Marcos Barrosa Email & Phone Number

Campinas Area, Brazil

Founder and CEO of Watermelon Tecnologia & Participações, a venture builder and startup portfolio company.Watermelon innovative model provides a technology partner to highly selected startups that do not have a technology co-founder in exchange for equity and a cost-based cash price. Such model has been proven very successful, in Brazil and the USA, with Watermelon’s current partners that range from fintech to fashion mobile commerce and medical operation systems.ScorePointer, Watermelon’s first startup, was the winner of the respected Global New Venture Challenge, an annual startups set of competitions at the University of Chicago. These competitions projected very successful companies such as Braintree (sold to Paypal for 800 MM usd) and Grubhub (with an IPO exit in 2014 and a 3Bi+ usd Market Cap. Marcos was also awarded as the entrepreneur of his cohort in the Booth MBA.Watermelon mission of helping startups is very present in its founder attitude at the entrepreneurship ecosystem. Marcos lectures technology strategy in Unicamp, mentors young entrepreneurs at Unicamp and UFABC, he is part of the assessment committee of startups competitions at UFABC and is a content contributor at Cofounderslab in USA and Startupi in Brazil.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Buscaya is the leading price-comparison website in Mexico.Founded in 2017, Buscaya delivers an excellent experience helping e-commerce consumers in many stages of their purchase cycle by providing product´s information, hints and price-comparison.Managing a team of 15 people, most of which are experts in their fields, with 15+ years of experience, and fundraising to accomplish a goal of a million monthly users in one year.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

São Paulo, Brazil

Canada

Senior Project Leader for Vale Portash Canada (VPC). This new company controlled by Vale was created as part of Vale´s strategy of expanding its business in the fertilizer market and has the purpose of mining potash in Canada and exporting it offshore.I was in charge of setting up the new company (VPC) before production started in many fronts: implementing IT (ERP) systems; acquiring high-tech process plant equipments to produce potash; closing deals with logistics operators (railroad and port operators) for transportation of the company's products; negotiating with the government's utilities operators for boosting its capacity to supply the company's new demand, etc.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Leader of PRC Railroad project. Located in the Argentinean Patagonia, the PRC railroad project consists in the construction of 350 Km of railroad and revitalization of additional 500 Km approximately. It’s a billion+ project and its time schedule has about 36 month.I entered in this project in a pre approval stage in which I had to recruit all the project team, lead the execution of procurement, engineering and construction plans, manage and analyze the calculation of the CAPEX budget and the elaboration of the project approval documents, negotiate the construction Alliance Contract (in which we achieved a US$ 200 million reduction in CEILING PRICE) and hire the engineering development.In addition, I’m in charge of the operational readiness area of the whole PRC project (which has a process plant and a port complex besides the railroad). In this area we are developing a process simulator which will be used to define the system maintenance, operation, ramp up and will be used for operators training.

Peru

Head of Bayovar project. Located in Peru, Bayovar was Vale´s first green field fertilizer project and first project in this country. With a total investment of about US$ 550 million, the project consisted in the construction of a whole mining and logistic system (process plant, road and port complex) and had a construction time of 2 years.I came to the project 5 month before its deadline and it had 65% of advance and a tendency of cost expenditure of 90% of its contingency budget.The team formed by planning and cost control, procurement, engineering, HSE and construction areas, after some structural changes and after shifting the relation with the project suppliers, achieved to startup the project just in its deadline date and within its budget.Bayovar became Vale’s main phosphate system and the company is planning its expansion in the next years.

Belo Horizonte Area, Brazil

Management of railroad signaling projects: in charge of the implementation of technology projects (signaling and automation) among 600 Km of railroad. These projects had a total budget close to US$ 70 million and they raised considerably the capacity of the main railroad of Vale. Engineering development: lead of an engineering team which was in charge of designing the railroads of a billionaire project.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

Project Management

Specialization, Railroad Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Civil Engineering

Middle And High School

Elementary School