We are a group of people who decided to join efforts to produce an important tool designed to leverage your MBA experience and your professional network. The combination of our diversified educational backgrounds and experiences, driven by our common goal of creating a lasting contribution to the MBA community, allowed us to develop the idea and the concept behind this site. That said, let's begin by introducing ourselves:

• Jefferson Scalabrin da Silva, MBA class of 2002 from University of Michigan Business School and BS degree in Aeronautical Mechanical Engineering at the Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (ITA). Based on his experience of job searching and networking during the MBA Program, he decided to develop a tool to provide the MBA community with the opportunity to increase its exposure to potential recruiters in Brazil and leverage the networking importance gained during the MBA experience. Currently he is working in the Telecom Industry in North America and has developed this website in his spare time motivated by the desire of helping the MBA community.

• Ricardo Betti, MBA class of 1986 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founding member of the MIT Sloan Club of Brazil. He is head of the MBA Counseling area of MBA Empresarial, providing services as an Educational Advisor and Career Development consultant. He has implemented MBA Sponsorship programs in major Brazilian corporations, besides coordinating sucession planning projects in family-owned businesses.

• Sandra Betti, with specialization in Human Resources from Harvard University and founder of the NGO "Educators of Brazil".She is a head of the Assessment Center an Executive Training areas of MBA Empresarial; faculty member of three important Brazilian universities. She acts as a consultant in Managerial Development, Team Building, Talent Identification and Potential Evaluation, providing services to major corporations in Brazil and abroad.

• Satiko Monobe, with specialization in Cross-Cultural Communication from Thunderbird, head of the Executive Search area of MBA Empresarial. She is co-responsible for the Assessment Center area and has coordinate projects os Talent Identification, Coaching and Professional Counseling, Potential Evaluation. In addition, she has implemented Trainee Programs and MBA-oriented selection processes in major Braziliam corporations.

MBA Empresarial is one of the leading Brazilian HR consulting firms, having been founded in 1990 and currently counting with 38 consultants and 57 corporate clients. The firm is divided into four main areas – Assessment Center , Executive Training, Executive Search, and MBA Counseling. Among its clients are some of the largest corporations in Brazil, namely, Bradesco, Banco Itaú, Banco Santander, Unibanco, Grupo Votorantim, Rede Globo, Souza Cruz, Accor, Rhodia, AT&T, Promon, Merck, Schering, Lab. Fleury, Xerox, IBM, Andrade Gutierrez, Método, Folha de São Paulo, Gerdau Group, RBS, Telesp Celular, Amanco, Embraco, McDonalds and Jones Lang LaSalle, among others.
The MBA Counseling area has specialized im preparing candidates for admission to top MBA programs, having so farcounseled 750 prospective students, with an acceptance rate of 92%. This experience will provide this site a unique perspective and first-hand knowledge that other sites will find hard to duplicate, especially when considering the Brazilian market.


How can you benefit from this Website?

Brazil MBA was developed with the main purpose to provide current and future MBA Brazilian students and alumni from different schools around the world with the opportunity to communicate easily and network effectively with their Brazilian colleagues. Cur personal experience showed us that it is very important (and critical) to stay connected with the MBA community. This website is free of charge and with non-profit purposes. We see our initiative as the initial step towards the construction of a collective toot which will meet the needs of a large group of people that share common interests and similar challenges along the development of their careers.

You can benefit from this tool in two different ways:

1) As a network tool only

You can use this website just as a network tool only. You can register and enter only your basic information and will be able to access the basic information of other MBA students from other schools. Basic information includes name, email address, school name, year of graduation and industry experience. lt will not take more than 3 minutes to register. Only those people registered in the website will have access to the basic information.

With this tool, you will be able to contact Brazilian students in other schools to exchange ideas, discuss professional and personal opportunities, schedule events, rent apartments, etc.

2) As an additional and focused job search tool

You can use this website as an additional job search tool for summer and full time opportunities. You will need, however, to include details about your career experience and objectives. The registration is easy and will not take more than 15 minutes. Your profile will only be accessed by interested companies. Your profile will NOT be public and will NOT be shared to other students. Students, including you, will only be able to see the basic information of other students and his/her own personal information.

With this tool, you will be able to increase your exposure to top recruiters in Brazil and in North America. From an employer's standpoint, many want to recruit MBA candidates from the widest pool possible, but due to the high expense, find it impossible to cover all of the top schools For this reason, they most likely are unaware of ideal and qualified candidates and miss the opportunity to interview outside of their core schools. Potential employers would be able to obtain valuable information of candidates from several schools, helping them remove obstacles to hiring the ideal MBA candidate and leverage the unique value that MBAs can provide.

Who is supporting this initiative?

We have the support from the admissions offices, career offices, alumni services and Brazilian clubs from the Top North American schools, specially University of Michigan Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University . In addition, top recruiters in Brazil, such as Citibank, Banco Itau, Banco Bradesco, Unibanco, Banco do Brasil, ABN-Amro, Santander, Boston Consuming Group (BCG), Diamond Cluster, Value Partners, Roland Berger, Bain, KPMG, Accenture, Grupo Gerdau, RBS, Schering-Plough, Merck & Co, Grupo Votorantim, Embraco/Whirlpool, Cargill, McDonalds, Promon, IBM, Xerox, Braskem, Brasil Telecom, Telemar, Editora Abril, Sara Lee, DPaschoal, Laboratorio Fleury and Amanco are supporting this important initiative as strong believers of the success of this initiative.

Top educational institutions in Brazil such as ITA, Fundacao Getuiio Vargas (FGV), USP, FAAP, IBMEC, BSP and Fundacao Dom Cabral are also supporters of the site, in addition to other related organizations with strong presence in the Brazilian business scenario such as Fundacao Estudar, Instituto Ling, American Chamber of Commerce, and Brazil-Germany Chamber of Commerce.

We sincerely hope that you enjoy this new network and job search tool and use it as "Your Lifetime Network". In the future, we plan to help not only current MBA students with their network and job search efforts but also prospects students to choose and apply to the right school that better suits their personal and professional needs. In addition, we expect in the future to help admissions offices, career offices and alumni services by offering toasts that will help them meet their particular goals. We still have much more to develop and benefit the MBA community. it is a continuous improvement So, feel free to contact us with any suggestion or comments that you think will benefit this tool and the whole community.


Sincerely,
BrazilMBA

Jefferson Silva
Ricardo Betti
Sandra Betti
Satiko Monobe