Mr. Maia is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CHOICE. As CEO, Mr. Maia has led Choice to implement and execute its business plan as defined by the Board of Directors.Mr. Maia is responsible for global P&L and supervises sales and marketing, HR, financials and innovation strategies and tactics. Mr. Maia is a recognized entrepreneur, strategist and global thought leader in analytics and utilities sector, with more than 20 years of experience in leadership and innovation. With a strong multicultural passion, Mr. Maia has led Choice’s international expansion, managing more than 10 nationalities successfully, reaching a CAGR over 80% and bringing more than USD 1 billion savings for its customers. Mr. Maia holds a BS in Computer Engineering from PUC-Rio, has participated at Babson College Alliance Program and holds Executive Education at INSEAD.
Mr. Pimenta joined CHOICE as Vice President Finance in december 2014 and is presently responsible for CHOICE´s worldwide finance functions at the Luxembourg headquarters.He brings 25 years of financial and management experience in international companies and in multicultural organizations. Mr. Pimenta began his career in auditing at an international accounting firm. He later moved on to an internal audit position, before accepting a finance management position at a multinational firm. Mr. Pimenta holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy and Administration. He is a certified accountant, with a Master’s of Business Administration (MBA) in Accounting Management.
With more than 20 years of experience in Human Resources Management in the IT sector, Ms. Casado is the Human Resources Director at CHOICE, joining the firm in 2001. Her responsibilities include managing Human Resource systems, employee training and development, recruiting, benefits, Expats, occupational health, contract with third parties and general administrative issues. Ms. Casado also managed office construction build out for the CHOICE facilities in Luxembourg, Turkey, Poland and Colombia. Ms. Casado has a Psychology degree from the Federal University Fluminense, and a Master’s Degree in Social Psychology from the College of Marin in California.
Mr. Costa is responsible for negotiating, leadership and implementation of large projects for major companies in the electricity sector such as EPM (Colombia and Panama), TPPDL (India), SEC (Saudi Arabia), CPFL Group (Brazil), Cemig (Brazil), Light (Brazil), Neoenergia Group (Brazil), Enel Group (Spain and Brazil), AES (El Salvador), CNFL (Costa Rica) and others. Since 2003, Mr. Costa has worked for the Utilities sector as a director of innovative projects in the areas of planning and energy trading, revenue assurance and research. A collaborating professor and researcher at PUC-Rio, Brazil, Mr. Costa holds a Master degree in Metrology Quality and Innovation (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - PUC-Rio); Specialization course in Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ); other Specialization in Project Management and Business Processes at PUC-Rio.
Mr. Costa oversees company’s information technology and driving the strategy for a high level of Innovation perspective in terms of our solution - Revenue Intelligence. His duties include assessing current processes, recommending software upgrades, and directing the delivery team on the best processes. Under his position, there is a crucial part of our enterprise’s digital transformation. He promotes advisors about Cloud computing, Big Data analytics, collaboration platforms, AI, and digital disruption, also having more influence on the direction of consumer products. With these technologies in his driver’s seat, his focus has been completed to service analysis, data security, and Utilities market reaching.
Mr. Seize has almost 20 years at Choice, Mr. Seize’s career is dedicated to the application of Revenue Assurance practices in Utilities, Business Intelligence and Analytics technologies. Under his role, he leads project deploy engagement on our clients worldwide.Mr. Seize has been virtually involved with clients on different stages of Choice’s relationship, considering companies such as: TPPDL (India), SEC (Saudi Arabia), AES (El Salvador), CNFL (Costa Rica), Grupo EPM (Colombia and Panama), Grupo SIGDE (Ecuador), Aqualectra (Curacao), ENEL Group (Brazil), Light (Brazil), CPFL (Brazil) and others.
Mr. Seize has been able to provide technical perspectives into business solutions. This profile was developed from graduation on Computer Engineering, MBA degree and worked as manager on a world standard business consulting firm (Accenture).
As leader on Deploy activities, he is responsible to manage a multidisciplinary team of consultants, executive relationships, and facilitate the continuous services with the clients.
At Choice, Bruno holds Sales Leadership in EMEA and APAC, co-selling in LATAM. Additionally, heads Industry Strategy and Choice's Partner Network, in particular with SAP and AWS. Senior Industry Executive focused on Utilities for +20 years in some the biggest SW and Consulting companies worldwide.
With a Sales driven mindset, excelled on Business Development, Industry Strategy, Partner and Alliances Management in international markets, namely EMEA, LATAM and APAC.
Proven ability in strategizing innovative market approaches, accelerate time-to-market, developing industry solutions, market development, business transformation initiatives and sales effectiveness on an industry that is in permanent market disruption.
Subject Matter Expert in Customer Experience (CX) and Data-Driven Solutions for Utilities, where AI and ML are key differentiators to successfully deliver in competitive markets and complex environments.
Bruno holds a master degree in Business Administration.
Alessandra is currently President, Choice Energy Business Unit, An SEW Company. In this role, she is responsible for expanding business and driving strategic, enterprise-wide sales initiatives and oversees global business unit growth.
Throughout her 20+ career, she gained experience across multiple industries, businesses, and geographies in both developed and emerging markets. She combines extensive customer-facing experience in enterprise software companies and consulting, strong business acumen with a proven record of partnering with business and clients’ teams and winning organizations: expanding solution adoption, identifying customer needs aligned with best practice to cloud enablement, migration, technology strategy, and professional services to accelerate business growth.
Prior to this, Alessandra held several regional leadership roles in Sales & Consulting for companies such as Avanade, V2Com, ABB-Hitachi, Oracle, Deloitte. Throughout her career, she has successfully managed and built relationships with cross-functional teams and with executives at partner organizations and international boundaries along Latin America and the US.
Alessandra is fluent in Portuguese, English, and Spanish languages and is a European passport and US Green Card holder. She is graduated in Law at Mackenzie University, has a postgraduation in Project Management and Human Capital at Fundacao Getulio Vargas and she holds an Executive MBA at University of Toronto.
Mr. Carvalhaes is a professional with extensive experience in the IT market, graduated in Computer Science with an emphasis on Systems Analysis and an MBA in Business Administration. He is responsible for strategic development, management and deployment of QA resources and software development, ensure application design to manage and maintain data security and integrity of Revenue Intelligence, using practices of best-case packaged software release management and helping communication upward as well as throughout project teams.
He is extremely able leading the team to distribute software development atmosphere. Mr. Carvalhaes is the mentor to implement best practices to motivate and organize their teams, he guides and provides input to all strategic as well as technical planning for entire software projects.
His ability to provide version control processes and Roadmap strategy to assure consistency, quality, and timeliness.
He is experienced in customer service, business analysis and prospecting, project management, systems development, data modeling, database administration and multidisciplinary team management.
He has a great experience in the electric power area in the Distribution, Generation and Commercialization segments, accumulated with a strong expertise working in Revenue Assurance - Non-Technical Losses for Electric Energy, Water and Gas distributors, like Enel Group (Brazil), Light (Brazil) and Cemig (Brazil).
Mr. Nascimento is Doctor in Computer Science at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2016). In the last 15 years he has been working on IT projects in different industrial sectors, such as Education, Oil & Gas, Power & Utilities, Retail and Emergency Management. He has a strong analytical and consulting skills in computer science with emphasis in information systems, acting on the following subjects: Knowledge Management, Collaboration Support, Big Data, Machine Learning, Information Visualization and Software Engineering. R&D Coordinator at Choice Technologies, worked with different machine learning projects in companies such as: Light (Brazil), Neoenergia Group (Brazil), Enel Group (Brazil and Spain), EPM (Colombia), CNFL (Costa Rica), AES(El Salvador). Among his functions are: generating insights that contribute to the expansion of business, prospecting new national and international research projects, building Machine Learning infrastructure, data pipelines, and API integrations, advising the pool of consultants, technical team training, lead work package activities by detail planning, executing and projects reports.
Deepak Garg, Founder and Chairman at Smart Energy Water, is responsible for the innovation, vision, strategy, and leadership at SEW. He has successfully established high-powered business and technology teams that have developed leading Energy & Utility Customer Engagement & Mobile Workforce platforms, which addresses Energy & Utilities key challenges in areas of Customer Outreach, Energy Efficiency, Demand Response, Smart Grid Reliability, Work Efficiency, Field Mobility and Big data. Before SEW, he has held several senior executive positions with Fortune 500 companies focused on Energy & Utilities. During his tenure, he developed new direct and in-direct markets business solutions with rapid growth adding $500+ millions of dollars to company’s revenue. Deepak has completed an MS in Computer Science with a bachelor’s degree in engineering along with executive management from Stanford Graduate School of Business & MIT.
Harman Sandhu is the President at Smart Energy Water (SEW) and leads the strategic growth initiatives for SEW. He is passionate about developing impactful technology products and scalable SaaS business models to help clients attain technological clarity to transform their business digitally and gain a competitive edge. Harman is a reputed advisor for the Energy and Utility industry and has extensively advised companies on commodity management, regulation, smart grid, metering, and information technology projects. Prior to joining SEW he worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG for over 11 years where he led the delivery of business strategy and technology consulting services to Fortune 1000 companies.
Senior executive and deal-maker with over 30 years of US and cross border experience. Mr. Grewal is known for negotiating some of the most prominent cross border life science, technology, clean tech and financial services transactions on the west coast. He has also worked closely with several venture funds who seek to invest in new and existing companies in the US and in India.