Education
Harvard Business School. Harvard University.
president Chief Executive Officer
Harvard Business School. Harvard University.
He previously served as president and Chief Executive Officer of Globex South America, one of the largest consumer electronics, appliances and furniture retailers in Brazil. Mr. Amorim served as a board member for all of Telefonica"s operations in Latin America and for MasterCard International. He was Chairman of the Board of Vivo, the largest cell phone operator in Latin America, as Chairman of the Investcred Bank in Brazil, and Vice Chairman of the Board of the American Chamber of Commerce in São Paulo Paulo, Brazil.
Manoel Amorim is married and has three children.
Amorim received a degree from the Military Institute of Engineering in Rio de Janeiro. In 1990, Amorim received an Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
By 2006 Telefonica, with Amorim as Chief Executive Officer, had become the third largest corporation in Brazil.
He has also served as Chief Executive Officer of the Brazilian Telecommunications firm Telefonica Empresas, a subsidiary of Telefonica, as president of America Online Brazil, and as general manager for the Baby Care Division of Procter and Gamble Latin America and member of the Baby Care Global Leadership Team. He is currently a member of the National Advisory Council of the Marriott School of Management of the Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and a board director of Fundação Victor Civita and of the American Chamber of Commerce in São Paulo Paulo, Brazil.
