In different areas of activity, Felippe Guerra, Srgio All, Bruno Batista, Ricardo Silvestre and Rodrigo Faustino, black CEOs and executives, share a common purpose: diversity as a high potential for innovation in business. Get to know a little about each of them.
Photo: Personal collection/Felippe Guerra
Felippe Guerra – CEO of Brazil
Ex- Phantom Laboratory, an urban culture hub managed by musicians Emicida and Fioti, Felippe Guerra worked on projects such as Documentário AmarElo, Movimento Ubuntu and Projeto Silêncio. Today, CEO of Brasis, the first communications holding company focused on building projects connected to Brasil Real and underrepresented groups. With a solid and inspiring career, in 2015 he moved to Miami (Florida), where he worked as a consultant / entrepreneur in different businesses in the USA and Brazil. In Brazil, he spent time at Puma, Adidas, Trace Brasil, as commercial director and project development, and at Mynd as executive director.
Photo: Personal collection/ Ricardo Silvestre
Ricardo Silvestre – CEO and founder of Black Influence
One of the main Brazilian advertisers. With more than 12 years of experience in the communications market, he is a specialist in digital media and influencer marketing and has worked in some of the largest advertising agencies in Brazil, where he served major brands from the most varied segments. In 2019, he created Black Influence, which is today the main agency in Latin America specializing in influence, content and black culture, with the aim of generating social impact and increasing black representation in Brazilian advertising.
Photo: Personal collection/ Bruno Batista
Bruno Batista – CEO of Trace Brasil
Advertiser, specialist in content and audiences, has worked as a leader in national and multinational companies, developing projects and forming multidisciplinary digital marketing and business teams. He helped build some of the main cases of Brand Publishing and proprietary content in Brazil, creating true powerhouses of audience and knowledge for brands.
Bruno specializes in helping business leaders, startups and companies at a global, regional and local level, including companies such as: WMcCann. Artplan and Webedia and now takes over as CEO of Trace Brasil.
Photo: Personal collection/ Srgio All
Sergio All – Co-founder and chairman of Conta Black
Founder and CEO of Conta Black, advisor to the NGO Afrobusiness Brasil, fellow of the Fundao Lemann Leaders Network and mentor at Templo Ventures. It is dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship, inclusion and financial education. An advertiser, he worked for more than 20 years in his communications agency and when he was denied credit at a bank, in 2000, to purchase equipment for his agency, he decided to open his own bank. An entrepreneur, Srgio saw in the creation of Conta Black, together with his wife Fernanda Ribeiro, the opportunity to expand access to financial services for all people without bureaucracy and financial education, through simple tools.
Photo: Personal collection/Rodrigo Faustino
Rodrigo Faustino – Co-founder and vice-president of Ebony English
senior consultant at SAP-SCM, entrepreneur, speaker, Pan-African ambassador and vice-president of Ebony English School. He founded Ebony in 2008 with an eye on the future, thinking about understanding diversity as a tool for social and cultural inclusion that is so necessary for the safe and productive progress of people and society. In this sense, Ebony’s role is to promote empowerment, mixing diversity and technology through the teaching of the English language, considering Afro-diasporic history and culture.
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