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Mauro Paul Gomes was born and grew up
in the capital of Sao Paulo in Brazil, he spent more than 30 years in the United
States. He moved to that country in 1980 when he was only 19 years of age.
At IBM, has 29
years of service mainly in the United States when he was hired in 1983. Most
recently, he converted to IBM Brazil and plans to continue his career in Latin
America.
With 34 years of services with the
IBM Corporation, Mauro has held several executive and non-executive
positions along the years in the company. From 2009 through 2011 and while on
an International Assignment in Brazil, he was the Latin America Director of
around 2,500 IT professionals responsible for IBM’s internal account systems
both locally and worldwide.
From 2012 to 2017, Mauro held many executive positions
while in Latin America. He was the CIO for the region for two years. He was the
Site Manager for the IBM Hortolandia Site. He was the Service Delivery
executive in IBM Mexico, also for two years. And prior to departing IBM in July
of 2017, he was the Latin America executive responsible for the implementation
of Artificial Intelligence across the region.
Prior to his return to Latin America in 2009, Mauro was
the Director of Operations and Employee IT Advocacy at IBM in Somers, NY reporting
to the Chief Information Officer at that time. He was responsible for the day
to day operational cadence across all of IBM business transformation executives;
including all geographies, business units and corporate functions.
Prior to that, Mauro held
several executive positions in the CIO, Integrated Supply Chain and Integrated
Product Development organizations. He was then responsible for the application development
and maintenance of many businesses and IT transformation solutions. Paul also
spent a great deal of his time at IBM in the Software Group division. There he
was responsible for several management and non-management positions across the
different parts of the division.
Besides his executive leadership positions at IBM, Mauro was
a true leader in IBM’s Global Workforce Diversity programs; with special focus
on the Latino constituency across the New York, Connecticut and New Jersey Tri-state
area in the US. He was the Executive Advisor of LatinNet; a local NY IBM
Hispanic Diversity Network Group.
While in Brazil, Mauro has also represented IBM at the AMCHAM American Chamber Commerce of Campinas.
Last but not least, Mauro holds an MBA in Technology
Management from the Phoenix University in Denver, a Bachelor Degree in CIS from
the Chapman University in California and an Associate’s Degree in Computer
Programming from Essex Community College in New Jersey. Paul likes to volunteer
in his local community and enjoys very much the game of soccer. He speaks
English, Portuguese and Spanish very fluently