SPEAKERS
JULIANO VARGAS
Vice-President of Operations, Finance and IT –
WEG Electric Motors
BILLY HALL
CEO – Newfields Consulting
SCOTT LEWIN
CEO – Invoiceware International
MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED
LUCIA M. JENNINGS
Founder/President – Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce of SE, Inc.
Demand Manager – FCOE – The Coca-Cola Company, Inc.
Lucia Jennings has been working for The Coca-Cola Company for over 20 years where she held a variety of positions including her most current position of Demand Manager for Concentrates with Coca-Cola North America, Inc. She is a native of Brazil and during her 30+ years of residence in Atlanta, she has been extremely active in the Brazilian American community.
HERMANO TELLES RIBEIRO
Ambassador
Consul General of Brazil in
Atlanta
A career Diplomat, assumed his position as Consul General of Brazil in Atlanta in January 2012. The Brazilian Consulate General serves the states of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Ambassador Hermano was born in Bern, Switzerland. He completed the diplomatic academy at Instituto Rio Branco in 1979, and, in 2000, received his Post Graduate degree in Foreign Service, with the thesis Bilateral Relations between Brazil and Mexico.
KIRK S.
BOWMAN PhD
Professor of International Affairs
Director of Undergraduate Programs
Program Director for Argentina and Brazil Study Abroad
Dr. Kirk Bowman directs study abroad programs in Argentina, Brazil, Portugal, Spain and Uruguay. He has received research support from the National Institutes of Health, the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, among others, and was a Fulbright Scholar. His teaching includes graduate and undergraduate courses in comparative politics, Latin American politics, and soccer and global politics. He was the University System of Georgia Excellence of Teaching 2007 recipient and the 2008 Carnegie-Case Professor of the Year for the state of Georgia.
