Board of Directors

David Vélez Osorno is our Founder, the Chairman of our Board of Directors and our Chief Executive Officer. Before founding Nu in 2013, David was a partner at Sequoia Capital between January 2011 and March 2013, in charge of the firm’s Latin American investments group. Before Sequoia, David worked in investment banking and growth equity at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and General Atlantic. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Management Science and Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration, both from Stanford University.

Anita Mary Sands is a member of our Board of Directors, a position she has held since October 2020. She has acted as our Lead Independent Director since October 2022, and is also a member of our Audit and Risk Committee since June 2021. Dr. Sands has served on the board of directors of ServiceNow, Inc. since July 2014, besides other private Boards of directors, such as JumpCloud, Inc. (since December 2021), Circle Internet Financial, Inc. (since January 2022) and Cyderes (since January 2022). She also served on the Board of directors of Pure Storage, Inc. (2015 until 2021), Khosla SPAC (2021), and SVF SPAC (2021 until 2023). From April 2012 to September 2013, Dr. Sands served as group managing director, head of change leadership and a member of the wealth management Americas executive committee of UBS Financial Services, a global financial services firm. Prior to that, from April 2010 to April 2012, Dr. Sands was group managing director and chief operating officer of UBS Wealth Management Americas at UBS Financial Services, and from October 2009 to April 2010, Dr. Sands was a transformation consultant at UBS Wealth Management Americas. Prior to joining UBS Financial Services, Dr. Sands was managing director, head of transformation management at Citigroup N.A.’s global operations and technology organization. Dr. Sands also held several leadership positions with RBC Financial Group and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Dr. Sands holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Physics and Applied Mathematics and a Doctoral Degree in Atomic and Molecular Physics, both from The Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, and a Master’s of Science in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University. She is currently the James Wei Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship at Princeton University.

Daniel Krepel Goldberg is a member of our Board of Directors, a position he has held since April 2021. Daniel is also a permanent observer of our Audit and Risk Committee since December, 2023. He is currently managing partner and CIO at Lumina Capital Management and formerly was a partner and head of Latin America at Farallon Capital Management, position he held from August 2011 to December 2021. He was the president of Morgan Stanley in Brazil from April 2010 to August 2011. Between January 2003 and December 2006, he headed the Economic Law Secretariat of the Ministry of Justice, a former body of the Brazilian antitrust and consumer protection system. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree and a Doctoral Degree in Law from the University of São Paulo. In addition, he received a Master’s of Laws from Harvard Law School.

David Marcus is a member of our Board of Directors, a position he has held since March, 2023. He is also a member of our Compensation and People Committee since March 2023. Mr. Marcus is CEO and co-founder of Lightspark. Lightspark is building core infrastructure on the Lightning Network. Most recently he led all payments and crypto efforts at Meta. In 2018, Mr. Marcus started Diem (fka Libra). He joined Meta, then called Facebook, in 2014 to lead Messenger, which he took from under 200M monthly users to over 1.5B. Previously, he was PayPal’s President. A lifelong entrepreneur, Mr. Marcus launched two companies in Europe, then founded mobile payments company Zong in Silicon Valley, which was acquired by PayPal in 2011.

Douglas Mauro Leone is a member of our Board of Directors, a position he has held since 2016. He has also been a member of our Compensation and People Committee since July 2021. Doug is a Partner at Sequoia Capital, which he joined in 1988 and become a Partner in 1993. From 2012 to 2022, he served as its Global Managing Partner, and from 1996 to 2012 he served as Co-Head of the Partnership. Doug also serves on the Board of Directors of ActionIQ, Cresta, Cyera, Island.io, Sequoia Heritage, Soley Pharmaceutical, StrongDM, Trade Republic, Wiz, and Zafran.  Before Sequoia, Doug began his career in tech at Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and Prime Computer. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University, a Master’s of Science in Industrial Engineering from Columbia University, and a Master’s of Science in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jacqueline Dawn Reses is a member of our Board of Directors, a position she has held since March 2021. She has also been the Chair of our Compensation and People Committee since July 2021, and acted as a member of our Audit and Risk Committee from June 2021 until December 2023. She is the current Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of Lead Bank (since October 2021) and most recently served as executive chair of Square Financial Services LLC and capital lead at Block, Inc. (Square, Inc.), a publicly traded financial services company which provides services to small businesses and consumers, from October 2015 to October 2020. From February 2016 to July 2018, she also served as people lead at Square, Inc. From September 2012 to October 2015, she served as chief development officer of Yahoo! Inc. Prior to Yahoo, she led the U.S. media group as a partner at Apax Partners Worldwide LLP, a global private equity firm, which she joined in 2001. She serves on the board of directors of Affirm, Endeavor and Taskus and she was the chairperson of the Economic Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco until October 2022. She holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Economics with honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Luis Alberto Moreno Mejía is a member of our board of directors, a position he has held since April 2021. He has also been a member of our Compensation and People Committee since July 2021. He joined us after his 15-year tenure as the President of the Inter-American Development Bank Group from October 2005 to September 2020, and has served as a Managing Director at Allen & Co. since February 2021. He has also served as Colombia’s Ambassador to the United States for seven years from October 1998 to June 2005. He had a distinguished career in business and government. As Minister of Economic Development between July 1992 and January 1994, he was head of the Instituto de Fomento Industrial, Colombia’s public sector holding company. In the private sector he was the executive producer of TV Hoy. He holds a Degree in Business Administration and Economics from Florida Atlantic University and a Master’s in Business Administration from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. In 1990, Harvard University awarded him a Neiman Fellowship for his achievements in the field of journalism.

Rogério Paulo Calderón Peres is a member of our Board of Directors and also the chairman of our Audit and Risk Committee, positions he has held since June 2021 and July 2021, respectively. As a financial expert, he served in PricewaterhouseCoopers Brazil as audit partner for nearly ten years until 2003 and then served as senior executive and chief financial officer at Bunge Brasil S.A. from 2003 to 2007, Unibanco S.A. and Itaú Unibanco Holdings S.A. between 2007 and 2014, and HSBC Brasil S.A. (HSBC LatAm) between 2014 and 2016. He also serves as a Board member in Alupar Investimentos S.A. since December 2016, and Grupo Casas Bahia S.A. since September 2019, both listed companies in Brazil. He has been also the chairman of the audit committee and designated financial expert at B3 S.A. – Brasil, Bolsa, Balcão since April 2018. He holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from Fundação Getulio Vargas and a Bachelor’s in Accounting from Fundação FAPEI, both in Brazil. He also holds a Brazilian registered accountant certification (Brazilian CPA) and has also attended several extension programs in strategy, finance, human resources and governance at Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Western Ontario, Fundação Getulio Vargas and Fundação Dom Cabral.

Thuan Quang Pham is our Board Member and also Member of our Audit and Risk Committee since September 2022. He also acts as a Technology Advisor of The Routing Company since June 2020. Mr. Pham served as Chief Technology Officer of Coupang from September 2020 until September 2022, and of Uber Technologies, Inc. from April 2013 to May 2020. From December 2004 to January 2013, Mr. Pham served in various Vice President roles at VMWare, Inc., a software and technology company, including as Vice President of R&D – Cloud Management Platform from June 2012 to January 2013. Mr. Pham holds both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.