THE NEW GUARD

ABC: G’day, Thiago. Welcome back to our fine shores. Could you tell us a little about how you got into this role? Where did your career start and how did things evolve to get you to this stage?

TD: I started my career as a trainee at a company called Gerdau, a steel manufacturer with headquarters in Brazil. I spent almost five years there and then applied for a position as investor relations manager at Marcopolo in 2008.

In this role I was mainly responsible for the interaction with shareholders, investors and financial analysts. After I’d worked in both investor relations and finance manager roles, I was invited to take over the position of chief human resources officer; that was in December 2016.

In 2017 I held a HR global summit in Brazil. The aim was to align the HR processes, strategies and policies – what we call the Marcopolo way, which basically consists of the major processes