Empretec - SEBRAE

Universidade de São Paulo

University of Buenos Aires

Director na Federação Assespro

São Paulo, Brazil

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Jewish Genealogical Society São Paulo

President

After serving for four years as Assespro's Vice-President, I'm still actively helping out our new generation of leaders: 2015-2018 I served as communications director, encompassing press relations, and since 2019 I'm serving as Institutional Strategy Director.

Assespro Nacional

Director

REVIE Inteligencia Empresarial

Market Research Director

BraFIP is the Brazilian Technology Platform, set up 2011 to foster international cooperation in research and development, together with other Technology Platforms in Latin America, as recommended by best practices in cooperation with the European Union.

BraFIP

ALETI is the federation of associations of IT companies from countries all over Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. Since Assespro renewed Brazil's participation, which was approved formally in April 2009, I've been the Brazilian national contact point for international relations with other IT associations in the region and around the world.The biggest contribution in this role happened during the year 2010, when ALETI bylaws were extensively reformed. My previous experience at Assespro, which is in fact a Federation of regional associations, was crucial to this.

ALETI (Federación de Asociaciones de LAC, España y Portugal de Entidades de TIC)

Brazil's Representative

I established eResearch together with Alan Dubner to pioneer market research using techniques based on the wide adoption of computers and Internet.

eResearch

Partner

Since the launch of InformationWeek Brazil, I've been contributing with a monthly column, sharing opinions about IT market trends, about IT policies and in some cases even about general political facts.I started contributing to printed magazines like Byte Brasil, Information Week Brasil and others. Over the last years, my contributions have been published online, at <a href="http://www.itforum365.com.br">www.itforum365.com.br</a>.

IT Mídia

Columnist

ALETI is the federation of associations of IT companies from countries all over Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. In all, IT associations from 19 different countries are members of ALETI.I served for four years as president, then another two periods as vice-president.I am also the leader of the IT Census initiative, started in Brazil, and working together with other countries, to develop a harmonized set of indicators about the IT industry. Since 2013 the Census was expanded to many Latin American countries, and 2015 it was expanded to include countries from other regions.

Vice-presidente

Atuei como voluntário e coordenador no grupo São Luis em São Paulo (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/amorexigentesaoluis">https://www.facebook.com/amorexigentesaoluis</a>). De dezembro 2016 a  dezembro 2019 fui responsável pela Regional Paulistana Centro (<a href="http://www.amorexigente.org.br">www.amorexigente.org.br</a>)

Amor Exigente

Volunteer

During this one year period, I was in charge of developing an in-depth analysis of innovation inside start-up and small companies in the Brazilian telecommunications sector. The final report includes proposals for policy changes.

IPEA

Scholarship

ALETI is the federation of associations of IT companies from countries all over Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. In all, IT associations from 19 different countries are members of ALETI.I was elected September, 2011, during the General Assembly held in Guatemala, to lead ALETI until 2013. Re-elected two years later, during General Assembly held in Brazil, for the period ending 2015.ALETI helds two general assemblies per year, each time in a different country. As ALETI president, I also had the opportunity to attend the Latin American Information Society Ministers Summit in Lima, Peru (December 2010), to attend and speak at the European Technology  Platform Congress in Poznan, Poland (October 2011) to take part as a speaker at an EC-workshop in Brussels, held at the European Parliament in November, 2011, about cooperation between Europe and Latin America (where I proposed many concrete project ideas), and to attend the Ibero-American Head of State's Summit in November 2012 in Cadiz, Spain, among many other meetings and speaking appointments.I am also the leader of the IT Census initiative, started in Brazil, and working together with other countries, to develop a harmonized set of indicators about the IT industry. 2013 the Census was expanded to many Latin American countries.

After leading Assespro São Paulo for four years, I was elected in Dec 2010 as Public Relations Vice-President for Assespro Nacional, for the 2011-2012 period. The whole board was re-elected in Dec 2012 for the 2013-2014 period.In this role, there is frequent contact with government authorities, in order to help establish best possible policies for the IT industry. I have also been invited many times to participate as a speaker at Public Audiences at the Brazilian National Congress.I also led the succesful Assespro initiatives to host WITSA's (the World Federation of IT Associatoins) two global events in Brazil:- Nov 2013: Global Public Policy Summit will in the city São Paulo.- May 2016: World Congress on Information Technology in Brasilia.Assespro Group on LinkedInIf you work for a company which is an Assespro member and want to be part of this group on LinkedIn, please direct your browser to <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/1824/602B3C133CAA/This">https://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/1824/602B3C133CAA/This</a> is a group targeted mainly to professionals working at companies which are members of Assespro.

Public Relations Vice-President

Since Assespro joined WITSA, I have been in charge of representing Brazilian companies. October 2012, during the Montreal General Assembly, I was elected as board member, and appointed to head the Audit Committee.The World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) is a federation of associations from the information technology (IT) industry around the world, covering almost hundred countries.

WITSA - World IT Services Alliance

Brazil's representative and Board Member

This Institute is a Non-Profit Organization founded by Impacta Group, one of the biggest IT-education groups in Latin America. My goal there was to help working out the Institute bylaws and defining strategies for the Institute to operate.

Instituto Tecnologico Impacta

Council Member

Gerson Lehrman is a consulting company working with a network of consultants worldwide. I have been contributing my in-depth knowledge of the IT market (and more recently IT regulations) to companies all over the world, interested in developing business or creating relations in Latin America.

GLG - Gerson Lehrman Group

Consultant

For four years (two terms) I was the president for the São Paulo state regional association (<a href="http://www.assespro-sp.org.br">http://www.assespro-sp.org.br</a>), part of the Assespro system, which is the oldest and biggest association of IT companies in Brazil (established 1976).As São Paulo state is economically Brazil's locomotive, my main strategy consisted in strengthening São Paulo's influence on Assespro Nacional decisions. The objective proof of my success was the fact that I was invited to dispute (and won) national elections in 2010, hence turning into national vice-president.

Assespro São Paulo

During two semesters I acted as an invited professor, covering subjects related to the IT market and IT policies as part of MBA courses for IT Management.

FIA USP

MBA professor

Over two terms (for years), I served as Secretary Director to Assespro Sao Paulo. Due to my performance, colleagues then requested to run for president.

Secretary Director

Professor at the Computer Science Department, lecturing computer science from the basics (introduction to programming and algorithms) up to courses on compiler development. As computing disciplines were spread out into many courses outside computing itself, I had the opportunity to teach not only to computer science students, but also to students from engineering, physics, management, law and even public health courses.

USP (Universidade de São Paulo)

Professor

During this period, I consulted mainly on software development projects and taught a lot of programming courses, starting from basic C/C++ language courses, and reaching into the innards of the then 'new' Windows operating systems. Subjects like Windows SDK, DCOM and many others were so uncommon in Brazil, that I got demand to teach this courses for almost a decade after I stopped promoting them.

Self-employed

IT independent consultant

This was my first voluntary experience, which ended once Microsoft decided to establish their own subsidiary in Brazil. During Bill Gates' first visit to Brazil, in 1987, I was in charge of being his host at the conference we organized, and at some social events (I suppose, due to my good knowledge of English).

Microsoft User Group

I was responsible for introducing microcomputers at one of the top seven commercial banks in Brazil. Starting with a couple of Apple II computers, I leaded an effort which eventually brought microcomputers onto almost every desk and bank branch.When I decided to leave, I was managing a team of twenty four people.

Roberto C. Mayer

Roberto C. Mayer