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Porto Alegre, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Brazil

Responsible for developing Solutions for Plastic Waste in Brazil.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Founded the new business unit (SmartRails) with full P&L responsibility, managing product and strategy.Hire and lead a high performance team that became a reference of innovation to the rest of the company.- Reduce the technical approval time by 75%.- Product innovation commercially applied.- Enabled the business's first commertial sales and revenue, in addition to significant technological advances that reduced product costs by more than 15%.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Responsible for developing new products, businesses and strengthening clients to create new markets for polyethylene.- Developed solutions in five platforms: Civil Construction & Infrastructure; Agribusiness, Packaging, Recycling and Special projects (Market Disruptive businesses).- Increased the overall project pipeline value by 46% and an increase of 81% in the risk compounded value.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Co-Created and Lead Braskem Labs implementation - Braskem´s startup acceleration Program. The program engaged 24 Braskem’s executives to the mentorship program and selected 19 startups.Developed and Implemented a Social Action Strategy. The processes conquered the approval and support from all the senior executives of the company, including board members.- Raised R$ 9,3M ( approx.: 2,5M USD) of new investments from different companies and organizations to Brasnkem’s Social Projects(about 150% of the planned budget) - Braskem was included in the Dow Jones Sustainability's index in 2012.- Modeled the procedures to quantify specific carbon inventories in a fast and objective manner, reducing the delivery time by 80%.

- Founder and partner of a carbon consulting company called Green Domus Desenvolvimento Sustentável Ltda.- Performed the full CDM procedure, from the project development to the commercialization of CER; going through validation, registration, supervising the system implementation, operation, monitoring, verification and certification by a third party, CER issuance by UNFCCC, creating and managing a holding account for the CERs and selling over-the-counter.- Raised about R$600.000 (approx. USD350k) of investments for the company, allowing it to grow even with the 3 years gap between CDM investment and income.- Managed and executed 16 projects, taking into account the subjects: Carbon, Sustainability indicators and GHG inventory.- Delivered more than 130 feasibility studies regarding carbon projects (CDM – Clean Development Mechanism). Including financial analysis, additionality and identifying evidence to support project registration.- Lectured more than 30 times for different listeners, including medium and large company owners and employees to carbon specialists, on how the carbon market works and how to develop a offset project.- Negotiated CDM Project on different stages taking in consideration technical feasibility, risks and carbon pricing. - Responsible for pre-sales activities, including assessment of the Project offset potential, definition with the client of the most adequate solution and the needed work force to attend its needs.- Modeled the procedures to quantify specific carbon inventories on a fast and objective manner, reducing the delivery time in 80%. Created a complete sales kit, with manual, spreadsheets, prices table permitting the sales team to reduce the demand on the commercial activity from an average of 8 to 4 interactions between sales representatives and clients to perform the sale.

- Responsible for a USD 2.5 M sales target of IT services.- Centralized complex services proposals creation. Adjusting technical proposals to client needs and demands. - Expanded, created and maintained relationship with up to 25 different retail clients.

- Responsible for outsourcing proposal assembling and finalization.- Collaborated to relationship between client and overall solution definition, adjusting proposal to clients need

Executive Program

Venture Capital Executive Program

Especialização, Desenvolvimento Sustentavel

Cba, Business Admistration

Bs, Mechanical Eng

High School