Marcelo Vessoni

SVP, Global Head of Retail and CPG

New York City Metropolitan Area

About

Marcelo is a seasoned leader whose career has been defined by his passion for technology, innovation, team development and customer success obsession. Marcelo is thrilled to lead, serve and collaborate with his global team of digital experts delivering strategy, design, engineering and product management services to some of the largest global brands and their ambitious digital programs. He believes in clients' partnerships built to last, based on trust, respect and excellence. More recently, Marcelo leads large CI&T's digital enablement engagements in the USA mainly in the media and retail industries, with a range of specialties and capabilities such as media-tech platforms, e-Commerce, application modernization / cloud services, and data analytics.  Specialties: Digital landscape & capabilities, media, retail, application modernization, agile/lean delivery models and executive management Core goals: Work with clients and bring to reality the ambitions of delivering initial business impact in a matter of weeks or months, not years, regardless of the problem's complexity and level of uncertainty. The recipe is clear and powerful: apply Lean principles (re-organize your value streams, putting the customer/consumer at the center), focus on the big picture, long-term goals, but reduce the size of the bets and move fast, delivering results to confirm hypothesis. And repeat!

Experience

  • CI&T (15 yrs)
    • Senior Vice President, Digital and Head of Retail
      Apr 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 3 mos

      Responsible for large CI&T's digital engagements in the United States, and directly in charge of CI&T's expansion goals in the media and retail industries, leading multi-million and fast-growing global digital initiatives.

    • Director, Global Accounts
      Jan 2014 - Present · 12 yrs 6 mos

      Responsible for large CI&T's digital engagements in the United States. Supporting CI&T's expansion goals in several market verticals, he leads multi-million and fast growing global eCommerce, cloud and data analytics and machine learning initiatives.

    • Head Of Application Services Delivery, Europe & ASPAC
      Jul 2011 - Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • SOA-based Software Engineering post-grad course coordinator at IBTA
    Mar 2008 - Jan 2013 · 4 yrs 11 mos

    Coordinator of a SOA-based Software Engineering post graduation course at Veris (IBTA Campinas); topics related to asset & software reuse, OOAD, BPM, Webservices, component-based development, RUP & Agile methodologies

  • IBTA Campinas (8 yrs 10 mos)
    • Professor
      Jul 2004 - Jan 2013 · 8 yrs 7 mos

      Professor of Software Engineering, Project Management and Business Processes undergraduation courses

    • Professor / Consultant
      Apr 2004 - Nov 2004 · 8 mos

      Professor / Consultant of Component-based Software Engineering at IBTA-Post-graduation course.

  • IBM (6 yrs 9 mos)
    • Delivery Executive
      2007 - Jul 2011 · 4 yrs 7 mos

      Delivery executive and leader of IBM Application Services (AS) Application Development and Maintenance (ADM) Center of Competecy focusing on IBM's domestic and export markets. Responsible for 1300+ technical resources providing services to IBM Brazil and USA.

    • IBM Global Services Project Manager
      Nov 2004 - Mar 2008 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      I´ve been managing offshore outsourced projects, supporting IBM USA accounts (Global Delivery strategy). I have managed several mission critical projects within IBM US, heavily focused on Web and WebServices platforms

  • Software Reuse Strategy Manager at CI&T
    Mar 2000 - Nov 2004 · 4 yrs 9 mos