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Ricardo Samuel Goldstein
Ricardo Samuel Goldstein
Born	10 May 1966 (age 58); Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Federative Republic of Brazil
Nationality	Brazilian
Citizenship	Brazil
Education	Harvard Business School
Alma mater	Universidade Santa Ursula
Occupation	Businessman
Years active	22
Employer	Hayman-Woodward
Spouse	Alessandra Barbosa
Children	Hannah (born 2004); Jessica ( Stepdaughter, born 1991)

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Ricardo Samuel Goldstein is a Brazilian businessman, the Chief Excutive Officer of Security Beverages Americas and consulting & advisory companies Gold & Bell, and Carpe Diem and one of Founders of Trump Realty Brazil, together with American billionaire Donald Trump. He is one of Brazil's most influential businessmen.

Early life

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 amongst the social elite of Rio de Janeiro. After spending his youth in Wellesley, Massachusetts and White Plains, NY, he returned to Brazil and began a four-year Bachelor in Business Administration Studies program at Universidade Santa Úrsula. There, he also attended two years of Electrical Engineering Studies. According to his online profile at LinkedIn he graduated with honors from USU in 1988.

He holds a specialization in Finance from the prestigious Fundação Getúlio Vargas and has completed a Harvard Business School LNV course, with a specialization in Management. He is a Brazilian Citizen and speaks fluent English and Spanish and can communicate fairly in French..

career

While still at USU he founded Microfix; the first combined PC and Apple maintenance and support center in Rio de Janeiro, which he later sold to one of the largest IBM resellers in Brazil, SPE DATA.

He has also branched into several areas of business, including civil construction, Internet-based services, general contracting, food and beverage importing and distribution and wholesale construction materials. He brought to Rio de Janeiro and was the exclusive distributor of RENNER / Du Pont paints, where he introduced the brand to the construction market and created the concept stores CENTRO DE PINTURAS, later widely spread by RENNER all over Latin America.

During the height of the “dot com” bubble burst, he founded Construbid.com (online marketplace for civil construction supplies), later joining forces with a few important Brazilian groups, with important investments from IDEIASNET, the first Brazilian internet fund to go public in BOVESPA, and, CEMEX, (the world’s largest cement and concrete company) which invested in the business vaulting it at $18 Million. The marketplace was later acquired by some of the investors and evolved into a buying portal development company for the construction industry, which has been building these services for the main companies in this market.

He was the co-founder of Trump Realty Brazil together with real-estate mogul Donald J. Trump in his first venture in Latin America, a $200 Million development called Villa Trump in São Paulo; all of which was fully funded by two Brazilian venture groups, Ventura, owned by founders of Achè Laboratories and Aktiv, from the founders of Chocolates Garoto.

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 business wizard 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.

Between 2006 and 2009, he and Mr. Bellino, under the umbrella of their consulting company Gol&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. 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.

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 January 2010, he launched Security Feel Better in the United States of America and LATAM together with american businessman Leonardo Freitas.

Personal life

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)

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 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.
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