Leonardo Mendes

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT LEONARDO MENDES

Leonardo Mendes has strong experience with projects. His passion working with tech oriented business innovation ecosystems around the world in different segments of economy and people-oriented skills helped him achieve relevant corporate success cases. He also has a diploma from Japan (where he was selected among Senior Professionals from different countries to receive a scholarship from JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) to study Cluster Development - U-G-I (University,Government, Industry alliance to develop high performance clusters); With the completion of this training, he received the diploma from Toyohashi University in Japan in the year 2015. He also was invited to visit Ohio University to participate of their Business Consulting Training in United States, with a theoretical and a practical experience within American companies. Worked with International Development, for canadian enterprises in different segments including technology based solutions startups, education, software and international sales growth for mining and heavy machinery. Conducted project management with PMI best practices and Agile methodology. Experience with Scrum while work in complex projects. Passion for artificial intelligence, disruptive innovation corp + startups development. Former Singularity University executive as a volunteer. https://su.org/about/ Executive team: Montreal Chapter, Canada. MBA - Masters Business Administration, focus in: Project Management University: FGV - Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Ranked #1 Business School in Brazil) Certificate: Cluster Development U-I-G (University - Industry - Government) Toyohashi University of Technology - Japan Certificate: Ohio University - College of Business - USA - Consulting Program Bachelor: Business Administration - University: Centro Universitário UNA - Brazil He worked in North America (Canada and USA), South America (Brazil) and Central America (Caribbean) with International Business Development and as Project Leader Volunteer for:(Aiesec International) in North America and also in South America. He obtained Marketing and Sales certificate from : Aiesec - Western University - Canada BRASA: Brazilian Student Association abroad (Ivy League, brazilian students in USA and in Canada) Selected Volunteer Ambassador for the institution in Canada Expertise planning and executing International Commercial Missions, around the world. Fluent in 4 languages (English, French, Spanish and Portuguese)