Ricardo Alem Appugliese is a highly experienced and accomplished Strategic and Consultative Selling Executive with more than 20 years of expertise in Enterprise IT Strategy, Digital Transformation, Innovation, and Cloud. Throughout his career, he has worked for notable multinational organizations, where he played various key roles, such as Sales, Pre-Sales, Solution Selling, Business Management, Product Development, and Project Management. Alem is known to have a successful track record in bringing new products and solutions to markets, increasing company's results, and managing a business with full P&L responsibility. His areas of expertise include Digital Transformation, Digital Innovation, Enterprise Strategy, Strategic Selling, Business Development, Agile, Design Thinking, Product Development, and Technical Leadership. He holds an MBA from Fundação Dom Cabral and has studied post-graduation courses at FIAP and Business School São Paulo. He also completed the Kellogg-FDC Post-MBA Program at Kellogg School of Management and a graduation degree from Faculdade de Engenharia Industrial.

Alem has worked with several global organizations, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and ThoughtWorks, where, as Head of Digital Innovation (LATAM) and Principal, he conducted Digital Transformation, Innovation, and various other projects. He also held the position of the Head of Solutions Architecture, Partners - Brazil, during his tenure at AWS. Prior to that, he served as Sr Manager, Sales Engineering, Latin America & Caribbean at Citrix and in various roles at Avaya, such as Senior Manager, Avaya Professional Services, Manager, Professional Services for Latin America, and Manager, Project Management & UC Practice. A former Field Product Manager and Senior Systems Engineer at Enterasys Networks, Alem started his career as a Trainee at 3Com.