Alex Costa e Silva

Board Member @ Coohnect

About

1) Work as Board member to help companies develop their strategic and tactical plans and improve governance. 2) Work as a Executive Mentor helping Company Owners and their executives to improve their performances. 3) Grow Smart Results, my consulting practise by marketing consulting services to help companies increase their financial performance, have an appropriate strategic plan, turn around during crisis moments, improve their supply chain or validate the quality of target assets (Strategic Due Diligence for M&As). Specialties: - Holistic view of the business operation - Innovation and strategic view - People skills - Relationship with Stockholders and Board - Management of Brazilian and Multinational customers - Financial analysis of the business - Contract negotiation - Information Technology - Latin American operations - Leadership and hiring of local and regional teams - Sales channel Conflicts

Country

Brazil

City

São Paulo

Industry

Management Consulting

Skill

Telecommunications, Business Strategy, Competitive Analysis, Strategy, Strategic Planning, Product Management, Wireless, VoIP, Mobile Devices, Business Planning, Managed Services, Cloud Computing, Business Development, Sales Management, IP, Solution Selling, VAS, Project Planning, MPLS, Mergers & Acquisitions

Experience

Board Member

Coohnect

2022-2 - Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Advisory Board Member

PG Advogados

2023-5 - Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

Barueri, São Paulo, Brazil

Comite de Finanças

Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz

2023-2 - Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Associado

Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz

2020-5 - Present · 6 yrs 5 mos

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Comite de Inovação & Tecnologia

Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz

2020-7 - 2023-1 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Angel Investor

Twiggy

2025-6 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Angel Investor

FanBase

2025-5 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Angel Investor

Pluggy

2024-10 - Present · 2 yrs

Angel Investor

naPorta®

2024-7 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

Partner

Smart Results Consultoria em Gestão Empresarial

2012-7 - Present · 14 yrs 3 mos

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Consulting practice focused on management improvement, planning, restructuring, turn-around and profitability increase. - Restructuring to downsize a company in the DataCenter industry. Jan 23 to Apr 23. - Advisor on Telecom Brazil environment to a Dutch Satelite Service company willing to enter the Brazil market - Jun 21 to Jun 22 - Invited to be an Advisory Board Member focusing on Cost Reduction, Sales Incentive Plans and Overall operations in a 200 beds Psychiatric Hospital. Mar 21 to Aug 22 - Professional Co-founder to a Drone Manufacturer and Operator helping setting up the operation and industrial areas. Aug 21 to Dec 22 - Strategic Planning and Operational Roadmap for a company working in the mobile business application industry. Company was experimenting fast growing pace (60% CAGR) and needed advice on how to structure to cope with this growth and be able to continue to grow Revenues and EBITDA. Job was developed in four months and was completed in Jan 2013. After completion of the job, was invited the Company's Operational Executive Board to oversee sales, support the executive decision process. - Advisor to an investor to understand the Business Strategy and Leadership team of a target company in the Environmental Industry. One month job completed by Nov 2012. Investment was made. One year latter repeated the process to another target company (in the same industry). This time the investment was not made. - Plan and implementation of a turn around in a Brazilian IT company with the founders/partners with 20+ years in the market and revenues of US$30 million. Managed to turn around from loss to break-even in 5 months. Job completed on June 2013. Company became operational cash-flow positive in Aug 2013 and succeed to finish 2013 with annual EBITDA zero and positive EBITDA on the last 4 months of the year. - Turn Around of a Car Dealership operation preparing the company for an over 50% grow in sales (in 2015) keeping a health EBITDA and CashFlow.