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Carlo Gabriel Porto Bellini
Carlo Gabriel Porto Bellini worked several years as systems analyst, DBA, and programmer in the Brazilian software industry, servicing customer companies in industries such as air transportation, news media, and telecom. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Management from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He is associate professor of Information Systems and research representative at the Management Department, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil, and chief researcher of the IT and Society research group at the Brazilian research agency (CNPq) for promoting IT as a vector of business professionalism and positive social change.
Rita de Cássia de Faria Pereira
Rita de Cássia de Faria Pereira holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Management from Universidade Federal da Paraiba, Brazil, and a Ph.D. degree in Management from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She is associate professor of Marketing and head of the Graduate School of Management, Universidade Federal da Paraiba, and chief researcher of the Marketing, Consumption, and Society research group at the Brazilian research agency (CNPq), which addresses consumption, business relationships, and the social impacts of marketing.