New board and new directors of ABES take office at dinner

Rodolfo Fücher 

ABES gathered its members and guests, this Monday (1/04), in the Cantaloup Restaurant, for the dinner of investiture of new directors and of the new board for the 2019-2022 triennium, elected on March 21, and which has Rodolfo Fücher as executive president. With over 35 years of career in the technology market, 27 of them dedicated to Microsoft, where he served as director of Corporate Relations, Fücher is currently a founding partner of FEMP Participações, an investment and consulting company in the area of entrepreneurship and the third sector. .
 

Jorge Sukarie, Rodolfo Fücher, Fabio Rua, Paulo Roque, Lauro de Lauro and Francisco Camargo

Paulo Milliet Roque, director of the Digiforte Certification Authority, took over as Vice President. Vanda Scartezini, senior partner at Polo Consultores Associados; Fábio Rua, director of Government and Regulatory Affairs at IBM Latin America, and Lauro de Lauro, senior cloud guru at Sky.One Cloud Solutions, complete the executive board.

In his inauguration speech, Rodolfo Fücher thanked Francisco Camargo for his dedication and support for ensuring the transition. He also reinforced the entity's role: “To be relevant for associates, to be a reference in the Brazilian national and international IT sector, in line with its mission of connecting, guiding, protecting and developing. We want a more digital and less unequal Brazil ”, 
 

IT investments
 

 Jorge Sukarie Neto

On the occasion, Jorge Sukarie Neto, president of Brasoftware and vice president of the Deliberative Council of ABES, presented the latest data on the Brazilian IT market. "With a growth of 9.8%, Brazil surpassed the world average of IT investments in 2018, which was 6.7%. These data show that a timid recovery of the Economy observed in 2018, combined with the expectation of a more vigorous recovery from 2019 onwards. We identified a resumption of investments in technology that exceeded expectations, proving the importance of the sector so that companies can seek more productivity, efficiency and competitiveness ”, he commented. see more.
 
An Ethical Company Initiative
  

Francisco Camargo

Francisco Camargo, founder of CLM Software, who has been at the helm of ABES for the past three years, as its executive president, and who assumed the presidency of the Deliberative Council, presented the initiative AN ETHICAL COMPANY, which aims to encourage its associates to formally adopt the highest ethical standards in dealing with their affairs, internal or external; improve the standard of behavior in dealing with customers, suppliers, competitors, employees and government agents, and create formal rules to implement them.
 
Camargo also explained how the service works Membership Reporting Channel, which is part of the program: "It allows you to register, in a totally anonymous and independent way, complaints about events that are not in conformity with the ethical and moral standards established by company norms or by the laws of the country".
 
Diplomation of advisers
 
At the dinner, the diplomation of the recently elected directors for the 2019-2022 term took place: Francisco Camargo (chairman of the board), Jorge Sukarie Neto (vice chairman of the board), Bernardo Cabral Leite Meirelles, Carlos Alberto Limas Sacco, Fabio Rua, Francisco Antonio Soeltl, Gerson Mauricio Schmitt, Jorge Sukarie Neto, José Mauricio Neves Rey, Onivaldo Roncatti, Paulo Miliet Roque, Richard Freund, Sergio Pereira Boacnin and Werter Padilha Cavalcante.
 

During the event, the new ambassadors of the Movimento Brasil, País Digital, were also honored. look here.
 
The event was also attended by Daniel Annenberg, municipal secretary of Innovation and Technology of the municipality of São Paulo, who spoke about the City Hall's initiatives for the digital transformation and construction of a more human and connected city, such as São Paulo Tech Week, the Digital Entrepreneurs program and the expansion of the WiFi Free program. "It is important to work together so that São Paulo can become an innovation hub".

Annenberg also referred to Aline Cardoso, municipal secretary of Labor and Entrepreneurship in the City of São Paulo, highlighting her professional and political trajectory and her contribution to expanding the participation of women in the Technology sector. Aline, who was also one of those honored with the Brazilian Movement's ambassador plaque, País Digital, emphasized the joint goal of both secretariats in the training of qualified professionals, one of the major bottlenecks for digital transformation. “It is an honor for me to be here with Daniel. We are two secretaries who together defend qualification in terms of economic development and work ”.