

Daniel Zimmermann

Treasurer

Daniel Zimmermann is a partner at WilmerHale, an international law firm. He has advised emerging companies and technology startups for more than 20 years, drawing on his extensive expertise in complex corporate transactions and venture technology issues. Daniel provides counsel on a variety of corporate governance and finance matters, as well as exit transactions such as public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. He further counsels Silicon Valley-based venture capital firms, as well as global venture and private equity funds in their portfolio investments in the US and abroad. Daniel is co-chair of WilmerHale’s Diversity Committee. He has served as Chair of the Executive Committee of the International Law Section of the State Bar of California for the 2009-2010 term and as Chairman of the Board of the German American Business Association. He has also previously served as president and board member of Alto International School in Menlo Park and serves as primary pro bono counsel to the School. Daniel holds an LLM from UCLA and was educated at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany.

Chantal Teixeira

Chantal Teixeira

Corporate Secretary

Chantal Teixeira is Class of 2020 at the George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs, B.A. in International Affairs with focus in Latin America Studies. She is also a member of the Brazil Initiative Club at Elliott School of International Affairs. In 2013-2014 Chantal developed an English program and volunteered to teach English to children in the largest slum community in Rio de Janeiro known as “Rocinha” and documented her work at https://youtu.be/rfZExTbsdOM

Chantal spent six weeks of her last summer as a volunteer in a Youth Program in Lisbon, Portugal.