Brazil

While Brazil recovers from Carnival and warms up for national elections, the alumni club has recently elected the new representatives of the club for the coming two years! Ricardo Soares ’01 and Andre Abram ’01 are the new co-chairs, replacing Luiz Verdi ’99 and Rodrigo Vieira ’99. An official ceremony (known in Brazil as “the pineapple transfer”) for this leadership transition was held in March, along with a reception for GIM students. More details in the next issue of Kellogg World. Let’s wish the very best lucky to our new leaders and thank the old ones for their effort in developing a solid Kellogg School alumni network in Brazil.

Please update your contact list! A few of our members have recently reported job changes. Marco Mombelli ’99 left Bain & Co. in November to become a partner of CV Participacoes, a fast-growing company founded by Alexandre Correa ’98. Thomaz Yazima ’98 has been appointed the new head of Copernicus Marketing Consulting and Research in Brazil, a company that counts Philip Kotler and Alice Tybout among its advisory board. Rogerio Rizzi ’99 is sales director of Tropico, a Brazilian company that develops telecommunication technology. Marcelodo ’98 has assumed the Brazilian operation of Novo Nordisk as the general manager. He is very excited with this recent move from consulting to pharmaceuticals.

Take note of our alumni personal agenda announcements: Eric Archer ’97 is back to Sao Paulo after a year in the United States.

The Kellogg community in Brazil offer our late but warmest welcome to Dean Dipak Jain and thanks to Dean Ed Wilson for his incredible dedication!