Our Team

Our team brings diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experience to the table, along with a unified desire to see Latin America realize its full potential. We're committed to helping the region's innovators develop successful businesses that will create greater opportunity for the entire region.
We bring passion, expertise and wide-ranging support to help founders navigate growth and reach their full potential.

Leadership

Masayoshi Son

Chairman & CEO, SoftBank Group Corp, Tokyo

A visionary entrepreneur and investor, Masa, Representative Director, Corporate Officer, Chairman & CEO of SoftBank Group Corp, likes to venture into unchartered territory. He was early in broadband, early in mobile, early in China, early in India, and early in AI, all with great success. We are bringing this same approach of being “early” to Latin America.

Alex Clavel

Co-CEO, SoftBank Investment Advisers, New York

Alex oversees SoftBank Investment Advisers' daily operations and its U.S. and Latin America investment teams. He joined SoftBank in 2015 after nearly 20 years at Morgan Stanley in investment banking in New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo. Alex holds a degree in East Asian Studies from Princeton University and speaks Mandarin Chinese, French, and (conversational) Japanese.

Alex Szapiro

Managing Partner and Head of Brazil, São Paulo

Alex co-leads the Latin America Funds. He brings more than 25 years of experience managing corporate and entrepreneurial ventures at leading technology companies across Brazil. Prior to joining Softbank, he was country manager of Amazon Brazil, responsible for initiating startup operations in the country and executing long-term expansion strategies. Prior to that, Alex was country manager of Apple and Palm in Brazil. Earlier in his career, he held a variety of leadership and managerial positions at OfficeNet, Submarino, Motorola, and Citibank.

Juan Franck

Managing Partner and Head of Mexico, Mexico City

Juan co-leads Latin America Funds. He has been at Softbank since 2019. Prior to that, he led growth investments in Spanish-speaking Latin America for Temasek Holdings and worked as an investment banker at Barclays Capital in New York. Juan holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an Industrial Engineering degree from Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA).

Our Team

Artur Gushiken

Investment Lead, Miami

Artur is an Investment Leader for SoftBank Latin America Funds. Previously, he worked at Goldman Sachs in the Tech, Media and Telecom group in New York. Prior to that, he worked on the M&A team at Banco Fator (São Paulo).

Benjamin Lizana

Investment Lead, Miami

Benjamin is an Investment Leader for SoftBank Latin America Funds. Previously he worked at Southern Cross Group, overseeing Chilean investments and portfolio management. Prior to that, he worked for three years on the JP Morgan Latin America Advisory team.

Eduardo Vieira

Head of Marketing & Communications, LatAm, São Paulo

Eduardo leads institutional relations, corporate reputation, brand building, media, content, events and partnerships for LatAm, in addition to providing strategic consultancy to the main portfolio companies in the region. Prior to joining SoftBank, he was a partner at WPP Plc., co-founder of Esfera Brasil, CEO of H+K Strategies and Ogilvy PR for Latin America and a business and tech journalist for Brazilian main media outlets. He is the author of the book Os Bastidores da Internet.

Ivan Ribeiro

Product Lead, Seattle

Ivan has more than 10 years of global experience in Strategy, E-commerce, Logistics, Product Development. He partners with our companies to provide e-commerce and logistics expertise, execute value-creation initiatives and help scale product solutions and organizations. Previously, Ivan worked at Amazon and The Boston Consulting Group.

Joaquin Perez Alati

Head of Legal, Senior Counsel, Miami

Joaquin leads the negotiation of investments, divestments and other legal matters for the Latin America Funds and the Vision Fund. He joined SoftBank in September 2021. Prior to that he worked at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York City and at PAGBAM in Buenos Aires. He holds an L.L.M. (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar Award) from Columbia Law School and a degree in law from Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Maria Tereza Azevedo

Investment Lead, São Paulo

Maria Tereza is an investment leader for SoftBank Latin America Funds. Prior to joining SoftBank, she was an Executive Director at Santander and UBS Investment Bank as the head of LatAm Education and the Technology, Media and Telecommunications sectors.

Mariana Seixas

Head of Legal, Senior Counsel, Miami

Mariana leads negotiations for investments, strategic transactions, and other fund activities for the Latin America Funds and the SB Opportunity Fund. She brings more than 10 years of legal experience  leading corporate transactions across Latin America. Prior to joining SoftBank, she was a senior associate at White & Case LLP. Mariana has a B.A. from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. She has spoken at several International Bar Association conferences on matters relating to venture capital, M&A, and sustainability, and she is a lecturer on diversity and inclusion and the empowerment of women.

Rodrigo Costa

Partner, Miami

Rodrigo is a partner and investment lead for SoftBank Latin America Funds. Previously, he worked as an investor at TPG Growth and L Catterton. Rodrigo began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst for Goldman Sachs in New York.

Sudhanshu Jain

Head of Finance, Portfolio Valuation, Miami

Sudhanshu, CFA, leads portfolio valuations for the Latin America Funds. He brings more than 15 years of experience in performing valuations, portfolio monitoring, data analytics and financial due diligence. Prior to joining SoftBank, he worked at Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers providing deal valuations and transaction advisory services to the Fortune 500 companies on several multi-billion-dollar M&A, spin-offs, carve-outs, and LBOs deals across different industries.