César Gon is an entrepreneur in the information technology space and a faithful defender of Brazil's competitiveness when it comes to the global software business.
In May of 1995, he founded CI&T, a pioneering Brazilian business in area of informatics, with the goal of competing in the world markets. He was the first Brazilian vendor to receive the official designation of CMM in 2004 and the second to become CMMI5 by early 2007.
Starting in 2003, he participated in various mobilization efforts in the sector related to exports. In April of 2004, he helped found the consortium called Actminds, helping 10 Brazilian companies from the Campinas regions break into the American market. In November of 2006, he became president of the Organizational Commision of the first meeting of Entreprenerus at Unicamp and helped found Unicamp Ventures, serving as the first president and bringing together more than 150 companies as "daughters of Unicamp."
Currently (2007) he is the director and president of Ci&T Software S.A. leads the advisory board for DigitalAssets, S.A.
César Gon was a Computer Engineering student, with a masters degree in Computer Science from the State University of Campinas.
If Ci&T had stated and brought a person from the industry... Which took us thirteen years to do; maybe we could have done it in five years. Because until we learned by experience how the market worked, how the industry worked, how we could reach the clients, etc., this took time from our agenda. ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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