Flavio Feferman is President of DevMarkets and Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business. During his 25 years of professional experience, Flavio directed several international feasibility studies and sectoral evaluations for private investors and for international organizations such as the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency. He has served as strategic consultant to companies such as eBay, Visa, and Bechtel, as well as to non-profits such as the Goldman Environmental Prize, Global Greengrants, and Technoserve.
Flavio has worked in several countries in Latin America and Africa and recently served as keynote speaker for a conference organized by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. He is an Adjunct Professor (Lecturer) at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches courses on Business, Technology and Economic Development in the MBA program. His teaching and professional interests include economic development, information technology, agriculture/agribusiness, renewable energy, marketing strategy, financial valuation and entrepreneurship in developing regions.
Flavio obtained an MBA from the U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business, focusing on Finance and Marketing. He holds an MA in Economic Development (FRI program) from Stanford University and a BA in Quantitative Economics also from Stanford. Flavio is originally from Brazil and is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and French.
Academic web site at UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Information technology partners:
PTS Data Center Solutions, Unito Sistemas, PTC, as well as other regional partner firms in Brazil.
Additional consultants for Regional Economic Development Projects:
Dr. Patrick Brecht
Dr. Brecht is recognized as an international authority in agricultural logistics (perishables and non-perishables), cold chain, and marketing. Dr. Brecht was a professor at Cornell University and senior executive for multi-national food and logistics companies. Dr. P. Brecht has extensive experience with the import and export of perishable and non-perishable agricultural commodities from Latin American countries, including Brazil. In Brazil, he served as a consultant on the export development of perishable commodities program within the Office of the President. He has conducted evaluations of Brazilian agricultural logistics, with special focus on tropical fruits.
Dr. Brecht is the co-author of three widely used logistics manuals for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, focusing on air, sea, and ground logistics. Dr. Brecht has a Ph.D. in Plant Physiology from the University of California, Davis. He also holds an M.A. in Botany from California State University, Los Angeles. He received his undergraduate degree from Whittier College.
Over the course of a 20-year professional career, Seth Grady has played a leadership role in a variety of major transportation infrastructure, economic development, and real estate projects in more than a dozen countries. As a consultant he has worked on a wide range of transportation infrastructure development and planning projects, including ports and waterways, highways, bridges and public mass transit systems. He has managed complex projects requiring direction of large interdisciplinary consulting teams and close interaction with clients, senior government officials and staffs of multilateral lending agencies. He has performed financial and economic analysis of major investment programs for governments, private investors and lending institutions. He has conducted strategic planning, institutional restructuring and policy analysis for the transportation sector for governments at the regional and national levels. In addition, he has made extensive presentations to clients, government officials, investors, the general public and the print and electronic media.
Seth obtained an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on Public Policy and Finance. He has BS and MS degrees in Civil Engineering from Columbia University. He is fluent in Spanish.
Alec Hansen
Associated consultant Dr. Alec Hansen, from ECG, specializes in local and regional economic analysis and strategy development. Much of his work focuses on small business development and improving technology transfer mechanisms to promote economic growth, including projects for the development of technology parks and business incubators. He has extensive prior experience in regional impact studies, urban and regional economics, cost/benefit analysis and environmental studies, and applies these skills to cluster analysis and competitiveness studies. He has worked throughout the United States and in several countries, including Brazil, in sectors such as IT, tourism, apparel, aviation, biotechnology, and transportation industries.
Dr. Hansen is also a co-founder and former president of The Competitiveness Institute (TCI), a non-profit network of more than 400 cluster/competitiveness practitioners world-wide. Dr. Hansen holds a B.A. in economics from U.C. Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in economics from Boston University.
Milton Feferman
Prof. Milton Feferman is an Urban Planner and Architect with over 30 years of experience in urban and regional planning projects. These include Land Use Plans, Master Plans, Transportation Plans, as well as plans for Industrial Districts and Technology Parks. He is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ), and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Brasília (UNB). He holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is fluent in English and Portuguese, and has good working knowledge of Spanish, French and German.
Eric R. Hansen
Associated consultant Dr. Eric R. Hansen is the President of the Economic Transformations Group. Dr. Hansen’s areas of expertise are economic competitiveness analysis, strategy development, and managing broad-based economic change and action implementation for regions and industries. He is a specialist in cluster-based economic development and is innovating procedures for stimulating private-sector development and public-private collaboration in a variety of socio-economic and cultural contexts. Dr. Hansen directed major economic strategy projects for South Africa, Texas, Pennsylvania, Panama, Guatemala, Morocco, and the States of Campeche, Chihuahua, and Tabasco in Mexico, as well as projects in Eastern Europe (Slovakia and Slovenia). He has also directed a variety of competitiveness projects in the United States: Long Beach, California (business incubator design, university technology park development), Southern California (biotech research and training institute), Florida (new enterprise development), and Arizona, North Dakota, Iowa (cluster-based economic strategy). He holds a BA in economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a Ph.D. in regional economics and planning from M.I.T. He is fluent in English, Spanish, and French, and has working knowledge in Portuguese and Farsi (Persian).
Alexandre Ribenboim is an experienced entrepreneur and business consultant based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was founding partner and executive at MLab, one of the leading Web consulting companies in Brazil, and more recently was founder and Managing Director of Casa do Saber, a highly regarded education and cultural center in Rio de Janeiro.
As a management consultant, Alexandre advises companies in diverse industries such as information technology, culture and arts, environmental technologies, and Web-based businesses. He works with senior management in projects related to corporate strategy, marketing and sales, finance, operations and process improvement. Alexandre is a recognized expert in startup ventures in Brazil, with particular focus on Internet based companies (both web services and online retail).
Alexandre obtained MS and BS degrees in Computer Science from PUC-Rio, and an Executive MBA from a consortium of US universities (Stanford, Wharton, CMU, and Thunderbird).
Julio Feferman
Julio Feferman is founder and President of Unito Systems, an IT and web software company based in Brazil. Julio is responsible for operations and management of the company, as well as for developing web based solutions for diverse clients, such as private companies and NGOs. He participates in feasibility studies for ICT ventures in developing coutries providing expertise on the evaluation of IT markets and technologies.
Julio has 20 years of experience in IT consulting for NGOs such as Ashoka Social Entrepreneurs, Rainforest Action Network, and the Committee for IT Democratization. Julio is a graduate of the Claremont McKenna College where he studied Biology, Economics, and Computer Science.
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