About us
Direto Brasil is a consulting company that focuses on helping its clients to implement their strategies through people.
Our main activities involve: Executive Recruiting & Selection, Training & Development, Profile assessment, Management auditing and Teambuilding, always developed in function of each particular customer’s needs.
Our main partners allow us to broad those areas of activities which also involves Mentoring, Turn Around and Innovation Projects.
Mission: To help our clients to implement their strategies through people
Vision:To support business with a focus on people
Values:
Honesty;
Transparency;
Quality;
Customer Dedication and Proximity;
Continuity;
Differentiation;
Creation of Value.
Meet our Professionals
Managing Partners
Dirk Thomaz Schwenkow
Antonio Clovis Garcia Alves
Senior Consultants
Ulrich Kühn
Laércio Panato
Dirk Thomaz Schwenkow
Dirk is a managing partner of DIRETOBRASIL. Major steps in his professional career: DOW and Bayer in Brazil (marketing functions), McKinsey in Germany (consultant), Círculo de Lectores (Bertelsmann) in Spain (member of the board of directors, director of marketing and sales), DAMART Italy (general manager), DAMART Austria (general manager) and the MELTRA Group in Germany (president & CEO, one of the most important groups in paper recycling in Europe, with 20 companies). President of MERCURI URVAL LatAm, 2000-2010. Academic activities; professor of the following business schools; FGV, FIA-USP, IBMEC/INSPER, BSP, EADA, Webster University Vienna.
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Antonio Clovis Garcia Alves
Clovis is a managing partner of DIRETOBRASIL. He was director of MERCURI URVAL LatAm, 2001-2010. He worked over 12 years at Loctite Brasil, being the company General Manager for five years. He participated on an important period of the professionalization of Industrias Muller de Bebidas as Director. He was General Manager of H.B. Füller Brasil and member of the Latin America Leadership Council for the company for four years. Previously he worked during a long period in the earthmoving, mining and agriculture markets in companies like Caterpillar Co., Fiat-Allis and Lark Equipment. He is a Mechanical Engineer with Post Graduation in Marketing and also coordinates groups of CEO’s for RENAISSANCE EXECUTIVE FORUM in Brazil. He worked and studied in the USA.
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Ulrich Kühn
Ulrich Kühn is senior consultant and engagement manager of DIRETOBRASIL. He has Master of Science degree in electronic engineering and a Master of Business Administration degree. Prior to joining DIRETOBRASIL he worked for MERCURI URVAL as senior consultant and for GlobeNET/Brasil Telecom as General Country Manager in Brazil. He was COO of TeleNova Corporation, an Internet ASP and Voice over IP enterprise, Before that, he was marketing and business director of Mcom Wireless, a holding company that owns companies in the cellular mobile, paging and fiber network markets. Kühn was marketing and sales director at Global One, and also worked at Digirede, a leading company in automatic banking systems, He started his career at Burroughs (now Unisys) and also worked for Elebra Informática.
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Laercio Panato
Twenty-five years of experience working as an executive and consultant in strategic management of sales, marketing and communication companies such as: HP, 3M, Natura Cosmetics, Kienzle, Henkel - Loctite, Hope Lingerie and La Pastina, among others. He has held managerial and board positions in commerce and marketing area. Led start-up project in the area of adhesives in large multinational company. Was a lecturer and facilitator in leadership programs for managers, corporate coaching and interpersonal skills. Graduate in Business Administration (PUC) Post-Graduate in Marketing (FGV) and MBA in General Management – IBMEC
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