Marcelo Mota, Director of Operations & COO, Aeroportos Brasil Viracopos SA, Brazil

Speaker Biograghy: Marcelo Mota holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master degree in Business Administration from the University of Warwick, England. With 30+ years of experience in the Energy, Airports, IT and Consulting industries, Marcelo is currently the Director of Operations and COO of Aeroportos Brasil Viracopos, the concessionaire that develops and operates Viracopos International Airport in São Paulo, Brazil. He was also an Associate Vice-President of the TD Bank Financial Group (2nd largest bank in Canada). Before joining the TD Bank, he worked at the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) for nine years and held the position of Director, Information Technology & Telecommunications Programs. Marcelo is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE). He is also a former Director of the Project Management Institute (PMI)’s Southern Ontario Chapter, in Canada.


Day 1 - 15 March
Session: Commercial Development, Retail, Concessions & Media

16:50 - 17:15 - Show me the ROI! Calculating economic feasibility of projects
Synopsis: Projects are the way companies execute their strategies. Every project has to have declared objectives and expected results, reflecting its contribution to the corporate strategy, and there are always a large number of options of what to do in order to get those results. Among the factors that define which option should be adopted, there are two critical ones: the economic feasibility of the project and the amount of the return on the investment. This presentation introduces the principles of economic evaluation of projects and explores aspects of strategic alignment, risk analysis and monetary quantification of expected benefits.

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Day 1 - 15 March
Session: Management & Operations

16:35 - 17:30 - PANEL DISCUSSION: From A-CDM towards Total Airport Management: Experience & views of the practitioners
Synopsis: Velissarios Eleftheriou and Marcelo Mota will each make a five minute presentation prior to discussion and followed by Q&A with the audience.

Day 2 - 16 March
Session: Management & Operations

10:20 - 10:45 - Making the airport’s heart beat: designing an integrated AOCC
Synopsis: One of the key elements for efficient operation, maintenance and an agile response to an emergency in a sensitive environment such as an airport is the coordinated action of the many teams that manage the operation, the prevention of disasters and the return of the airport to normal conditions after irregular operations. So it is essential that the airport operator build an integrated Airport Operations Control Centre (AOCC), putting together, in one single facility, all human resources and thus significantly elevating the degree of proactivity of the airport teams and allowing a new and higher level of effectiveness of these functions.

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