MAX LEITE

Max Leite is Innovation Director at Intel Brazil responsible for awarded projects such as Gas Station of the Future with Petrobras and an innovative RFID tag and Intel’s firs purpose built product for Brazil. He has been at Intel for over 15 years.
Leite was Global Director for Emerging Markets Group for 5 years until 2011 responsible for teams in US, Europe, Latin America, Egypt, and India. He drove dentition and commercialization of Classmate PC, giving birth to Intel Learning Series and a new consumer PC segment (Netbooks). He managed Classmate’s first nationwide project (Magellan) with major public visibility where every student (1-4 grade) in Portugal got a subsidized PC. This project drove a local account, JPSC, to become Intel’s largest channel account in the world and a global player.
Leite joined Intel US and held positions as Latin America Programs Mgr. growing local teams from tenths to hundreds of employees, Internet Provider Marketing Manager, and Intel Labs Biz Mgr. for VOIP & WiFi/WiMax. Leite moved to Brazil in 2002 as Latin America Product Mgr. and then Public Policy & R&D Director responsible for bringing Intel Labs to the region.
Before joining Intel, Leite introduced AMD in Latin America by proposing strategy and then establishing first offices in Brazil and Argentina. Leite also founded mufti million-dollar new business in network and computer equipment (ICC) incorporated in Delaware, based in Texas, and with subsidiaries in Brazil. Leite also expended Latin America operations of New Jersey based Stonhard Inc. to Mexico.
Leite holds a MBA from University of Texas and B.S. Industrial Engineering from University of Oklahoma. Leite was speaker at many global and regional events such as World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), United Nations International Telecom Union (ITU), Supercomm, Business Week L.A. Forum, Futurecom, Brazilian TV Association (ABTA), Mobile Fest, TEDx Singularity/FIAP, among others