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| José Barbosa Mello |
Master of Sciences (Stanford 1974)
Mechanical Engineer (EPUC-RJ 1966)
José Barbosa Mello is a shareholder and director of Teleco, a leading telecommunications information site and a benchmark for that market in Brazil. He is currently chairman of the Board of Pointer Networks (Vex), the major wi-fi service provider in Brazil and board member of other telecom companies.
He is chairman of the Information Technology and Telecommunications Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Sào Paulo.
José Barbosa Mello implemented the Pegasus Telecom Project starting in 1998. He was the first company’ CEO and later COO and Strategic Planning and Partnerships’ Vice President. Pegasus built an urban and long distance 6500 km fiber optic infrastructure in the South and Mid-West of Brazil and to serve more of 20 markets in this region with a state-of-the-art data communications network. In December 2002, the company was sold for US$ 200 million and he left the company.
Previously, he worked for the Odebrecht Group telecommunications business unit as General Manager for Avantel, a consortium (Odebrecht, Airtouch-Vodaphone, Unibanco and Camargo Correa) bidding for a cellular band B license. He was also general manager of Prolan, a corporate data networking company.
His former experience includes construction engineering and banking. He was the founder and director of Banco Goldmine and director of Veplan Residencia and EBE - Empresa Brasileira de Engenharia.
Email: barbosa@teleco.com.br
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