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São José Dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

• Consulting on payment for environmental services and procedures related to science-based measurements, including the processing of geospatial data tailored to support executive decisions.• Partnerships identification and building collaboration opportunities to leverage green business and accelerate the achievement of sustainability goals.• Ensure that the geospatial information used for complying with regulated and voluntary environmental asset market frameworks and methodologies is sufficient and appropriate.• Effectively carry out the processes of Measuring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) of carbon credits from Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU).

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Provide technical support for institutional relations between stakeholders of the Tocantins Jurisdictional REDD project.• Ensure the transfer of technical knowledge on the state-of-the-art of direct biomass measurement technologies.• Assistance in implementing an effective estimation of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.

Tokyo, Japan

• High-level business consulting, identifying customer needs and providing competitive intelligence.• Offer recommendations for new products development and viable approaches to market satellite images.• Suggest innovative solutions based on state-of-the-art techniques for remote sensing image analysis.• Colaborate with the board of directors in support of strategic decisions on the design of new satellites.

São José Dos Campos Area, Brazil

• Identified, evaluated and consolidated of new partnerships that enhanced product innovations and leveraged revenue growth opportunities.• Supported the implementation of successful marketing strategy based on predictable revenue techniques trough a sales machine that generated annual revenue of over $30 million.• Created an Imagery and Remote Sensing business area and helped to consolidate partnerships with satellite image providers to offer solutions based on geospatial data.• Performed competitive and sectorial analyzes to support merger and acquisition recommendations for various businesses under the umbrella of the holding company.

São José Dos Campos Area, Brazil

• Defined methodology, recommend technical approach and managed execution of a USD $4,4M World Bank project aimed at developing systems to prevent forest fires and monitor vegetation cover in the Brazilian Cerrado Biome (~2 million sqkm).• Application of various earth observation methods to analyze and extract information from multiple remote sensed data sources towards operation of a Deforestation Monitoring Project (PRODES) and a Near Real-Time Deforestation Detection System (DETER) for The Cerrado Biome.• Ensured that PRODES and DETER programs were implemented according to agreed upon time and cost metrics.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Managed direct sales and a network of more than 15 third-party dealers in Latin America.• Catalyzed Planet’s early commercialization and revenue generation efforts by leveraging over USD $10M in sales opportunities, while also identifying business partnerships and promoting technological collaborations.

Berlin Area, Germany

• Secured more than USD $30M in five years by building a strong foundation of client engagements, and by providing creative business and technology solutions to clients such as the Brazilian Ministry of Environment - MMA, the Mexican Commission for Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity - CONABIO and the Colombian Geographic Institute Agustín Codazzi - IGAC.• Collaborated with clients and stakeholders in cross-functional and international working teams, developing world-reference satellite imagery applications, including a land use change modeling approach by MMA (2012), a carbon assessment on vegetation by CONABIO (2013) and a crop monitoring effort by FRONTEC (2015) and GEOAGRO (2016).

Brandenburg Area, Germany

• Gathered data on competitors, and provided the necessary information to decide how to promote, distribute, design and price products and services. Performed analyses of the Brazilian geospatial industry, including two qualitative market surveys, INPE (2007) and FAPESP (2008), in support of business development effort.• Raised more than USD $50M in letters of intent from prospective clients prior to satellite constellation launch, that facilitated Series B round of funding to propel and maintain company operations.

São José Dos Campos Area, Brazil

• Produced a database of the spatial and temporal distribution of deforestation in the State of Acre, Brazil. This database was used by Geoconsult to predict deforestation by logarithmic regression, which served to establish a baseline for evaluating the reduction of emissions from deforestation. This project became recognized as the world’s first jurisdictional REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) program, accounting for more than 100M tons of CO2 as carbon credits, and providing the methodology for performing MRV (Measuring, Reporting and Verification) activities implemented under the REDD mechanism at a global scale• Provided consulting services to help clients manage their carbon footprint, including recommendations for engaging in the carbon sequestration market. Contributed to the creation of the Afforestation and Reforestation project methodologies AR-AM0005 and AR-AM0010, under the Clean Develop Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol, and used it to demonstrate the eligibility of projects such as AES Tiete, VALE Florestar, V&M Florestal and Plantar.• Received a USD $100K grant from the Innovative Research in Small Businesses Program (FAPESP-PIPE) to develop the Econometric Modeling of the Brazilian Geoinformation Market project, which received the program’s highest distinction.

Greater Denver Area

• Promoted innovative products for customers in Brazil. Sold state-of-the-art high-resolution satellite data for clients such as the São Paulo State Secretariat for the Environment (SMA-SP), the Geographic Service Office of Brazilian Army (DSG), PETROBRAS, and VALE. Established strong customer relationships, developed new business and maintained positive workflow with clients.

São José Dos Campos Area, Brazil

• Constructed a network of resellers throughout South America for INTERSAT – a IMAGEM Company that started sales of satellite images in this territory from the first regional sources of remote sensing products, such as the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE), the Argentinean National Commission on Space Activities (CONAE) and the Ecuadoran Centre for Integrated Remote Sensing Applications for Natural Resources (CLIRSEN).

São José Dos Campos Area, Brazil

• Delivered several projects using remote sensing techniques and state-of-the-art GIS systems from that time (SGI-SITIM, ArcView 3.x, IDRISI, etc.) for customers such as ASSEPLAN Engenharia e Consultoria, Indigenous Area “Trincheira / Bacajá” (1,7M ha), IBICABA Agropastoril, Xingu Farm (110K ha), Agropecuaria Grendene – Ressaca Farm (55K ha), Para Steel Mill Company – COSIPAR, (24K ha).

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Technological Innovation

• Researched digital market business opportunities and competitive intelligence, leading to the establishment of Geoconsult, a consultancy.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Agribusiness Risk Management

• Modeled the impacts of meteorological events on agricultural productivity at farm level and analyzed how weather and farming risks vary.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Civil Engineering

• Applied state-of-the-art GIS systems from that time (SGI-SITIM, ArcView 3.x, IDRISI, etc.) to digitize data for PRODES (Amazon.