Werner Dopheide

Background

About Werner Dopheide

BACKGROUND OVERVIEW: • Highly entrepreneurial senior executive with over 20 years of progressive experiences in on/offline retailing, consulting, brand mgnt & marketing, import/export projects, and business development. • Comfortable in analyzing data for decision making and improving Business Intelligence. • Strong financial skills and strategic acumen, with solid experience to analyzing investment decisions and mentoring startups. • Founded/co-founded and managed several companies within technology and service fields (Pontofrio.com, CNOVA, Onnix, WGD Sistemas - an Oracle Partnership Member); CNOVA became top 2 ecommerce in Brazil in 2010. • Launched and managed many projects, new business units, and new departments. Mostly within the digital space. • Wide network with C-level & senior executives across several industries, ready to develop new business opportunities. • Highly experienced in multidisciplinary projects earned at S.C. Johnson Wax, CNOVA (Pontofrio.com, Extra.com, CasasBahia.com), and consulting companies such as Accenture and Booz Allen. Led small and large teams (up to 100 employees). • Over 10 years in retailers such as Lojas Americanas, PontoFrio.com and CNOVA. 6 years in strategic and marketing key roles at multinational and Brazilian firms. Strong knowledge of e-commerce b-models and digital solutions. • Entrepreneur, analytical, self-directed, articulated, strategic thinker. Capable of blending strategic planning with implementation. • Engineering degree from IME (top 3 school in Brazil) with MBA degree in Strategy and Finance from Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University). • Brazilian and German citizenship. SPECIALTIES & INTERESTS: • High-Tech Solutions / Innovation / Data Analytics. • New Business Development projects. • Mentorship and Board member. • Go-to-market projects. • eCommerce & retail operations. • Artificial Intelligence. INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE • US (Chicago/Evanston) for 2 years, during MBA; • Spain (Barcelona), exchange program between IESE Business School and Kellogg (MBA); • Argentina (Buenos Aires), with Accenture during a Post Merger Intergration project at InBev/Quilmes; • Germany (Freiburg), exchange program during high school; • Russia (Moscow/St Petersburg), project trip during MBA program, along with other 20 students, for the Global Initiative in Management (GIM) class;