Carla is Head of Strategy, Marketing and Communications in Ericsson Latin America responsible also for Innovation, Sustainability & CR and Government & Industry Relations. She is committed with Sustainable Development Goal 17 (Partnerships for the goals) to maximize the full potential of the Networked Society. Strong (public-private) partnerships are needed to develop the ecosystem for technology scale, access and adoption for real impact.
She joined Ericsson in 2008 for a Global Management Program and rotated jobs in various markets and headquarters, in Commercial, Operations and Finance functions. She is a Civil Engineer from Escola Politecnica, USP, Brazil (97’ class) obtained an international one-year full time MBA diploma from INSEAD - France and Singapore, in 2007. Started her career at IBM and then consulting, mostly in Telecom sector.
Mother of two girls, with a passion of exploring other cultures with her family, she traveled a round the world trip and visited around 80 countries in the 5 continents. Adventure, sailing (participated in Recife-Noronha ocean race), skating and photography as hobbies