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On June 6, 2019, the 67th meeting of the Softex Board of Directors took place in the Council Room of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications (MCTIC), in Brasília (DF). On that occasion, Federal Deputy Marcos Pereira (PRB/SP) took office, who was elected chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association for the Promotion of Excellence in Brazilian Software (Softex), Civil Society Organization of Public Interest (OSCIP), which for over 20 years it has been working in the development, promotion and promotion of the Brazilian Software and IT Services Industry. Rodolfo Fücher and Francisco Camargo, executive president and president of the ABES Board, respectively, participated in the meeting.
Fücher thanked the invitation to participate in the ceremony and said he was impressed with the effort made by Softex's management to reduce the entity's operating costs with the objective of directing more resources to projects that bring a positive socioeconomic impact to Brazil. The executive also highlighted the work that Softex carries out in the area of training people and encouraging innovation projects associated with startups.
Also present at the meeting were Júlio Semeghini, Executive Secretary of MCTIC; Paulo Alvim, Secretary of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at MCTIC; Walter Pinheiro, Secretary of Planning for Bahia; Judge Bráulio Gusmão of the National Council of Justice (CNJ); Ruben Delgado, president of Softex; Diônes Lima, vice president of Softex, among other authorities and members of the entity's Board.
Also attending the inauguration ceremony were board members Wellington de Oliveira Barros Junior and Maria Cristina Olimpo Duarte Patoilo (BNDES); Alexandre Guilherme Motta Sarmento (CNPq); Alexandre Z. Barragat Andrade (FINEP); the former minister, deputy and chairman of the Softex Board, Celso Pansera; Igor Manhães Nazareth and Luciano Cunha de Sousa (ME); Paulo Cesar Rezende Alvin; Celestino Todesco and Otávio Caixeta (MCTIC); Christian Santos (ASSESPRO); Sheila Oliveira Pires (ANPROTEC); Paulo Roberto Freire Cunha (SBC); Alberto Blois (Riosoft); Manoel Christovam de Amorim Neto (Softex Recife); Djalma Petit (Tecsoft); Anderson de Sousa (Senai Londrina) and Ricardo Vaz da Silva (Comtec).
About Marcos Pereira and Softex
Marcos Antônio Pereira, 47 years old, is a lawyer, professor and the current 1st vice president of the Chamber of Deputies and the National Congress of Brazil. Former Minister of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services and national president of the Brazilian Republican Party (PRB), Marcos Pereira is from Espírito Santo and was elected federal deputy for São Paulo in 2018.
At the inauguration ceremony, Marcos Pereira highlighted that it was urgent “not only to redefine public policies for the ICT sector, but also to redesign the public power’s own performance in the face of this new reality, with the adoption of tariff, customs and financial support fully adherent to the necessary agility brought by the new times”.
For Ruben Delgado, president of Softex, the deputy's admission to the Council is an important reinforcement for the entity. “Throughout his extensive work in public life, Marcos Pereira has accumulated successes, with emphasis on his performance at the head of the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services where, in less than two years, Brazil was once again present in the main events international economics. This same dynamism that strengthened the national industry now focuses on the Brazilian IT industry, which makes us even more optimistic about the success of the work that the entity is carrying out”.
About Softex
Based in Brasília, Softex has been working for over 20 years in the design and management of programs with international impact and coordinates the Softex System, composed of 21 regional agents distributed across 13 Brazilian states and the Federal District. The entity has 22 accredited ICTs and 19 partner accelerators and benefits around 4,000 startups and over 6,000 companies. Softex works in articulation with the private sector and with governments at the federal, state and municipal levels, academic centers and development institutions. In these more than two decades of activities, it has consolidated itself as the main Brazilian institution capable of connecting actors from the three spheres - Government, Academia and Private Sector - to boost Brazil's development through innovation and Digital Transformation. In order to evolve over all these years, Softex constantly reinvents itself, an effort that translates into a series of achievements involving support, development, promotion and promotion initiatives. Its execution portfolio includes, among others, the programs StartUp Brasil, Inova Maranhão, TechD, Brasil Mais TI, Connection Startup Brasil, Brasil IT+ and MPS.BR.
For more information, visit www.softex.br.
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