NORTELDirector, Business Development
Feb. 1991 - Jan. 1999São Paulo, BrazilFirst employee hired by NORTEL (www.nortel.com) in Brazil. In charge of the setting up of the company. NORTEL's legal representative in Brazil. Besides temporarily taking office as President for several instances, was responsible for the following functions: Planning, Quality, Public Relations, Customer Satisfaction, Interaction with Universities and R&D. The main performed functions were in the Business Development, and Sales areas. Has developed a partnership with Schahin Telecom, which generated as main accomplishment the contract for the turn key deployement of the Rio - Belo Horizonte route of optical fibers for Embratel, worth over US$50 Million. In association with Promon, has won the bidding for the contract to deploy the São Paulo Metropolitan SDH Network, worth over US$200 Million and that would turn into the largest metropolitan SDH network in the world. This contract has generated to NORTEL over US$500 Million in revenues over its life time.