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The Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce Fabricio Bloisi as the Brazilian recipient of the 2025 Person of the Year Awards. For the past 53 years, the Chamber has honored as “Person of the Year” two prominent leaders, one Brazilian and one American, who have been instrumental in forging closer ties and enhancing the relationship between Brazil and the United States. The American honoree will be announced soon. Fabricio Bloisi: Fabricio Bloisi is CEO of Prosus (market cap: $166 billion), a Dutch internet company serving two billion customers and one of the largest technology investors in the world – and CEO of its South African parent group Naspers. He is also Founder of mobile technology company Movile Group and Chairman of the Board at iFood (market cap: $5.4 billion), a Brazilian online food delivery platform (owned by Prosus and Movile). Mr. Bloisi earned a degree in Computer Science from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) and an MBA from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV / EAESP). His thesis focused on high-growth start-ups, innovation, and strategy. He also completed the Executive Program for Growing Companies at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Owner / President Management Program at Harvard University. Mr. Bloisi founded Movile Group in 1998, at the age of 21, and served as CEO until 2020, when he was appointed President. He has expanded Movile into 20+ digital businesses including iFood, bought in 2013 as a 20-person start-up. iFood has since grown into Latin America’s leading food delivery company, holding over 80% market share of the food delivery sector in Brazil. In 2013, technology company Prosus invested $2 million in Movile, / iFood. In May 2024, Prosus and Naspers appointed Mr. Bloisi as CEO, leveraging his deep operational experience and exceptional leadership to identify new technologies to impact emerging markets around the world. Ms. Bloisi serves on the Innovation Board of XPrize Foundation, effecting change to drive research and innovation to meet global challenges and accelerate an equitable future for all. He is dedicated to promoting education through Fundação 1Bi, which fosters the use of technology to generate social impact in Brazil. He supports projects such as “Meu Diploma do Ensino Médio” and “Movimento Tech,” which promote high school and technology education in Brazil. In 2023, Mr. Bloisi was appointed a spokesperson on education on Sustainable Development Goal 4 for Brazil and joined the Economic and Sustainable Development Council of the President of the Republic of Brazil. The nomination of Mr. Bloisi as 2025 Person of the Year was widely proposed by Chamber members and unanimously approved by our Board of Directors. The Board is comprised of a broad spectrum of leading Brazilian and U.S. firms that are active in both countries. The Board’s selection of Mr. Bloisi recognizes his exemplary entrepreneurship in developing and operating world-class technology companies that have revolutionized the tech landscape in Latin America and demonstrates his profound commitment to innovation, sustainable development, and education, factors that coincide with the values promoted by the Chamber. Mr. Bloisi will be honored at the 2025 Person of the Year Awards Gala Dinner, to take place at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, on Wednesday, May 14th. Over 1,000 leaders from the international business, financial, and diplomatic communities have convened in New York City each year at this traditional gala to pay tribute to the honorees. For further information on registration and sponsorship, please e-mail awardscommitteepoy@brazilcham.com or call (212) 751-4691.

We'll get right to the point, friend. Here are five reasons we need your help NOW to fight Trump's extremism and flip the Senate in 2026. 1. Donald Trump's first days in office have already shown he's prioritizing his billionaire buddies at the cost of working families, paying for their tax cuts by gutting your access to affordable health care.   2. Retaking the Senate majority allows Democrats to better protect our interests and give us much-needed leverage against Trump's power. 3. Democrats CAN flip the Senate in 2026, but it won't be easy. We need early investments from grassroots supporters like YOU to make it happen. 4. We're coming up on our first big fundraising deadline of Trump's administration, but we're $9,574 short of our $15,000 goal. 5. With just over 24 hours to go, your $5 gift could be the one that gets us across the finish line and determines the future of the Senate. 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Keep in mind: There’s nothing wrong with these ballots. The voters who cast them followed all the rules. (Riggs’ opponent just doesn’t like those rules.) Then, in an unbelievable turn of events, the state supreme court blocked the certification of Justice Riggs’ election while her opponent’s legal challenge proceeds. Just last week, the court refused to fast-track the case, which means we might not have a certified winner for months. Justice Riggs will remain in her seat while this plays out, but there is still a real threat that her fairly won election may get overturned, and tens of thousands of voters may get disenfranchised. Attorney General Holder summed up what’s happening here pretty bluntly: North Carolina was already a poster child of how far extreme partisans are willing to go. In 2022, a new conservative majority in the state supreme court reversed the court’s own recent ruling, throwing out a map that had produced a 50-50 partisan balance among their congressional districts. And with new gerrymandered maps passed by the legislature in effect in November, Republicans won 10 of 14 seats in this purple state. For these extreme legislators, this latest supreme court race is about winning and holding on to power at all costs. And let’s be clear: This isn’t just about North Carolina. You better believe that anti-democratic forces across the country are watching what happens closely. If the courts invalidate legally cast ballots in this race, people are going to run this playbook anywhere and everywhere — looking to throw out votes they don’t like wherever they can. The central premise of democracy — every vote counts — is under attack in North Carolina. The way we respond right now matters. 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