Marcia Nogueira de Mello

Ms. Mello holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Mackenzie Presbitarian University (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie) in São Paulo, Brazil. From 1984 until 1997, she worked for several information technology services companies, and since 1997 she has dedicated her career to the payments market, working for a series of companies in the industry, including Hypercom (1997/2004), Verifone (2004/2006), Sagem (2006/2007), and Electronic Data Systems (2007/2008), an HP company focusing on payments processing systems, business process outsourcing (BPO) and infrastructure. From 2008 until 2011 she worked at Cielo, first as IT Director, managing architecture, IT innovation and strategy, projects and certification and later as Commercial Director, to develop alternative sales channels (banks, enterprise resource planning (ERP) companies, international organization for standardization (ISO) standards, etc.). From 2011 until 2013 she rejoined the VeriFone Group to develop the Brazilian market for Point, a new business unit dedicated to expanding alternative payments infrastructure. After that, from 2013 until 2014 she acted as the Commercial Director for Elavon do Brasil for medium and large accounts. In mid-2014, she assumed the role of CEO of Global Payments South America and of member of the Board of Directors at Global Payments Serviços de Pagamentos Brazil. Since the beginning of 2020, Ms. Mello has focused on mentoring young executives and preparing women from underprivileged communities to enter the job market.