Professor of the São Paulo Business Administration School, from the Getulio Vargas Foundation - Department of Production and Industrial Operations, since 1974. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (USP), having graduated in 1969 and completed his post-degree in Business Administration in 1973 at FGV/EAESP Member of the FGV Innovation Forum since its creation in 2000. He is the author of the articles Profit Sharing defined by Results (RAE, Oct-Dec 1999) and Fiscal Effects of Inflation in Analysis (RAE, Jan-Mar 2000), co-author of the book Gestão de Idéias para Inovação Contínua (Ideas Management for Continuous Innovation) (Artmed 2009), co-author of chapters: 2 - Innovations in Business Organizations, 3 - The Brasilata Case and 6 - Comparative Analysis between the two cases and final considerations, from the book Innovative Organizations: study and Brazilian cases. Organizer: José Carlos Barbieri (FGV, 2004) and Chapter 5: The Innovative Internal Environment and its Conditions, from the book Organizações Inovadoras do Setor Financeiro (Innovative Organizations of the Financial Sector). Organizers: José Carlos Barbieri and Moysés Alberto Simantob (Saraiva, 2009). He is the co-author of the articles: The Steel Can Industry in Brazil: strategies to win in a mature sector (SIMPOI, Sep 2000); The Profile of an Innovative Company of a Mature Sector: the case of Brasilata S.A. Metal Packaging (PGT-USP, Nov 2000); Corporate Technology Innovation System: real case studies (SIMPOI/POMS, Aug 2001); Entrepreneurial Media: concepts, models and cases (IMES Magazine, Sep-Dec 2002); In Search of a Technological Innovation Model: Concepts and Cases (SIMPOI, Oct 2002), Methodology for Identifying the Organizational Factors of an Effective Innovative Environment (Altec, Oct 2003); (SIMPOI, Oct 2004), Patents and Technology Licensing Strategy: Concepts and Case Study (FECAP Magazine, April 2005), A Whip Effect in (SIMPOI, Sept 2005), The Return of Suggestive Systems, Approaches, Objectives and a Case Study (EBAPE Notebook, Special Edition, 2005), Generation of Ideas in Sustainable Innovative Organizations: Models of management and identification of success factors (Altec 2005); Internal Rate of Return: Controversies and Interpretations (SIMPEP, Nov 2007), Generation of Ideas for Innovations: Case Studies and New Approaches (Honors at SIMPOI, Aug 2008). Bank of Vacations: an innovation in management for times of crisis (FGV-Innovation Forum, Nov 2009). A Case of Excellence and Innovation (CASE STUDIES Brazilian Management Journal) and a Case of Success (SIMPOI 2014). Brasilata S.A., a company with 1000 employees and manufacturing units in the states of São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul, Goiás and Pernambuco, where it held the position of Chief Superintendent from 1978 to January 2015. In January, 2015, he became Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors. President of SINIEM - National Union of the Metal Stamp Industry since 2004. Director of FIESP - Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo since 2007, where he is a member of the Department of Economic Studies (DEPECON) since 2004. Member of the Board of Directors of the Roberto Simonsen Institute since 2010, where he has also been a member of the Higher Council for Competitiveness and Innovation Technology (CONIC), since 2011. Member of the University Council of USP as a representative of FIESP since 2013.