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Brazil : SERGIO Paulo Gallindo selected as CEO of Brasscom [TendersInfo (India)]
[April 18, 2014]

Brazil : SERGIO Paulo Gallindo selected as CEO of Brasscom [TendersInfo (India)]


(TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) A previous executive of British Telecom (BT), Sergio Paulo Gallindo has been appointed CEO of Brazil s IT lobby group Brasscom. Gallindo comes after Antonio Carlos Rego Gil, who will assume the position of guest adviser in the association.



Brasscom is made up of best domestic and foreign ITC companies functioning in Brazil such as IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Ericcson and Lenovo.

Paulo said, The members of the association expect to drive synergies for the growth and strengthening of a segment marked by dynamic, fast transformations .


Sergio Paulo s mission is to take Brasscom to new levels, the IT association stated in a press release. Brasscom has successfully persuaded President Dilma Rousseff s government to set aside $2 billion USD for funding ICT education of Brazilian students in top foreign universities.

According to a statement, Brasscom will strengthen its efforts to promote innovation and competitiveness among domestic IT firms, and promote the use of cloud services. Special attention will also be given to startups and small and medium-sized businesses with high potential for innovation.

A lawyer and a computer science graduate from the University of Texas, Paulo was working as the General Director of BT in Brazil until a month before. He represented BT Brazil at Brasscom from 2009, and was elected member of the board in 2012. Prior to joining BT, he was the vice president of Nortel in Brazil and executive director for Corporate Business at GVT. The reshuffle at Brasscom comes at a time when Latin America s biggest economy is spending billions of dollars on infrastructure development in preparation for staging the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. The sporting events are likely to make an investment of about $57 billion, of which 10% will be devoted to IT.

Brazil s information technology (IT) and communications industry has more than two million professionals however will require an additional 900,000 to attain its goal of becoming the world s third largest ITC market by 2022.

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