José Augusto Barreto
Anixter
(Brazil)
"I recognize the importance of NESsT's work. I became involved with NESsT for the opportunity to engage myself in objective projects, sustainable and with high social return. I also got involved for the accomplishment of being useful and able to contribute to the improvement of people's quality of life, with dignity, through their own work."
José Augusto Barreto graduated from business administration and has an MBA in Marketing. He is a Location Manager at Anixter in Brazil, an American company with presence in 50 countries, a distributor of technology solutions from dozens of manufacturers in telecom infrastructure and security electronics areas. He devised and implemented the Office of Informatics of the School of Arts and Crafts in the 90s, an entity maintained by the Fundação Emílio Odebrecht at that time. José Agusto also collaborated with the American Institute for Research (AIR) to promote the "Enter Youth," a program funded by USAID that focused in training of thousands of youths in Northeast Brazil. He is founder and director of INCORES, Institute of Co-Responsibility for Education and Health, which promotes the training of young apprentices subsidized for various segments of the labor market.