MARCOS SÊMOLA

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Security Advisory Managing Director, an expert in IT, data privacy, and information security: governance, risk, and compliance with over 33 years of experience and an international career holding global, regional, and local leadership roles with a track record in multinational corporations such as Shell, Schlumberger-Atos, and Ernst&Young, serving now as Managing Director for Cybersecurity in Energy at Accenture USA.

Bachelor's in Computer Science from UCP, MBA in Applied Technology, founder board member of ISACA-RJ, advisor of AMCHAM-BR and IoT Brazilian Association, founder member of the Cybersecurity Enterprise Council Brazil,  MBA professor at FGV, USP, PUC and FDC Business School, a writer with eight infosec published books, Researcher at the Laboratory of Simulations and Scenarios of Cybernetic Defense linked to the Naval War College and the Defense Ministry, entrepreneur, social leadership mentor at Gerando Falcões ONG, former-director of the Founder Institute startup accelerator, Endeavor's business mentor and startup investor at Anjos do Brasil.

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Awarded IAPP Global Vanguard Latin America 2023, Information Security Professional of the Year Brazil 2003/04, shortlisted as Security Leader of the Year 2023 by Risk GRC World Forum.