Ricardo Samuel Goldstein

Ricardo Samuel Goldstein
Ricardo Samuel Goldstein
Born	20 March 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	GOLD & BELL LTD
Known for	Master Franchisee of SECURITY FEEL BETTER for the Americas
Spouse	Alessandra Barbosa
Children	Hannah (born 2004); Jessica ( Stepdaughter, born 1991)

Ricardo Samuel Goldstein is a Brazilian businessman, managing partner consulting & advisory firm Gold & Bell, former Chief Financial Officer of HAYMAN-WOODWARD 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 the neighborhood of Copacabana, 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 one year of Civil Engineering Studies. According to his online profile at LinkedIn he graduated with honors from USU in 1988.

He holds and MBA in Finance from the prestigious Fundação Getúlio Vargas and is a Harvard Business School Graduate, with a specialization in Management. He is a Brazilian Citizen and speaks fluent English, French and Spanish.

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.

He has also branched into several areas of business, including civil construction, Internet-based services, general contracting, and wholesale construction materials.

During the height of the “dot com” bubble burst, he founded Construbid.com (online marketplace for civil construction supplies), later joining forces with CEMEX, (the world’s largest cement and concrete company) which invested $7.6 Million.

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; which generated over $350 Million in sales, all of which was fully funded by two Brazilian venture groups.

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. In 2008 Mr. Goldstein joined HAYMAN-WOODWARD as one of the company’s main investors and acting as its Chief Financial Officer, while maintaining his partnership with entrepreneurial wizard, Mr. Ricardo Bellino at GoldBell Partners, developing and consulting in the real estate market segment.

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

In January 2010, together with his American business partner Leonardo Freitas, he launched SECURITY FEEL BETTER in the United States of America.

Personal life

Goldstein lives in Leblon, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has had a long relationship with Alessandra Barbosa and their first child, Hannah, was born in 2004. Barbosa's daughter from a previous marriage is named Jessica.

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