Ilya Brotzky, Creator of Brazil Career Blueprint.
Listen to the Talk 2 Bazil Interview by Tom Reaoch with Ilya Brotzky onLA Talk Radio, July 22, 2013: PLAY or DOWNLOAD.
Ilya is passionate about helping talented individuals launch an amazing career and life in Brazil. He is fluent in Russian, Portuguese and English and is a global connector that brings together people and information in order to help solve the world's most pressing issues.
Ilya graduated from Cornell University and moved to Brazil as a Management Trainee for Vale, the world's second largest mining company where he learned Portuguese and a implemented Process Mapping project at the world's largest Iron Ore port before returning to Canada to serve as an internal consult for Operational Improvement projects.
From there, Ilya returned to Rio de Janeiro as a Business Development Consultant from Mobile Metrix, Zona Universitaria and Easyaula, where he helped close a six figure contract with a large consumer goods company, pitched at a Demo Day in front of hundreds of investors and help raise over half a million reais in seed funding.
Ilya was also featured in an interview by Chris Dannen on Fast Company Connection: “The Getaway Career: An Intimate Tale of Jetting to Brazil In Search Of Love, Life, And a Startup Hit”
Most recently, Ilya has joined Acxiom Brazil's operations in a Business Development Executive role while building Brazil Career Blueprint, www.brazilcareerblueprint.com , an online course that helps others navigate the complex Brazilian employment market.
Ilya is also the Founder and first Trip Leader of Mountains for Moms, an annual fundraising climb of Mt. Kilimanjaro that has raised over $ 20,000 for women suffering from obstetric fistula at Cornell University where he studied. This same program has since expanded to Dartmouth, Northwestern and Harvard.
