Thiago Marques holds a Ph.D. in Marketing from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-SP) and currently serves as Director of Marketing, Strategy, and M&A at Zucchetti, the largest software company in Italy and one of the top 10 software companies in Europe, operating in more than 50 countries. He has international experience in corporate development in Silicon Valley (USA), collaborating with companies such as Google, Facebook, NVIDIA, LinkedIn, Netflix, and Airbnb, among others. As a consultant, he has advised leading organizations including Intelbras, WEG, Colgate-Palmolive, Coopercarga, Aurora, Sebrae, Sicoob, and Scania. With over 20 years of experience in the technology sector, he is also an MBA and postgraduate professor at Senac since 2013 and at the Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (Germany) since 2016.