SEZs and Entrepreneurship Development
Speaking
Mr. Renato Santos
Chief Executive Officer, Moai Investments Brazil · Business Leaders
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Biography
Renato Santos is an Entrepreneurship expert consultant working in Brazil and 25 countries of 4 continents. He’s a co-author of the current version of the Empretec Workshop, a capacity-building flagship training from UNCTAD that has impacted over 500,000 entrepreneurs globally.
Accumulating entrepreneurial experience since 1995 on different spheres, Renato runs Moai Participações, a Brazilian VC founded in 2013 with 17 invested assets on traditional economy and startups working in retail, logistics, finance, renewable energy and social impact.
Renato was one of the advisors during the last seasons of “The Apprentice Brazil”, main corporate reality show on Brazilian media, and collaborates weekly with radio networks in Brazil speaking about business matters.
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